Is ROBLOX Playing Favorites?

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#127480992Friday, March 07, 2014 5:16 PM GMT

I know this seems off topic, but Account Issues is the closest category I can think of for the question. Recently, one of the places that my development team was working on got removed from the public domain by ROBLOX, saying that it is "currently under review". What they're referring to is that they believe we are violating a copyright law with this place. Now I'll admit, our game is a redesign of the popular game that closed down, LEGO Universe, but the description of each place acknowledges that The LEGO Group has the rights to official LU content and that our production is just a fan creation. So before any pitchforks are drawn to take down the other places of our LU remake, take a look at the top places on the Games Page. What do you see? You probably see redesigns of Call of Duty, Minecraft, and SmoothBlockModel's famous Hunger Games (which by the way was even featured and praised highly in at least one ROBLOX blog article). So you tell me what we are doing different from SMB that warrants ROBLOX to shut down what we are trying to do rather than anyone else.

wafflesnacker

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#127482008Friday, March 07, 2014 5:41 PM GMT

Support. Roblox should actually, moderate instead of using computers to detect shapes and swears. I made an Ed Edd n Eddy ad with jawbreakers and the system obviously thought the jawbreakers where balls.

wafflesnacker

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#127633794Sunday, March 09, 2014 9:05 AM GMT

And yes, roblox DOES take games that LOOK good and shove them on the front page.

Exail

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#127633954Sunday, March 09, 2014 9:13 AM GMT

I can't agree less.

LUBlasterBuilder

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#127685468Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:44 PM GMT

Being the leader of the dev team mentioned in the initial post on this topic, I agree. This is a point that should be very stressed. The ROBLOX moderation team is probably payed on commission right now, receiving salary for each issue they find. If so, this is a terrible idea, and will only make moderators fish out every excuse to remove something from the site except for those games that ROBLOX has whitelisted. The game series we are working on is non-profit, and thus shouldn't be at all affected by rules of copyright or trademark. ╔BlasterBuilder, the Nexus Race Ace and LEGO Universe Rebuilder═╝

bndan

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#127718596Monday, March 10, 2014 6:07 AM GMT

Being one of the Dev Team members, I also agree. From all the copyrighted things out there, from fan-made MINECRAFT games to HUNGER GAMES, why do they take this down? -Belhavon; 2nd in Command of the Angevin Empire and a Dev of LUQ

awessumpossum13

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#127730239Monday, March 10, 2014 3:39 PM GMT

Ok,so ROBLOX took down one of my favorite games, LEGO Universe Quest, and it is a little weird how they wont take down Minecraft. ~~~~awessumpossum13

ninjapirate136

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#127730406Monday, March 10, 2014 3:43 PM GMT

Support.

KebabKardashian

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#127732069Monday, March 10, 2014 4:15 PM GMT

No support.

deaththerapy

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#127784114Tuesday, March 11, 2014 2:32 AM GMT

What don't you support about my argument? What are we, LU Studio, doing different from SmoothBlockModel that causes ROBLOX to make more problems for us rather than praise us?

wildoneshacker53

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#127784469Tuesday, March 11, 2014 2:35 AM GMT

Support.

TheUndefeated110

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#127786336Tuesday, March 11, 2014 2:54 AM GMT

LEGO related stuff is probably, going to get 'CDed' due to the fact that ROBLOX was sued by LEGO (I don't know if the charges were dropped though.)

CjGame

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#127796329Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:11 AM GMT

due to the fact that ROBLOX was sued by LEGO (I don't know if the charges were dropped though.) -- LEGO just made them stop using their studs. -- As for whoever said that the mods are being paid by each issue they find, IIRC, they (the MODS not DEVS) are volunteer/not paid.