yeah honestly it feels like robtop pulled a mojang by hyping up the community way to much compared to just releasing 2.206 out of nowhere which people would've probably been much happier with. *also yes omg we need a full dev team lmao*
plus there's literally no reason to try to hype us up anymore because nothing will ever get up to the level of hype the original 2.2 release had behind it
calling rob selfish for the rating system seems way too harsh, I'd argue that it shows that even after all this time he still wants to see what the community has made, and still cares about his game.
@@GadoGD aren't you quite literally contradicting what you said earlier in the sentence by the end of it? Forgive me if I am wrong, but you said that he can give levels features and epics, but also said that rating is selfish. Again, this is just how I saw it.
@@BridylGD rating is just making a level have stars, and a level not getting a star rating has negative effects wheras feature and epic don't mean anything other than rob likes them, rate should be for idk levels mods like and feature for ron
@@GadoGD ok, I definitely agree with this, I feel like there are so many levels that have been sent that mods like, but Rob doesn’t, it’s even happened to me.
@@CXLVII Im Just saying that He probably doesn't Like to Work with others and i understand this cuz i also prefere working alone. But i See where you are coming from
@@linzu444It’s not like doing a group project though, it’s literally for a bunch of people and it’s a job that should be done by a group of people. If you don’t like working with others why would you do an activity that literally requires collaboration? He should’ve never been a game dev if he doesn’t like working with others. I don’t think you’re viewing this from the right perspective because you sound like you think that it’s something mandatory with little kids screaming and stuff. You not being social and robtop not wanting to have other developers are very different cases. I think the only real reason is he doesn’t want to split profits or something because not wanting to work with others doesn’t justify anything.
@@linzu444Not doing an action that could make your game better and more efficient without any justifiable reasons other than “I don’t want to” is not something respectable in my opinion
So hi, someone with actual internal knowledge about the game AND the development. GD comes with a lot of legacy in the form of 12 year+ old code (most of it coming from boomlings) which hasn't been majorly changed in years. This introduces a common issue in matured projects called side effects. The noclip anti cheat is one of them. A anti cheat was once added in 1.6 and now RobTop forgot to add a flag to disable it for this edge case, thus, it triggers. RobTop is already making plans to recruit GD modders for a devteam. However, due to the previously mentioned side effects, this is currently unrealistic. Thus why most updates currently don't add a lot of features, he's internally fixing old stuff to get closer to being able to recruit a dev team. "megahack and geode should be native" this is frankly a horrible take. First of all, any malicious code and RobTop can instantly get sued over it. There's also author rights involved here and major compatibility issues. RobTop has already silently been including features from mods. But including them all and especially true mod support comes with a lot of issues which a singular dev simply can't handle. It may be a feature in the future but absolutely not now. Also saying he's uninterested in the modding side of the community is not true. RobTop actually talks with some modders, he finds the mods amazing, just as much as what people do with the editor, and recently even did some changes to make modding easier. And I know this because these are things I discussed with him directly through DMs. RobTops rating system doesn't rely on his opinion. Mods exist for a reason. RobTop simply does a last quality check and has fun in doing so. He isn't usually the one gate keeping levels. Oh also click between frames is a 2.206 feature if you didn't know. I would really suggest you first research this topic before going "on a surface level this and on a surface level that" because there's a lot more behind the scenes than you imply here.
click between frames is not a 2.206 feature lol, you can manage malicious code, geode already does that, it is easy to integrate you would just have the geode files in the game download
currently how geode works breaks upon updating, so no, geode can't just be added by adding the files natively also, geode brings 0 security against malicious code, talked about that with HJfod recently, all you upload is the .geode file which is already compiled thus hard to review, even if you find a way around that and do server side building (which is a whole issue in of itself due to easy malicious executions through the cmake script and whatnot) it's still easy to miss malicious code which is obscured. Open source doesn't make something safe. A good example is how they recently found a virus in one of the default linux packages ONLY by accidentally spotting a slight performance difference on a gigantic testing server of microsoft.
From my testing, the slope bug did NOT occur in the editor, which means that playing the level in the editor with noclip is more playable than playing the level itself with noclip lol
@@Legatron17 I remember I did random crap with SW in the editor in 2.1 and it was also bug like that. Idk, maybe it was fixed (Though it'd sound very dumb to fix a mistake and make the same mistake later on) or it just only happens with type of slope structure like that
@@GDProxified I only tested out Bloodbath, and the slopes and transitions work fine in the editor noclip but don't work in normal play noclip, you can test it out for yourself. So yeah, he did actually fix it and made the same mistake later on lmao. This makes it even funnier considering that he literally used a screenshot of Bloodbath in the teaser image, only for Bloodbath to not even properly work with noclip 😭
it would be nice if he stopped overworking himself and instead got some people to help him code as well as playtesters, because how do you add a big feature (ignore damage) and it just breaks 90% of levels?
I'm pretty sure this is not true, Rob actually was in one of the modders servers (pretty sure either the geode or globed one iirc) so I believe he does like them
Hi, GD modder here. I'm actually in direct DM contact with robtop and even promised him to help out with a system in the near future. This is probably the worst take I've seen in a while
Personally i don't think Rob should have hyped the update up as much as he did. The way he teased it made me think there would've been something more to it.
Here are some of my thoughts about this update, and some corrections. Yes you are right, their isn't a new currency. But instead, the money bag teases the cash prizes of the NCS gauntlet contest. Ill take it over microtransactions. It does suck that their is no platformer save checkpoints but it is a useful tool for restarting from the last checkpoint in practice mode so that people can practice final parts of a level without having to exit the level and try again or use mods. Noclip in testing mode is a really good thing in my opinion but the reason why it does suck is because it hasn't been well tested enough. I do think that RobTop should get more playtesters and help from other people. Also according to game devs, they say that slopes are hard to program so when RobTop added the noclip feature, I bet that the slopes ended up being bugged and RobTop should fix next update. Also apparently, purple pads act like blue pads in noclip, that is 100% a bug that needs to be fixed. You are very right, these features should've been on the game much earlier. I don't think RobTop is selfish but I think that he is probably afraid that his company could go crazy when he hires more people. I'm going to bring Rovio entertainment as an example. Rovio was a company made by 3 solo indie devs and they kept making many mobile games, that was until they made Angry Birds which exploded in popularity. This was a massive success for them so they decided to expand the company and make more games and cool merch. When they kept hiring more people, things went downhill as some of the Angry Birds games didn't feel like Angry Birds. Sooner or later the Angry Birds franchise fell off and looking at Angry Birds now, the franchise looks and it doesn't feel like Angry Birds anymore and Rovio was once an indie company that was hosted by 3 indie devs that turned into a money hungry business. My point is, I don't think RobTop wants his company to go overboard and make Geometry dash into a way to make more money. (Yes he does make money from GD its his job, but I mean it in a greedy way like how Rovio did to Angry Birds.) I do agree that RobTop should at least find people to get help or work with as it can make GD get more quality of life updates and make larger updates much more faster. People that actually care for GD like Viprin, Absolute, or some GD mod devs that make the game better. It doesn't have to turn into a huge company. The main reason why 2.2 took forever to come out was because RobTop had an idea that would work well then spend a lot of time in it then finish it, then he comes up with ANOTHER idea that he works on, spends more time on, then makes ANOTHER idea and the bad cycle continues. I do feel bad for him because he wouldn't stop coming up with new ideas, but he did put the hard work onto himself. The Demonlist does one thing, rate the hardest rated demons of all time, but I will say that RobTop should've rated tidal wave earlier should have happened because he wouldn't get so much hate in the first place. But hey we all aren't perfect and hopefully Rob can fix some of these mistakes in the future.
I think it's possible that RobTop have been in a very bad dev team and he doesn't want to work in a team again. Being a team leader is also different from being a single game developer and he probably doesn't see himself as one
these points just didn't really make rob a 'bad' dev he is the only one rating not because he is selfish but if there were 5 people rating them then rated levels wouldn't be as special and the levels wouldn't be getting much attention anymore which is the whole point of rates to bring attention to 'good' levels and if he wants to be a solo dev than that is really his decision, like it or not it is his game and it is his decisions, sometimes adding everything that you want him to add is a lot more difficult than you think and takes a lot longer than you would want it
It is RobTop's game, he can do whatever he wants. The geode can't be added in vanilla game cuz Google's and App Store's policy. He is a good developer, if you want to hire a dev team, let's rewrite the game from 1 by 1 copy, add anything you want, make the levels, do the level editor in ur game, add UI menus, make the icons, grow a community, work for an new update, make the game's servers, add like 100 new features for an update but in 3 months, hire a dev team and update the game every day, make the game's physics, hitboxes, add new gamemodes, make Spinoff games, talk with the community in discord, rate all rate worthy levels, and many more, can you do it, RobTop did everything except hiring a dev team and update things. If you want to, you should make this. Also, this video did nothing to the game, if you want to change things, talk to RobTop himself, why you did it. 40% agrees with you, 60% disagrees, this video changed nothing. And, you are lying in the comment section, you said things in the video as if you disagreed with them at your comments. Also he had to delete every free gd game websites with copyright. If you want to add the mods directly in GD, you should wait for the update for few months again, which you don't want to be. There's should be a reason why he didn't hire a dev team. Like he could worked with a bad developer team before. HE ALSO HAS A PRIVATE LIFE! I'm sorry if I've crossed the line, but I'd like to point out that I strongly disagree.
@@QuiXGD yes all things mentioned can and would be done should robtop be replaced. hin having a private life, yes i know that, that's why he needs replacing. giving reasons why he can't implement things or update the game quicker are just more reasons for him to be replaced. Robtop can do what he wants, but that's not to say he should.
i think robtop means well, but he definitely needs to get a full dev team. id love to see rob fully flesh-out stuff like in-game lore, shops, and new levels, while others help him execute the more technical aspects of the game like game mechanics, bug fixes, etc. being a solo dev with a game this big isn’t sustainable, and i think even he knows this
the thing that really got me was mods being temporarily gone after the update. i know 64 bit allows for less lag, but with that feature implemented into the game, how will i ever get the bunny icon without using icon hack??
brother im gonna be honest but this video felt extremely harsh. robert is a solo developer on a game that has a community literally hyping absolutely everything that gets added to the game or even thought of being added. did you ever seen the daily dose of GD channel? have you seen how many times vit and other people called a gamemode "insane" and everything when the gamemode on itself is just not worthy of being implemented? being a game developer and a programmer myself (which btw, code on the same language as rob, which is C++, for over 4+ years) i can confidently say that being psychologically able to handle so much stress and so many people wanting new features and content in the span of months is the insane part on itself. hes been doing this full time for OVER 10 YEARS. the backend of geometry dash is a big issue in development... did you knew that geode developers FREQUENTLY struggle because robtop is using the 2011 standard for C++, which the latest version was released in 2023 - 12 years old by now? maybe that the version of cocos he is using is INCREDIBLY outdated because the game is over 10 years old? your video does NOT feel like constructive criticism, it feels like just you being a dick for no reason. you arent bad from what i see from your other videos, but please atleast have some decency before calling the developer out like that, you can be better than this man.
i dont think it's reasonable to say I'm being too harsh. Robs work is appreciated, it's unfair he should have to work so hard for such a minimal output. there's no reason for him to not have a dev team, it would make both his life easier, and the game better as a whole. I don't see the problem with that
@@GadoGD so why did you called him selfish in the video? asking for more attention to the community is kind of reasonable but the way you have done it that was really harsh. the thumbnail has a very, *very* big red arrow pointing to his logo calling him a bad dev. if you dont agree with this point why stating that in the thumbnail or the video itself? also, i would kinda suggest you taking the video down before gdtwt hears about it because if they do you will kinda risk being doxxed if im honest. people on yt are a little mature and give constructive criticism and make a solid debate... but gdtwt is a collection of brainrot beyond human comprehension. i wouldnt like or condone any of that if it ever happens, but its still gonna blow up really badly if it does buddy :/
@@sakamocat gdtwt is not as bad as you say, I tweeted this video, and I called him selfish for the rating system, nothing to do with coding or developing the game
I see where you’re coming from but as more of a casual player I’m not really against the 2.206 update, also I heard the money bag thing was like something to do with gauntlet rewards but it was from an unreliable source so idk
@@GadoGD Alright, but point is made, it is true, the game works without those updates, proof is you're probably playing it. While it's slow to get updated, you still get updates on the game and you should be happy with that, he could just abandon the game and run away with his moneybag. I understand it can be very frustrating that you have to wait for updates to come out, or the updates that come out don't 100% fulfill your criterias or your list of things you wanted to see in the game, the problem is that, people are way too demanding with the updates and always ask for more, but you never put yourself in the man's shoes. He added literally 70 something triggers to the game that allows players to do crazy things, and now "RobTop should do this, this this. Man the game is terrible, because RobTop did this and not this and that, he didn't add this or this I'm disappointed, this is disapppointing", no "Thank you" or nice things for the man that really just puts his time on the game to bring updates FOR THE PEOPLE (because he really doesn't even have to, he has the money and fame). He has made the choice to be a solo dev, take that into consideration, I actually totally get this man's behavior and understand why he doesn't want to hire more people, he's scared, not stubborn, turn on that little empathy in your brain and try to imagine yourself as a solo dev that has to answer the requests of millions of people, you'd be scared to disappoint them, and unfortunately you can't really fulfill the requests of everyone, he's trying his best, but man, people are annoying, he adds stuff and now it's : "he shouldn't have hyped this." not "he keeps adding stuff to the game, that's great!", nah, "he didn't add a new currency, this is terrible." "64 bits! He should have added that years ago!" always complaint after complaint. Come on, he didn't just kill someone or made political changes to the world, he just announced an update for his game because he was probably himself happy with what he's adding, he thought that it would fulfill what people wanted, but unfortunately, MORE COMPLAINTS. That's every community unfortunately, can't blame anyone, but work on yourselves fr.
V sync is broken ever since the update (well for me) I feel a bit bad for Robtop, but then again it did take a very long time for a minor update. I wont stand on any side but just hope things get better
Considering the nature of the game, you don't really have to update gd often. It's not a live service game and we went 7 years without an update and yet gd was still coasting along.
you wouldn't have to update gd very often AT All if geode and megahack were vanilla, that fixes literally most of the issues. only things left for rob to do would be to add new gauntlets, gamemodes and official levels
@@GadoGDand add new blocks, and update the editor, and the actual fucking game itself, but sure mods definitely cover all aspects of the game and there is no reason why rob should ever introduce an update ever again
I do agree that rob should look into hiring people and better manage the game and community, however - The money bag was to symbolise the cash prize for the gauntlet contest While persistent platformer checkpoints would be great, the button does look a lot more like restart from last checkpoint, so we shouldnt have gotten our hopes up, and efficiently saving the state of the level isnt necessarily straight forward The anticheat is not a "built in feature", its completely seperate from noclip and has been in the game since 2.200, rob just forgot to disable it (which is still inexcusable)
@@DecidiousGreens he said the development of gd is terrible because he wont add multiple mods and cant keep up with the community’s standards for updates
This reminds me of the first artist reveal, Rob hyped it up and some people were pretty bummed I personally don't really have much of an opinion on this though I do think Rob should get a small dev team, or at least some people to help him out and stuff (pretty sure he already has playtesters like Viprin and Autonick) Rob's development of GD is ok but definitely can be improved
He really needs to hire a dev team. Especially because GD has a huge amount of skilled programmers. Also mods or at least Elder mods should be able to rate levels.
Yes there are many things rob has done in a very stupid way, but hes still only one person working on all of this with not much time on his hands to do things apart from gd. maybe we should all come to together and let rob chill for a bit without working on updates, so that hes not as stressed and doesnt have to do as much. I do think he should get working on getting some coders for gd, so updates would be higher quality and would come out quicker
In the description you say that we should feel free to leave our thoughts on the matter in the comments, but then you delete one of my "thoughts on the matter." amazing work
Rob isn't selfish. He just cares too much about what the possible consequences could be if be rates the wrong level. Also he probably doesn't want another aod situation where they wanted the lvl to be rated but when it did, another group of people complained about it.
Really? He cares about "consequences" of rating a "wrong" level? What "consequences?" Bruh he only cares about HIS own biased opinions and only wants to see the levels HE likes and ignores everybody else's opinions. If he actually cared, nobody would be complaining about the rating system like we are right now.
a bit negative, I think you don't understand how much effort it is to handle a community like this. You are selfish here, I understand robtop's positions, the stress it brings is hard to cope with.
it is a lot of effort, either put that effort in, or recruit people to help out. I'm not being selfish at all, I will just use hacks, Im criticising Rob because if he changed for the better it would be better for everyone else, I'm largely unaffected
@@RealElevenTimes Yeah I def agree prob someone who is a community manager that helps a lot. But the way he puts it in the video is just wrong. Same kind of issues I always have. Just people talking big and complaining while knowing nothing about handling a community. But yeah it is good just the way he put it is kinda bad
@@PolarTheIcebear-xl8tsyeah, cuz robtop is awesome at handling the community the way he is secretive about the game is perfect, the way he handled the requiem situation was the best decision, the rating system he has built has no corruption or flaws
I dont think rob intentionally changed slope physics. Back during 2.1, when absolute was working on megahack v6, the only issue with noclip was that you could get stuck in blocks. Absolute made experimental noclip which fixed that but caused the same slope physics bug, and he wasnt able to fix that. I think robtop did the same thing, trying to prevent getting stuck in noclip, but just didnt test it or smth and didnt realize the slope physics bug...
You probably did but if not: Did you know that the demonlist is called the demonlist because it ranks demon that are rated (btw Robtop also just won't let people rate the levels so its just insane)
i did know that, but did you also know that unrated hard levels are also called unrated demons? I think choosing not to place unrated levels over a pedantic technicality is stupid
@@hyban5596 me personally, don't care about a new currency at all, I use icon hack for everything, a lot of more casual players like more customisation and icons tho
Bro its his game so it makes sense he does the rating system his way. Also if he hasnt hired a dev team by now theres probably a reason Hes got his own vision with HIS game and its his project. Its his choice if he wants a dev team and the game is fine now.
True like ive had a level that ive been working on for 1 month whats the rate of course n/a and instead my other level that was released for 3 days after the 3 days it got rated even tho it had spikes like i put my heart into that just so dont get rated.
i feel like every time a new update comes out it just ruins the fun out of the game because the replacements for the tools people have modded into the game are a downgrade from what you could have with mods. like the fact that someone like absolute playtests their mods more than the developer of the game is genuinely baffling, like is it that hard to get a wide amount of people to playtest the new update???? its genuinely inexcusable that we are left in the dark about everything and something needs to change and now. this is not the first time this has happened either, look at release 2.2 all the way till 2.204 this are the reasons why people rely on mods for everything, because robtops vanilla implementations fall flat compared to their modded counterparts + the fact that those mods usually come out buggy on release and people but people will still praise robtop for "killing megahack" when that couldnt be further from the truth. also, i dont want to be a dick but i genuinely feel like robtop is just over his head because he would rather release an update that breaks thousands of levels and tell people to "fix" them rather than have a backwards compatability option. we should call robtop out on those things because as a collective, we deserve better.
i'm one of the very few people that wouldn't have minded if 2.2 never came out, and i don't understand people like you who complain about a 5$ game that's run by 1 developer who's barely getting any sleep everyday. be grateful
@@GadoGD i just watched the video and it's exactly what i expected, you complain about the vanilla game and how it's "disappointing" even though it's only been 6 months. people didn't have this reaction in 2.1 and 2.1 was a much smaller update, you eventually have to accept that it's a game with 1 developer and that developer does not want to recruit other developers for his game. deal with it or just go play another game, and me personally i don't have a problem with "disappointing" updates since the game is a literal rthymn based platformer. let's just wait for people to figure out 2.2 mechanics and make cool levels and then complain about stuff that doesn't really matter, and on top of that why not call robtop a bad developer just because he isn't providing "enough"? cyberpunk didn't provide enough for its community and it had a whole team working for it. deal with it, it's not the end of the game.
idk if this is just me, I cant open gd no matter what I do, the game wont open I have watched multiple tutorials and nothing I do works it has only started doing this after 2.206.
rob should probally get somebody who creates the mods to help if they can make a mod in lesss than 3 months he should get them and the updates need to be more frequent
I strongly agree that robtop is biased about rating levels. He rates levels that aren’t even finished or have extremely bad gameplay. He only rates it off of his opinion and only because the first 20% of thr level has good decoration (fun fact: robtop only plays through the first part of the level and decides if it is rate worthy). He also took 7 YEARS to approve 2.2 which is the majority of the game’s lifespan. It’s prob gonna take another year or two for 2.21 to release simply because rob is very inconsistent at approving updates on time. He said 2.2 will release in October 2023, then he pushed it to November, then December when it was originally supposed to release 2 months earlier in October officially announced in the 10 year anniversary back in August. What’s even worst is he was rushed by the AppStore to get the update out by the end of 2023. If the AppStore didn’t rush him, he would have prob taken even more time to release 2.2. (He was rushed by the AppStore because of gd being a 32 bit game and it not working on iOS because of iOS 17). Message to Robtop: GET A DEVELOPER TEAM AND STOP BEING STUBBORN ABOUT IT!!!!
I will be honest, you are far too negative about this and the update was hyped up well. It wasn't a long wait after the teaser, no delays, and the noclip bug isn't anything big. Saying that we shouldn't be excited for 64bit upgrade just because ''other games have it'' is simply stupid. Reminder that robtop did not intend for levels to be THIS heavy, so there wasn't a point in upgrading back then. You could say that it should have been on 2.2 release, but then again, he barely got it out before christmas, it probably was already planned but he didn't have the time to do it. A team would help, but that doesn't mean you need to shit on him like that. At the end of the day, 2.2 lived up to expectations very well. I can understand why he wouldn't want to rate tidal wave, imo it is rate worthy, but I can see why he would think otherwise. And saying that he won't rate it publicly would cause another drama, so the pressure was high. While yes, the hack implementations don't live up with the actual thing, it's still enough. Yeah, he could hire the hack developers to implement it all in a better way, but it's not necessary. Robs implementations work, and complaining about them not living up or the fact that updates break your fancy hacks is stupid. The game is perfectly playable anyways. He should be more transparent, yes I agree on this one. Implementing CBF would take a lot time, and he has to work on other things now. Would be nice if we got an update on it all, but I do believe that we will get it in vanilla one day.
"there wasn't a point in upgrading back then" levels stopped running well in 2.1, years ago. Implementing CBF would not take a long time that's just untrue, you would just use the code of geode and have geode native. It's insane that you're happy there wasn't a delay, that just shows robs incompetence even further as you're used to delays. I'm not being overly negative about this, I'm saying what the reality is, and made sure I acknowledged that the changes were good to be implemented
i disagree with everything in the video, mainly the demon list part but yeah rob has to get a small team to work on gd and its not like he needs like 10 people or anything, 3 or 5 employees should be enough. as long that rob knows perfectly what the employees are doing and rob actually directs the game like he currently is doing things should be pretty good
at some point someone is gonna fully recreate geometry dash but have an actual dev team behind it and regularly add features requested by the community and fix the rating system and let the game run on GPU (hypothetically this would make the game run like 10x better) and have an actually good menu/UI and fix all the physics bugs and implement community made events and stuff (like the demon list) and rename the game to something actually representative of the game instead of "Shapes Dash" i understand that robtop cares deeply about the community and i don't think he has any bad intentions (robtop is swimming in money, he is by no means forced to work on his game anymore so the fact that he still does shows that he cares), but sometimes i question if he really knows what he's doing. the existence of geode really shows that what i just described very well might become a reality in the coming years if robtop doesn't open up his game a little more to others helping with development and adding community requested features into the game. geometry dash is a community based game and so i believe that it is trivial for robtop to keep in touch with the community, and it's actually ridiculous that all of the criticism against robtop that sea1997 mentioned 6 years ago still apply to this day. if updates with little features keep taking this long people are eventually gonna rebel against robtop or some shht and what i described will probably happen. and unfortunately i think that this outcome might genuinely be better for the future of the game unless robtop changes his approach to handling the game.
not sure if anyone has realized but if you look at geometry dash the menu makes it look like a fucking 7 year old's mobile game, and the menu itself just seems so detached from what the community actually finds value in. this is just really sad because there is so much more to this game that drives the community and yet the menu is pretty much what causes so many people to just play stereo madness and dismiss it as a worthless mobile game. Actually, here are the things that I would specifically change if I was Robtop: - The menu should be completely overhauled. I personally think that a menu similar to that of osu! would work pretty well. Specifically there should be 'main levels' 'online levels' and 'editor' buttons, and all should be the same size since they are all of equal importance. there should also be a better settings tab. the one now isn't terrible, but imagine if you could just open a settings tab to the side and change settings without having to go all the way back to the settings menu... - there should also be a way to easily change the theme/texture of the game. the classic green and blue should be an option as a classic theme, but something more modern and simple should be implemented as well, prefereably as the default theme. - actually just take a shit ton of inspiration from osu! like what if there was a website like gdbrowser, and similar to the osu website but for geometry dash... and that website could have everything from stargrinding leaderboards, list points leaderboards, the demon list, top rated levels of the year, most demons completed leaderboards, creator leaderboards, just cool shit like that. robtop literally owns the domain geometrydash dot com and he doesn't fucking use it??? imagine if there was an official gd website where you can submit records for extreme demons??? - going back to the game itself, the main levels should be community designed levels. after all, the game's value comes so much from the community, why not make the main levels community made artistic masterpieces that were also specifically designed to be simple enough such that new plays can feel welcomed? - more customizability; stuff like wave trail size and stuff that mega hack already adds should be customizable settings, which i think could be openned just like mega hack is openned. this is why the settings tab should be opennable anywhere and it would just show up to the left where you could easily change some settings on the fly. - make the physics consistent. this includes things like implementing something similar to CBF where it doesn't rely on a broken TPS system. remove bugs that could be pretty easily removed. also please for the love of god fix the audio delay and desync. - honestly just make geode official in the game. after all the game is all about community so why not have a system where developers could create and submit mods, which could then be checked by the geometry dash developers and then reccomended on some sort of page? - having an advanced cheat indicator that is implemented in-game would make it so much more difficult to cheat in the game. this is something that so many games do and geometry dash could pretty easily implement some sort of system that would easily make cheat detecting ten times easier and cheating ten times more difficult. - THIS ONE IS MUCH MORE COMPLICATED BUT add a collaboration system where multiple people can work on a single level together. maybe not necessarily real-time, but at the very least being able to save onto the same level maybe? this is more complicated so it would make sense that robtop or his future dev team may not be able to implement it quickly but worth mentioning since collaboration is such a big part of geometry dash. and please we really need there to be an option for "and more" button next to the publisher which shows a list of all the contributors to the level please. - add all betteredit features lol this game could be improved in so many ways and yet robtop just refuses to fucking hire a dev team like what the fuck bro imagine if all of this was real :(
I don't really get the vid to be fair, Robtop is by himself making an indie game and your annoyed that your guesses are wrong, also rob is STILL by himself doing this, you think you could do that yourself?
not a big surprise since i could just say 1 letter and some hot cheeto stanley cup girls will think that i am some secret government agent attempting to wipe the planet
@@AK_804 happened when update came out I downloaded update but it crashed idk why so uninstalled everything again but yeah I also have fault because I haven't saved the game before it
Literary went through 2 friend groups between 2.1 and 2.2. Robtop has needed a dev team for the past 8 years. If he did, such small of a feature like no-clip wouldn't be this broken. I could probably even fix it in few hours.
Same idk what happened. I had like 25k attempts on a Zodiac copy and it just went like that. Also I lost MANY projects i was working on for 2 years it's honestly so frustrating.
Eh idk, i dont really care. I mean now that its out is cool n stuff, so i don't really have anything to say. And i mean a dev team would be cool, but idk maybe some time in the near future. Good vid mate
Fair opinion tbh. Me personally I'm not all up in gd mods, I only use mh for like 3 features and atp I think vanilla gd has everything I ever need now, but to others I get how these updates can seem like downgrades from the mods they use yeah idunno I have no strong feeling towards robtop
i agree rob has enough money to hire absolute,hj,syzzi and more. these people have done MORE for geometry dash then the fucking developer has like thats just sad
I think robtop should at least appreciate hacks, especially Megahack (absolute props for Megahack team btw for keeping up with the random updates recently). GD basically only survived the last 7 years not only because of the community but also because creators used those cheats to discover new mechanics and decoration wich wouldnt have happend without it. Also the show hitboxes tool opend many new doors for difficulty. Slaughterhouse, firework, Achreron or even the iLL list wouldnt be the same without that tool. He should maybe think about partnering up with the megahack team since they appear to be way more effective when it comes to programming n stuff. I hope you people understand my viewpoint since i play this game for 9 years and i completely relate to this guys words in the video. Thanks for reading ❤
This update made me happy/dissapointed:(.I do love the 64 bit limit and the ignore damage in practice mode but I cant believe robtop said that the moneybag is going to be the money prizes for the nsc gauntlet contest and not for a new currency/shop.Robtop I don't care about your 1000$ prize i want the buy the niko icon so badly:(
Honestly, now that we have 64 bit, Rob is COMPLETELY useless for gd, since modders can just make features faster than Rob ever could ever dream of. and also, Rob just hates the playing community, we all know the Tidal Wave drama, but the fact that tidal line, a level that literally steals assets from Tidal Wave, got a feature, while Tidal Wave only has a rate, and levels that steal assets aren't even supposed to get rated btw
That's like saying any game that has modders, doesn't need devs and shouldn't get updates... that's basically every game. You want every dev to releases a game, add mod support then just leave? Don't forget that half the player base is on mobile and can't add mods easily and there are many people who just want to play the vanilla game.
@@tonyking2880 prioritising those who are on 32 bit systems is beyond stupid anyways, it makes the game 10x better for 90% of people so the change should be made
I know annother solo dev with one of the best games in robloxnplatform he named onett he made bee swarm simulator game, for solo dev he making 1 ot maximum 2 updates per year with is mostly Christmas event but with reagular new update at once. He keep around 20k+ online every day for around 4 years or more. By that i mean sometimes solo devs making one of the best games but yes with not that active updates
ill never understand why people defend robtop so much like yes he made the game but he clearly isnt doing a good job at keeping it up, and the fact that he still refuses to hire anyone despite the fact he said he would doesnt help his case either overall rob is rly incompetent and honestly idk why people keep having faith in him, every time something is announced for the game 90% of the time its poorly implemented and an overall disappointment also the whole idea of the legitimacy of features suddenly being reliant on whether rob approves them or not is kinda silly to me considering he clearly doesnt care much about the competitive scene of the game and barely listens to that side of the community, not to mention it was somehow completely fine to use hacks in 2.1, yet its a major sin to do the same in 2.2 for some reason
Honestly you should stop whining about the games development i mean robtop has done all this by himself pretty much so the least you could do as a content creator/ youtuber is support the game and point out things that could help in the future rather than complaining when he doesn't meet your expectation i mean 2.21 should of been out by now but i imagine hes really busy expecially with getting more songs like the weekly artist reveals and stuff you cant blame him for this little mistake me personally i like the game how it is so yeah 👍
Like if rob would've had a full dev team the updates wouldn't of taken 6 months to release 2.206 and it wouldn't of taken 6 or 7 years just to release an update that doesnt have much content like the game released dash whats the other things that released nothing just more editor things that we dont need.
there's only two possible reasons why robtop won't hire a dev team arrogance, and the fact he think he can do everything by himself (which he's proven he can't) or greed, and the fact that he doesn't want anyone else to have his sweet sweet gd money
i thought the whole greed thing was false since rob is giving away cash to people, but i realized that he got 10 million dollars from the app store downloads in mobile gd, which is miles larger than a measily 1k
yes robtop is this evil entity only built to wring every last drop of his communities money into his bank account, or a selfish egotistical prick. listen to yourself bruh
Or he just likes working by himself on the project he's been working by himself on for over a decade. I don't really believe robtop is greedy, if he was he would have added microtransactions and would have made the game more expensive
Clickbait title and thumbnail, plus some pretty dumb points. I feel like people forget that the competitive community in GD is just a fraction of a percent of the actual player base. The vast majority is on mobile (and more specifically, IOS) and wouldn't be able to take advantage of most of the mods. It just doesn't make sense for rob to focus on features that only really affects a small percent of the community, while also only being useable by half of the community. Also, we should NOT give the demon list any more power then it already has; that's just a disaster waiting to happen.
the title and thumbnail are not click bait at all, he's a bad dev, geonetry dash has terrible development and I talk about that in the video. I acknowledged that the top player base is a small part of the gd community, and mentioned how these additions were good, just because there aren't many of them, it doesn't mean they should be ignored, especially when a large majority of the games popularity comes from difficult levels, top players should get features they want if it isnt at the expense of anyone else. Hacks being in vanilla benefits everyone. Ironically, you're being rather insufferable with this reply, it's clear you have a distaste for the list and list players already, without any basis so having a discussion is likely futile. If you want to say why my point are bad, I suggest you say why rather than being toxic
as a creator. the rating system is still pretty bad. yes, the feeling of rob seeing my lvl and rating it is amazing. but at the same time its not enough for newer creators. i was one of them a month ago so i know how it feels like to spend countless of hours on a lvl to not even get a send. rob should allow elder mods to rate a lvl. maybe 2-5 lvls a day or a week. so the levels dont get flooded but newer creators can get what they deserve.
This moneybag was meant to represent the prizes for the NCS contest
funny how innocent rob was tho
meanwhile if the same happened to LITERALLY any other game people would be mad
thats so dumb and misleading ngl
@snowycoast no its not
yes it is@@viewing845
yeah honestly it feels like robtop pulled a mojang by hyping up the community way to much compared to just releasing 2.206 out of nowhere which people would've probably been much happier with.
*also yes omg we need a full dev team lmao*
it wouldve been way less irritating if it was just announced that it was out, way too overhyped
Well, Robtop was happy with the changes and additions he was about to implement for 2.206
plus there's literally no reason to try to hype us up anymore because nothing will ever get up to the level of hype the original 2.2 release had behind it
calling rob selfish for the rating system seems way too harsh, I'd argue that it shows that even after all this time he still wants to see what the community has made, and still cares about his game.
that is a silly argument, he can still give levels features and epics etc. to show his appreciation, rating is selfish
@@GadoGD aren't you quite literally contradicting what you said earlier in the sentence by the end of it? Forgive me if I am wrong, but you said that he can give levels features and epics, but also said that rating is selfish. Again, this is just how I saw it.
@@BridylGD rating is just making a level have stars, and a level not getting a star rating has negative effects wheras feature and epic don't mean anything other than rob likes them, rate should be for idk levels mods like and feature for ron
No, it is selfish, because he only cares about his own biased opinion towards a level and does not take anybody else into consideration.
@@GadoGD ok, I definitely agree with this, I feel like there are so many levels that have been sent that mods like, but Rob doesn’t, it’s even happened to me.
Rob should get atleast 5 devs cause like bro they could literally make the entire 2.2 update in 3 months
But He doesn't want to and i Respect that
@@linzu444 Nah that just makes game development so slow, and causes there to be so slow
@@CXLVII Im Just saying that He probably doesn't Like to Work with others and i understand this cuz i also prefere working alone. But i See where you are coming from
@@linzu444It’s not like doing a group project though, it’s literally for a bunch of people and it’s a job that should be done by a group of people. If you don’t like working with others why would you do an activity that literally requires collaboration? He should’ve never been a game dev if he doesn’t like working with others. I don’t think you’re viewing this from the right perspective because you sound like you think that it’s something mandatory with little kids screaming and stuff. You not being social and robtop not wanting to have other developers are very different cases. I think the only real reason is he doesn’t want to split profits or something because not wanting to work with others doesn’t justify anything.
@@linzu444Not doing an action that could make your game better and more efficient without any justifiable reasons other than “I don’t want to” is not something respectable in my opinion
So hi, someone with actual internal knowledge about the game AND the development.
GD comes with a lot of legacy in the form of 12 year+ old code (most of it coming from boomlings) which hasn't been majorly changed in years. This introduces a common issue in matured projects called side effects. The noclip anti cheat is one of them. A anti cheat was once added in 1.6 and now RobTop forgot to add a flag to disable it for this edge case, thus, it triggers.
RobTop is already making plans to recruit GD modders for a devteam. However, due to the previously mentioned side effects, this is currently unrealistic. Thus why most updates currently don't add a lot of features, he's internally fixing old stuff to get closer to being able to recruit a dev team.
"megahack and geode should be native" this is frankly a horrible take. First of all, any malicious code and RobTop can instantly get sued over it. There's also author rights involved here and major compatibility issues. RobTop has already silently been including features from mods. But including them all and especially true mod support comes with a lot of issues which a singular dev simply can't handle. It may be a feature in the future but absolutely not now. Also saying he's uninterested in the modding side of the community is not true. RobTop actually talks with some modders, he finds the mods amazing, just as much as what people do with the editor, and recently even did some changes to make modding easier. And I know this because these are things I discussed with him directly through DMs.
RobTops rating system doesn't rely on his opinion. Mods exist for a reason. RobTop simply does a last quality check and has fun in doing so. He isn't usually the one gate keeping levels.
Oh also click between frames is a 2.206 feature if you didn't know.
I would really suggest you first research this topic before going "on a surface level this and on a surface level that" because there's a lot more behind the scenes than you imply here.
click between frames is not a 2.206 feature lol, you can manage malicious code, geode already does that, it is easy to integrate you would just have the geode files in the game download
currently how geode works breaks upon updating, so no, geode can't just be added by adding the files natively
also, geode brings 0 security against malicious code, talked about that with HJfod recently, all you upload is the .geode file which is already compiled thus hard to review, even if you find a way around that and do server side building (which is a whole issue in of itself due to easy malicious executions through the cmake script and whatnot) it's still easy to miss malicious code which is obscured. Open source doesn't make something safe. A good example is how they recently found a virus in one of the default linux packages ONLY by accidentally spotting a slight performance difference on a gigantic testing server of microsoft.
Damn sounds like you fr know your stuff, this is really interesting
About the noclip slope bug, it's been there for a long time in editor's ignore damage. It's just more obvious when more people use it in normal mode
that's goofy asf bro didn't bother to patch it😭
From my testing, the slope bug did NOT occur in the editor, which means that playing the level in the editor with noclip is more playable than playing the level itself with noclip lol
@@Legatron17 I remember I did random crap with SW in the editor in 2.1 and it was also bug like that. Idk, maybe it was fixed (Though it'd sound very dumb to fix a mistake and make the same mistake later on) or it just only happens with type of slope structure like that
@@GDProxified I only tested out Bloodbath, and the slopes and transitions work fine in the editor noclip but don't work in normal play noclip, you can test it out for yourself. So yeah, he did actually fix it and made the same mistake later on lmao. This makes it even funnier considering that he literally used a screenshot of Bloodbath in the teaser image, only for Bloodbath to not even properly work with noclip 😭
it would be nice if he stopped overworking himself and instead got some people to help him code as well as playtesters, because how do you add a big feature (ignore damage) and it just breaks 90% of levels?
exactly my feelings on it too
the worst part is that the best people he could possibly hire (the modders) are the people he seems to dislike the most
yep
I'm pretty sure this is not true, Rob actually was in one of the modders servers (pretty sure either the geode or globed one iirc) so I believe he does like them
Hi, GD modder here. I'm actually in direct DM contact with robtop and even promised him to help out with a system in the near future. This is probably the worst take I've seen in a while
Personally i don't think Rob should have hyped the update up as much as he did. The way he teased it made me think there would've been something more to it.
literally
except its just a regular update? you expecting 2.3 from that?
@@gamingwithowen2707 read the second sentence genius 👍
Here are some of my thoughts about this update, and some corrections.
Yes you are right, their isn't a new currency. But instead, the money bag teases the cash prizes of the NCS gauntlet contest. Ill take it over microtransactions.
It does suck that their is no platformer save checkpoints but it is a useful tool for restarting from the last checkpoint in practice mode so that people can practice final parts of a level without having to exit the level and try again or use mods.
Noclip in testing mode is a really good thing in my opinion but the reason why it does suck is because it hasn't been well tested enough. I do think that RobTop should get more playtesters and help from other people. Also according to game devs, they say that slopes are hard to program so when RobTop added the noclip feature, I bet that the slopes ended up being bugged and RobTop should fix next update. Also apparently, purple pads act like blue pads in noclip, that is 100% a bug that needs to be fixed.
You are very right, these features should've been on the game much earlier.
I don't think RobTop is selfish but I think that he is probably afraid that his company could go crazy when he hires more people. I'm going to bring Rovio entertainment as an example. Rovio was a company made by 3 solo indie devs and they kept making many mobile games, that was until they made Angry Birds which exploded in popularity. This was a massive success for them so they decided to expand the company and make more games and cool merch. When they kept hiring more people, things went downhill as some of the Angry Birds games didn't feel like Angry Birds. Sooner or later the Angry Birds franchise fell off and looking at Angry Birds now, the franchise looks and it doesn't feel like Angry Birds anymore and Rovio was once an indie company that was hosted by 3 indie devs that turned into a money hungry business. My point is, I don't think RobTop wants his company to go overboard and make Geometry dash into a way to make more money. (Yes he does make money from GD its his job, but I mean it in a greedy way like how Rovio did to Angry Birds.) I do agree that RobTop should at least find people to get help or work with as it can make GD get more quality of life updates and make larger updates much more faster. People that actually care for GD like Viprin, Absolute, or some GD mod devs that make the game better. It doesn't have to turn into a huge company. The main reason why 2.2 took forever to come out was because RobTop had an idea that would work well then spend a lot of time in it then finish it, then he comes up with ANOTHER idea that he works on, spends more time on, then makes ANOTHER idea and the bad cycle continues. I do feel bad for him because he wouldn't stop coming up with new ideas, but he did put the hard work onto himself.
The Demonlist does one thing, rate the hardest rated demons of all time, but I will say that RobTop should've rated tidal wave earlier should have happened because he wouldn't get so much hate in the first place. But hey we all aren't perfect and hopefully Rob can fix some of these mistakes in the future.
I think it's possible that RobTop have been in a very bad dev team and he doesn't want to work in a team again. Being a team leader is also different from being a single game developer and he probably doesn't see himself as one
it is his game and he wants it to be just his
guy just because you didn't guess what was in 2.206 right doesn't make robtop a bad dev
?? did you watch the video
He did and he's right
Bro watched like 1 minutes of the video 💀
these points just didn't really make rob a 'bad' dev he is the only one rating not because he is selfish but if there were 5 people rating them then rated levels wouldn't be as special and the levels wouldn't be getting much attention anymore which is the whole point of rates to bring attention to 'good' levels and if he wants to be a solo dev than that is really his decision, like it or not it is his game and it is his decisions, sometimes adding everything that you want him to add is a lot more difficult than you think and takes a lot longer than you would want it
@@GHXSTmmx I watched the whole thing and I disagree with the entire claim behind this video
I would like to see you solo develop a game as popular as this better
It is RobTop's game, he can do whatever he wants. The geode can't be added in vanilla game cuz Google's and App Store's policy. He is a good developer, if you want to hire a dev team, let's rewrite the game from 1 by 1 copy, add anything you want, make the levels, do the level editor in ur game, add UI menus, make the icons, grow a community, work for an new update, make the game's servers, add like 100 new features for an update but in 3 months, hire a dev team and update the game every day, make the game's physics, hitboxes, add new gamemodes, make Spinoff games, talk with the community in discord, rate all rate worthy levels, and many more, can you do it, RobTop did everything except hiring a dev team and update things. If you want to, you should make this. Also, this video did nothing to the game, if you want to change things, talk to RobTop himself, why you did it. 40% agrees with you, 60% disagrees, this video changed nothing. And, you are lying in the comment section, you said things in the video as if you disagreed with them at your comments. Also he had to delete every free gd game websites with copyright. If you want to add the mods directly in GD, you should wait for the update for few months again, which you don't want to be. There's should be a reason why he didn't hire a dev team. Like he could worked with a bad developer team before. HE ALSO HAS A PRIVATE LIFE! I'm sorry if I've crossed the line, but I'd like to point out that I strongly disagree.
@@QuiXGD yes all things mentioned can and would be done should robtop be replaced. hin having a private life, yes i know that, that's why he needs replacing. giving reasons why he can't implement things or update the game quicker are just more reasons for him to be replaced. Robtop can do what he wants, but that's not to say he should.
i think robtop means well, but he definitely needs to get a full dev team. id love to see rob fully flesh-out stuff like in-game lore, shops, and new levels, while others help him execute the more technical aspects of the game like game mechanics, bug fixes, etc. being a solo dev with a game this big isn’t sustainable, and i think even he knows this
the thing that really got me was mods being temporarily gone after the update. i know 64 bit allows for less lag, but with that feature implemented into the game, how will i ever get the bunny icon without using icon hack??
people will kinda assume that you use icon hack since the bunny icon has 500 demons, maybe stick to another icon lol
@@NOTDDDOT I love bnuuy..
@@NOTDDDOT also icon hack is basically allowed so yea
@@Ovotun i mean true ig
and cbf being gone the wave trail pulse being gone with mh START POS
brother im gonna be honest but this video felt extremely harsh. robert is a solo developer on a game that has a community literally hyping absolutely everything that gets added to the game or even thought of being added. did you ever seen the daily dose of GD channel? have you seen how many times vit and other people called a gamemode "insane" and everything when the gamemode on itself is just not worthy of being implemented?
being a game developer and a programmer myself (which btw, code on the same language as rob, which is C++, for over 4+ years) i can confidently say that being psychologically able to handle so much stress and so many people wanting new features and content in the span of months is the insane part on itself. hes been doing this full time for OVER 10 YEARS.
the backend of geometry dash is a big issue in development... did you knew that geode developers FREQUENTLY struggle because robtop is using the 2011 standard for C++, which the latest version was released in 2023 - 12 years old by now? maybe that the version of cocos he is using is INCREDIBLY outdated because the game is over 10 years old?
your video does NOT feel like constructive criticism, it feels like just you being a dick for no reason.
you arent bad from what i see from your other videos, but please atleast have some decency before calling the developer out like that, you can be better than this man.
i dont think it's reasonable to say I'm being too harsh. Robs work is appreciated, it's unfair he should have to work so hard for such a minimal output. there's no reason for him to not have a dev team, it would make both his life easier, and the game better as a whole. I don't see the problem with that
I think the code is just a mess and everything in GD development is a mess and only robtop understands it
Bit silly reason but might be a reason
@@GadoGD so why did you called him selfish in the video? asking for more attention to the community is kind of reasonable but the way you have done it that was really harsh. the thumbnail has a very, *very* big red arrow pointing to his logo calling him a bad dev. if you dont agree with this point why stating that in the thumbnail or the video itself?
also, i would kinda suggest you taking the video down before gdtwt hears about it because if they do you will kinda risk being doxxed if im honest. people on yt are a little mature and give constructive criticism and make a solid debate... but gdtwt is a collection of brainrot beyond human comprehension. i wouldnt like or condone any of that if it ever happens, but its still gonna blow up really badly if it does buddy :/
@@sakamocat gdtwt is not as bad as you say, I tweeted this video, and I called him selfish for the rating system, nothing to do with coding or developing the game
@@GadoGD you do you then
I see where you’re coming from but as more of a casual player I’m not really against the 2.206 update, also I heard the money bag thing was like something to do with gauntlet rewards but it was from an unreliable source so idk
im not against the update in any way, it just is nowhere near enough, especially considering we are over a decade into the games lifespam
@@GadoGD so small updates=bad?????????? the 64 bit update makes this game SOOOOOOOOOOO much better, i can't even call this update small
@@justaguy4575so much better that vsync broke and the game lags on old levels
honestly if never been bothered by the lack of updates we dont need them that badly
"I've never been bothered" and "we don't need it" don't work, you should be sayibg that you don't need it
@@GadoGD Alright, but point is made, it is true, the game works without those updates, proof is you're probably playing it. While it's slow to get updated, you still get updates on the game and you should be happy with that, he could just abandon the game and run away with his moneybag. I understand it can be very frustrating that you have to wait for updates to come out, or the updates that come out don't 100% fulfill your criterias or your list of things you wanted to see in the game, the problem is that, people are way too demanding with the updates and always ask for more, but you never put yourself in the man's shoes. He added literally 70 something triggers to the game that allows players to do crazy things, and now "RobTop should do this, this this. Man the game is terrible, because RobTop did this and not this and that, he didn't add this or this I'm disappointed, this is disapppointing", no "Thank you" or nice things for the man that really just puts his time on the game to bring updates FOR THE PEOPLE (because he really doesn't even have to, he has the money and fame). He has made the choice to be a solo dev, take that into consideration, I actually totally get this man's behavior and understand why he doesn't want to hire more people, he's scared, not stubborn, turn on that little empathy in your brain and try to imagine yourself as a solo dev that has to answer the requests of millions of people, you'd be scared to disappoint them, and unfortunately you can't really fulfill the requests of everyone, he's trying his best, but man, people are annoying, he adds stuff and now it's : "he shouldn't have hyped this." not "he keeps adding stuff to the game, that's great!", nah, "he didn't add a new currency, this is terrible." "64 bits! He should have added that years ago!" always complaint after complaint. Come on, he didn't just kill someone or made political changes to the world, he just announced an update for his game because he was probably himself happy with what he's adding, he thought that it would fulfill what people wanted, but unfortunately, MORE COMPLAINTS. That's every community unfortunately, can't blame anyone, but work on yourselves fr.
I said we dont need them THAT BADLY
only thing in mad about is that ignore damage is only in editor it should just be in practice, also whens cbf
V sync is broken ever since the update (well for me)
I feel a bit bad for Robtop, but then again it did take a very long time for a minor update.
I wont stand on any side but just hope things get better
Considering the nature of the game, you don't really have to update gd often. It's not a live service game and we went 7 years without an update and yet gd was still coasting along.
you wouldn't have to update gd very often AT All if geode and megahack were vanilla, that fixes literally most of the issues. only things left for rob to do would be to add new gauntlets, gamemodes and official levels
@@GadoGDand add new blocks, and update the editor, and the actual fucking game itself, but sure mods definitely cover all aspects of the game and there is no reason why rob should ever introduce an update ever again
@@GadoGD yeah atp just let modders be able to officially integrate mods into the game so mobile players can win too.
I do agree that rob should look into hiring people and better manage the game and community, however -
The money bag was to symbolise the cash prize for the gauntlet contest
While persistent platformer checkpoints would be great, the button does look a lot more like restart from last checkpoint, so we shouldnt have gotten our hopes up, and efficiently saving the state of the level isnt necessarily straight forward
The anticheat is not a "built in feature", its completely seperate from noclip and has been in the game since 2.200, rob just forgot to disable it (which is still inexcusable)
"gd is terrible" because robtop won't add whatever new mod someone just made ok
oversimolificatiom and it's not just one mod but yeah
@@GadoGD I would argue that there being more than 1 new mod makes it worse
that isnt what gado said at all LOL
@@Icosa_sin but it literally is
@@DecidiousGreens he said the development of gd is terrible because he wont add multiple mods and cant keep up with the community’s standards for updates
This reminds me of the first artist reveal, Rob hyped it up and some people were pretty bummed
I personally don't really have much of an opinion on this though I do think Rob should get a small dev team, or at least some people to help him out and stuff (pretty sure he already has playtesters like Viprin and Autonick)
Rob's development of GD is ok but definitely can be improved
He really needs to hire a dev team. Especially because GD has a huge amount of skilled programmers. Also mods or at least Elder mods should be able to rate levels.
Yes there are many things rob has done in a very stupid way, but hes still only one person working on all of this with not much time on his hands to do things apart from gd. maybe we should all come to together and let rob chill for a bit without working on updates, so that hes not as stressed and doesnt have to do as much. I do think he should get working on getting some coders for gd, so updates would be higher quality and would come out quicker
Rob has his hands full for no valid reason, my point is that he shouldn't have so much work to do, because there isn't enough yield from said effort
@@GadoGD i do still think he should have some time to chill. 7 years making 1 update every single day is a lot for 1 guy
@@ElliottSuperS I agree
@@ElliottSuperSbut here's the thing, thats his choice, he can hire a team, he can hire good moderators, he has put all this weight by himself
@@_Tao__ i agree
Should just have a dev team already gaw damn
Also I'm pretty sure a lot of things are buged (that were not added in 2.206)
In the description you say that we should feel free to leave our thoughts on the matter in the comments, but then you delete one of my "thoughts on the matter." amazing work
what
3:42 IKR the UDL should become more mainstream.
Rob isn't selfish. He just cares too much about what the possible consequences could be if be rates the wrong level. Also he probably doesn't want another aod situation where they wanted the lvl to be rated but when it did, another group of people complained about it.
then make all decorated levels get a rate, then there isn't any complaining to do
@@GadoGD So I can make a good looking level that has text saying racial slurs and it will get rated?
@@GMDHpeZ obviously not, levels that break terms of service would still not be allowed
@@GadoGD HE DOESNT HAVE ENOUGHF PEOPLE DO YOU UNDERSTAND??!!
Really? He cares about "consequences" of rating a "wrong" level? What "consequences?" Bruh he only cares about HIS own biased opinions and only wants to see the levels HE likes and ignores everybody else's opinions.
If he actually cared, nobody would be complaining about the rating system like we are right now.
fr because since the update i litterally just cannot launch my game(im on 64bit) and it kinda sucks
a bit negative, I think you don't understand how much effort it is to handle a community like this. You are selfish here, I understand robtop's positions, the stress it brings is hard to cope with.
it is a lot of effort, either put that effort in, or recruit people to help out. I'm not being selfish at all, I will just use hacks, Im criticising Rob because if he changed for the better it would be better for everyone else, I'm largely unaffected
Bro use your brain. He literary suggested multiple times that robtob should get a dev team. That way handling the community would be a lot easier.
@@RealElevenTimes Yeah I def agree prob someone who is a community manager that helps a lot. But the way he puts it in the video is just wrong. Same kind of issues I always have. Just people talking big and complaining while knowing nothing about handling a community. But yeah it is good just the way he put it is kinda bad
@@PolarTheIcebear-xl8tsyeah, cuz robtop is awesome at handling the community the way he is secretive about the game is perfect, the way he handled the requiem situation was the best decision, the rating system he has built has no corruption or flaws
bro robtop can't add native geode due to android and apple policies
Windows is can be different to mobile
@@GadoGD true but like the controversy would go crazy
@@DecidiousGreens geode is available on android right now I think, and even if it isnt it would just be ported so controversy would be minimal
I dont think rob intentionally changed slope physics. Back during 2.1, when absolute was working on megahack v6, the only issue with noclip was that you could get stuck in blocks. Absolute made experimental noclip which fixed that but caused the same slope physics bug, and he wasnt able to fix that.
I think robtop did the same thing, trying to prevent getting stuck in noclip, but just didnt test it or smth and didnt realize the slope physics bug...
You probably did but if not: Did you know that the demonlist is called the demonlist because it ranks demon that are rated (btw Robtop also just won't let people rate the levels so its just insane)
i did know that, but did you also know that unrated hard levels are also called unrated demons? I think choosing not to place unrated levels over a pedantic technicality is stupid
@@GadoGDI think we need a HLL
Just the hardest levels no matter lenght or rate
@@EstrogenCubing you can't do that because challenges and demons are pretty unomparable
@@GadoGD Demon Players that play Challenges and Challenge Players that play Demons
ALWAYS compare them
@@GadoGD Saying you cant compare VSC to Tartarus is like saying you cant compare Kowateta to Zodiac
Rob has said multiple times in the past he will hire a team after 2.2. Let’s see when that time is.
Dude you can't convince me you actually care about no new currency being added to the game 😂 This video really comes across as overly negative.
@@hyban5596 me personally, don't care about a new currency at all, I use icon hack for everything, a lot of more casual players like more customisation and icons tho
Robtop also made megahack no longer compatible with gd in 2.206
all hacks break after an update
Bro its his game so it makes sense he does the rating system his way.
Also if he hasnt hired a dev team by now theres probably a reason
Hes got his own vision with HIS game and its his project. Its his choice if he wants a dev team and the game is fine now.
i aggree
True like ive had a level that ive been working on for 1 month whats the rate of course n/a and instead my other level that was released for 3 days after the 3 days it got rated even tho it had spikes like i put my heart into that just so dont get rated.
all i gotta say is im staying on 2.11 till the day i die
i feel like every time a new update comes out it just ruins the fun out of the game because the replacements for the tools people have modded into the game are a downgrade from what you could have with mods. like the fact that someone like absolute playtests their mods more than the developer of the game is genuinely baffling, like is it that hard to get a wide amount of people to playtest the new update???? its genuinely inexcusable that we are left in the dark about everything and something needs to change and now. this is not the first time this has happened either, look at release 2.2 all the way till 2.204
this are the reasons why people rely on mods for everything, because robtops vanilla implementations fall flat compared to their modded counterparts + the fact that those mods usually come out buggy on release and people but people will still praise robtop for "killing megahack" when that couldnt be further from the truth. also, i dont want to be a dick but i genuinely feel like robtop is just over his head because he would rather release an update that breaks thousands of levels and tell people to "fix" them rather than have a backwards compatability option.
we should call robtop out on those things because as a collective, we deserve better.
couldn't agree more.
i'm one of the very few people that wouldn't have minded if 2.2 never came out, and i don't understand people like you who complain about a 5$ game that's run by 1 developer who's barely getting any sleep everyday. be grateful
im saying that he shouldn't be working so hard because the payout is minimal, this isn't about a lack of greatfulness, this is about reality.
@@GadoGD well that's kinda just blatant clickbait then
@ssannnnnn saying his development is terrible isnt clickbait since he is saying that its taking a terrible amount of time to develop gd.
@@GadoGD i just watched the video and it's exactly what i expected, you complain about the vanilla game and how it's "disappointing" even though it's only been 6 months. people didn't have this reaction in 2.1 and 2.1 was a much smaller update, you eventually have to accept that it's a game with 1 developer and that developer does not want to recruit other developers for his game. deal with it or just go play another game, and me personally i don't have a problem with "disappointing" updates since the game is a literal rthymn based platformer. let's just wait for people to figure out 2.2 mechanics and make cool levels and then complain about stuff that doesn't really matter, and on top of that why not call robtop a bad developer just because he isn't providing "enough"? cyberpunk didn't provide enough for its community and it had a whole team working for it. deal with it, it's not the end of the game.
@@sanlikesicedtea in what way? I'm literally saying that the development is bad, even though he works hard. the two are not mutually exclusive
idk if this is just me, I cant open gd no matter what I do, the game wont open I have watched multiple tutorials and nothing I do works it has only started doing this after 2.206.
i dont know sorry
rob should probally get somebody who creates the mods to help if they can make a mod in lesss than 3 months he should get them and the updates need to be more frequent
I strongly agree that robtop is biased about rating levels. He rates levels that aren’t even finished or have extremely bad gameplay. He only rates it off of his opinion and only because the first 20% of thr level has good decoration (fun fact: robtop only plays through the first part of the level and decides if it is rate worthy). He also took 7 YEARS to approve 2.2 which is the majority of the game’s lifespan. It’s prob gonna take another year or two for 2.21 to release simply because rob is very inconsistent at approving updates on time. He said 2.2 will release in October 2023, then he pushed it to November, then December when it was originally supposed to release 2 months earlier in October officially announced in the 10 year anniversary back in August. What’s even worst is he was rushed by the AppStore to get the update out by the end of 2023. If the AppStore didn’t rush him, he would have prob taken even more time to release 2.2. (He was rushed by the AppStore because of gd being a 32 bit game and it not working on iOS because of iOS 17). Message to Robtop: GET A DEVELOPER TEAM AND STOP BEING STUBBORN ABOUT IT!!!!
The game feels a little better on mobile tho
I just wish more people would realize this instead of just ignoring all of this, but then again, atp nothing will change sadly
ay dont diss rob like that
why not
@@GadoGD the great man Robert topala is the reason you and I can play gd
@@gamemod10GD 💀
@@surroundedgd we praise the almighty rubrub
@@gamemod10GD 💀💀
I will be honest, you are far too negative about this and the update was hyped up well. It wasn't a long wait after the teaser, no delays, and the noclip bug isn't anything big.
Saying that we shouldn't be excited for 64bit upgrade just because ''other games have it'' is simply stupid. Reminder that robtop did not intend for levels to be THIS heavy, so there wasn't a point in upgrading back then. You could say that it should have been on 2.2 release, but then again, he barely got it out before christmas, it probably was already planned but he didn't have the time to do it. A team would help, but that doesn't mean you need to shit on him like that. At the end of the day, 2.2 lived up to expectations very well.
I can understand why he wouldn't want to rate tidal wave, imo it is rate worthy, but I can see why he would think otherwise. And saying that he won't rate it publicly would cause another drama, so the pressure was high.
While yes, the hack implementations don't live up with the actual thing, it's still enough. Yeah, he could hire the hack developers to implement it all in a better way, but it's not necessary. Robs implementations work, and complaining about them not living up or the fact that updates break your fancy hacks is stupid. The game is perfectly playable anyways.
He should be more transparent, yes I agree on this one.
Implementing CBF would take a lot time, and he has to work on other things now. Would be nice if we got an update on it all, but I do believe that we will get it in vanilla one day.
"there wasn't a point in upgrading back then" levels stopped running well in 2.1, years ago. Implementing CBF would not take a long time that's just untrue, you would just use the code of geode and have geode native. It's insane that you're happy there wasn't a delay, that just shows robs incompetence even further as you're used to delays. I'm not being overly negative about this, I'm saying what the reality is, and made sure I acknowledged that the changes were good to be implemented
cbf would take no time to add. The creator literally offered to give rob the code for it
Is it only for me 2.206 has much worse performence than 2.205? I get a lot of random lag spikes. Btw congrats on 2K subs!
thanks! idk if it has less performance, I haven't played, it should be better because of 64 bit
Its way better. Before even Dash lagged for me (old phone) now it runs problemless
i can run what at 200 fps it plays a lot better for me
im getting way more fps but the lagspikes are lowkey annoying ngl
This is because he's doing this all alone.
yeah exactly
are you cool with me using this video to elaborate and expand more on your points on my channel?
sure
@@GadoGD thank you, I'll get to work.
i disagree with everything in the video, mainly the demon list part but yeah rob has to get a small team to work on gd
and its not like he needs like 10 people or anything, 3 or 5 employees should be enough. as long that rob knows perfectly what the employees are doing and rob actually directs the game like he currently is doing things should be pretty good
you disagree or agree?
@@GadoGD disagree
@@ideac. looks like you said what I already think
Clickbait’s kinda bad but I get your point
whats the clickbait
@@GadoGD “Bad dev” “Geometry dash’s development is TERRIBLE”
Partially true but the video wasn’t just hating on rob so
@@pengplays149 I was saying he was a bad dev and the development was terrible 😭
@@GadoGD oh ok then I no longer support this video
I disagree a bit but you've got a point
How do I use the No clip accuracy in Game?
i have no idea honestly, I haven't played the game in 2.206 😭
There isn't in the main game yet, just normal Noclip
@@GDProxified and how do i turn it on?
@@Overnight_123 It's on the setting in the pause menu. The noclip option only appears for lvl that is on the editor tab for obvious reasons
Rob a W mod he roasts the community. I get where your points are coming from tho :)
at some point someone is gonna fully recreate geometry dash but have an actual dev team behind it and regularly add features requested by the community and fix the rating system and let the game run on GPU (hypothetically this would make the game run like 10x better) and have an actually good menu/UI and fix all the physics bugs and implement community made events and stuff (like the demon list) and rename the game to something actually representative of the game instead of "Shapes Dash"
i understand that robtop cares deeply about the community and i don't think he has any bad intentions (robtop is swimming in money, he is by no means forced to work on his game anymore so the fact that he still does shows that he cares), but sometimes i question if he really knows what he's doing. the existence of geode really shows that what i just described very well might become a reality in the coming years if robtop doesn't open up his game a little more to others helping with development and adding community requested features into the game. geometry dash is a community based game and so i believe that it is trivial for robtop to keep in touch with the community, and it's actually ridiculous that all of the criticism against robtop that sea1997 mentioned 6 years ago still apply to this day. if updates with little features keep taking this long people are eventually gonna rebel against robtop or some shht and what i described will probably happen. and unfortunately i think that this outcome might genuinely be better for the future of the game unless robtop changes his approach to handling the game.
not sure if anyone has realized but if you look at geometry dash the menu makes it look like a fucking 7 year old's mobile game, and the menu itself just seems so detached from what the community actually finds value in. this is just really sad because there is so much more to this game that drives the community and yet the menu is pretty much what causes so many people to just play stereo madness and dismiss it as a worthless mobile game.
Actually, here are the things that I would specifically change if I was Robtop:
- The menu should be completely overhauled. I personally think that a menu similar to that of osu! would work pretty well. Specifically there should be 'main levels' 'online levels' and 'editor' buttons, and all should be the same size since they are all of equal importance. there should also be a better settings tab. the one now isn't terrible, but imagine if you could just open a settings tab to the side and change settings without having to go all the way back to the settings menu...
- there should also be a way to easily change the theme/texture of the game. the classic green and blue should be an option as a classic theme, but something more modern and simple should be implemented as well, prefereably as the default theme.
- actually just take a shit ton of inspiration from osu! like what if there was a website like gdbrowser, and similar to the osu website but for geometry dash... and that website could have everything from stargrinding leaderboards, list points leaderboards, the demon list, top rated levels of the year, most demons completed leaderboards, creator leaderboards, just cool shit like that. robtop literally owns the domain geometrydash dot com and he doesn't fucking use it??? imagine if there was an official gd website where you can submit records for extreme demons???
- going back to the game itself, the main levels should be community designed levels. after all, the game's value comes so much from the community, why not make the main levels community made artistic masterpieces that were also specifically designed to be simple enough such that new plays can feel welcomed?
- more customizability; stuff like wave trail size and stuff that mega hack already adds should be customizable settings, which i think could be openned just like mega hack is openned. this is why the settings tab should be opennable anywhere and it would just show up to the left where you could easily change some settings on the fly.
- make the physics consistent. this includes things like implementing something similar to CBF where it doesn't rely on a broken TPS system. remove bugs that could be pretty easily removed. also please for the love of god fix the audio delay and desync.
- honestly just make geode official in the game. after all the game is all about community so why not have a system where developers could create and submit mods, which could then be checked by the geometry dash developers and then reccomended on some sort of page?
- having an advanced cheat indicator that is implemented in-game would make it so much more difficult to cheat in the game. this is something that so many games do and geometry dash could pretty easily implement some sort of system that would easily make cheat detecting ten times easier and cheating ten times more difficult.
- THIS ONE IS MUCH MORE COMPLICATED BUT add a collaboration system where multiple people can work on a single level together. maybe not necessarily real-time, but at the very least being able to save onto the same level maybe? this is more complicated so it would make sense that robtop or his future dev team may not be able to implement it quickly but worth mentioning since collaboration is such a big part of geometry dash. and please we really need there to be an option for "and more" button next to the publisher which shows a list of all the contributors to the level please.
- add all betteredit features lol
this game could be improved in so many ways and yet robtop just refuses to fucking hire a dev team like what the fuck bro imagine if all of this was real :(
Bro relax on him it's his project and he can do what he wants with it
still better then my average release 😂
I don't really get the vid to be fair, Robtop is by himself making an indie game and your annoyed that your guesses are wrong, also rob is STILL by himself doing this, you think you could do that yourself?
saying "can you do it yourself? is stupid", I suppose you can only criticise the president if you can do it yourself also?
and yeah, the issue I have is that he's working on it alone
im happy with this update wdum?
Twitter won’t like this one…
nope
not a big surprise since i could just say 1 letter and some hot cheeto stanley cup girls will think that i am some secret government agent attempting to wipe the planet
whats the level in the background
grief and codependence
@@GadoGD tanks
couldn't agree more with this vid tbh, rob needs to become far more transparent with us and listen to what we need
A bit rude but okay
Bro it is extremely terrible most people lost the progress including me, it is the worst update i have ever seen
that literally isnt robtops fault
@@AK_804 happened when update came out I downloaded update but it crashed idk why so uninstalled everything again but yeah I also have fault because I haven't saved the game before it
Literary went through 2 friend groups between 2.1 and 2.2. Robtop has needed a dev team for the past 8 years. If he did, such small of a feature like no-clip wouldn't be this broken. I could probably even fix it in few hours.
Just by saying I have lost all my levels and lists when I have updated today just tells you
Rip
Same idk what happened. I had like 25k attempts on a Zodiac copy and it just went like that. Also I lost MANY projects i was working on for 2 years it's honestly so frustrating.
well then that's a bug, not him deliberately deleting your levels and lists
@@gamingwithowen2707 thing is that if he coded better that stuff wouldnt happen lol
@@martdemon3314 thing is if you used more of your brain you would realize that isn't just adding 3 variables to the code and calling it a day
Eh idk, i dont really care. I mean now that its out is cool n stuff, so i don't really have anything to say. And i mean a dev team would be cool, but idk maybe some time in the near future.
Good vid mate
Fair opinion tbh. Me personally I'm not all up in gd mods, I only use mh for like 3 features and atp I think vanilla gd has everything I ever need now, but to others I get how these updates can seem like downgrades from the mods they use
yeah idunno I have no strong feeling towards robtop
i agree rob has enough money to hire absolute,hj,syzzi and more. these people have done MORE for geometry dash then the fucking developer has like thats just sad
I think robtop should at least appreciate hacks, especially Megahack (absolute props for Megahack team btw for keeping up with the random updates recently). GD basically only survived the last 7 years not only because of the community but also because creators used those cheats to discover new mechanics and decoration wich wouldnt have happend without it. Also the show hitboxes tool opend many new doors for difficulty. Slaughterhouse, firework, Achreron or even the iLL list wouldnt be the same without that tool. He should maybe think about partnering up with the megahack team since they appear to be way more effective when it comes to programming n stuff. I hope you people understand my viewpoint since i play this game for 9 years and i completely relate to this guys words in the video. Thanks for reading ❤
No
This update made me happy/dissapointed:(.I do love the 64 bit limit and the ignore damage in practice mode but I cant believe robtop said that the moneybag is going to be the money prizes for the nsc gauntlet contest and not for a new currency/shop.Robtop I don't care about your 1000$ prize i want the buy the niko icon so badly:(
And i do love that ncs in now in the song library
nah we had more than enough currencies
oneshot lover!
i dont understand whyd he would hype up the community for a nothing burger of a update
Honestly, now that we have 64 bit, Rob is COMPLETELY useless for gd, since modders can just make features faster than Rob ever could ever dream of. and also, Rob just hates the playing community, we all know the Tidal Wave drama, but the fact that tidal line, a level that literally steals assets from Tidal Wave, got a feature, while Tidal Wave only has a rate, and levels that steal assets aren't even supposed to get rated btw
exactly my thoughts also
Tidal line is for its unique gameplay, but tidal wave also has good gameplay, so he just hates top players
@@SoulSumoner013honestly, tidal wave gameplay WOULD have been good but it got unnecessary butchered for the sake of being difficult.
That's like saying any game that has modders, doesn't need devs and shouldn't get updates... that's basically every game. You want every dev to releases a game, add mod support then just leave? Don't forget that half the player base is on mobile and can't add mods easily and there are many people who just want to play the vanilla game.
@@CindersGDPeople who play tidal wave even buffed said it was fun
What are you yappiing about
robtop refusing to work with absolute just to implement megahack features just 10x worse
0:34 YOU CANNOT RUN THE GAME ON A 32BIT OS WHAT DO YOU MEAN GOOD ADDITION
what
@@GadoGD if you don't have a 64bit operating system, you cannot run gd
@@tonyking2880 Just download the old version
@@GadoGD that would work, if that old version wouldn't progressively get outdated...
@@tonyking2880 prioritising those who are on 32 bit systems is beyond stupid anyways, it makes the game 10x better for 90% of people so the change should be made
I know annother solo dev with one of the best games in robloxnplatform he named onett he made bee swarm simulator game, for solo dev he making 1 ot maximum 2 updates per year with is mostly Christmas event but with reagular new update at once. He keep around 20k+ online every day for around 4 years or more. By that i mean sometimes solo devs making one of the best games but yes with not that active updates
ill never understand why people defend robtop so much like yes he made the game but he clearly isnt doing a good job at keeping it up, and the fact that he still refuses to hire anyone despite the fact he said he would doesnt help his case either
overall rob is rly incompetent and honestly idk why people keep having faith in him, every time something is announced for the game 90% of the time its poorly implemented and an overall disappointment
also the whole idea of the legitimacy of features suddenly being reliant on whether rob approves them or not is kinda silly to me considering he clearly doesnt care much about the competitive scene of the game and barely listens to that side of the community, not to mention it was somehow completely fine to use hacks in 2.1, yet its a major sin to do the same in 2.2 for some reason
totally agreed
Holy based
Honestly you should stop whining about the games development i mean robtop has done all this by himself pretty much so the least you could do as a content creator/ youtuber is support the game and point out things that could help in the future rather than complaining when he doesn't meet your expectation i mean 2.21 should of been out by now but i imagine hes really busy expecially with getting more songs like the weekly artist reveals and stuff you cant blame him for this little mistake me personally i like the game how it is so yeah 👍
why should I stop complaining about it? it's insane that the game is still only run by one guy that works way too hard for next to no result
Rob top needs a team 😊
Like if rob would've had a full dev team the updates wouldn't of taken 6 months to release 2.206 and it wouldn't of taken 6 or 7 years just to release an update that doesnt have much content like the game released dash whats the other things that released nothing just more editor things that we dont need.
Tbh i agree 2.206 was Too fucking overhyped
I personally think there shouldn't be a star rating system in the game and wasn't needed to be implemented in the first place
its there so main levels and custom levels can give similar rewards, so there's an actual reason to play online levels
@@joebeerlobeother games don't have something similar to star rating and people still play them
I haven't even watched the vid yet but you're probably right considering the game's current state
there's only two possible reasons why robtop won't hire a dev team
arrogance, and the fact he think he can do everything by himself (which he's proven he can't)
or greed, and the fact that he doesn't want anyone else to have his sweet sweet gd money
i think there will be other reasons but could be these yeah
i thought the whole greed thing was false since rob is giving away cash to people, but i realized that he got 10 million dollars from the app store downloads in mobile gd, which is miles larger than a measily 1k
yes robtop is this evil entity only built to wring every last drop of his communities money into his bank account, or a selfish egotistical prick. listen to yourself bruh
Or he just likes working by himself on the project he's been working by himself on for over a decade. I don't really believe robtop is greedy, if he was he would have added microtransactions and would have made the game more expensive
@@hyban5596 i guess i can agree with that
Clickbait title and thumbnail, plus some pretty dumb points. I feel like people forget that the competitive community in GD is just a fraction of a percent of the actual player base. The vast majority is on mobile (and more specifically, IOS) and wouldn't be able to take advantage of most of the mods. It just doesn't make sense for rob to focus on features that only really affects a small percent of the community, while also only being useable by half of the community. Also, we should NOT give the demon list any more power then it already has; that's just a disaster waiting to happen.
the title and thumbnail are not click bait at all, he's a bad dev, geonetry dash has terrible development and I talk about that in the video. I acknowledged that the top player base is a small part of the gd community, and mentioned how these additions were good, just because there aren't many of them, it doesn't mean they should be ignored, especially when a large majority of the games popularity comes from difficult levels, top players should get features they want if it isnt at the expense of anyone else. Hacks being in vanilla benefits everyone. Ironically, you're being rather insufferable with this reply, it's clear you have a distaste for the list and list players already, without any basis so having a discussion is likely futile. If you want to say why my point are bad, I suggest you say why rather than being toxic
@@GadoGDhe's a good dev
He's doing his own thing and that's fine
He can screw the community its his own thing
i dont have anything against robtop but 2.206 is trash and its super jittery. Inthink it was a little rushed.
sadly, i couldn’t agree more
Robtop is the whole reason I dont play gd anymore.
I'll keep playing it because I have access to hacks and stuff so it's tolerable for me
@@GadoGD *what hacks. i will die without geode*
@@venom_295playz geode and megahack
@@GadoGD how do u still got geode? did you not update to 2.206 or smth
Clicked on this video doubtfully, but I agree with everything you said. Amazing video, someone needed to make it🙂
as a creator. the rating system is still pretty bad. yes, the feeling of rob seeing my lvl and rating it is amazing. but at the same time its not enough for newer creators. i was one of them a month ago so i know how it feels like to spend countless of hours on a lvl to not even get a send. rob should allow elder mods to rate a lvl. maybe 2-5 lvls a day or a week. so the levels dont get flooded but newer creators can get what they deserve.
I agree with everything you said, I WANT EXPLORERS
we need vanilla CBF yes, also yeah megahack integration would be amazing
I completely agree bro