I’m fine with this existing, considering these and tradeable limiteds don’t intertwine at all. They are separate markets and won’t affect each other, and that’s the silver lining in this as someone who was dreading what UGC Limiteds may imply for the current Limited market.
That being said, one of my only issues is the fact that these UGC Limiteds are very hard to discern from tradeable limiteds. Sure, there is a text above the description that says “Tradeable: No”, but even I wasn’t able to notice that until someone pointed it out to me. It is common sense in the ROBLOX community that “Limiteds” are tradeable and sellable items. It has been that way forever, and there was never a need to question whether that was the case.
There is also the fact that, outside of this DevForum post, nothing implicates that selling one of these Limiteds will only give you 50% of the sale. This fee doesn’t apply to ANY other type of items as far as I’m aware, and there is genuinely nothing that would make you think that was the case.
The problem that arises is that ROBLOX is filled with children, and although it may click in my brain that these UGC Limiteds are not tradeable, and selling them will make you lose 50% of the sale - this is going to fool a lot of young kids into buying items with the intent of trading them. People who don’t have a DevForum account, or didn’t read this post talking about the differences these have. If I wasn’t able to notice - a trader and player who has been on the platform for over 15 years, - then how can you expect a child to notice who just wants to get a Limited for trading?
To put this in perspective, I have taken a screenshot of the catalog - this is basically ‘Where’s Waldo’ of finding out which Limited is UGC. -
29 of these are tradeable, and have a 30% fee for reselling the item. 1 of them is not tradeable, and has a 50% for reselling the item. Sure, if you know what you’re looking for - it’s somewhat easy to figure it out, but imagine if you are a kid who doesn’t know what you’re doing, you haven’t seen this DevForum thread, and all you know is that limiteds are usually tradeable. 9 times out of ten, they would have no idea.
My proposal is to separate UGC Limiteds and normal Limiteds by putting them into their own Category on the Catalog, and giving them a new tag that isn’t “Limited” or “LimitedU”. That way, if people aren’t aware of this new feature - and stumble on say a purple “UGC Limited” tag on the bottom corner - then they are able to discern them from normal limiteds and are aware enough to think “I haven’t seen this tag before, maybe I should look into it.”
I have some other problems with this new feature, but they almost all tie back to the one problem that these are drastically different from normal limiteds, yet are identical to the blind eye. If you separate these two categories, then at the very least they can both behave on their own, and if one fails, then it doesn’t ruin the other category’s reputation. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.