Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-43973545-20191122004205/@comment-35998649-20191122005629

It's completely optional to buy Premium. If you had to literally pay for Premium to join and play a game, then it would be a ripoff.
 * 1) Premium was re-done to be favorable for DEVELOPERS and outside of Roblox contractors (like professional modelers, programmers, artists, etc. who have no idea what Roblox is). Be aware that before, they (the outside contractors) were really confused on why they needed to spend like $200 to even get paid actual money, since Roblox developers pay in Robux instead of real money.
 * 2) Builders Club was more of a ripoff than what Premium currently is. The state that Builders Club was in before Premium was branded is apparently not an issue for you? Like, for BC you had the Easter basket, which was only useable during the Eggstravaganza 2010. And you can't really bring the Bubblegum gear and the Midas Glove gear into any games anymore since no games allow gear nowadays. Also, for the Robux payout, think about it like this: Would you rather be paid with a stable wage or in tiny tips every day?
 * 3) The new Robux icon is not a bad design. It's modern, simple, and sleek. The issue is it doesn't properly represent Robux.
 * 4) As for Tix, Tickets were ABUSED to the point where the Robux economy was inflated, which made Robux really worthless (not like it isn't already worthless as it is right now). It made sense to remove them, no matter how nostalgic they were. And it isn't like Roblox tried to forget its existance; they literally had an event all about Tix. And for the 30k -> 11k Robux bundle prices, it just looks like Roblox is trying to stabilize the Robux economy.

Roblox is a FREE game. You do NOT need to buy Premium to enjoy Roblox. The main star for Roblox is Roblox Studio, which is FREE to download and use. If that were paid at an unreasonable price then that's when Roblox will start to decline IMO. Roblox needs to keep updating to survive. Fun fact: there's lots of updates made in the past that were seen as "disgusting" (like the first character animations in early 2007. Many users did NOT like the animations, which are ironically seen as "CLASSIC OLD ROBLOX" which makes the game better for some reason?). Some other updates that are perfectly fine now are R15, Rthro (keep in mind Rthro is a marketing term for the R15 scaling), and the 2.0 and 3.0 packages/bundles.

If you don't like the updates, you can simply never log back in on Roblox. Reminder that Roblox is free. Oh yeah, Roblox is free. Did I mention Roblox is free?