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Xerneis wrote: Karen.celedestin wrote: while i do see your point, i think you’re being a bit too sensitive on this

sure, they took your content, but it’s on some cheap fangame that’s mostly unheard of.

and it’s not like roblox’s community is largely influential nor easy to influence with small factors, so i doubt your skin - or any skin, for that matter - will make much of a difference

plus, roblox is a bit on the low-end side of gaming communities; low to the point where a lot of people are ignored or even made fun of for mentioning it to more orthodox gamers

i doubt that receiving credit or even having made the skin will make much of a difference I understand your point, but Roblox is quite different from before. You can now make real money off of games. Take the situation of it being a fan game out of context, then the situation becomes much more serious. You can monetize your work on Roblox now, which means that stricter regulations are required, and people can't just assume the best outcome anymore.

Also, working on roblox studio can be tedious and time-consuming. Is it harder than model making and rigging outside of Roblox? Of course not. There are different fine lines, but in the end you are putting work into it. It's like making a piece of art, you'd be furious if someone stole the credit from you.

Point is, Roblox is now (unfortunately) a legitimite business and monetization of stolen work is now a thing, instead of it just being pride. This actually has happened already on roblox with Kingdom Life 2, where thelolguy301 used a hacked version of Boopbot's game, then monetized it. Sadly Roblox removed place comments, so I can't really give information about that issue. You can message Boopbot himself and find out, however.

While Roblox’s dev system is monetized, it’s not like you can make a living off of it or something. Taymastar only made $40k in a year with Twisted Murder, while the standard middle-class wage is $60k to $90k per year. Neither Strife nor any spin-offs are anywhere near popular enough for that much attention and profit.