Board Thread:ROBLOX help and discussion/@comment-4196050-20160318144624/@comment-5893992-20160422151817

Igor the Mii wrote: Okay, i can obviously see 2 sides about this update:

One side that supports the update, and it was for the better of ROBLOX. (The side i am on)

One side that opposes the update, and thinks ROBLOX only did the update for greed. (Most people who are on this side probably didn't even properly read the blog update, or thinks the upsides of the update are "excuses".) Allow a rant from a longtime player (Four Years) (Me) to show the situation. (The blog is propaganda, and is meant to be. You wouldnt join a website that had a blog saying negative things about its own website would you?)

"It partly was. Other reasons were 'helping developers' (AKA, getting nearly all the developers but the main ones to give up) and to make more money, as believe it or not, Roblox are losing money.

Since the implementation of the DevEx system, front pagers have begun cashing out, and that has increased when they increased what you could get from DevEx a while ago.

In an attempt to regain lost money, they have done the following:

- Cancelled all Lifetime BC/TBC/OBC suscriptiolns

- Made Lifetime BC/TBC/OBC subscriptions unable to be purchased

- Made increased amount of Builders Club features in an attempt to make you purchase it

- Made expensive 'good looking' hats to make you purchase Builders Club

- Removing Tickets to make you buy Builders Club or Robux

Of course, these methods have stirred up some controversy. I believe that DevEx should only be temporary, and I think it is time for it to be removed. Not only is it causing Roblox to lose money faster than ever, it is also making people expect money for making a game. As someone states earlier, Roblox is about Playing and Building. One they forgot though was Learning to Script (Well, atleast in RBX.Lua). People should build fabulous games without expecting £20,000 every month. They should make games because they feel inspired. All Roblox is causing now is a monopoly, which, if applied in the real world, would be illegal, and would possibly send a incorrect message to growing children. I think its purpose was to make the front page have better quality to attract more people (Trust me, 2012's front page was full of free modeled rubbish), and its purpose has been served, and should be considered obsolete.

If you dont think this text wall is enough, dont worry, heres another Tix Rant from earlier (by me):

'Wheres the Proof?

That wouldnt work anyway, because the Tickets Alts get cannot be transferred to another, unless that user was selling a shirt, but then they would need BC, causing this to be cancelled out.

They stated in the blog that it was to encourage new developers and to make the community better. If anything, it is like Roblox giving the finger to its community.

Not only will new devs have no motivation to develop, as they will recieve no currency, it means current dev's will have a monopoly, as there is no others to take the front page spots.

What happens devs have no motivaton? Thats right! Free Models. Once people are bored of the Dev Monopolys, the front page will look like 2012's again' "