This is apparently what "prioritized" looks like btw
Some would call this a rugpull
Dominus eyes were first seen in 2011 on Dominus Messor. The best I could do was the 2D eyes with a fake "glow", 3D eyes looked terrible.
Here are new emissive versions. These are placed in a general spot, recommend using accessory adjustment.
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"I got in the program alongside people who submitted stolen items from the toolbox" is the biggest self own I've seen in a long time
I said I agree with you. You should be happy. The circumstances are just funny.
"Roblox gave me special treatment before, and now I'm mad that they don't anymore"
Talk about a lack of self awareness.
I actually agree, Roblox's pilot programs are inherently flawed due to internal company politics which generally result in undeserving people gaining access to things they have no business having access to. Most of the time, accepted creators can't actually do the work they were accepted to do and end up paying others for the work.
The irony of a creator who was hand picked into the UGC program now complaining they aren't being hand picked anymore is palpable.
Exhibit #11269 of why you should not use your main account for uploading ANY content, idk why people are still doing this and then acting surprised when something bad happens.
"well ackshually it was because road blocks is using erm AI MODERATION and they need to fix it"
Roblox is forced to turn to AI moderation due to unheard of levels of incompetency of their outsourced moderation and support (shocker, I know), and it's not really feasible to replace these outsourced people with higher intelligence hires - this is also really expensive. We are stuck with the AI whether we like it or not, but consider that said AI is in its infancy and it will eventually improve.
That said... stop uploading content on your main account. It's really that simple.
The funny part about this "6/7 day hack" is the insane speed of Roblox employees restoring the stolen items. Took less than a day.
Best I've got from support when asked if they could recover my stolen items was threats, that if I kept emailing they would terminate my account.
Please do not go down this matrix-looking path. Not only do people not want this, this is NOT GOOD for a kid's brain to be exposed to, no doubt about that.
If anyone wants to engage with this AI generated world nonsense, put an age requirement on it. Seriously.
Morpheus AI is joining Roblox. This acquisition will dramatically cut the time and cost of building high-fidelity, interactive worlds and unlock new possibilities for creators everywhere.
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Today is the start of Men's Mental Health Awareness Month. Most men don't take their mental health that serious among the onslaught of anti-male propaganda and vilification, but this is our month.
Take your mental health seriously, because societies collapse when men collapse.
How does an equation showing devs will earn more overall due to a large portion of the robux economy not being taxed at an additional 10% equal me being a narcissist?
You definitely did not read the entire post. Let's see if you read this one.
I didn't mention the other main problem with Pls Donate: BOTS. You claim the average person has no way to get free robux now. They never really did.
Someone could AFK in the game for weeks on end and never be donated anything, especially if their earned robux is at zero or they are a noob account. It is extremely difficult for the average player to join the game and have people donate to them. Additionally, the more earned robux you have, the easier it is to get donations. This does not apply to the average player and only benefits those who already have money.
What you are left with is thousands of people, and even more bot accounts, sitting in the game doing nothing. BOTS DO NOT DONATE, and certainly they do not donate to other bots. The massive bot presence puts a ton of stress on Roblox servers for no reason.
I don't know what percentage of Pls Donate players are either an actual bot or someone who is AFKing with an autoclicker. For argument's sake, let's say half of the active players are doing this. Roblox is running a tight operation, there was no future where they do not purge 15,000-20,000 active bots - and that's just in Pls Donate, there are many other donation games.
Let me explain to you why the Roblox update of the changes to gamepasses, and the destruction of donation games, is objectively GOOD.
No developer will disagree with me on this. If they do, they are larping.
The Roblox economy is composed of various different things. A typical pathway for robux is, robux is purchased from Roblox, spent on a gamepass, developer product, or UGC item, and the developer of the content cashes the robux out of the economy via devex.
The path of robux can take also take a very different path. Remember, most robux transactions take at least 30% as tax for the whole transaction - a significant amount.
Consider the following path:
Robux is purchased from Roblox > robux spent on a gamepass > gamepass owner spends on a limited > ex-limited owner includes robux in a trade > receiver of trade spends robux on a UGC item > UGC creator pays another creator via t-shirt for a retexture commission > retexturer uses Devex and removes the robux from the economy.
Every single one of these events includes a tax of at least 30%, with UGC sales taking 70% as tax. Let's say you spend 50 dollars on 5000 robux from Roblox. By the end of the above path, the 5000 robux is now only 360 robux, the equivalent of $1.37 USD via Devex. The original purchase of 50 dollars has lost 97.26% of its initially traded in value.
Now, as for why no dev would disagree with this update. Donation games are a large enough part of the economy that Pls Donate made significant revenue, easily much more than 8 figures. Remember, ALL robux that passes through Pls Donate is taxed at a whopping 40% rate due to Pls Donate's 10% tax cut. A large portion of robux that could have eventually landed in the pockets of other developers was taxed at 10% extra, which landed in Hazem's pocket.
This would mean you, as a developer, would be taking a significant percentage of your income and running it through an involuntary additional tax which is paid to another "developer" who really is just running a skimming machine. The amount of funds Hazem cashes out in a year would otherwise be dispersed among all developers, if people had a good way to donate robux and Hazem wasn't taking a skim.
People are ultimately developers on Roblox because they want to get paid to develop their own content. That is the trade. Content for money.
No developer would willingly give a percentage of their income to another "developer" who doesn't actually contribute to the Roblox ecosystem in terms of making real games or other UGC content, and you get absolutely nothing in return for the loss of income.
The death of donation games simply equals additional income for literally ALL other developers making REAL CONTENT.
I'm not sure why so many people have commented this "you have no right to talk" crap.
You will find that I in fact DO have the right to criticize anyone and anything I want. No amount of room-temperature IQ fools telling me otherwise will stop me.
Really, all I do is point out the obvious truth in a not-so-sugarcoated way.
Hazem doesn't give a fuck about anything except his money. If he DID care about something else, such as the "community" surrounding Pls Donate that everyone BUT Hazem has told me is so important, he would have said something along the lines of "I'm disappointed in how this will affect the Pls Donate community, I'm sorry you all have to deal with this".
Instead, he says "this platform fucking sucks".
The entitlement and ungratefulness radiates off that statement like a nuclear fucking warhead. No amount of "ERM ackshually you make FAKE LIMITEDS" has or will ever silence me, but I'm glad people still aggresively advertise that for me. Perhaps I should post more of them.
As many people pointed out, nobody ever calls me a liar.
Imagine this being your legacy: after earning millions of dollars being a glorified middleman, you crash out and throw Roblox under the bus "this platform fucking sucks" all because you aren't getting your 10% transaction skim anymore, vilifying the same platform that handed you all your money and success in the first place.
Let Hazem's story be a warning for all developers who think the gravy train will never end. The message from Roblox to him (and all developers) is quite clear to me:
Contribute to the platform, or fuck off.
This is exactly the kind of goycattle response Pls Donate affiliates will feed you in an attempt to make you feel bad that their transaction skimmer and/or money laundering machine has been shut off.
"Erm ackshually it's about the cOMMUNITY and gIVING bACK and the cULTURE! Won't someone think of the rich Roblox devs???"
Stop falling for this shit. I implore the viewer to take 2 seconds to view this individual's profile and connect the dots.
I think most people fail to see what PLS DONATE really was.🤦♂️It wasn't just a game for @haz3m_ to "middleman donations".
The game was successful because of the community that formed around it. Thousands of content creators were able to give back to their fans and connect with their communities while getting super cool reactions and global recognition for their generosity.
People donated because they got something back from it. Being generous came with its own kind of reward. On top of giving wealthy players a place to LITERALLY share their wealth with kids who couldn't afford Robux, it was also a great game for networking and meeting successful people you likely never would have met otherwise.
Reducing the entire game to a "transaction skimmer" misses why millions of people played it in the first place. If you've actually spent time in the game, you'd know it was never just about the Robux—it was about the community, the interactions, and the culture that formed around giving.
I got to meet a lot of cool people through PLS DONATE. And Hazem being upset that his game is being shunned is totally justified.
You are an ungrateful shitty person and I'm glad your true colours are now being shown to the world.
Imagine making millions of dollars via transaction skimming due to a lack of official Roblox feature, and when Roblox puts a stop to it you throw tantrums like an ungrateful child. Oh no, now you have to put ACTUAL EFFORT into your work and games to make money! God forbid!
Spoiler: one of the main reasons Roblox made this change was to REMOVE your income. You are a middleman, a skimmer, providing no actual content or contribution to the platform, regardless of how many flashing lights are shown to people when they donate.
I don't know why you think you're entitled to have any opinion or conversation with Roblox about this change, and after seeing your outbursts I'm frankly happy they have shut your ass down in the way they have. You are a leech.
"this platform fucking sucks" fuck off then, good riddance. Sounds you spent all your money instead of saving it, and thought the gravy train would never end. It has, it's real, and it's happening!
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None of the updated heads myself or @IckyVickyRblx provided have been updated by Roblox either.
Based on their track record (and recent tests of AI moderation) I am expecting that what actually happens is, nothing is updated by the deadline, but they run the moderation wave anyway, deleting all of the non-compliant and non-updated heads... which means everything.
Roblox is quite obviously not taking the heads situation seriously based on how the Roblox-owned dynamic heads were handled, a good example is the head attachment point being incorrect. Which means several hundred thousand accessories are now broken due to the incorrect attachment. And then there's what they allowed to happen to limited faces, which is nothing short of a total annihilation of value. Some would call it a rugpull.
It would actually be routine for Roblox to NOT update any of the heads that creators have provided for whatever the reason is, they are short staffed, they forgot, there was a miscommunication... This happens all the time. Personally, I think these things are such a mess because of the total lack of communication. We also have radio silence from Kestrel who were supposed to lead the heads being corrected, and we have no examples of work being completed. Best we got was an update to the mood animation of the limited "Yum" face.
Any other UGC creators that focus on heads & avatars want to chime in here? Have any of your items been updated yet?
