Introduction
If you haven't heard already, Roblox is starting to push out new publishing requirements for specific ages. And I myself am very concerned about this. Considering it could affect not just my Indie Studio (Parafield) but also many other developers in the platform.
I'm for myself am NOT going to give my identity to a literal fucking government surveillance. And I definitely can't constantly fund for a fucking membership without sacrificing critical infrastructure. This is just FUCKING BULLSHIT!
Discussion about Moving
This has even talked about a lot in Parafield's Staff division, and is now being brought up again. SHOULD WE or SHOULD WE NOT abandon the platform and look for other alternatives? (or focus on Storming's development?)
Well there's major issues with all of these paths. One of which is that 95% of all Parafield developers (myself included) only know the workings of Roblox. How building, scripting and even UI Designing. That means we would need to have to go through the hassle of relearning EVERYTHING and potentially new things just to stay in the development game. And I doubt our developers would wanna go through this hassle. (Trust me I don't either)
What about Storming? Why not make ur own engine? Well with our current situation it's not as fucking simple as you'd imagine. And obviously trying to make a C++ engine and shove it into a Java coded editor isn't exactly easy to do either. That's why Storming's development was eventually slowed to focus on actually hiring new developers and improving our systems.
ALSO if we even consider doing this. That's a lot of progress down the fucking drain! Especially the with Codename Combat being the most worked on and most coded game in Parafield's development. That would have a total in progress if we migrated. Sure we could potentially bring over some stuffs but, is it even fucking worth the trouble…?
Well… Now what??
Are we actually gonna move? Well unfortunately that's completely undecided for now. It's complicated to do this move in the first place. You may remember our announcement in Parafield when we expressed our initial thoughts during the whole Schlep situation.
And honestly? After the amount of backlash Roblox has been getting.. I'm in a completely stand off. I myself don't even know what to do now. This has been my biggest jump. Parafield's started in like November 2019 and I started this history in 2017. 8 FUCKING YEARS I'm telling you. And my friends, they've all helped me get to this point.
It feels like all of this has been all for nothing sometimes. Worst case scenario is that Roblox probably shuts down and our studio enters a completely anarchy, unable to figure out what to do until we finally become defunct or repurposed.
I don't want to let go of this hobby yet… I don't wanna make our team be stressed and potentially quit from migration, yet I don't want the collapse of our development to occur because of Roblox's stupidity.
I don't know what we'll do now, either we migrate and sacrifice progress. Or stay in Roblox and suffer the restrictions.. I'll keep talking with the staff team and see what we can do about this. But for now, we're unsure what we'll do now, and I'm genuinely scared of what will be in store in 2026.