Add support for the "МИР" payment system for payments/withdrawals in Russia

As a Roblox developer from Russia…

I can’t withdraw my Robux through DevEx because Russia has been disconnected from global payments since 2022. I would like Roblox to support the “МИР” payment system so developers can withdraw their Robux.

Why yes?

Roblox has made it simply unbearable for Russian developers to be around:

  • I can’t withdraw Robux through DevEx
  • I can’t meet the new requirements for publishing all-ages games
  • Team Create is disabled
  • Chat is disabled (how are players in my games supposed to communicate?)

If at least the issue with the withdrawal of funds is resolved, the position of the developers will greatly improve. There are many examples of sites that accept international systems, such as Visa and Mastercard, and also accept “МИР” cards for Russian users, this won’t be a problem for Roblox There are shops for buying Robux, but they all violate the platform’s rules, just like withdrawals through DevEx. I don’t want to and won’t expose my account to such risks just so my game, for example, can be played by all ages..

Roblox has officially returned to Russia, but you’ve forgotten the main thing: it’s all about money. I don’t need Roblox if my players can’t officially buy Robux or anything in my game, and I can’t officially withdraw them.

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I like the idea, but I think roblox won’t agree with this, just because of Russian situation right now. A really non-stable country, with many issues and first of all is “roskomnadsor” (if I wrote it correctly), how will they react? They just blocking everything for their people “safety” instead of teaching people about internet safety. Also there’s not so much people developing on roblox and lives in Russia. Starting supporting something cost a lot of time, money, and strenght, and I don’t think they will start doing something, just for a small amount of people. (Or MAYBE I’m doing a mistake, correct me if so. I rarely see developers from Russia, and I mean actual developers and not just people who opened studio 3-4 times).

Maybe roblox will support it, but not now. Hello from Ukraine, towarish’ !

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They probably won’t react at all, since Roskomnadzor itself unblocked Roblox when the platform disabled chat and Team Create.

I also didn’t take into account the players for whom Roblox really wanted to return to Russia. It’s strange to make such a huge effort to unblock the platform, but at the same time ignore the fact that you can’t officially buy anything from Roblox in Russia.

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Aren’t banks in Russia doesn’t allow you to buy? I heard from other people from Russia that sanctions doesn’t allow you to donate

я думаю это проблема не россии , я думаю это вообще проблема всех малых и некоторых средних разработчиков

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Try opening an account with a foreign bank in such countries as Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan or Turkey, it can help you a lot

Нет, это проблема конкретно России. Он имеет ввиду, что он не может задонатить себе, чтобы выполнить требование в залог тысячи робуксов.
И кстати, это не только у России такая проблема, она будет у всех регионов, которые недоступны к использованию банков и цифровой оплаты. Я не могу привести другие примеры, так как не знаю точно, но могу предполагать, что она может быть у того же Южного Востока. Там же тоже ограничения по типу чата

Да, но я имел ввиду что если у тебя есть деньги ,то иностранный счет может решить почти все финансовые проблемы, включая DevEx, а комбо хороший VPN + хороший иностранный счет делает тебя почти неуязвимым. В принцепе ничего против платежки МИР не имею, просто шанс на то что это появится крайне мал ибо тут надо либо ждать смягчения санкций, либо дожидаться новых альтернативных и нейтральный маршрутов в DevEx (например криптовалюты и то это тоже юридически очень рискованно, как и платежная система МИР)

Chances are very small but lets hope

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You cannot donate even with vpns or forgein accounts, if you don’t have bank what roblox supports to use for donation

by a foreign account, I meant a foreign bank account (well, a roblox account too)

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