NEW Vuga Group--Everything is Moving!
Oct 24, 2023 13:51:32 GMT -8
Vuga, marbleycake, and 2 more like this
Post by SuperJumpman12 on Oct 24, 2023 13:51:32 GMT -8
Hey everyone!
As of right now, we're currently trying to migrate to a brand-new Vuga group on Roblox that, for all intents and purposes, should be as close to the original as possible. We've transferred all the games, items, and anything else that might be left behind. Unfortunately, since these are copies of the old games, it also means that players will lose some save data, but we're trying our hardest to remedy this as best we can.
Why is this happening?
Unfortunately, the old group owner got banned while having the ownership role: their third copyright strike on a shirt uploaded in 2016 to a group they're no longer apart of. It was impossible for them to even take it down before it got struck, despite showing good behavior beforehand, and being in Roblox's strike remediation program. In spite of all of this, the third strike banned their account permanently. It's impossible to take group ownership back from a banned account, so right now, Vuga technically has no owner, meaning we can't perform all the duties we need to. The only option we had was to make a new group with a different owner, and try to continue like business as usual. But don't worry--we're all still here.
What will happen with the games?
We're trying to make this change as painless as possible for our players, but there's unfortunately some things that we just can't do, like transferring save data from the old games to the new ones. We're planning on looking at players' badges from the Pyrite Adventure games to keep your progress there, but Sonic Projector: RP is a much tougher situation.
The old games will soon become "launchers" that take you to the new copies of them. SP:RP's launcher will give you a look at your custom characters so you're able to recreate them in the new copy, and we'll even give out some codes to get big amounts of Rings so you can buy things back. Don't worry, you'll keep Projector+, too. It's practically a meme at this point how often SP:RP's save data gets wiped, but I promise, this time it wasn't our fault. To soften the blow at least, we've added a few new things to the game, such as more OC slots, savable personal spaces, a new suggestion system, and more.
Has this affected development?
Unfortunately, dealing with this huge of an issue has distracted us for quite some time. Transferring every single place of every single game along with every single asset used in our games and updating all of their IDs in the code has taken a long time. We weren't able to make much meaningful progress on either SP:RP or Pyrite Adventure 3 in the past couple months, and yes, it may lead to PA3 getting delayed, if only by a few months beyond what we were hoping for. Shooting for 2024 still, but it's unclear at this point. Obviously, a blow this big was disheartening, and it was hard to find motivation to even continue developing on Roblox after this. But we've got a job to do, and in the very least, we'll have to finish what we started.
Will the old group ever return?
I'd love for that to happen, but I don't have my hopes up. I'm currently trying what's literally every option at our disposal to try and fix this somehow, but so far, Roblox isn't budging on their stance. We're running out of choices, so until further notice, this will be the new normal.
We're sorry for how inconvenient this is for everyone! Trust me, we don't like this any more than you do. But we appreciate the cooperation, and we hope you'll look forward to things to come now that we're finally getting stuff back on track!
Join the new group here!
As of right now, we're currently trying to migrate to a brand-new Vuga group on Roblox that, for all intents and purposes, should be as close to the original as possible. We've transferred all the games, items, and anything else that might be left behind. Unfortunately, since these are copies of the old games, it also means that players will lose some save data, but we're trying our hardest to remedy this as best we can.
Why is this happening?
Unfortunately, the old group owner got banned while having the ownership role: their third copyright strike on a shirt uploaded in 2016 to a group they're no longer apart of. It was impossible for them to even take it down before it got struck, despite showing good behavior beforehand, and being in Roblox's strike remediation program. In spite of all of this, the third strike banned their account permanently. It's impossible to take group ownership back from a banned account, so right now, Vuga technically has no owner, meaning we can't perform all the duties we need to. The only option we had was to make a new group with a different owner, and try to continue like business as usual. But don't worry--we're all still here.
What will happen with the games?
We're trying to make this change as painless as possible for our players, but there's unfortunately some things that we just can't do, like transferring save data from the old games to the new ones. We're planning on looking at players' badges from the Pyrite Adventure games to keep your progress there, but Sonic Projector: RP is a much tougher situation.
The old games will soon become "launchers" that take you to the new copies of them. SP:RP's launcher will give you a look at your custom characters so you're able to recreate them in the new copy, and we'll even give out some codes to get big amounts of Rings so you can buy things back. Don't worry, you'll keep Projector+, too. It's practically a meme at this point how often SP:RP's save data gets wiped, but I promise, this time it wasn't our fault. To soften the blow at least, we've added a few new things to the game, such as more OC slots, savable personal spaces, a new suggestion system, and more.
Has this affected development?
Unfortunately, dealing with this huge of an issue has distracted us for quite some time. Transferring every single place of every single game along with every single asset used in our games and updating all of their IDs in the code has taken a long time. We weren't able to make much meaningful progress on either SP:RP or Pyrite Adventure 3 in the past couple months, and yes, it may lead to PA3 getting delayed, if only by a few months beyond what we were hoping for. Shooting for 2024 still, but it's unclear at this point. Obviously, a blow this big was disheartening, and it was hard to find motivation to even continue developing on Roblox after this. But we've got a job to do, and in the very least, we'll have to finish what we started.
Will the old group ever return?
I'd love for that to happen, but I don't have my hopes up. I'm currently trying what's literally every option at our disposal to try and fix this somehow, but so far, Roblox isn't budging on their stance. We're running out of choices, so until further notice, this will be the new normal.
We're sorry for how inconvenient this is for everyone! Trust me, we don't like this any more than you do. But we appreciate the cooperation, and we hope you'll look forward to things to come now that we're finally getting stuff back on track!
Join the new group here!
