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Posted in ROBLOX News

May 14, 2015 at 12:00 PM

New Game Thumbnails

By Superale24

Editors: Wegggieninja, Dornbaum, Calig13, Gamerdude5 and Sparker22

Hello Readers! It’s Superale24 again reporting to you a  HUGE update ROBLOX added onto the games page; New Thumbnails!

Why the sudden change? ROBLOX explains it like this:

“Square game icons allow for a maximum amount of items to be displayed both horizontally and vertically per page. Square icons are also a much friendlier image ratio for your players who use a mobile device. Game icons stand out against all other screenshots and video of your game. Game icons could become your “app icon” – a direct link to your game – placed anywhere within ROBLOX in future updates. Think of the icons in the iOS App Store, or on Steam, and that should give you a good idea of the concept”.

So basically, ROBLOX thinks that this change to game thumbnails- excuse me, “game icons”- will allow for the most games to be displayed vertically and horizontally.  Now, I personally believe this is a bad idea.  Yes, I understand ROBLOX wants to expand to mobile, but when they say “Square icons are also a much friendlier image ratio for your players who use a mobile device“, they are directing this update to mobile users, but remember, this is affecting both PC and mobile. Why can’t it just be for mobile users and PC gets to keep the good ol’ thumbnails? As the saying goes, bigger is better, right? Now, Roblox isn’t removing thumbnails. They will still be a part of the games pictures, but not many people look at the other ones while there is a main one that catches your attention.

The process of uploading is also similar to thumbnails

Anyhow, I could agree on that it makes the game look and feel more professional before you actually play it. Also, now you can recognize games as a sort of logo, like Death Run 2 with the token, as shown in the first image. So from the developer view point, this update is actually fine; it still affects your typical game browsing but it’s not such a dramatic change, right?

Well, what do you think? Is the change from thumbnails to game icons good or bad? Say it in the comments below! Until next time, Superale out!