As a Roblox developer, it is currently impossible to convert a profile game into a group game. This was possible for a limited amount of time in 2016 but has since been closed. Due to a growth in popularity of my game and me hiring new developers to help, I request that this gets brought back.
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my game / my development experience because I would be able to pay my developers a fair wage without spending an additional 21% Robux in tax (100x0.7x0.7 = 49% post-tax revenue, which means there is a 51% tax overall). Because I want to be fair, I currently pay for the additional fees out of pocket. This is not sustainable in the long run and I really need to have it changed. This would also make it easier to make payments because they wouldn’t take twice as long to pend.
I made a reply to the original post that allowed for game to group game conversion here, and I have included what I said below:
Sorry for the necrobump, but this topic is really important to me.
Around 4 1/2 years ago, I released Monsters of Etheria (then known as Pokemon Fighters EX) and started updating it weekly. I released it on my profile because group games were either not available or were brand new and untested. Problems starting popping up when I began to hire developers who could only accept Robux as payment.
Having a popular game on your profile rather than a group game forces all revenue to be taxed twice if you want to pay somebody else with Robux, because it gets taxed once to go into your account (30%) and then taxed again to get put into a group (another 30%). That comes to a total of 51% of gross revenue generated, which is ridiculously high.
Transaction companies such as Paypal have their own exchange fees due to the processing costs associated with each transaction. These fees can come up to as much as 5%. Roblox’s fee is essentially an additional 21% if you didn’t have the foresight to set your game as a group game rather than a profile game, or you weren’t lucky enough to transfer it when this offer was available (which, for somebody like me who wasn’t on the DevForum when this post came out, was completely impossible).
The game I am trying to have transferred is Monsters of Etheria, which I want to have as a group game for the official Monsters of Etheria group. I have talked with several staff members in the past about this and the general consensus has been that this isn’t officially supported and should instead be brought up in the DevForum. That is what led me to this specific post. I am willing to spend time and money if that’s what I have to do to get my game transferred to the group, because paying an extra 21% tax on my income in order to compensate the people who work for me isn’t feasible in the long run.
Thanks for reading my rant and I really hope Roblox brings this back, even as just a service and not an official website feature. Not having my game as a group game is extremely detrimental and makes it significantly harder to work with a team.