Since its official launch in 2006, Roblox has amassed 79.5 million every day lively customers all over the world. And in 2023, the Roblox Company revealed its grand ambition to extend that quantity to 1 billion every day lively customers. At this 12 months’s Roblox Builders Convention, the corporate introduced some new plans to succeed in that purpose, together with a partnership between Roblox and Shopify in addition to revamped revenue-sharing plans for builders who make premium experiences for the sport creation platform.
By way of the official Roblox site, the corporate’s take care of Shopify is a part of a broader push to permit creators to promote their very own bodily merchandise throughout the experiences that they make for Roblox. Basically, this implies gamers will not have to go away Roblox in the event that they need to purchase one thing from one in every of their favourite creators. The Roblox Company notes that there may also be built-in help for different e-commerce platforms alongside Shopify. These options can be added in early 2025, however a couple of choose creators might take part within the pilot program later this 12 months.
The Roblox Company can also be including larger income sharing plans for creators who make premium experiences for Roblox on desktop. Experiences charging $10, $30, and $50 will respectively earn 50%, 60%, and 70% of the income for his or her creators starting later this 12 months. Assist for video games/experiences created for different platforms will occur sooner or later down the road.
Moreover, Roblox Company has signaled that it’s working in the direction of giving creators the instruments and help they should make “a high-performance, 100-player open-world, sports activities or battle royale-type sport on Roblox.” Whereas Roblox co-creator David Baszucki appeared to concede that the platform cannot at the moment help that, he additionally mentioned “we received’t cease till that is attainable.”
A few of the different new options embrace Roblox Celebration, which permits mates to play the identical video games collectively. Roblox can also be partnering with music distributer DistroKid to convey its catalog of music to the platform. There can be a brand new options known as What’s Taking part in and Music Charts. The former permits customers to determine any piece of music enjoying in Roblox, whereas the latter will host separate charts for sport/expertise music and songs. Music Charts is predicted to launch on Roblox early subsequent 12 months.