Roblox's R6 Avatar Phase-Out: What the New Revenue Incentives Mean for Players

Roblox's R6 Avatar Phase-Out: What the New Revenue Incentives Mean for Players

Roblox is incentivizing developers to use R15 avatars by offering higher revenue shares, potentially phasing out the classic R6 avatars. The change targets 18+ users and aims to create more realistic games, but many players and developers are concerned about losing the iconic R6 style. The update has sparked debate about Roblox's direction and its impact on the community.

Is Roblox trying to get rid of R6?. | Transcript:

Uh Roblox is like a very tricky genie, where you wish for one thing and they kind of just give you they technically might give you what you wanted, but it comes with a lot of different evil caveats. Like, "Oh, hey Roblox, maybe you should delete bathroom roleplay games that have beds in the bathrooms." Okay, yeah. Uh also, no one can talk to each other anymore. And this is what you get now. The players are taking turns sharing and repeating complex words with each other. What the is that? Roblox will auto-generate summaries of players' legends. I really feel included now in all these conversations.

The players are encouraging each other to stay hydrated while chatting. What? That probably is something dirty that they're talking about. in the most recent genie wish that was made, it sounds like a great thing at first, but it actually could mean something very, very evil. Roblox fuse next wave of high-fidelity games for over 18 years old players increases qualifying dev So, games that are targeted for 18 plus users, like maybe more bloody games, maybe more first-person shooter style games that don't usually get very high player counts, Roblox is giving them up to a 42% increase of the money they earn, which that sounds very cool. Cuz like if you're it's kind of pointless right now to make an older audience game on Roblox

when Kick and Lucky Block has 200,000 players, Slime RNG Like I think Roblox wants to maybe stray away from having John Pork as their most played game. So yeah, this sounds incredible. You know, until you start reading a little bit more of this. This increased dev ex rate will apply to games utilizing R15 avatars. R15 upgrades avatars with advanced skeletal joints. Using R15, creators can produce lifelike physically stimulated avatars that fit into more realistic worlds. Hmm. Yeah, and initially they didn't even tell you this. I found this out through a YouTube video. Green LEGO cats. So, originally they said, "To be eligible, games should use R15 avatars." And then they only uh they only told

their investors that R15 avatars are required for this. "To qualify for the higher rate, games must use R15 avatar framework." You know, could this spell uh this is a fear This is my fear-mongering moment, by the way. I mean, like if they a lot of uh really fun games use R6. You know, I'm not saying Roblox is trying to get rid of R6 avatars, but you they clearly hate it, right? Like in every single promotional image, they really never use R6 avatars. You know, and I know they're just trying to expand outwards, and uh anyone who likes R6 avatars is probably already on the platform, but it's kind of funny to exclude R6 avatars from a DevEx increase, cuz a lot of the I don't know A lot of the games I personally

have played over the years are R6 games. Like the game I play the most right now is Left for Blocks, and this is R6. I'd say this is a lot more adult-leaning game than most Roblox games. Uh like if you ever played Left 4 Dead 2, uh this is just a copy of that. Yabba. [screaming] Yabba. Like I've hung this guy out. Shh. I'm putting this guy in a Logan Paul video. Oops. Yabba. [screaming] Lol. You're dead. Lol. Yeah, I generally I play this game for like a few hours a day lately. Like it's not insane to think that Roblox would be trying to get developers to just do

anything that not use R6 avatars, right? Cuz I mean, look what they've done to our faces. Like this is They just did like a Like they just very lazily remade all the original faces with AI. Like yeah, why are my teeth on the bottom? You know, it's been like a couple months now and they still look just as horrible as they did. Hey. What the hell are you doing? Hey, I saw what you did. [snorts] Hey! Hey, knock it off! I'm banning you. Get out of here. You are not allowed to do that to people. This chat feature is so sh- The players are chatting about fruit. Dude, they're probably typing in eggplant and peach emojis. That's

probably what's happening and that's what they're saying to me. The players are discussing a confusing situation and deciding to wait to see what happens next. The players are discussing a content creator. [screaming] That's me! You guys are talking about me. Thank you. I love you. Nergal. I hate you. Why would you talk about me? So, I'm assuming Roblox they want more of these games cuz like they specifically mentioned having like knees and elbows, head, shoulders, knees and toes. But I mean like these games are

cool to look at, but none of these games play as good as something like I hate to say it, but Phantom Forces or Rivals or something. Like a game like this on Roblox will never be as fun as something like Rivals or Phantom Forces. For some reason, I don't know the technical reason why. Like this game is a thousand times more fun than Frontlines and this is a As you can see, this guy, bro. You hiding in a cor- Okay, one sec. This just got very personal.

Enemy spotted. La look at this. And then you got to hump the wall. They see that on their kill cam. You have to do that if you kill someone in this game. But like these games always play just way better than the realistic games. Because I know Roblox just I guess their systems aren't good enough compared to like Call of Duty or something or the Xbox or PlayStation or like actual Steam games. Dude, this guy. What the hell are you hiding back there for? Okay, yeah, as I was saying, I don't think the reason people don't play Frontlines is cuz there's not enough 18+ users or something. It's just like these games don't play nearly as good. I think

Roblox, you really need to appreciate what you have. The R6 system is very fun. People love it. Stop trying to run away from yourself. This is a very good video to watch. Very sweet, cute video. You should watch. Link in description. The players are chatting about their interests and recognizing each other in the game. He's talking about this guy. He's talking about this guy recognizing me. Hey, tell Hey, how about grow the up. Oh my god, I can see it. Oh, take it easy.

Why does Roblox like This is the worst update ever, by the way. I feel so humiliated anytime it does this to me. Like if I call someone idiot and then it says Come on, dude. Like that is so humiliating. Like when you type OMW and it says on my way. The players are joking about requesting administrative Okay, you I'm not giving any of you admin. I'm kicking all of you out again. All right, check this. out. I'm going to bounce off and hit that third uh window. Yabba! Okay, that was pretty cool. You could never do that, you freaking fake.

Stop. Yeah, even if they don't remove R6, if they just kind of make it so like no developer ever wants to use it, um I that's very possible cuz I mean, remember when they stole every unrated game from us? Remember how like so many millions of games are unplayable? And David said, uh "It won't be like burning the Library of Alexandria." I know I talk about that every update video, but that's like the most angry I've ever been at this platform, taking away so many games. to play SpongeBob Zombie Battlefield, where me and my childhood friend got uh banned for 14 days for adding a human body part to SpongeBob. I want to go back and play that game for some reason. Uh really good example is this anime game right here,

the anime uh fighting Jujutsu Shenanigans with 200,000 players. If this person was offered a 40% pay increase for just turning this into R15, like you can't blame them for taking that pay raise, right? Cuz this game could definitely fall under like the older audience scale or whatever. Yabba! I don't know about this game. Ah! I denied my wedding. Check this out. Yabba! Ah! Run! Go away. Yeah, you kind of always have to assume the corporation has very evil intentions. Like who knows what evil things this whole face update was for cuz nobody wanted it, yet they still did it, and it looks horrible. But there's

like no update on if it's getting fixed, what might happen, what it might look like. We just all have like slightly indented faces now. Like is this going to be some type of spyware thing that, you know, even if everyone hates the update, it's just so worth it to go through with it anyways. So I really wouldn't be surprised if R6 is either gone in a few years or just nobody uses it because it degrades your pay scale too much or something. I think if you Obviously this is all for like investors sake, but if you offer David Baszucki $20, what do you think he would do? How much do you think you could get from him for $20? Because times are pretty tough for Roblox cuz they keep getting sued

and all this other drama crap going on. The players are discussing a past event and coordinating their next location. That's This sounds like a terrorist attack. I feel like they're not summarizing this too well. So yeah guys, make sure to be very excited for the future. There's a lot of good things on the horizon. There's been a lot of great things lately and I think it's only going to be greater things.

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