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| 31 May 2016 06:52 PM |
Yeah yeah, this is old and tix won't come back but whatever. Just deal with this thread and what I have to say about tix being removed and the blog post.
Q: I used to spend most of my time on ROBLOX earning the login bonus, and then shopping for shirts and pants in the catalog for my avatar. What can I do now?
"More and more, the future of ROBLOX will be about experiencing things with your friends. Most of our work at ROBLOX is focused on making ROBLOX more immersive, and available on more platforms, and easier to play with friends. Removing tickets simplifies our efforts to expand in all directions. And it will simplify the introduction of our new articulated avatar. We plan to be free forever, so you will accrue these benefits as we expand to the living room and VR, and as we make our mobile experience increasingly more social and spontaneous.
For those of you specifically interested in character dress-up, more and more developer games are supporting this. Some of our games, like ROBLOX Top Model, have made clothing purchased in the catalog less important, because dress-up can happen in-game, with your friends.
That said, we will be making more free items available in the catalog, not just shirts and pants. We expect that all players will still be able to customize their avatar for free in creative and meaningful ways."
Whoever wrote this is an idiot. We want stuff OTHER PEOPLE MADE! NOT YOU!
Q: Will anything replace the login bonus?
"We want to continue to reward many of the other activities you do on ROBLOX. We are introducing three temporary achievements on ROBLOX. Check the blog tomorrow for details. We want to continue to celebrate your accomplishments – and you guys do so much more than just log in!"
Temporary isn't good enough, some players (Mostly NBC) want PERMANENT login bonuses or "achievements"
Q: I have a business making clothing on ROBLOX. Will I make less money going forward?
"We are reducing the price floor on shirts and pants from R$10 to R$5. We are reducing the price floor to ensure that creators have more freedom to sell items at lower prices, now that tickets will be removed. We will also be holding regular contests for clothing makers going forward. They will be creating the clothing for our new users and we’ll also be featuring their clothing in the catalog for all users.
Over time, our catalog will be largely stocked with community created items for all categories, including body parts, animations and gear. All items in the catalog will go through a selection process where we pick the best items for sale, along with the best items that are freely available for everyone. For those items that are freely distributed, there will be fantastic rewards to the catalog developers."
Dropping the price will make you less money.
Q: Tickets were a reward for developers who made great content. How can they be rewarded now?
"Developers can now monetize their game with developer products, gamepasses, and the affiliate program. ROBLOX developers can cash out their ROBUX for dollars which can be spent in the real world."
DevEx is basically impossible to use now because of all of this.
Q: Without tickets, how can developers to advertise their games?
"In addition to user ads, ROBLOX has introduced Sponsored ads which allow developers to more effectively advertise their games. User ads will continue to be available in the future for ROBUX and we believe this will increase the quality of user ads on the site. Both forms of ads are profitable for users who are advertising virtual items and games that sell developer products. We will continue to work on both systems to provide you additional stats so that you know just how profitable running ads on ROBLOX."
Alright, changing ads is ok, but using tix was much cheaper and more profitable.
Q: How can new Developers get started without Tickets?
"ROBLOX is a place where many game developers get their start. We are committed to making sure new developers get their games discovered. To that end we have created a new email address – featuredgames@roblox.com – for you to submit your up and coming games to. These submissions will be reviewed by our marketing team and submissions that meet our editorial standards could end up in the featured games sort. We’ve also identified the top ways our developers are making money in their games and provided this information to you in the Developer section of the site. Soon we’ll release more templates for budding designers to use when creating clothes and items."
We don't want you to release more stuff. WE want to release more stuff.
Q: How will top ROBLOX developers be affected by this?
"ROBLOX developers will no longer receive Tickets on place visit. Currently, only a very small portion of our top developers’ income is from Tickets.
We are committed to helping our developers earn money.
We plan to expose additional stats on best-selling products so devs have better insight into what is performing well. We will continue to provide new stats for devs and new platforms and users to help devs earn more. We think that this change will increase sales by more than the income lost and will end up being a positive change for developers long term."
Not everyone who plays roblox is a developer. We want the same stuff that "the top developers" are getting.
Q: If it’s about simplifying the economy why aren’t we getting a small stipend of ROBUX for continued logins?
"This would make it even more attractive to create alts and bots."
This is true. I recommend a cooldown (so you can't make anymore alts) per IP for... a month? A week?
Q: If it’s about botting, why don’t you just implement ways to counteract that, like only awarding currency for spending at least x minutes in a game?
"In general, anything we reward with currency will ultimately be botted."
Just like I said before. A cooldown should be added.
Q: ROBLOX is greedy for taking away free currency.
"Every dollar we make at ROBLOX gets poured back into the company. Unlike many other kid (and adult) virtual worlds, MMOs, and social networks, we are growing rapidly and have an enormous opportunity ahead of us.
Our vision is to Power the Imagination of our community, and to do it more immersively and more socially. Removing tickets is not about greed. It is about simplifying the platform, removing bots and alts, and paving the way for a ROBLOX that is bigger, more engaging, and more fun than ever before."
Nice try roblox, we all know that you're greedy.
Q: ROBLOX doesn’t care about base-level players, the majority of our Monthly Active Users.
"Every player who ever supports us through ROBUX or Builders Club was originally a base-level player. We understand this dearly. We understand that if we make ROBLOX less attractive for base-level players, over time we will have fewer monetizing players."
You can't predict the future roblox, you may get MORE "monetizing players". And if players that buy robux or that have BC are base-level players, what are player that don't buy anything? Worthless?
Q: Is ROBLOX in financial trouble?
"We are profitable and will be hiring 40+ additional employees in 2016, 100% supported by our profits."
Good luck with that.
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Overall, roblox didn't put up much of a fight about this, most of the community are faking that they don't want tix back. I personally do want it back and at first I thought it was just a joke until it actually happened. Any mod reading this should understand what people thing about this topic, no matter how old it may be.
(Also, ATR could be the wrong place to post this thread, but whatever.) |
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| 31 May 2016 06:53 PM |
sLATE pLATE
Hi I'm Gamedude 2.0 |
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| 31 May 2016 06:54 PM |
| Make fun of this post all you want, but read it first n00b |
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| 31 May 2016 06:55 PM |
I did read it.
When it was relevant
Hi I'm Gamedude 2.0 |
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| 31 May 2016 06:57 PM |
you didnt have to post this nothing will change
R$549 https://www.roblox.com/games/364562491/The-ATR-Back-Alley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk52LHdxVM8 |
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| 31 May 2016 06:57 PM |
| Who cares about tix anymore |
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| 31 May 2016 06:58 PM |
| I love it how none of you are reading it <3 |
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| 31 May 2016 07:01 PM |
| rereading it isn't gonna change anything |
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| 31 May 2016 07:06 PM |
| Too much words,cant read it all ;_; |
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