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The tone of the blog post was not appealing. In response to "Q: Roblox is greedy for removing tix!" (even wording the "question" as if the user's point of view is just complaining) said simply that ROBLOX isn't greedy because they're already very wealthy and have a future ahead of them. That doesn't make the player feel any better about this. They tried to sound humble by saying "Every dollar we earn goes back into the company." Anyone could guess that the money the company makes would benefit the company. It is disgustingly out of touch with the players that fuel this website.
ROBLOX stated how removing Tickets would help ROBLOX by removing the incentive to have multiple accounts.
That's not the only incentive that would be removed.
Removing a daily login bonus removes an incentive to come back to this website.
Removing a small payment for getting a place visit removes an incentive to CREATE.
They said how "the top game developers won't be affected because very few of them make money off tickets" but there's another incentive removed when free currency is removed: THE INCENTIVE TO BUY.
Very few users would afford to spend any money on game passes and developer products and those who do will not want to as they would be aware that their income would run out the moment their BC does.
Their only solution to how this crushes any aspiring game developer was that they'll create an email account where you send in your game and if you're lucky enough to be selected then you might get featured.
That doesn't help.
Even if people played your game, how are you supposed to earn money without tickets from visits? Game passes cost money to create and you won't be able to earn what it costs to create them. Even if you had the money to create one, the players would have any money to give you.
Spending dollars would become the only way to create "ROBUX" and 30% of them are completely lost with every purchase!
This would be bad for everybody - the players, the developers, and even the ROBLOX Corporation. |
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I did not word this in the form of a suggestion but my suggestion should be clear: "Don't remove tickets."
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"ROBLOX isn't greedy because they're already very wealthy"
show me where it says they are wealthy
"Removing a daily login bonus removes an incentive to come back to this website."
they are replacing it with incentives for performing tasks on the website instead of simply looking at it
"Removing a small payment for getting a place visit removes an incentive to CREATE."
Builder's Club (emphasis on BUILDERS) is for people who wish to create things (according to ROBLOX's dogma). free to play players are mainly consumers of places, not creators.
your 3rd paragraph:
they are replacing it with incentives for performing tasks on the website instead of simply looking at it x2
"Their only solution to how this crushes any aspiring game developer was that they'll create an email account where you send in your game and if you're lucky enough to be selected then you might get featured."
or you create a game that gets popular from being good
"how are you supposed to earn money without tickets from visits?"
i'm pretty sure they are reworking the system somehow; if they don't then i agree that this is a valid concern (i think they are adding robux rewards for certain amounts of visits but i'm not sure) |
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anajay2Join Date: 2011-11-05
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Agreed |
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my suggestion should be clear: "Don't remove tickets."
Reason: 1. I don't get robux ever in my life. 2. If they remove tix I be broke witch means I no longer by Uniform for the group.
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i don't think i made it clear in my post that i support this post
it's just that your arguments for defending tix are not satisfactory, and roblox will brush them off using similar thoughts to what i said |
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>or you create a game that gets popular from being good
It doesn't matter what the game's content is if you don't already have an audience to see the content in the first place. That's why games that are good start off gaining traction and the tickets earned from that can be used to continue to advertise it.
>i think they are adding robux rewards for certain amounts of visits but i'm not sure
That would be nice but nowhere in the blog post did they say that they plan on doing that.
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@lucifer
the three quotes show how the company is growing, not how the staff is greedy. if they were greedy they would be taking the profits out of the company and spending them on personal things.
@rev
i totally agree with your first point and i have those problems as a dev. it was already really difficult to make a popular game just by advertising so i think they thought that it wouldn't be a huge difference.
as for the second part, they said there will be a temporary achievement for "playing games", so i would guess that they would have something along these lines; it is just speculation and i could be wrong, but it seems like the type of idea roblox would make |
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tix are great. and if they remove them then i will spam the forum. that is all you have to talk. |
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I do hope that they add some way to earn currency other than spending money because the statement how "In general, anything we reward with currency will ultimately be botted." didn't sound very promising |
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It's obvious that this update is based around their own greed. Nothing benefits the community at all, the only thing it does is make people want to spend even more money to get stuff they used to be able to get for free.
I don't want to keep paying $5 to get R$ whenever I see a new shirt that looks nice. |
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ROBLOX looks like it's heading down the road of EA and, believe me, that's some storm clouds gathering. They should be taking this road with caution because they might dig themselves a hole they will not be able to climb themselves out of. |
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Since I joined this website I've made about a hundred ROBUX off of tickets and I was hoping that by buying BC I'd use the ROBUX from BC to increase the earnings from tickets.
There's not really any point in spending money now that I know that it'd be a wasted effort to try making any.
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GizmopartJoin Date: 2013-02-20
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Cause on a April 1st Roblox be like...
YOU JUST GOT PRANKED, BRO! MY FRIEND'S GOT A CAMERA HIDEN THERE ---------------------> 📹
📹 <----------- GOT A CAMERA HIDEN HERE
AND HERE --------> 📹
JUST A PRANK BRO!!!
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@Gizmo part it's not a prank. |
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NFS12123Join Date: 2014-05-16
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@Gizmo Hope you are right... |
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If ROBLOX really did this as an April Fools prank I'd be speechless.
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If ROBLOX really did this as an April Fools prank I'd be speechless.[2] |
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clubb12Join Date: 2010-04-07
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the incentives are probably going to be free hats.
~lord of the booty~ |
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Free hats...Woo...
Exciting.
>.>
<.<
*the hat is just a retexture of a hat that would normally cost 10 Tix* |
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