Just checked your account. You live in the USA, the cream of the crop of the 1st world. You’re a developer for huge studios and you yourself have tens of millions of visits. You’re only arguing against this because this is personally hurting you, that you, as a big developer, shouldn’t be able to profit at the expense of the smaller developers. 2.45$ for 2nd world country is an equivalent to 10-20$. In a third world country that goes as high as to hundreds and even thousands of $.
You’re narrow minded and can’t see outside of your box and realise that there are people much more worse than you and to them those 2 bucks and 45 cents could change their lifestyle to lavish for as long as months. To you that sum is negligible, to them it’s everything. You’re not in the position to say that this is not enough, that this is low, that this is laughable. You’re definitely not in the position to complain about it.
You think that those 40 hours of your life are valuable but when you look at the big picture they are not. A lot of developers from 2nd and 3rd world countries are people who have a lot of spare time and are in poor socioeconomic position. They’re teenagers, they’re children, they’re those who seek employment but can’t find one, or can only find one that provides them the bare minimum to survive.
If spending 40 hours of their life - using only their free time and doing what they love would make them 3 bucks, then they would without hesitation do it. I’m not even talking about getting 3 bucks only once. No, those plugins aren’t single product items that only one person can buy. If someone buys your plugin every day, then you will get ~80$ per month. To you, that’s lunch money. To someone in a country like India, it can even be enough to barely survive. So now imagine that this is their passive income on top of their active income. Now imagine that they make more plugins.
Of course, this is great for those that can and do develop those plugins and they are actually useful and people buy them. Not so much great for those who are the consumers in the 2nd and 3rd world markets - for the inverted reasons, like to someone buying something for 3$ would mean that they will not be able to afford their food for a day or even week. Robux is a currency that negated the differences between different socioeconomic levels as anyone with proper skills could easily earn them regardless of where they live or who they are. Without robux, you remove the currency that allows the poorest to still enjoy the platform and do commerce on it as if they were the same as you and lived like you do.
Oh, just checked your first group and your first game has more visits than the amount of visits that your profile states you have. You have over a hundred million visits in this game, and you probably devexed a ton of cash that could have made someone living in 3rd world a member of the upper-class - and that’s just a single game! [FPS] No-Scope Arcade - Roblox