av83r
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| 21 Jan 2013 09:41 PM |
These quotes are taken directly from the most recent user feedback,some quotes have been edited to get to the jest of the message.
"We make a small amount of money from advertising, but for the most part, we are supported by our players who choose to buy Builders Club or purchase Robux.
In order for us to continue to develop ROBLOX, we need to make money somehow, this means we have to convince people that upgrading to Builders Club is worth at least $6/month.
I know that most BC members sign up because of what they get. So if we open these features up to all users, we might lose a lot of subscribers.
Getting Robux will always be a premium feature. Selling stuff will always be a premium feature. We’ve talked about opening up the trading system to free members, but trading and selling are the same." (In responce to letting non members trade)
this last part is what irks me:
"Ultimately the real game in ROBLOX is building stuff and exploring what others have built. That part is 100% free. If you want extras, we feel that $6/month is a very fair price."
The first great joke of 2013... building and exploring what others have built....yet nonmembers DO NOT have badges, they DO NOT have personal servers and WILL NOT have personal servers (as evidence by this next bit), and they DO NOT have acess to builders club places.
"ROBLOX is actively working on a new multiplayer building experience that will likely be available to everyone. Personal servers are only for premium members because the cost to operate them is high. Making them available to free members is not viable from a business standpoint." (In responce to allowing everyone to use personal servers)
"I have two other possible solutions to fight comment spam (and its insidious cousin, forum spam): 1. Reputation system. If enough people report your comments for spam, and moderators agree, we stop letting your account post comments. New accounts would need to build up their reputation level before they would be able to post comments. This is a complicated technical solution.
2. Commenting costs 1 ticket. Most comment spam is advertisements. There’s no way that advertising is effective enough to be worth even 1 ticket to be able to do it. Meanwhile, for many ROBLOX players, 1 ticket is not much money. This is the simple solution. " (In responce to stopping catalogue spam)
Both of these are clear cut attempts to exile free members from the forums all together. taking to task the "1 tix per comment" plan means non members could only post 10 comments a day on average, and how could an account build up reputation if they can't post? the entire idea is paradoxial in nature to begin with! |
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av83r
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| 21 Jan 2013 09:43 PM |
| for the lazy people out there, I don't care if your attention span, vocabulary, and lack of understanding is so small that you couldn't possibly force yourself to read this. People like you will allow this to happen, and then speak out when you have no voice left to speak. |
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Invalid
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| 21 Jan 2013 09:46 PM |
| tbh if you cant pay 6$ a month you should get off the computer and get a job. |
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| 21 Jan 2013 09:48 PM |
I said the truth that ROBLOX is free on a youtube video, lol... SO much dislikes, ugh, 8 year olds these days.. They say were being "forced" to buy BC... |
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ogres
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| 21 Jan 2013 09:50 PM |
| ROBLOX doesn't hate free to play. ROBLOX really IS free to play. You're lucky that you get to play games, build games, and participate in the forums, all for free. |
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Meowgon
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| 21 Jan 2013 09:58 PM |
I appreciate you making a long post to get this out there. I agree, I have heard basically EVERYWHERE that roblox was made only to get big bucks. But then again, what isn't? It's obvious Roblox is made to sap money from people. Heck, they make features more and more and more overpowered and more and more and more expensive and they get more and more and more money. That's how it works. Basically, all of the rich people get the best features ever because they pay for it, while the kids who have frugal parents or are poor get to stand around with barely any privileges whatsoever. It's really significant how little non-bc members get out of Roblox, it's like you have to get builders club to even be playing the game at all.
And I have to deal with this stupid pink hair on my head all of the time, but it's better than being bald I guess. |
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av83r
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| 22 Jan 2013 09:42 AM |
| @meowgon: I apreciate that someone else understands the seriousness of this and doesn't write it off as another rant. I don't blame them for trying to make money, I do blame the way in which they make it. In a sense, we as humans have progressed but also back slided. things like this have deliberately made a class division in games as you can see above. Most of the hate is being spewed by members, and a few nonmembers who previously thought as others, and have realised they are powerless to make real change. But what can you do? Humans are selfish by nature. |
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SoftPixel
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| 22 Jan 2013 09:52 AM |
| Comments moron, not forums. |
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middok
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| 22 Jan 2013 09:53 AM |
I really don't know why the subject's changing?
~Simple Siggy is Simple~ |
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| 22 Jan 2013 10:11 AM |
What? ROBLOX just does more things for us BCers as we pay whilst you dont. Simple, they like free to play but BC etc keeps roblox alive as it grows. |
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| 22 Jan 2013 10:46 AM |
Roblox allows you to play 90% of the games without builders club Gear and hats are not required to be good at the game In no way does having Builders club help you in obstacle courses, your overall skill, or just having a good time playing. Your thread is just pure arrogance and idiocy from the 1%. |
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HatHelper
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| 22 Jan 2013 11:20 AM |
What is free to for one person, costs someone else.
So you love to make people pay for your enjoyment Is a different way of looking at it. |
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arbirator
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| 22 Jan 2013 11:22 AM |
This site has PLENTY of free content
just look at the egg I'm wearing. |
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| 22 Jan 2013 11:29 AM |
Spoken as a true NBC'er, let me make a few points. If NBC'ers could create item such as shirt's, and sell them, then what is to stop 100,000 noob's from going and taking my hard work, if they have that many places what's to stop the from creating [----] and spamming the front page even more, the fact is that if you can't afford to earn virtual currency, then go out and earn real life currency instead of annoying others. The mod's and dev's have to eat to.
-I'm da god of cheese- |
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| 22 Jan 2013 11:41 AM |
If they hated it they would've changed it. Also if you were BC you wouldn't have made this thread...
Goodbye. |
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av83r
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| 23 Jan 2013 12:51 AM |
I have to reply to these few comments, not because I care, but because they're so freaking funny:
"What? ROBLOX just does more things for us BCers as we pay whilst you dont. Simple, they like free to play but BC etc keeps roblox alive as it grows."
BC alone huh? I'll let this next comment take care of that:
"Roblox allows you to play 90% of the games without builders club Gear and hats are not required to be good at the game. Your thread is just pure arrogance and idiocy from the 1%."
The funny part is that the 1% games members make aren't any good anyway. The big issue with it is that it does away with guests (a non member can only dream!) and I don't remember mentioning anything about gear, being that there are even less games that allow gear than there are good member games (like 3, I think). So why don't you stop at 0%, because that's about how much relevance your post has.
"Spoken as a true NBC'er, let me make a few points. If NBC'ers could create item such as shirt's, and sell them, then what is to stop 100,000 noob's from going and taking my hard work, if they have that many places what's to stop the from creating [----] and spamming the front page even more, the fact is that if you can't afford to earn virtual currency, then go out and earn real life currency instead of annoying others. The mod's and dev's have to eat to."
Things picked out of this post: 1.) non members are considered noobs despite us making 99%, yes, NINETY-NINE PERCENT of the games on roblox.
2.) despite non members making NINTY-NINE PERCENT of the games on roblox, we would, instead of creating new and unique items (the likely scenario), you think that we would steal your low rez shirts and pants and copy them over 100,000 times.
OH WAIT! members already did that to themselves!!!:
http://www.roblox.com/Epic-Green-Assasin-SALE-item?id=104503805
http://www.roblox.com/Green-Ninja-Of-Forested-Skill-ᵀᴴᴱ-ᴼᴿᴵᴳᴵᴻᴬᴸ-item?id=75935930
http://www.roblox.com/Green-Assasin-Amor-item?id=66947764
When I expertly composed this thread, did you really think I was going to let some schmuck come in here and point out the obvious? You members want to act so elite, but you are just as selfdestructive as we are. The only difference is you were foolish to pay $6 a month to become part of the universal trash pile that everyone looks down on. |
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HatHelper
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| 23 Jan 2013 10:37 AM |
| Why are you still complaining? You get tons of stuff for FREE. You pay ZERO. Roblox owes you NOTHING. If anything, you owe them. |
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| 23 Jan 2013 10:44 AM |
For once, I actually agree with HatHelper on this.
Be lucky roblox is free 2 play, as there plenty of idiots like the OP complaining about their "rights". |
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sonickyle
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| 23 Jan 2013 10:45 AM |
Nah, It's how Companies Work. No Money = No Roblox. |
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av83r
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| 23 Jan 2013 04:52 PM |
| Ninety-nine percent.... Ninety-nine percent.... does anyone not know how much more significant that number is than 1%? |
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