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Hi, recently I re-uploaded The Player from Blox Fruits page when it was removed by Antvasima about a day afterward. While I kind of suspected this would happen, the reasoning for why Blox Fruits was removed has irked me since it originally happened. I'd like potentially provide arguments that would hopefully prove it has a place on the wiki. This may also be me laying the groundwork for a potential Staff Discussion Thread on Roblox Game's in general.
On the surface, Blox Fruits does in fact look like a simple "Fan-Game" or plagiarized clone of One Piece, but this could only be further from the truth and I in-fact think deleting it may set a precedent that would have to be addressed moving forward.
Let's start with similarities: Blox Fruits is a game largely revolving around players traversing the sea in order to become stronger in one of two factions of Pirates or the Marines. As they progress, they can find powerful "Blox Fruits" which grant them powers. This is very blatant to what is possible and done in the One Piece series but where this game shines is its areas and story which can be found in its "Three Seas"
As the game progresses, you eventually reach a level where you must enter the Second or Third Sea in order to get higher level quests and progress the story. The story does not revolve around anything involving One Piece, inside, following The Player attempting to solve a jailbreak before eventually being recruited to stop the Criminal Underworld Mastermind Swan from regaining his power and influence. The Second Sea largely follows this story line with the Third Sea revolving around the legend of "rip_indra" a powerful god-like character who shaped the Blox Fruits world as we know it.
Beyond this, Blox Fruits has been drawing away from it's One Piece roots, going as far as to change the names of its fruits to further be original while reworking them to have original powers and even visuals. Examples of this are the Door Fruit now being the Portal Fruit, the String Fruit now being the Spider Fruit, The Op Op Fruit now being the Control Fruit, and even original fruits like the Mammoth, Kitsune, and T-Rex fruits (Link to look at the fruits on their own wiki). They also feature originally weapons that while goofily given slightly different names still feature unique and new move sets.
Now these are some similarities but also ways Blox Fruits differentiates from the series it takes inspiration from, Blox Fruits. I am not denying it takes inspiration, that would be a fools' errand as it is somewhat easy to see when you join the game for the first time. But I believe there is enough original content and slight differences from One Piece to truly show it has a place on the wiki.
Now, on how this sets a precedent for other verses moving forward, there have been many verses and characters who are straight up bootlegs or clones of already existing content. A few that come to mind are "The Amazing Bulk" and Metal Man. These are verses and characters which blatantly plagiarize existing marvel content, but they have remained and have been somewhat important staples of VSBW culture. If you're going to get rid of verses such as Blox Fruits then these and other profiles should go as well given they follow the same format, thus creating a precedent for "bootleg" or "similar" content.
Even then, I don't think Blox Fruits is plagiarizing or is a fan-game of One Piece. As I mentioned above, they have taken measures to differentiate themselves from the series and also have 0 mentions of being a One Piece fan game or even a game inspired by One Piece. There is a lot of effort and money put into this game from the beautiful animations and models it's devs make or even the somewhat hidden story and lore put into it. And on the being a fan-game part it's not a fan-game in the sense it's meant to be One Piece with ocs, it's a fan-game that's just a game made by fans of One Piece, trying to be its own original thing.
A lighter thing to mention is that One Piece and other Anime IP games have been copyrighted and taken down by Toei/Jump themselves, Blox Fruits has avoided such scrutiny. They also have an official merch store, and said merch is sold at offical retailers like Walmart
All in all though, this is why I believe Blox Fruits has a place on the wiki, but that's not to say all Roblox verses are like this, and in general I think Roblox may need some extra rules or more moderation due to the nature of games on the platform. Blox Fruits and even Sword Blox Online could serve as a good example of similar games that draw inspiration from pre-existing series to make new experiences for Roblox users who otherwise may not get it. But an example of Roblox games that shouldn't be allowed would be Jujutsu Infinte a game that clearly is a fan-game of Jujutsu Kaisen, having no original content and not even going as far as to change the names of "Cursed Techniques"
Also, a lot of effort were put into the Blox Fruits pages, both from calc group members and passionate Roblox fans alike. Roblox has been somewhat dwindling on the VSWiki and verse take-downs like this really kill our motivation when this is one of the few safe and consistent places we can post and discuss Roblox powerscaling.
All in all I hope you read this, and if you do please consider my arguments, and thank you.
On the surface, Blox Fruits does in fact look like a simple "Fan-Game" or plagiarized clone of One Piece, but this could only be further from the truth and I in-fact think deleting it may set a precedent that would have to be addressed moving forward.
Let's start with similarities: Blox Fruits is a game largely revolving around players traversing the sea in order to become stronger in one of two factions of Pirates or the Marines. As they progress, they can find powerful "Blox Fruits" which grant them powers. This is very blatant to what is possible and done in the One Piece series but where this game shines is its areas and story which can be found in its "Three Seas"
As the game progresses, you eventually reach a level where you must enter the Second or Third Sea in order to get higher level quests and progress the story. The story does not revolve around anything involving One Piece, inside, following The Player attempting to solve a jailbreak before eventually being recruited to stop the Criminal Underworld Mastermind Swan from regaining his power and influence. The Second Sea largely follows this story line with the Third Sea revolving around the legend of "rip_indra" a powerful god-like character who shaped the Blox Fruits world as we know it.
Beyond this, Blox Fruits has been drawing away from it's One Piece roots, going as far as to change the names of its fruits to further be original while reworking them to have original powers and even visuals. Examples of this are the Door Fruit now being the Portal Fruit, the String Fruit now being the Spider Fruit, The Op Op Fruit now being the Control Fruit, and even original fruits like the Mammoth, Kitsune, and T-Rex fruits (Link to look at the fruits on their own wiki). They also feature originally weapons that while goofily given slightly different names still feature unique and new move sets.
Now these are some similarities but also ways Blox Fruits differentiates from the series it takes inspiration from, Blox Fruits. I am not denying it takes inspiration, that would be a fools' errand as it is somewhat easy to see when you join the game for the first time. But I believe there is enough original content and slight differences from One Piece to truly show it has a place on the wiki.
Now, on how this sets a precedent for other verses moving forward, there have been many verses and characters who are straight up bootlegs or clones of already existing content. A few that come to mind are "The Amazing Bulk" and Metal Man. These are verses and characters which blatantly plagiarize existing marvel content, but they have remained and have been somewhat important staples of VSBW culture. If you're going to get rid of verses such as Blox Fruits then these and other profiles should go as well given they follow the same format, thus creating a precedent for "bootleg" or "similar" content.
Even then, I don't think Blox Fruits is plagiarizing or is a fan-game of One Piece. As I mentioned above, they have taken measures to differentiate themselves from the series and also have 0 mentions of being a One Piece fan game or even a game inspired by One Piece. There is a lot of effort and money put into this game from the beautiful animations and models it's devs make or even the somewhat hidden story and lore put into it. And on the being a fan-game part it's not a fan-game in the sense it's meant to be One Piece with ocs, it's a fan-game that's just a game made by fans of One Piece, trying to be its own original thing.
A lighter thing to mention is that One Piece and other Anime IP games have been copyrighted and taken down by Toei/Jump themselves, Blox Fruits has avoided such scrutiny. They also have an official merch store, and said merch is sold at offical retailers like Walmart
All in all though, this is why I believe Blox Fruits has a place on the wiki, but that's not to say all Roblox verses are like this, and in general I think Roblox may need some extra rules or more moderation due to the nature of games on the platform. Blox Fruits and even Sword Blox Online could serve as a good example of similar games that draw inspiration from pre-existing series to make new experiences for Roblox users who otherwise may not get it. But an example of Roblox games that shouldn't be allowed would be Jujutsu Infinte a game that clearly is a fan-game of Jujutsu Kaisen, having no original content and not even going as far as to change the names of "Cursed Techniques"
Also, a lot of effort were put into the Blox Fruits pages, both from calc group members and passionate Roblox fans alike. Roblox has been somewhat dwindling on the VSWiki and verse take-downs like this really kill our motivation when this is one of the few safe and consistent places we can post and discuss Roblox powerscaling.
All in all I hope you read this, and if you do please consider my arguments, and thank you.
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