|
INTRO
--Now, As being on this forum for about 6 years, I have noticed users asking for extra perks for non-donating members that donate via the purchases of virtual currency, physical ROBLOX cards and the membership called "Builder's Club." They call ROBLOX Staff "greedy." The majority of the users who post this are extremely unfamiliar to the subject of prices for the servers, how much moderators and staff get paid, and the storage for every single pixel of your ROBLOX character.
SECTION I - SERVERS
--At any given occasion, hundreds of thousands of servers are being hosted. And guess how much money they are getting for hosting all those servers? Zilch. None. 0. Zero. Nada. You know why? ROBLOX gives you the benefit of FREE cloud-hosting for all those servers, which THEY have to pay for. Without this benefit, you would be paying lots of money to just host ONE server, and it would probably have to be from a large computer. You know why? ROBLOX does not aim for profit, they aim for the happiness of their users. That is why they introduced the mobile app, is developing an XBOX One version, and support both Mac and Windows.
They certainly do not want profits of any sort.
SECTION II - Your Characters
--Every pixel of your character costs more money than you can imagine. That is because your character is 3-Dimensional. All that data from your character takes up some space. As of 11/27/15, ROBLOX reached 100 Million users. That totals up, only in 2D form, about 25 billion pixels. Don't get me started on your 3D form of your character. And I'm not even counting those times when you wanted to see your characters from all angles with the 3D viewing feature. Yeah. All that money is getting pulled out of ROBLOX'S "profits."
SECTION III - The Forums
Now, you have to have been familiar with the forums if you're reading this post right now. Every post you make costs ROBLOX money, if they want to keep those posts up. Your text also costs ROBLOX money. And as you know, money doesn't get pulled out of mid-air.
SECTION IV - CONCLUSION
So, now do you understand the concepts of data storage and how much ROBLOX goes through to make you happy? Next time you want to call ROBLOX Staff "greedy," think about this thread and the concepts of data storage. Thank you for taking your time to read this.
Moderators, please make this a sticky.
|
|
|
|
|
"Moderators, please make this a sticky."
Support |
|
|
BEST IDEA EVER IT MUST BE A STICKY |
|
|
+1 sticky support, this will shut these noobs up about ROBLOX being greedy. |
|
|
InpetusJoin Date: 2012-10-04
Post Count: 894 |
I agree with your main idea (that is for nbcs to stop complaining) except you're overestimating how much resources it takes to store roblox user data, host servers, and forum posts. Yes, it is a lot when you scale it up but not as much was you're conveying.
Example:
3D characters are rendered on your computer (website), loaded in game through process (in-game) to save storage space.
2D characters are rendered but saved as an image (for website), and loaded in game through an algorithm
Forum posts are probably compressed or even saved as plain-text. Since there is no formatting or images I highly doubt it takes up a significant amount of space alone.
|
|
MalconerJoin Date: 2009-02-19
Post Count: 1296 |
Except for the amount of them, there's so many posts and users that it adds up, fast.
Suspicious signature ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°) |
|
VriskaJoin Date: 2010-08-10
Post Count: 3740 |
it goes straight to hell obviously |
|
|
where the money actually goes;
into their wallets
you dont need to write a word wall for something so simple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oqqPCPFdRE |
|
VriskaJoin Date: 2010-08-10
Post Count: 3740 |
CAPITALISM IS EVIL
friendly reminder
uwu |
|
MalconerJoin Date: 2009-02-19
Post Count: 1296 |
This won't get through to them, no matter how often it gets posted.
Suspicious signature ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°) |
|
|
What Malconer said is true.
You can't fix the ignorance of people who don't understand that everything in life costs money. |
|
ZaqreJoin Date: 2008-04-19
Post Count: 2569 |
Never argue with someone who is being ignorant, for they will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. |
|
|
Trolls are revealing their heads, apparently, they didn't read the whole post. |
|
ZaqreJoin Date: 2008-04-19
Post Count: 2569 |
Bump |
|
|
This needs to be in bold somewhere on the roblox site in a section on the top bar called "What happens when I buy BC?" |
|