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Re: [Discussion] - Where are the professional developers?

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E961 is not online. E961
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26 Mar 2015 08:51 PM
I've been thinking, why hasn't ROBLOX gotten any professional third party developers to make games for them?

I mean, if the whole point of the Egg Hunt is to show off development tools, to create an actual game, and to create an event for thousands of people to play, but you won't do it yourself,

Why get a bunch of developers who have yet to make a successful title on it?
They're not making millions of dollars on it, and production values for them are far less then $1 million.

Why not go get a subsidiary of Daddy ZeniMax, or Activision, or someone like Obsidian on it?

Given yeah the cost, the name by themselves will

A. Get people on ROBLOX because X company or whoever made it.

B. It's pretty much guaranteed to be an actually fun game, and inspire a ton of the garbage developers on the front page right now to raise their quality standards. They're all pretending they're Tom Chilton or something and can't deliver on that level of quality.

I mean, considering DevEx is a thing, and ROBLOX pretty much prints money out of thin air, surely they can afford that kind of thing, yes?

DevEx exists, therefore they clearly don't really want to keep ALL of their money to themselves.

ROBLOX is claiming to be more or less made of money, so surely this can happen, yes?
(Google it, it was somewhere where David (I'm pretty sure?) said something about multi-million stuff going on.)

Thoughts on this?
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Joeysgame1234 is not online. Joeysgame1234
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26 Mar 2015 08:53 PM
They have a team of contractors, they just don't use them.

Found this out from talking to a member of the games team himself, but not a mod.
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FlameYeti is not online. FlameYeti
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26 Mar 2015 09:01 PM
That would be really good. At least the devs wouldn't insult people. *COUGH* taymaster *COUGH*
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H3XAGON is not online. H3XAGON
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26 Mar 2015 09:03 PM
Ya, howcome I didn't make the egg hunt place!! :(
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E961 is not online. E961
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26 Mar 2015 09:04 PM
Other than the scary part of getting Daddy ZeniMax here [rip everyone with 'fallout' or 'scrolls' in their name], ROBLOX could in theory be on par with a well, quite frankly, superior service like Steam.

There would be actual titles people would actually want to play here.

I'm fairly certain that King David wants to be on the Steam/Origin/uPlay/whatever list with ROBLOX.
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E961 is not online. E961
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26 Mar 2015 09:17 PM
Bump.
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cornholio234 is not online. cornholio234
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26 Mar 2015 09:18 PM
"I've been thinking, why hasn't ROBLOX gotten any professional third party developers to make games for them?

I mean, if the whole point of the Egg Hunt is to show off development tools, to create an actual game, and to create an event for thousands of people to play, but you won't do it yourself,

Why get a bunch of developers who have yet to make a successful title on it?
They're not making millions of dollars on it, and production values for them are far less then $1 million.
"


You're missing the whole point of modern ROBLOX, ROBLOX as a platform is meant to show off what it's community users can make. Not some professional staff hired from Microsoft lol.
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E961 is not online. E961
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26 Mar 2015 09:20 PM
ROBLOX keeps being implicative about wanting real developers here.
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E961 is not online. E961
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26 Mar 2015 09:21 PM
I can't find the exact video, but they mentioned something about new features to be on par with other engines?
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wizzerland is not online. wizzerland
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26 Mar 2015 09:27 PM
dont RIP fallout dat game rocks :P
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E961 is not online. E961
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26 Mar 2015 09:31 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcwaoUGpaaE
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E961 is not online. E961
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26 Mar 2015 09:40 PM
Bump.
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E961 is not online. E961
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27 Mar 2015 05:46 PM
Bump 2.
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E961 is not online. E961
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27 Mar 2015 10:20 PM
Does Microsoft Game Studios exist still anyway?

They like, got rid of Mythica and their other projects, EA's fault for that.
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Megadragon2469 is not online. Megadragon2469
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27 Mar 2015 10:22 PM
@E961

Yeah,didn't they make that game called Dust or something?
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E961 is not online. E961
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27 Mar 2015 10:25 PM
Oh, just googled it.

Yeah, they're just 'Microsoft Studios' now.

either the big Master Chief didn't want to have such a long name or Daddy ZeniMax went after Microsoft, or something happened.
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E961 is not online. E961
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27 Mar 2015 10:37 PM
Actually, yeah.
That would be interesting seeing Obsidian making a ROBLOX game.
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