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Re: What happened to "The Future of Groups in ROBLOX"?

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Shark3900 is online. Shark3900
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12 Aug 2016 03:44 PM
In July of 2012, ROBLOX made a blog post talking about new group features.

These features were most notably:
>Official raids, in which groups can establish a headquarters and own territory, which can be raided and taken over at any time by rivals.
>Ranked battles between clans with a matchmaking system similar to popular FPS games.
>Lua API's for group things, such as "–getGroupRank()" and "–setGroupRank()" (which may or may not have been implemented as I am not a scripter and don't really check).
>Primary groups show emblems and ranks in the chat, and a chat bar that shows online members.
>A group-curated front page.
>Group specific forums and chatrooms.
>Group economics, which let groups sell their own creations for robux, to let groups "legitimately establish themselves as companies within roblox".

4 years later, none of these features have been implemented, and I'm wondering why. Not sure if anyone here would know, but I personally think it sounds like a good idea.

I'd post a link to the blog post but this post was deleted originally because of it. I guess linking to their own blog counts as "talking about other games"?
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pspjohn1 is not online. pspjohn1
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12 Aug 2016 03:45 PM
empty promises ;(
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Seviro is not online. Seviro
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12 Aug 2016 03:45 PM
lol


https://www.roblox.com/sev3-item?id=290109654
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pspjohn1 is not online. pspjohn1
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12 Aug 2016 03:46 PM
TBH though at the time they made that post, clans played a far larger role in the community than they do now.
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Seviro is not online. Seviro
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12 Aug 2016 03:46 PM
"such as "–getGroupRank()"
This exists but your syntax is wrong.


https://www.roblox.com/sev3-item?id=290109654
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Nederlandz is not online. Nederlandz
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12 Aug 2016 03:46 PM
Why should they waste time on clans when clans are self-destructive and ruining themselves?

People need to realize that Roblox won't care about us until we start bringing in fresh faces and catering to the younger people again. This notion that a clan only needs elites is what's ruining it.

Clans need to VIP recruit again for a massive influx of people.
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Shark3900 is online. Shark3900
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12 Aug 2016 03:47 PM
@Seviro I just copied it straight from the blog post, sorry.
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Seviro is not online. Seviro
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12 Aug 2016 03:48 PM
Ah okay


https://www.roblox.com/sev3-item?id=290109654
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Skydric is not online. Skydric
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12 Aug 2016 03:49 PM
Pretty sure the only guy that was working on this was fired from the team.
Don't take my word for it though, alls I remember is hearing about something like that.
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mcclos is not online. mcclos
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12 Aug 2016 03:49 PM
SUPPORT


☢ Chieftain mcclos
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Shark3900 is online. Shark3900
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12 Aug 2016 03:50 PM
It's been a while since ROBLOX had anything official with clans.

Think the last time they did something was with the ROBLOX Clan Battle when they first introduced the 100 man clan system.

I think if enough interest was gathered in these features then maybe they'd consider it, but I'm probably wrong.
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Shark3900 is online. Shark3900
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12 Aug 2016 03:51 PM
@Skydric You may actually be right, the guy who made the blog post was a software engineer and hasn't made a blog post since May 2013.
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Skydric is not online. Skydric
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12 Aug 2016 03:53 PM
If I'm correct the guy who made that post was pretty much the only person in the team really interested in clan features.
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Shark3900 is online. Shark3900
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12 Aug 2016 03:54 PM
Gonna try and link the blog post, provided that it doesn't get censored this time.

http://blog.roblox.com/2012/07/the-future-of-groups-in-roblox/
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Skydric is not online. Skydric
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12 Aug 2016 03:55 PM
Did a checkup on the poster,
he works at 'Hipmunk' now.
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popbob88 is not online. popbob88
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12 Aug 2016 03:56 PM
haha
its been 4 years
damn

like the others said we need to do something big to show roblox we are still relevant to the community overall


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AtomicRXN is not online. AtomicRXN
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12 Aug 2016 03:57 PM
>Group economics, which let groups sell their own creations for robux, to let groups "legitimately establish themselves as companies within roblox".

we already have this
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Shark3900 is online. Shark3900
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12 Aug 2016 03:59 PM
@Skydric That's really too bad. They sound like some really good features that would change how clans work *a lot*.

@popbob88 I wonder what though?

@AtomicRXN More than just Shirts and T-Shirts though, in the blog post they had a car and a catapult.
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Zaeliai is not online. Zaeliai
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12 Aug 2016 04:07 PM
zombiek3nny
August 12, 2012 at 9:29 am
hmm. i just started rebuilding my group, because of this. this is the main reason im coming back. and plus to destroy FEAR.

xd
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OblivionusX is not online. OblivionusX
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12 Aug 2016 04:35 PM
empty promises carried out by ROBLOX are still classic!
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RobotWeegee101 is not online. RobotWeegee101
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12 Aug 2016 06:17 PM
they weren't promises, they were concepts that could possibly be implemented, that was back when clans were at their prime
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Shark3900 is online. Shark3900
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12 Aug 2016 06:50 PM
The blog post never really mentioned that they wouldn't come or that there was a chance of them not coming, just that they'd come "in the future", so I could understand the empty promises idea.
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Proteckz is not online. Proteckz
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12 Aug 2016 06:51 PM
Some of these things clanners deved themselves
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Xorendyruhsik is not online. Xorendyruhsik
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12 Aug 2016 06:55 PM
roblox doesn't really care anyways
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Shark3900 is online. Shark3900
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12 Aug 2016 09:49 PM
@Proteckz Raids and the chat yeah, I would like to see an official roblox made raid system though.

@Xorendyruhsik Probably, but who knows. If they think it'll bring in new people (it does sound pretty luring) to spend money (uniforms aren't free, afterall) then maybe they'll do it.
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