Here at Roblox we’re constantly looking for ways to make it easier for our player community to share digital experiences with their friends, especially during these difficult times.
As part of this effort, we’re giving you the option to make VIP Servers available for free in your game. By offering VIP Servers for free in your game, you can drive increased engagement by encouraging players to play with their friends. To make VIP Servers free, choose the ‘Free’ option on the Configure Place → Access page. Once enabled, every player will be able to create one VIP Server for each game. Players can then add their friends to the whitelist (up to 50 max) or allow all their Roblox friends in order to play together.
If you choose to offer free VIP Servers in your game, but then decide to charge for them in the future, any players with existing VIP Servers will need to manually renew their VIP Server subscriptions in order to continue using VIP Servers. There is no obligation to offer free VIP Servers; if you choose to charge for VIP Servers, the minimum price that you can charge per VIP Server will continue to be 10 Robux.
Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.
I love that this feature has came out. I’ve seen some developers put the VIP server price to the absolute minimum so that people can more readily play with their friends, or alternatively use ReserveServer to create a “VIP Server” that can be teleported to via a hub. I’m glad to see a direct way to do this.
I even already see people using the Free VIP server functionality! (Silent Assassin and Roblox Uno are two examples!)
I think that this is a nice feature. It allows developers to encourage online social activity for players and their friends. This is great during the pandemic we’re all in.
Wow, this is kind of awesome that Roblox is also taking the users without Robux into account.
I don’t really know if many developers will do this though. Sure, there is more player engagement, but it won’t really get them as much revenue. Even Premium Payouts won’t be that much more beneficial since Premium users get Robux anyways. I think there should be some kind of perk with this (like Premium Payout multiplier ir something IDK), otherwise it’ll just be a rarely used option.
However, with that being said, developers like those of showcase games can benefit off of this as they just want to get exposure as opposed to revenue, for the most part.
Nevertheless, love this update. Keep it up, Roblox!
Also, it’s cool to see @Kairomatic closing the threads now! I hope @coefficients isn’t replaced, though…
This is great! I seem many developers making their VIP servers free due to the gameplay of their place, yet it kind of loses the point of VIP servers, which is to benefit developers that implement features for VIP servers only, thankfully it’ll be up to them to decide this, I see it working pretty well!
Free users are starting to be considered, but this does kind of take away the point of offering incentives to purchasing VIP servers, that’ll be less of a thing now.
