Roblox said that tix is pretty much obsolete anyway in terms of profitable wealth right? I mean if you look at the blog:
"There is another benefit to removing tickets, and that is it removes the incentive to create alt accounts. We don’t believe it makes sense to provide a currency bonus to having multiple accounts, as this drives behavior that is not at the core of ROBLOX."
Specifically this point is moot considering ROBLOX makes the argument prior that:
"The ticket bonus for place visits has become a very small factor to most developers relative to the ROBUX economy."
Hence even if botting for place visits has a bonus, according to ROBLOX's argument the income would still not be at all large enough to incentivise the behavior.
Not to mention if ROBLOX did away with/lowered the price floor there'd be no incentive to create alts in order to receive tix to get clothing, not their fault for wanting to look good. And the fact they lower it now is silly as its removed the only way an NBC can get clothing from developers within the clothing sector, meaning the original idea of the price floor to aid Designers income (Which was already destroyed by the huge black market of asset copying whose popularity is DIRECTLY RELATED to the price floor) is automatically wrecked AGAIN, as they lose the entire NBC market of their sales because they are unable to acquire R$ without payment, which they might not be able to do.
This update, or downgrade is simply concentrating the entire site into JUST games, instead of the multi-functional purpose it served prior, such as graphic design, roleplaying (This update means that characters would need to be BC in order to purchase outfits related to roleplay, like a Mage outfit or a Knight, as to my knowledge the available clothing provided free by Roblox has no relation to this.) and group wars. Sure you could give your members the clothing at the fort, but an integral part of it is the raiding, aka. assaulting another groups place, how would it look epic if half the people who represent your group haven't even got the uniform!?
Also, a rather simple idea to police tix, would be to adapt the IP banning system to prevent users from the same IP address from earning tix if they log on to say, more than 4 accounts in the day (Alts are normally hundreds, 4 alts would have little incentive worth)
Frankly, again, the ROBLOX Corporate decisions are driving ROBLOX to be a solely gameplay-related website instead of the plural, complex and frankly WONDERFUL creation it was. |