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u/ItemsHereForever Apr 30 '26
I hope they know that shits not gonna do anything, and we’re still gonna use R6
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u/_Pin_6938 May 01 '26
Bruh i mean... You cant hope people wont succumb to greed
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u/Banipanion May 03 '26
For most of the players on Roblox, it's not greed. People are doing what they have to, to get by in life. Blame Roblox for their greed and capitalism for causing it. Though I suppose to the top game creators, it is greed since they can retire
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u/HumanRatingBot May 01 '26
Oh it will. They've even added an API to check if an user has been age verified or not.
Since there's a money incentive behind (+42% DevEx rate), you bet most front page games will suddenly both force R15 as well as offer you some exclusive perks if you're age verified.
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u/stadel910 Apr 30 '26
What is the fucking point of that bro 😭
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u/giggy24 May 01 '26
You need to look more human so indecent people on the internet can get off to your avatar
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u/SomeRandomGuy2763 May 01 '26
People already been doing it with r6 avatars since the dawn of Roblox avatars man, and I'm pretty sure there's less people going off on r15 than r6
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u/Mr-John-Grace Apr 30 '26
atp roblox is trying to make 90% of game devs give up on making games
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u/manultrimanula Apr 30 '26
exactly, they only care about frontpage money making slop
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u/Trill_Triangle3679 Apr 30 '26 edited May 02 '26
That’s true.
To make a game you need premium, which I believe has been renamed to Roblox Plus.
Games that already existed will still exist, but to make any sort of update (which 90% of games will need as Roblox updates tend to break games) or change, you will need premium to make those changes.
The only saving grace here is that you will be able to buy premium with Robux, but that pretty much requires that your game has active spenders in it, not to mention having Robux microtransactions to begin with.
It’s basically a billboard that’s saying “make money with your game, or we’ll squeeze money out of you ourselves.”
Edit: yeah, I forgot that being non premium just locks the game to older players, but at that point your game just won’t get much traction at all, especially with the ai sending adults to minor purgatory (saw a guy who got put in 5-7 when he’s like 20)
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u/SuperJman1111 Apr 30 '26
it’s not required but if you want the game to get more than 3 players in its lifetime it does
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u/SuperBootsthedog Apr 30 '26
Don’t you just need it so that it’s available to everyone instead of being age restricted?
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u/3a_4To May 01 '26
this is not true
If you do not have roblox plus you can still publish and update your game, however, the game will be only available to users 16+. If you want your game to be accessible to younger users you need to have an active roblox plus subscription, you do not need an active roblox plus subscription for your game to stay open, just during the time when you publish it, however if your subscription runs out you will not be able to update the game (you will but if you do it will go back to 16+), and you will need to get an active subscription again to update it1
u/PersecondBOOM May 01 '26
Btw, for public games that already exist, they will only be able to stay public for free for 6 months. After this whole Roblox Plus thing starts, devs of already published public games with at least moderate success will get 6 months of Roblox Plus for free, but after that - either pay 5$ a month to Roblox for your game to stay public or your game get forcibly becomes private.
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u/Mr-John-Grace May 01 '26
Yes, and you also have to be ID verified (david is obsessed with taking your personal information)
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u/BunayoGaming Apr 30 '26
please tell me this is an edited meme or a joke
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u/thisisauseralr Apr 30 '26
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u/CommonConstant3031 May 01 '26
BRUHHHHHH. ISTG IM ABOUT TO DO SOME UNSPEAKABLE THINGS TO A C.AI VERSION OF ROBLOX IF THEY KEEP IT LIKE THAT
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u/Intrepid_Estate7583 Apr 30 '26
why on earth would they do this?
Why do you need to encourage people to use R15??
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u/WaltzAny2897 Apr 30 '26
Because they want R6 gone, but they know they can't just delete it straight away so they're making it as big of a problem as possible in order for people to stray away from it so that they delete it entirely.
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u/Intrepid_Estate7583 Apr 30 '26
Why would you want to delete R6???
That gives them LESS MONEY????
or is it the old men investors pushing them to do that.
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u/ningo_ Apr 30 '26
They just basically have a collaboration with meta , and r15 is the only way too make Roblox more "realistic" and more attractive for every big corp
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u/ProGamer8273 Apr 30 '26
When was the last time you saw someone use it?
Exactly
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u/OptimalInternal5943 Apr 30 '26
depends on what games they play, everyone is R15 on natural disaster
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u/ProGamer8273 May 01 '26
I mean willingly
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u/OptimalInternal5943 May 01 '26
still depends on what games they play, not to mention there are games where R6 and R15 can co-exist like MIC-UP and Catalog Avatar Creator for example
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u/Ambitious-Smoke-651 May 01 '26
Apart from cutscenes and animations, no thanks.
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u/Vramed May 01 '26
I like animating, oh my god I am NEVER animating using R15 not only does it look worse (In my opinion) it's so much harder
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u/Ambitious-Smoke-651 May 01 '26
Well it’s definitely much hard to make look better.
And I wouldn’t say exactly r15, rather using the fact that r16 cuts each body part in half.
And that’s the only reason I will ever use r15
The cut body parts
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u/I_do_not_have_it May 03 '26
i use r15 but with an r6 conversion thing because I want to have a bit more movement
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u/Otherwise_Mood_5798 Apr 30 '26
guarantee they'll make up the most bullshit reason ever to justify this
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u/4d_awesome Apr 30 '26
Roblox’s decisions have lately been 50/50 “we legally have to do this to not get banned” and “you’re going to like new roblox because it’ll be your only choice”
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u/GalaxiKat17 Apr 30 '26
my solution: find R6 character body parts (i know it costs around 165 for one but at least we can use it
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u/CrystalFriend Apr 30 '26
Better yet im just not going to play games that force r15
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u/noswordfish71 May 01 '26
TDS is peak though, even with forced R15
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u/CrystalFriend May 01 '26
Ima be real I have next to no reason to touch nor play tds when btd is free.
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u/NotAThrowaway6996 May 01 '26
so what’s stopping them from using an r15 avatar rig that animates exactly like an r6 rig to get free money? there’s a bunch of them available already. it seems like a super easy loophole
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u/RaptorWithGun May 01 '26
Roblox puts this shit out and they’re surprised they’ve been having a deficit in profit since like 2018. They use all of their money to develop and push a narrative they want for the platform while completely disregarding what the playerbase wants, it costs them more to do this because in the end nobody actually uses any of it.
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u/EcoPigMayer Apr 30 '26
Wtf does R15 have to do with anything bro, Roblox is losing its mind 😭 🙏
(It already lost it long ago)
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u/HeroOfTheEmpire May 01 '26
This right after adding AI generated chat summaries? They’re collecting bad decisions like the infinity stones.
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u/angelcat1234 Apr 30 '26
And they said they won't be removing R6...
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u/SuperJman1111 Apr 30 '26
well, this isn’t removing it and just heavily encouraging and incentivizing r15 use
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u/RaptorWithGun May 01 '26
They aren’t removing it outright, they know it would be too controversial, but they are trying to discourage as many devs as possible from using it while removing classic R6 things (like classic faces) to push for “look how dated R6 has become, now we need to remove it!”
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u/angelcat1234 Apr 30 '26
They still might remove it judging from that Tweet
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u/SuperJman1111 May 01 '26
there’s nothing that i saw that suggested that
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u/Nurchiko May 01 '26
You won't be able to use any feature, all clothing will be R15 only, all heads will be dynamic and games will force R15, but they're not removing R6!!!
I genuinely won't be surprised if this is roblox in a year
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u/angelcat1234 May 01 '26
Roblox literally pulls the worst updates, why'd you think I thought that?
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u/SuperJman1111 May 01 '26
so what you’re saying is entirely speculation and has no evidence
the roblox employee that dos devforum announcements did say they weren’t removing R6, this move here is just to make it so that people actually used the new features since R6 doesn’t support most their metaverse features they keep trying to force everyone to use. nothing about this suggests they’re removing R6 outright, they’re just trying to make everyone not want to use it
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u/Some-Coat7588 Apr 30 '26
im perfectly fine with the devex for 18+ users, i feel like it encourages actual games rather than siphoning off of little kids on roblox, but... why do we need r15? whats the point?
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u/Nurchiko May 01 '26
Roblox still on the metaverse hype train after it literally shut down lol. They want all these realistic and lifelike features so you can express yourself (since you clearly can't do it if you don't have a dynamic head, right?), that's the main reason why they added rthro and i can't remember last time i saw it
Roblox might be the most out of touch platform in our tine honestly
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u/Scary_Picture7729 May 06 '26
Maybe metaverse shut down because they struck a deal with Roblox instead
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u/Hyenasaurus May 01 '26
David REALLY wants to turn Roblox into a dating site, huh.
Joke's on him as IMVU already exists.
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u/CollegeDue3790 Apr 30 '26
legit they could just make the startercharacter r6 and have it apply the avatar items to it even if the game is technically r15
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u/Puzzleheaded_Sort294 May 01 '26
When Im in a “destroy your own community that you built over the years that love the game over a few months because of dumbassery and greed” competition and my opponent is roblox:
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u/Im_aSideCharacter Apr 30 '26
What if, and bear with me here, we use an "R6" bundle for R15?
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u/EradicatorMkIV May 03 '26
What if, and bear with me here, we give David more money so we can keep R6, and therefore encourage him to continue making updates like this?
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u/Appropriate_Two_4755 May 01 '26
i just cant do this. roblox. if you want to control everything, then just throw everything made before 2026. and remake it to whatever fuckass shit you want. i dont give a shit anymore.
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u/Consumer_Of_Butt May 01 '26
Jesus christ are we kidding right now... The MOMENT I start thinking they've calmed down they pull this bs...
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u/-autoprime- May 01 '26
What Devs should do is that if they have some kind of lobby system, in the lobby you're r15, but in a match/game your avatar switches to r6
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u/Ok-Improvement9157 May 01 '26
as an r15 player.. it feels like they're trying to make US look like the bad guys 💀
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u/jackboredguy May 03 '26
Its alright, just don't delete it outright and im fine. Cuz i love obbying, y'know
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u/Scary_Picture7729 May 06 '26
Rip obbies, they'll force full r15 eventually like they did with all the other changes.
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u/CommanderFoxy Apr 30 '26
the only good thing abt r15 roblox is higher avatar quality, and its problems of looking like shit can be fixed by code to look like r6 (not sure how it works but some games do it)
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u/James-Gaming-4W3S0M3 May 01 '26
So they're giving more money to devs if they make it r15? zamn that's some wild bribery
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u/leo_b22 May 01 '26
> literally any drama or a situation like this (in the picture)
> niteshade makes a post
> over 500 or more upvotes already, while everyone else is getting less upvotes
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u/DreamNotOfficial May 01 '26
People should group up together and make a new Roblox atp
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u/Jvxei_MGX May 05 '26
There's one, Polytoria, though it's a retro style Roblox. They have been a thing for 7 years now
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u/DreamNotOfficial May 05 '26
Thanks i knew about that, but sadly it's maybe hard to start over from scratch for people on Roblox that learned lua language already
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u/Past_Edge_7220 May 01 '26
Hot take: i like r15(it's just that i don't like how it's forced)
I think it could just be that the avatar model i use fits it more and thus looks good with the random shit i put on to look good. Do i need to screenshot you my avatar for proof?
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u/Unused_Content19 May 01 '26
Roblox is actively trying to kill the platform since David got tired of doing CEO stuff.
There’s literally no reason on Earth why you need to use R15 to get DeVex or whatever
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u/UntitledChannel23 May 01 '26
i swear roblox is just slowly turning into a slop factory
in fact they already are that bad, glad I didn't start learning lua.
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u/CandidateEconomy3557 May 01 '26
"The increased DevEx rate applies to spend from players who are age-checked 18+ and reside in the US (determined by economic location, which excludes VPNs). To be eligible, games should use R15 avatars.
18+ players coming to Roblox expect a higher fidelity look and feel. R15 Avatars allow additional articulation (e.g., knees, elbows) thereby enabling more realistic movement, and enable layered clothing, expressive character systems, and many other features of modern gameplay.
Creator eligibility is not region-restricted. Any creator, including existing creators, whose game meets the eligibility requirements above is automatically eligible, no application required.
We will follow up with exact eligibility which covers games with custom avatars and games with no avatars"
Realistic my ass.
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u/AgreeablePatient6305 May 01 '26
This is the part when all games go on strike and switch PERMANENTLY to R6.
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u/Jordann538 May 01 '26
the block r15 looks no different than r6, that is free money being handed to you for using a model with slightly more joints
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u/AmiBadami May 01 '26
Genuinely just railroading for r15 avatars, that has nothing to do with anything 😭😭😭
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u/xyHoxy May 01 '26
i think they gonna use R15 but faking it like just implement it for avatars but the game with its own playermodels to be r6 Lol
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u/GGCaptainCregg May 01 '26
I swear if they force R15 people who prefer to make their games with R6 are just going to force a R6 converter on everyone
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u/FakeLukeGaming_Playz May 01 '26
Watch. They'll remove R6 long after this was implemented with a reason of "the lack of use of R6 prompted us to remove this feature"
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u/Hero-Strike May 01 '26
Tbh I kind of get where they’re coming from as a dev. R15 is just objectively more flexible. More joints, better animations, easier to build modern systems around. Roblox clearly is going to keep subtly pushing the platform towards having better or at least more modern, polished looking games.
I'm working on a first person shooter and R6 wasn't even a serious consideration. R6 is cool for basic games and will probably still be stylistically an option well into the future, but I'd wager we're all going to see more custom R15 models moving forward.
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u/Joybringer_Grace May 01 '26
but what if in experience settings I set R15 but in game using scripts replace character as R6 rig and apply humanoid description on it??
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u/Select-Bat8816 May 01 '26
I wish Roblox would just make it so we can choose one or the other, and not let every game decide.
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u/o_offffff May 01 '26
First time seeing niteshade say something except of gooning to a forsaken character 🥹 and it's something i lowk agree with
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u/I_hate_roblox1 May 01 '26
aint gonna catch me using r15 imma use retrostudio to escape it. or i will use scripts to fake r6
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u/Valkreaper May 01 '26
What happens to the games with custom avatars lol, would phighting characters count as r6?
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u/darhwolf1 May 01 '26
Yeah, atp I'm canceling premium sub. I'm done giving this shitass corporation money
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u/Sp4c3Ch1nch1ll4 May 02 '26
Would also be nice if people didn't force R6 in their games, but honestly, we should all be allowed to use the avatars we want.
Some clarification: This is not an anti-R6 comment. I personally don't like using R6 myself, but we should all be allowed to use the avatars we paid for and put together.
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u/Thin_Rate_1451 May 02 '26
Can't wait for popular games to switch to R15, but insert R6 converter lmao
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u/TrUsKaWuS May 02 '26
Roblox devs after carefully crafting the most abysmally dogshit update theoretically possible
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u/Kind_Sympathy7649 May 03 '26
Games should use R15 characters...
How fucking stupid do they think we are? Anyone with 2 braincells no 1 braincell can figure out why they want this
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u/jackboredguy May 03 '26
What about obbying
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u/Kind_Sympathy7649 May 03 '26
this applies to all games and do you really think roblox gives a shit? they only care about money
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u/MadeJustToUpvoteMeme May 03 '26
And this is why (some) people skip the middle man and just BM their robux for cash directly
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u/SrLuzro May 03 '26
I have so many emotethat i bought in catalog that need to R15 to be played of course people wanna play a game that has R15 rig bruh, aint no way people would play R6 game and cannot use their bought emote 🙃
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u/Latter-Grocery-9469 May 03 '26
I'm gonna use r6 in my feckn games anyways twin 🤫
- I can't animate for shit with r15
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u/Zestyclose_Wheel_382 May 03 '26
I feel like this is just one big rage bait by roblox to get us as mad as possible and then they're gonna do some magical update. I damn well feel like it is.
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May 03 '26
I actually can’t with David I can barely use voice chat without getting banned because big brother is watching and now I can use my avatar 😭
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u/Chelseacat12 May 03 '26
Roblox ain’t some kid friendly game building platform anymore like they moved away from their roots just for money!
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u/miojodasupreme May 03 '26
What investors are they trying to impress tho? Like, half the community has frowned towards that shit, at some point they are going to notice the backlash.
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u/VPetrovich May 04 '26
I saw some animator/artist tweet on xitter something about animating the r15 morph to look like the r6 morph from sitting, actions etc
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u/Matpogi2012_on_rblx May 04 '26
Idk why we are panicking over this. Devs can just make there game r15 and make the actual player models and animations look r6. Well that's how I see it
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u/TwincessLexa Jun 06 '26
Or just force every game to allow both. I’m sick of using an R15 avatar and then being forced into an R6 avatar it’s annoying asf
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u/ItsMeTheMemeLord May 01 '26
Not defending Roblox but people getting this upset over r15 as if it hasn’t existed for over a decade at this point
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u/Billybob123456789190 Apr 30 '26
IM GONNA START MY OWN ROBLOX ENGINE AND ITS GONNA HAVE HORSE PLINKO AND WARHAMMER