Discussion - itzmrratsp

[distant drum]

wow

amazing

[empty bay]

wow really?

[jovial chasm]

capitalism moment

[vital trellis]

the nefarious vpn:

[analog pine]

vpn moment

[wanton peak]

I'm pretty sure it's based on your account's location

[empty bay]

💰💰💰 moment

[remote parcel]

yes

[analog pine]

what if account was made in a cheap contry?

and u live in rich contry

[royal hare]

yes, then people could exploit it
roblox better have something good lined up

[smoky lynx]

Ironic since it's pride month and Roblox is actively separating people by introducing regional pricing lmao

[void galleon]

finna buy limiteds worth 60k for 3k

[vital trellis]

if you are going to do this just make robux regionally priced

[empty bay]

im going to go to a country with lower exchange rate and then creating a roblox account there

[wind yarrow]

what a terrible idea

[untold crescent]

Is this only available to those with verified ids?

[royal hare]

[burnt root]

wthf is this

[restive rose]

js turn on a vpn

[smoky lynx]

W suggestion

[analog pine]

same, I would save so mucg money and I get a trip to cheap country

[livid peak]

Argentina v buck cards ahhhhh market going to open

[minor sphinx]

I aint paying more for avatar items keep em the same or make em cheaper

[dense lintel]

bouta go to lebanon

[sand widget]

if stuff gets more expensive just bc i live in the us im gonna be so mad

[empty bay]

best investment am i right

[vital trellis]

NINETEEN DOLLAR ROBUX CARD

[livid peak]

[minor sphinx]

What is stopping people from using a VPN in nigeria

[livid peak]

Lmao

[sand widget]

no literally????

[royal hare]

yeah
people could exploit it
roblox better have something good lined up there

[vital trellis]

tf2 only made this work because theres an actual proper trading economy

[raw drift]

hopes and dreams

[royal hare]

[account bans]

[amber widget]

Why would people set prices for another regoin differently lmao

[royal hare]

stock market and currency value

[deep wyvern]

i sure hope this doesnt make prices in certain countries go up dramatically oh boy (cough cough america)

[vital trellis]

we NEED to increase the value for shareholders guys

[royal hare]

wait you can get shares in rob-
(says the guy who literally pins the stocks to his desktop)

[untold crescent]

I think it's an automatic conversion, like how banks do it? maybe

[rare vessel]

Hi banks

[vital trellis]

didnt roblox become a public company that was an entire thing wasnt it

[amber widget]

i think its the creators choice if they're gonna set regional pricing or no

[smoky lynx]

Why's Roblox turning into it's own world now, not surprised if world governments just start hopping on Roblox 💔

[minor sphinx]

what If I pay 3 dollars every 10 years for a computer in nigeria, login on an alt then just buy some shit and trade it to myself

[royal hare]

maybe
i dunno, i code during history class

[untold crescent]

either that or only allow regional pricing to those with verified identifications

[royal hare]

good idea

[minor sphinx]

thats stupid

[vital trellis]

just move there for like 3 days and do everything then

[royal hare]

true

[minor sphinx]

make people verify an ID to pay more

[vital trellis]

the entire idea is stupid on its own merit no need to assist it

[minor sphinx]

me buying one million robux in nigeria for the price of 10 robux anywhere else:

[royal hare]

[fervent blade]

wouldnt it make 10x more sense for roblox to eat the price difference when they actually buy the robux instead of us

[vital trellis]

JUST INTRODUCE REGIONAL PRICING FOR ROBUX

[fervent blade]

yeah lmao

[vital trellis]

IT CANT BE THAT DIFFICULT

[royal hare]

[royal hare]

exactly

https://tenor.com/view/head-bang-gif-4680729

[minor sphinx]

hear me out

[royal hare]

👂

[minor sphinx]

what if we just dont buy anything for a day and claim the prices too high lol

[terminated]

[fervent blade]

trying to convince the roblox playerbase to do the same thing

[royal hare]

the idea's got merit

[fervent blade]

(fool)

[royal hare]

oh yeah
i forget most non-developers are idiots

[fervent blade]

we have people in their 30s and actual barely sentient aomeba

its such a broad range

[fervent blade]

does it count as elitism if its true

[royal hare]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-cox-giggling-happy-victory-smile-gif-7858617

[minor sphinx]

tell your friends to play G.A.G and just say to keep playing all day (15m players, roblox servers down all day) 🤯

[fervent blade]

what an awesome acryonym

accurate depiction of me trying to learn about this stupid game

[minor sphinx]

G.A.G

Grow A Garden

[fervent blade]

its so bad but thats off topic

yeah

[minor sphinx]

The idea of the game makes me want to gag

its so dumb

they make so much for e-plants

[fervent blade]

like the idea of turning an rng game into an actual physical thing you can grow and all that is pretty awesome but, meh, unlimited games but no games moment

[royal hare]

thats the idea of regional pricing for avatar items

[vital trellis]

i love roblox prioritising game session time over literally anything else

[royal hare]

bruh

[fervent blade]

every online algorithm ever

the actual user interaction is meaningless

[minor sphinx]

it is dumb dumb

[fervent blade]

retention is everything

[royal hare]

just look at 90% of games on roblox

99% toolbox

[abstract pewter]

i’m not even surprised tbh

[royal hare]

you typo'd 'no'

[fervent blade]

anyway the TL;DR of all this is "robux should be regionally priced, not the UGC"

[minor sphinx]

no

[sharp perch]

all u need is a vpn to robux scams lol 😭

[formal fiber]

Is this a good or bad thing

[urban spade]

yeah apparently that's profittable for them, also for the devs too since premium payouts

[fervent blade]

bad

[sharp perch]

bad

[royal hare]

bad

[minor sphinx]

bad

[formal fiber]

This update sucks

[sharp perch]

VERY BAD ROBLOX UPDATE

[abstract pewter]

this

[formal fiber]

VERY BAD REMOVE UPDATE

[fervent blade]

like all this does is just give UGC creators less money

[minor sphinx]

no

more

[vital trellis]

I LOVE PROFIT SEEKING IN CREATIVE MEDIUMS

[royal hare]

someone pin the poll

[fervent blade]

the cost cut should be on actually getting the robux

[urban spade]

im neutral in this aspect

[fervent blade]

not on buying UGC

[vital trellis]

JUST MAKE THE ROBUX PRICING REGIONAL

[minor sphinx]

just keep replying to keep it alive

[royal hare]

robux*?

[royal hare]

keep the poll alive

[frank nymph]

Like every single RNG game is just copy and pasted from the last with only changed colors

[royal hare]

i k right

[fervent blade]

roblox try and release a good monetization strategy challenge

[minor sphinx]

keep the poll alive

[formal fiber]

Wait, so if you live in the streets of Pakistan it's cheaper to buy UGC, how does this benefit the economy again

[urban spade]

that should be tbh

[warm narwhal]

It may cut profit for developers but on the other hand robux will be more available in less economically developed countries, raising consumption rate which may increase income.
Depends.

[vital trellis]

the issue is either you make your platform user friendly or you make it profitable there is no in between

[frank nymph]

It’s like that with battlegrounds games too, the only original part of battlegrounds games are(I THINK) the animations

[minor sphinx]

yal said he was tired

so weak

[royal hare]

keep the poll alive

[fervent blade]

the better solution is to make robux cheaper in their country, rather than letting them just, pay less robux and screw over the creator

[raw drift]

if u support this u just live in somalia

[royal hare]

YES

[vital trellis]

the effects of tsbg on roblox fighting games need to be studied

[minor sphinx]

keep the poll alive

[vital trellis]

REGIONAL PRICINGGGGG

[sharp perch]

i think this topic is gonna bring to national and inflation stuffs, close this thread imo

[urban spade]

well i live in india so you know the answer

[urban spade]

yeah please

[frank nymph]

Yeah I really hope we pass this trend of obnoxious pvp games

[minor sphinx]

bro paying 1 million robux in nigeria for 10 pesos, me paying 5 robux for 10000 pesos

[fervent blade]

i mean not really what

[sharp perch]

yes

[royal hare]

robux should be cheaper hands down
it's ridiculous them taking 30% of stuff anyway

[fervent blade]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[minor sphinx]

FACTS

[royal hare]

keep the poll alive

[minor sphinx]

WHY IS IT SO EXPENSIVE

[sharp perch]

robux and regional pricing is gonna relate to inflation and money currency issues in the world lol

[vital trellis]

someone send the people make games video

[formal fiber]

Lol, roblox is just too cheap ig

[fresh cloak]

time to use vpn >:)

[fervent blade]

im not knowledgeable enough to judge the current robux pricing

[fervent blade]

roblox invest in remaking your collision system send tweet

[urban spade]

I hope if this is available, then only to verified ID users

[formal fiber]

WE LOVE AMERICA 🦅 🇺🇸

[urban spade]

i dont

[royal hare]

why should it be available in the first place...

[vital trellis]

give us rollback netcode and server authoritative characters

[royal hare]

keep the poll alive

[urban spade]

why do regional prices exist for games on steam

[fervent blade]

why are we keeping the poll alive when there's literally a poll in #📢︱roblox-news

[vital trellis]

just make robux regionally priced

[royal hare]

i dunno
i spend my gaming time programming

[minor sphinx]

that one is stoopid

[fervent blade]

w

what

[minor sphinx]

you are now "R-S-C bias"

gg

[royal hare]

huh good point

[vital trellis]

the text is so small what does it say

[fervent blade]

?? ok

[formal fiber]

Lolzies

[urban spade]

fair I also spend my gaming time studying medicine so i cant tell either

[raw drift]

is that jia qiu

[fervent blade]

i migrated from godot to roblox for the free networking backend and increased exposure but good god the server/client relation is so blurry sometimes here its fascinating

[urban spade]

Very well

[formal fiber]

How much cheaper in India

[vital trellis]

I ASK AGAIN, JIA BAOYU.
WHAT DOES ROBLOX NEED?

[fervent blade]

mone y

:D

[urban spade]

Uhhh iirc 1 USD is equivalent to a lot more than 80 INR

[urban spade]

a mature playerbase which can understand we cannot satisfy everyone

[vital trellis]

i love client sided interactions making hitboxes horrible

[fervent blade]

theres a shocking amount of actually intelligent roblox users but there's 100x more actual children who shouldn't even be on the social media they're stating their opinion on (hot take)

[vital trellis]

see im neutral on roblox prioritising slop over actually good quality games because by its nature the service roblox provides for FREE is expensive on the scales they do it

[urban spade]

and considering your pfp as don quixote

sueno impossible

[urban spade]

exactly

[minor sphinx]

shh

[vital trellis]

but god DAMN they should at least pretend to see their users as anything more than money bags

[fervent blade]

thankfully like, all of us that played roblox when we were like 10 are old enough to make actually good games so we're getting peak again, but idk how long the slop gates can be ignored before roblox just becomes simulator hell again (it never re ally left tbh)

[urban spade]

I mean, we're bloodbags
they're bloodfiends

we legit cant do much shit by voicing

[vital trellis]

thats the neat part though

[urban spade]

TBF

[vital trellis]

roblox has to be slop hell because it physically cannot sustain itself off of passion projects like block tales

[urban spade]

If I were to think deeply

[fervent blade]

yeah

[urban spade]

This always were the case

[fervent blade]

like roblox needs the slop to drive the engine, and people looking for actual gameplay find the real passion projects

its an unfortunate spiral

[minor sphinx]

this comment makes no sense

[urban spade]

Back when I joined roblox in 2016
I'd admit, I played tycoon games a lot, without realizing most of them have the exact same gameplay

few exceptions exist ifc

[fervent blade]

its a completely, structurally sound argument, that is also generally correct

whar

[minor sphinx]

and they made so fucking much also

[fervent blade]

tbf in 2016 i was 10 so we didnt really care

[minor sphinx]

nvm im tired asf

[fervent blade]

so true its 4 am

deltarune in 6 hours

[vital trellis]

america moment (i live in aus)

[raw drift]

this is getting of topic

[urban spade]

I get where they're coming from, they're right

Roblox cannot make enough from passion projects to sustain itself , than by "cash grab projects"

[vital trellis]

wait deltarune six hours???

[minor sphinx]

nah im not US

[fervent blade]

not in aus

:(

[vital trellis]

yeah

[minor sphinx]

its 10:36

still tired tho

have to attend this shitshow they call "school"

[fervent blade]

anyway yea back on topic everyone agrees this is really stupid

awesome

[royal hare]

ain't teach any good programming in schools these days

[urban spade]

I'm neutral to this

[inner prism]

Should they actually just make accessories and robux affordable

[fervent blade]

average roblox moment

average person with brain cells: "this is dumb"
average roblox player: [unable to form a thought due to being 4]

[fervent blade]

however the four year olds are the ones that convince their parents to spend money

so they are the "vocal" majority

[wet spindle]

[vital trellis]

but that would cut down on potential profits

so we cant have that

(just make robux pricing regional)

[inner prism]

Literally this should have already existed

[fervent blade]

but

but it IS all 3 of these

[minor sphinx]

chat..

[fervent blade]

its gptover

[royal hare]

OED is always right

[urban spade]

brother became heathcliff

[vital trellis]

if i ever use chatgpt in my life please put me down im too far gone

[inner prism]

But seriously will roblox ever stop exploiting kids for money and lie directly into people's faces.

Oh wait

[royal hare]

bruh chatgpt is coding GOAT
HOW many struggles has he got THIS noob out of

[fervent blade]

no

[vital trellis]

THE SHAREHOLDER VALUE MUST BE CREATED
THE BOTTOM LINE MUST BE UPHELD

[fervent blade]

anyway im gonna go eeby d eeby

pretz you're pretty awesome sauce idk thats just the vibe i get

gn everyone

[royal hare]

mee to by

[vital trellis]

we need to kill jeff bezos

[inner prism]

Literally kids are walking wallets to roblox

[vital trellis]

good night

this sucks and is anti-consumer but what else is new

[fervent blade]

https://tenor.com/view/what-would-you-earth-exploding-earth-explosion-what-would-you-earth-earth-blows-up-gif-23478603

[fervent blade]

i read this in the "vegeta we need to blow up the earth" tone

[ocean bridge]

fellas almost every international company has regional pricing. they do it because it works!!! google is free!!!!!!!!

[vital trellis]

same energy

[vital trellis]

let me check something actualyl

[fervent blade]

google is free....

my data

[urban spade]

i only use ai for doing assignments which I know will not at all shape my future as a med professional

[vital trellis]

is robux regionally priced

[raw drift]

this is why robux should be regionally priced

[fervent blade]

i used ai pretty much to get sources and then fact checking the sources to draw my own conclusions (its way better at giving good places to LOOK for information)

[raw drift]

not the items themselves

[fervent blade]

exactlyyy

[inner prism]

Nahh

[fervent blade]

cause we'd get paid the same as creators, and the buyer would pay a fair price for their currency

[vital trellis]

THATS WHAT IM FUCKING SAYING

[inner prism]

Wait

[fervent blade]

roblos would get slightly stiffed but like

they make five billion dollars an yway

[ocean bridge]

on paper that sounds nice but that would turn into a real shit storm in devex

[inner prism]

Robux isn't regionally priced

[fervent blade]

OK BUT I SHOULD ACTUALLY S LEEP AGGHHH THE ROBLOX RAGEBAIT IS KEEPING ME IN HERE

[vital trellis]

MAKE ROBUX REGIONALLY PRICE AND YOU SOLVE LITERALLY ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS

[fervent blade]

yeah but big blox would lose revenue

[raw drift]

how so

[vital trellis]

how

[inner prism]

WHY IS UCG AND ITEMS PRICED BUT ROBUX IS NOT

Okay this is literally dumb

[fervent blade]

big fan of crak finding out what was happening and instantly getting radicalized

[vital trellis]

theres a reason why dollar standards exist at all

[inner prism]

Jesus christ. Now I see why they say roblox is for kids

[minor sphinx]

#stop-this-shit-idea

[inner prism]

Any competent idiot would figure out that this whole corporation is a scam

[ocean bridge]

robux purchased from a low income country would be backed by less real money. say a dev made all of their money from one of these ultra cheap regions, if they maintain standard devex rates that dev would make more than what people actually bought, and thus create a deficit roblox would have to pay out themselves, and they dont wanna do that.

It's like with twitch and gifting subs. they have regional pricing but because of that, gifted subs from different regions hold different values, and are no longer consistent with each other

[vital trellis]

scam implies that this isnt functioning exactly as intended

[inner prism]

.

[minor sphinx]

no

not exactly

[solid matrix]

does this mean i can make an indonesian account and be rich

[inner prism]

Uh

Yes?

Wait how do they detect your region?

[solid matrix]

idk crackoween

[vital trellis]

i was about to give a solution but i realised that it would just be making a gold standard

or i think

wait

i dont know nearly enough about economies for this discussion

[raw drift]

yes but there will also be users from higher income countries which pay more for robux

the entire point is that overall robux makes more profit across all countries

[azure jackal]

Roblox trying to snatch every reliable form of income from us, and max out their bank acc numbers

[inner prism]

Oh my gosh this never was to benefit the consumer wasn't it...

Holy Jesus

[onyx lodge]

Ye

[vital trellis]

yeah thats how this works

i thought this was known

corporations do not want anything from us other than money

[inner prism]

Wait so my rates will probably increase.

[amber widget]

ah i get it now

[inner prism]

Because my currency is more valuable and has more purchasing power? So they will just crank up the numbers because durrrr you have more money

[ocean bridge]

that would be correct if they increased the price for high income regions. To my knowledge they're not going to. The only new sources of money theyll be tapping into are from low income regions, so there is no offset to counter the deficit

[inner prism]

Oh

Actually

That is kinda nice

[vital trellis]

so regional pricing WOULD work but they just dont want to cut into the high income users

how the hell are the rich getting prioritised in roblox too

[inner prism]

Jesus christ I need a beer

[ocean bridge]

yuuup

[fervent blade]

we work to earn the right to work

[vital trellis]

this is ronald reagens fault somehow i just know it

[ocean bridge]

amen

[inner prism]

That is the most bullshit thing ive ever heard yet it never made more sense

[vital trellis]

crak is actively being radicalised lmao

[vital trellis]

TO EARN THE RIGHT TO WORK

TO EARN THE RIGHT TO GIVE

OURSELVES THE RIGHT TO BUY

OURSELVES THE RIGHT TO LIVE

TO EARN THE RIGHT TO DIE

[inner prism]

Yk ive talked to so many co workers about how the world and money works. It's funny

[atomic berry]

[inner prism]

I mean im surprised

But like meh

Its all a loop.

I mean fuck aren't we all just educated peasants nowadays? Do we actually have control over the finances we earned? Will we ever be respected?

[atomic berry]

lolol

idk why they're shifting the regional PPP problem to the developers and not just taking it

all this is going to mean is developers earn less

so far there have been few cases where this has actually made more money for a game with regional passes

[vital trellis]

youre missing that this doesnt effect the bottom line of roblox directly

only the people who

[atomic berry]

extending this to the whole catalog is just going to make the developers hurt even more

[vital trellis]

yknow

[inner prism]

Will it just boost user count and purchases tho?

[vital trellis]

make the stuff for them

[atomic berry]

wym

[atomic berry]

ye thats what they are adding it for, to motivate people with less ppp to spend robux cause they get a discount

[lament mason]

Elden ring nighteign

[atomic berry]

but the new sales most of the time doesnt counteract the discount losses

so its just better to have it disabled unless u see its working

[vital trellis]

im not knowledgable enough on econ but im pretty sure shifting the responsibility of regional pricing to devs means that roblox gets to make the same profit from people buying robux but any devs that implement it will have to deal with the issues of regional pricings themselves

[inner prism]

Oh Jesus. I wanted to do ucg but is it affordable?

[atomic berry]

ya thats what im trying to say

roblox is just shifting the burden to the developers

[vital trellis]

yeah so shareholder profits wont be affected

[atomic berry]

when as a platform they should do that themselves

[vital trellis]

so clearly they went with this option

[royal hare]

11/23, bad idea

[vital trellis]

we must generate value for shareholders

[inner prism]

Oof.

[royal hare]

need i say again

[atomic berry]

What yo hb be on about after reading capital

[inner prism]

Does anyone here upload ucg content or clothes?

[vital trellis]

marx was cooking on das kapital icl

[inner prism]

So I've HEARD its a high risk high reward kinda thing

[vital trellis]

this probably isnt the place to ask

[inner prism]

Probably

Where do I ask

[royal hare]

Add more useful features ❎
Add Regional Pricing ✅
~ ネズミ

[atomic berry]

MID

[vital trellis]

but what about the shareholders!

[royal hare]

im sorry i think theyve been forgotten
try asking roblox

[dusky sundial]

isnt this gonna be optional?

so, summarizing

if a group/user owns over 300 UGC items

they'll have to opt out, one by one

[atomic berry]

yea

[dusky sundial]

nuts

[atomic berry]

unless roblox adds some feature to bulk do that

[dusky sundial]

I pray that im not a ugc creator these days

[atomic berry]

its like a 50/50 they do

[dusky sundial]

💔

cant wait to snipe items before creators change their prices

omw to india rn

[atomic berry]

would be insane if its allowed on limiteds

doubt it... right

[dusky sundial]

never doubt roblox

[minor shale]

beans

[empty bay]

thank you

[dusky sundial]

LOL

[raw drift]

i dont see them saying anywhere that they dont increase price for high income regions

infact i saw someone complain about something like that

[midnight plume]

It doesnt matter because its to help the ppl selling UGC if the illusion of a discount gets more sales then its whatever

[safe berry]

whats the point tho

[safe grove]

Roblox just wants to make money off of less privileged countries

[void galleon]

what the fuck you mean, if they wanted they would charge more their instead of less , how is this a bad thing?

[tulip geyser]

It's literally an accessibility benefit if you complain you're crazy

[minor plume]

It's over.

[delicate hill]

this is the time where p2w devs just increase the ptices

[hot grail]

These tarrifs man

[lime herald]

why is everyone slamming on this? it seems like a good way for developers to get more sales.

[stray tendon]

probably because more than anything itd just be used politically
if roblox wants to balance currency exchange for robux, thats something THEY should do
thats something thats useful about digital currency any problems this update could solve could be solved by roblox themselves
its like theyre offloading the work on devs for 0 reason

[lime herald]

well at least they are giving devs the option

like if a dev wants their stuff to be the same price, then they can make it that way

[stray tendon]

did you read what i just said

[lime herald]

but i get that roblox can reduce robux prices in disadvantaged areas

[stray tendon]

yes
theres no reason for devs to be able to do this, the only thing this can be useful for is discrimination

[shy inlet]

i think most people are hesitant since they don't trust roblox to make a competent system to prevent people from exploiting with vpns and such

[lime herald]

i did just think of that. people could probably just use a vpn to get cheaper prices if they really wanted to

[stray tendon]

thats also a great reason to be hesitant, although even regional robux pricing is in the same boat

[shy inlet]

that's why i personally won't add it in my games for the foreseeable future

[quartz echo]

Cheaper stuff?

gg

[lime herald]

if it increases prices in higher income areas, then i can see why people would hate on it

[shy inlet]

from what i've seen they don't plan on doing that

[languid terrace]

is this roblox tariffs

[lime herald]

opposite of tariffs

kinda

[modest star]

what happened to the good update streak

[delicate hill]

they should probably make an option for devs to make robux prices lower for certain regions

[olive spindle]

they don’t want to allow developers to discriminate against certain regions, though

[delicate hill]

i was going to say "just put a rule for that" but i know damn well that they won't do anything towards it

[olive spindle]

roblox is too lazy to moderate something like that lol

they already have shit moderation

first bad update in a while

they should instead opt to lower robux prices in certain regions

keep the product costs the same

it seems here that the developers are eating the cost

i know i will never enable this feature

[olive whale]

ah yes let me make an account with an Indian vpn and get 95% off in games

[safe grove]

If a country with a bigger currency turns it on, it will charge more Robux to the countries with less currency.

[modest star]

real

[ocean bridge]

roblox uses your payment info/ID info (if youre id verified) to determine your region, so I dont think a vpn will do anything

[broken oyster]

Lmao I’ll just use my friends grandmas credit card

[ocean bridge]

its one of those things that only update after a real long time. every year and a half (or so) they seem to do it, at least in my experience

[dreamy bone]

https://tenor.com/view/rigby-cat-rigby-pee-funny-cat-gif-436236211739437212

[void galleon]

finnaly

[hushed raft]

Argentina had a blast

Now what? Dev Ex regional exchange

[ocean bridge]

considering they already applied regional pricing at the purchasing level, that would be pretty redundant (thank god)

[hushed raft]

u shouldn't have seen the argentina inflation

bro 10k robux was 10$

if roblox wants to be scummy