I heard that Roblox made a survey to vote for the new sounds. 
New year, new sounds! 
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Imagine a world where the roblox death sound is replaced with the R2D2 death sound from lego starwars.
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The situation sounds messy and I’m not sure what’s going on on either sides but I really hope the sound isn’t removed. I understand roblox want to phase out old stuff but there is a reason the sound has stayed for this long. It’s very, very iconic and I think it would be a mistake to remove it if something can be worked out. Ideally, create an option for avatars to use a custom death sound but keep current one as the default. All I know is Tommy doesn’t want it removed. Again it’s messy but I hope something can be worked out.Thanks for letting us know though.
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If his claims of owning the sound are false, why are you extending him this invitation?
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It is great to see that Roblox is addressing this situation with diplomacy. Also, I read that Tommy has presented proof of ownership. Offering him a position within your team is an amazing way to get him some exposure. Great job, guys.
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Possibly just as a friendly gesture. Or they want to show that they are still willing to try to work things out; Roblox indicates that they are still working on trying to come to a resolution, so they may have just decided to do this in the meantime. Perhaps Roblox may have some sort of plan or an idea of having Tommy join Roblox so that it can help/do something to help resolve this situation. Also, they go on to say this in the OP:
Maybe they are inviting him so that he can join and learn about/try out Roblox to see how it works, so that Tommy can come to understand Roblox and how it works. In the OP, Roblox sounds passionate about UGC and its future on this platform - they correlate it with Tommy and they use the discussion of him to transition into the discussion of UGC, so maybe they would like him to help out with UGC or to just see it as it happens since Roblox is excited about transitioning into this new era of emphasis on UGC on Roblox.
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I really doubt Tommy’s up to playing ROBLOX. His attitude from his posts have been defaming ROBLOX. From what I’ve seen, he’s failed to present accurate copyright evidence and probably won’t be taking this to court. He knows that if he goes to court, he’ll lose, so he’s instead taking this public to bring more attention to his personal projects and defame ROBLOX enough to reach an out of court settlement. If he had anywhere close to a decent lawyer, he wouldn’t be taking this online on to Twitter. However, if this was nothing, ROBLOX wouldn’t be worried about it enough to make a public statement. ROBLOX must’ve done something wrong which they’re worried about, I just don’t think Tommy has the proof to prove it. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
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I don’t think Roblox was forced or required to make a statement, but rather they just chose to do so. Roblox even takes the liberty of claiming that “Tommy has no copyright to the ‘oof’ sound” and that he did not give Roblox any “proof of ownership to it.” The way they defend themselves sort of makes it seem like they feel they do not have much to worry about.
As you said, Tommy would probably lose if he goes to court anyway, and he probably will not take it to court in the first place; also he could just end up running out of the funds to keep the court case going while Roblox is a corporation with enough to deal with the case, so Roblox would theoretically be okay still. So yeah, that’s what I think about it; like you said, we shall wait and see what happens.
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Obviously Roblox isn’t giving in, and has never had a plan to, so if he’s really going to sue he should do it already. The law can then decide who’s wrong and who’s right. Dragging this out like he’s doing is completely pointless, and if he doesn’t end up sueing then I’d say that speaks for itself.
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Either way he should take it up with the retailer of the sound library rather then roblox.
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True, ROBLOX may just be using this statement to deal with the negative publicity that Tommy brought in. It’s surprising how much damage a guy with 20k twitter followers can do to a massive corporation’s public view.
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So all I have to do is defame Roblox and falsely claim to own some of their content and I’ll be offered a job? I’m not necessarily sure about who is correct, however, the situation seems quite bizarre nonetheless.
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A simple sound used for decades on ROBLOX that getting removed is not easy to accept but we had to accept it. 
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Something I keep seeing come up that I want to try and clear up (e.g. @True_jmdelacruz05’s post directly above) is that Roblox is removing the current death sound, however this was absolutely not confirmed by Roblox as far as I can tell, otherwise it would most likely be specified in the post. This is just a rumor spread by many of the YouTubers who are (tbh pretty poorly, keep in mind their goal is attention) covering this topic.
Reminder of some probably important stuff I found for new/returning readers who may not have seen it: In response to the 'oof' sound discussion - #289 by Hexcede
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I don’t think Tommy wants to join ROBLOX’s staff team, since he seems to be pretty ticked at ROBLOX right now, judging by his tweets.
Even if he did join the team, I wouldn’t feel all that comfortable with someone being on the team that probably doesn’t like ROBLOX as a whole, now that apparentally ROBLOX and I quote, “stole” the iconic “OOF” sound.
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Thank You for clarifying i hope roblox wins the case
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This is definitely feels like a cash grab on Tommy’s part.
The only reason Roblox themselves are making an announcement on this is to uphold their reputation.
Either way, Tommy gets what he wants: Money
Either through Roblox, through publicity, or through both.
It would be cool to have him join our developer community though.
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If I’m right no one did as it was from a DVD Rom and it wasn’t copyrighted?
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That depends if the sound was originally from the DVD, or illegal put on the DVD by the seller, in which case would create even more issues.
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This is definitely a tough case and not what roblox wants for one of its largest brand recognition aspects. The difficulty on roblox’s side is that Tommy (according to him) does have all the correct documents to prove his ownership which contradicts what roblox says above. To be honest no one can really know who will win since this is quite a complicated case. Roblox will have strong layers but if the evidence is not in their favour then they will still lose and have to payout. I hope that an agreement can be made soon enough so that no one has to worry about the sacred ‘oof’ sound effect.
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