I started developing on Roblox roughly a year ago. I ended up getting pretty lucky and getting some traction on my first game fairly quickly, and woke up on Christmas eve to someone messaging me on Discord that they were interested in buying my game, and that they had connections with developers and would be able to bring the game to places that I couldn’t as a solo developer.
They were owner/developer in a lot of big roblox groups that had games under them that I’ve heard of, and they also had several friends that were verified roblox developers, so I trusted them. I then fell for the oldest trick in the book and handed over my group which had the game under it before they paid me, and then got blocked.
After doing my research (like I should’ve beforehand), there were multiple other people that were scammed by the same person in the same way, and countless others that were scammed by different people in the same way.
I ended up remaking the game under a new group and ended up fine, but as a new, naive, and trusting developer on Roblox, it is incredibly easy for people to take advantage of you. By falling for one of these scams, I could’ve lost thousands of hours of work and I did lose hundreds of dollars worth of pending robux that I had in the group.
Because this transaction happened off-platform, Roblox support could not do anything to help me, even after I filed a DMCA claim. If there were an official method on Roblox to trade/sell your Roblox games or groups, this would be a major benefit for everyone involved and stop these scammers (who are still out there to this day scamming developers) from stealing and profiting from people’s hard work.