Reading the blog post about the removal of tickets, anyone with the slightest bit of perception can see how much bullcrap is loaded into that page of lies.
Especially this one:
"The impetus behind removing tickets is not to make more money."
Everything Roblox has done in the past 5 years has only been to put more money in their pockets. What are these new players going to do when their only source of revenue is taken away from them? Well, buy Builder's Club obviously! How is anyone just starting out going to have a chance of getting their place popular without it?
Just look at how Roblox has been in the past few years:
-BC only badges
-BC only game passes
-BC only places
-BC only catalog items
-Huge marketplace fee on NBC
-Former BC only get 5 places
-I am probably missing a whole lot more since then but I have been inactive
You can keep hoping, but only an absolute idiot would believe otherwise when such a better solution is available.
Just look at their reasoning:
1. Tickets are confusing to first-time users
Wow, they aren't even trying to hide it! When I first joined, they weren't confusing at all! It was extremely straightforward. They even say it was common practice for games to have two currencies. And if they are trying to make it easier for first time users, look at what is happening: Roblox is removing new users' ONLY source of revenue (other than dev products, which are miniscule on their own). HOW is this HELPING new users? HOW?
They are also claiming that is it balanced by adding more free content to the catalog. Although this is better than nothing, it won't help distinguish players who are called "noobs" by the standard that all they can afford are free items. Lowering the price floor helps, but it shouldn't even be there in the first place as its sole purpose is, again, to get more people to buy Builder's club so they can afford these rasied prices. Plus, part of the reason for a price range in items is for users who have worked hard on getting a popular place to be rewarded with an expensive hat! Now, there is no tangible reward for making a cool place that others enjoy visiting.
2. We don't want people to create alt accounts or just "check-in" for their daily tickets.
And, yet again, Roblox uses this as an excuse to go further than necessary in removing the problem. Here's a simple solution: disable the log in bonus! Done! Let people still recieve tickets for the hard work they've put into their places and to help new users who are just starting out.
Notice how they only say: "We do not want to incentivize people to 'check in' every day," but by removing place traffic revenue, they are also saying they don't want to incentivise people to create popular content.
3. Botting
Disabling the log-on bonus will help with part of this problem, but I admit that place visiting bots will still exist. However, after 9 years of Roblox, this has never been a significant enough problem to fix. You will get more place visits in the long run by working on the place, making it into something people want to visit. But by removing place traffic revenue, people will have less motivation to be doing this anyway. It just seems like preventing bots is another contention stuck into this blog post to make it seem like they have more reason.
I have been through years of updates after updates, each of which is clearly intended to get more people to buy Builder's Club. You can believe the lies they are giving us, or be your own thinker, reason for yourself and come to the conclusion that once again, like all the precedents, they just want more money out of us. |