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| 14 Apr 2016 01:58 PM |
Dear ROBLOX Community:
In the next 1 day, ROBLOX will discontinue ROBUX. This is one of the biggest changes we have ever made to our platform. While many of you will hate this change, I know that many of you will be furious. I want to explain our terrible reasoning here, and also share details of the process we will go through with this migration.
Nine years ago Erik Cassel, John Shedletsky, Matt Dusek, 1x1x1x1, Jared Valdez and I designed the original ROBLOX economy. At the time, nobody cared. Virtual worlds like Second Life and Club Penguin were popular, but we weren't. :( and platforms like Google were just coming into existence.
In designing our virtual economy, we decided on two forms of currency, Tickets and ROBUX. ROBUX was the only currency used, while Tickets were designed to do nothing.
We have come a long way since that time. Today, the economy in ROBLOX is more and more driven by the forums, who create imaginative and creative posts. We’ve introduced a host of ways for our forumers to make Tickets even though we removed them. The ticket bonus for place visits has become a VERY HUGE factor to most developers relative to the economy.
Our catalog is going through a similar expansion over the next year, as we begin to allow ROBLOX developers to sell garbage.
We are removing ROBUX for a number of reasons. Although familiar to many of us, they are confusing to first-time users, because there is no way for them to receive ROBUX. We believe removing ROBUX will make our product harder to use in all areas, from the UI to the catalog to user-accounting.
We have many things in store for the majority of ROBLOX players who do not want to become involved with the economy. In the catalog, we intend to provide more paid items, so that avatar customization without ROBUX continues to be creative and rich. Today, we have introduced two very expensive hats for your character. Going forward, we will feature the work of top creators in the community as we migrate to a fully community driven catalog.
There will no longer be any Ticket bonus for logging in daily. As our platform has matured, we believe the reason to come to ROBLOX should be the desire to get money.
For our deeply engaged users we want to be unable to provide more valuable rewards that are not directly tied to login. While we are going through this 30 day transition, we will be making several terrible hats available to our users based on their engagement. We will be announcing these gifts tomorrow when ROBUX is removed.
There is another benefit to removing ROBUX, and that is it removes the incentive to have fun. We don’t believe it makes sense to provide a good time as this drives behavior that is not at the core of ROBLOX.
The impetus behind removing ROBUX is to make more money. That's it.
For those of you who are clothing developers, sorry but you won't make money.
Users will have 1 day to spend down their ROBUX on garbage.
Here is a list of the current changes:
Developers will no longer receive ROBUX for their hard work.
Users will no longer get ROBUX.
After 1 days the following will happen:
Trade currency will close. Users will no longer be able to get free money.
User ads will not be available.
Users and developers can no longer sell items.
ROBUX will no longer be visible or usable.
Q: I used to spend most of my time on ROBLOX getting rich, than getting cool hats. Now what.
idk
Q: Will anything replace the login bonus?
no.
Q: I have a business making clothing on ROBLOX. Will I make less money going forward?
yes
Q: Tickets were a reward for developers who made great content. How can they be rewarded now?
idk
Q: Without ROBUX, how can developers to advertise their games?
they can’t lol
Q: How can new Developers get started without ROBUX?
figure it out yourself
Q: How will top ROBLOX developers be affected by this?
they won’t get anything in return for their hard work
Q: If it’s about simplifying the economy why aren’t we getting currency removed?
stop asking me questions
Q: ROBLOX is greedy for taking away free currency.
K.
Q: ROBLOX doesn’t care about players.
K.
Q: Is ROBLOX in financial trouble?
who told you
I want to thank you for reading this depressing announcement, and have fun with no money! |
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| 14 Apr 2016 02:01 PM |
oh no
I used to be a knee, until i took an adventurer to the arrow |
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| 14 Apr 2016 02:11 PM |
| I laughed at this way harder than I should've. |
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iLogan32
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| 14 Apr 2016 02:12 PM |
"Q: Is ROBLOX in financial trouble?
who told you"
this is actually funny ngl
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| 14 Apr 2016 02:27 PM |
There will no longer be any Ticket bonus for logging in daily. As our platform has matured, we believe the reason to come to ROBLOX should be the desire to get money.
rip op
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| 14 Apr 2016 04:07 PM |
I want someone to put this on ATR
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| 14 Apr 2016 04:20 PM |
| This should have been on April 1st as Roblox's joke. |
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harry6413
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| 14 Apr 2016 04:24 PM |
I am cackling
http://www.roblox.com/My-Siggy-as-drawn-by-some-bloke-item?id=381738429| THE FEDORAMAN | - 2009er on Xenon - |
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| 14 Apr 2016 04:28 PM |
| lololololol this post made my evening |
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Illuminit
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| 14 Apr 2016 04:30 PM |
| I REMEMBER 1x1x1x1 oh my god fangirling |
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| 14 Apr 2016 04:32 PM |
| This thread has dropped an L-bomb on us. |
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Illuminit
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| 14 Apr 2016 04:33 PM |
Honestly I love you friend me send big pops a trade
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| 14 Apr 2016 04:36 PM |
love this inflation tho
The http://www.roblox.com/Inkling-item?id=345201877 is my squid waifu yo |
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| 14 Apr 2016 05:32 PM |
| lol i expected this to get like one reply, ty guys :) |
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| 14 Apr 2016 05:37 PM |
| Actually well-written satire for once, bravo. |
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