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Please, do not invest your time, money, and sweat into this platform
It is already curmbling and falling apart, and a shutdown is going to happen sooner or later
Roblox is a corporation, it's only goal is money, and you can't blame it that's what a corporation is for, right? making money
They're already milking all the good devs on roblox, and the devs themselfs don't make much money
PLUS: if your game isn't bait, or just uses excessive free modeling, it won't make it to the front page , THOSE games make more ad revenue ( = more cash )
And this isn't even a platform to practice your skills for game development on
This website has been making me feel very disposable, and, as a conclusion,
Switch to unity
It uses lua too, and look at what Nelson did ( developper of unturned ) using unity, by himself ( if that's what worries you, working by yourself ) undertale was made by mainly a single developper, and many other amazing games,
Another recommandation is Game Maker ( Toby Fox made undertale using game maker ! )
But again, this site IS greedy, not because it makes virtual hats expensive, like the kids keep whining about it
But for discriminating amazing developpers and putting up oder games on the frontpage ( aka hangouts )
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SunXaoJoin Date: 2016-04-15
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I've been on this platform long enough to realize that, but I like the system of the engine and I'll most likely stick with it.
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They actually took down this post on another subforum ( i posted it on 3 subforums, well soon this one will fallow too )
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shame no-one cares
#Strikin' |
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You've really redefined the website. I'll have to agree, |
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^same, but it is easy and fun unity is harder even though it has good graphics |
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I don't get what you mean be redifined but,, ok?
Anyways, if you like using roblox that's just fine i'm not telling everyone to quit their hobbies and swtich to unity
i'm talking to the more serious devs, you know?
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lol i love how all these kids just say " nobody cares " while they literally didn't read the title
oooooh i forgot, saying " i don't care " is kinda trendy here
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but roblox is only getting better.
> New physics things,
> New shaders coming
> Uploadable meshes
I mean, its catching up to unity.
You can get so many players on your game so much easier than unity. Unity, you have to worry about multiplatform compatibility, etc. |
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"but roblox is only getting better.
> New physics things,
> New shaders coming
> Uploadable meshes
I mean, its catching up to unity.
You can get so many players on your game so much easier than unity. Unity, you have to worry about multiplatform compatibility, etc."
If you actually did read what i said
It's not the oppurtunities that roblox studio provides that are less than unity
it's the actual site, just read the freaking thread
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>It is already curmbling and falling apart, and a shutdown is going to happen sooner or later
Explain more, I don't get how. It's growing.
>Roblox is a corporation, it's only goal is money, and you can't blame it that's what a corporation is for, right? making money
No duh, but roblox reinvests its money into itself. They're hiring a ton of employees this year.
>They're already milking all the good devs on roblox, and the devs themselfs don't make much money
Yeah, 50k cash out by taymaster isn't much money. Or loleris's 100k cash out in total, or Phantom Forces 85$/hour, they don't make much money.
>PLUS: if your game isn't bait, or just uses excessive free modeling, it won't make it to the front page , THOSE games make more ad revenue ( = more cash )
Bait games can't cash out, roblox doesn't allow it. Hence why they're not on top earning.
>And this isn't even a platform to practice your skills for game development on
Yes it is, how isn't it? What defines what engine is to practice your skills on?
>This website has been making me feel very disposable, and, as a conclusion,
Explain more.
>Switch to unity, It uses lua too
That's only if you implement the lua interface, otherwise it uses UnityScript or C#. There are some interfaces you can get on their asset store. But otherwise, not by default.
>But for discriminating amazing developpers and putting up oder games on the frontpage ( aka hangouts )
ROBLOX doesn't choose what games go on the front page, except for Featured. It's all automated. It's not their fault so many kids enjoy these so called "ODer" games. Otherwise, why do people even go on them?
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A real good developer doesn't do it for money or fame, they do it because its fun. I'll have to agree with you but not follow your advice. |
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I agree with you on most of those points
But " hiring more employees "
and things like " keeping the site up "
Ugh...
They've basically automotaed everything since the site grew so that means even lesser employees
And the site is not earning as much money as it used to
Heck in 2014-2015 i remember the top games getting over 30K players online each
but now the top is like, 13K
Although the "front page system" IS automated, roblox has the choice to alter and change it but, they don't, why?
Like you said kids enjoy those "oder" games
*money money money money*
And, when i said that the site is going down
I watched a video explaining how currency inflation in any game/etc ( and proof that there is an inflation roblox is trying to deal with, is the fact that they removed tickets, and they explain it further in the blog )
There are lesser and lesser paying players now on roblox
And DevEx is literally preserved to a few people
And from my perspective, it's just to encourage devs to make games that they'll milk eventually.
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"No duh, but roblox reinvests its money into itself."
lol
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>They've basically automotaed everything since the site grew so that means even lesser employees
Except the fact it takes Programmers and db engineers to keep the site running, roblox still has major issues sometimes, and those need to be resolved.
>And the site is not earning as much money as it used to
It's earning more. Source: ReeseMcBlox
>Heck in 2014-2015 i remember the top games getting over 30K players online each
but now the top is like, 13K
Maybe that is because there are more and more good games, so the population is more spread out?
>Although the "front page system" IS automated, roblox has the choice to alter and change it but, they don't, why?
Because the "Popular" section shows the most popular games. If the games are breaking the rules, report them. Sure I disagree with some of the games that show, but it still makes ROBLOX money and keeps more players on roblox.
>I watched a video explaining how currency inflation in any game/etc ( and proof that there is an inflation roblox is trying to deal with, is the fact that they removed tickets, and they explain it further in the blog )
Link to video.
>There are lesser and lesser paying players now on roblox
Source? Where are you getting the statistics?
>And DevEx is literally preserved to a few people
Yeah, the developers who actually make good games and have never had any scam history on roblox.
>And from my perspective, it's just to encourage devs to make games that they'll milk eventually.
More games -> More players -> More profit |
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chimmihcJoin Date: 2014-09-01
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Unity does not use Lua.
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It'll shut down faster if we have a lack of developers. |
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Wait so it's really going to shutdown??? |
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Ocks67Join Date: 2009-03-07
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Thanks for the insight but most people here already know those.
Let the people do what they want.
It's just like going to church saying religion is wrong and a big scam. People won't change their mind and you look like a loud whinner trying to force his way of thinking down other's people throat. Nobody wins there. |
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SatanVIIIJoin Date: 2011-05-08
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>dev ex
>developers go to this site knowing how much money they'll gain verse other places
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AethexJoin Date: 2011-10-16
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lol'd at:
"Switch to unity
It uses lua too"
unity doesn't support lua lol, you can use UnityScript (basically just JS), C#, and Boo (pretty similar to python) |
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>unity doesn't support lua lol, you can use UnityScript (basically just JS), C#, and Boo (pretty similar to python)
Actually it can, it's not a default part of the engine, but like any game engine, or C++ program, you can get libraries that support Lua.
There are some libraries built specifically for Unity, not by unity, but for unity that allow lua programming. Even though it still requires C# programming. |
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">I watched a video explaining how currency inflation in any game/etc ( and proof that there is an inflation roblox is trying to deal with, is the fact that they removed tickets, and they explain it further in the blog )
Link to video.
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Sorry i don't have link, but you've convinced me.
And, i'm not "whining" i'm literally stating an opinion
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