Are Time-Limited Game Passes possible?

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#1

Are Time-Limited Game Passes possible?

According to the Roblox Documentation:

Passes allow you to charge a one-time Robux fee in order for players to access special privileges within an experience, such as entry to a restricted area, an in-experience avatar item, or a permanent power-up.

  1. But is it possible to create somehow a time-limited Game Pass?
  2. For example, after one month, the Game Pass will expire and the player has to purchase again?

I am thinking about a monthly subscription model, but I was not finding any solution for that yet.

Thanks for any ideas, thoughts or concepts that would work like that within the Roblox Universe.
:pray: :hugs:

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#2

First of all, thats evil. Second of all, you can probably set up some game products in Game Settings, then you can set up a datastore to track how long a player has until they have to purchase the item again.

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#3

Yes it possible. You need to use developer product, and hook it up to a datastore. Then track when they last bought it, and how many days that bought it for. Check on Join if they ran out, and if so, then remove it from datastore

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#4

Yeah, I guess a TimeStamp with the DataStore could be a solution for that. But what do you mean by setting up game products within the Game Settings? What specific products did cross your mind?

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#5

They mean Developer Products, I think. They can be purashed as many times, unlike gamepasses that are one time only

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#6

Yeah, i got them a little bit confused, i’m gonna go my bad on that one.

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#7

interesting. But does it have to be a developer product or could it also be a Game Pass that expires after a certain time?

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#8

Has to be a developer product so players can buy it one then once

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#9

hmm. that would be cool. Is there perhaps any code sample available, that demonstrates that feature? Possible to find somehow a .rbxl file that contains the code snippets?

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#10

Most likely not, as people don’t really need a need for this, even though there is a couple games I know of that have a days worth of perks.

I did find one, idk if its good, but you can take a look at it here

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#11

thank you so much, appreciate it! :pray: :hugs:

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#12

You should wait until Roblox releases a new feature called subscriptions, which will be a new type of product that the user must pay like a subscription.

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#13

Whie I would agree, I don’t think roblox is adding this anytime soon. According to this post, it has been worked on since around December of 2019, and almost 4 years from now, I haven’t heard of this coming anytime soon or anything from roblox staff, unless there is something I have missed. (In fact a lot of the old links from old posts don’t work anymore as they were removed from MarketplaceService)

I would not wait or assume it’s coming, until I hear from roblox staff, which then in turn replace my old system with the subscription system

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