If you’re going to do this and make it harder for people to get their money,at least add benefits so devs don’t feel so burnt by this.
Maybe add the option for people to add their personal funds to their group like folks been asking about for years.Or lower the percentage that you take from devs.
Something that doesn’t make legit players feel like they’re being punished for the actions of scammers and exploiters.
Cuz honestly that’s what this update feels like.
I just can’t believe this.
This is one of the worst updates I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen a lot of updates.
I hate waiting 3 days for me to get my robux. Especially if I need it to pay someone for a commission. But now, a whole week???
Since they’re doing this, they should at least add something positive. Like reducing the marketplace fee to 10 - 20%? I mean, a whole week is insane. I used to pay my Builder every week, but I’ll have to make that every 2 - 3 weeks now. Since they will get a very low amount. Please think about reducing the marketplace fee, or some other benefits!
So we have to wait A WHOLE WEEK, just to earn our precious ROBUX? I understand its for safety of our players so they wont get scammed by a random scambot who sells, for example, Adopt Me pets. But this is outrageous. I better reconsider switching sides.
Congratulations! You just made a noob reconsider decisions between staying on Roblox, or moving to make standalone games. Therefore, i shall award you, the guy who announced this update, the award of the worst updates to exist in humanity.
This update reminds me of the Price Floor update back in 2013/2014: No one I know asked for it, and you have to wait Seven days or more waiting to get something
I’m sorry, but this update, like many have said, is pointless and adds on unnecessary stress for developers, especially small ones.
And the worst part, why is there even a 30% tax? It just seems like they don’t want users to earn robux. Why would they need 30% if they are the ones who produce the robux? It’s pretty silly when you think about and just seems as a way to pick on new developers by taking some of the robux.
Well, the 30% tax is just fine, just wait until they bring the 90% tax, because of which gamepasses were expensive and overpriced back then. For instance, if during 90% tax a player would buy your 50 robux gamepass, you would earn 5 robux only. And what can you buy with 5 robux only? Spammed adidas clothing? Bad quality clothing? 5 robux is worthless.
The math is bit off there. If the tax was %50 you would earn 25 off a 50 robux sale.
(Sorry for the nitpick, i understand your point)
When are you going to reply on this roblox?
No one likes this update.
Think about the small developers
This is one of the worst updates ever.3 days is already frustrating, now making it 7 days is even more frustrating.
It’s apparent that the reasoning for this has good intentions. However, Roblox is getting to the a size in which issues pertaining to illegitimate robux being transferred should be reduced. If there’s efforts going into countering these issues, then it should be primarily directed towards the causes of issues. Roblox already isn’t ideal for small & big developers with 30% of revenue being taxed (along with actual income tax once processed through devex). Dealing with an extended waiting time for pending robux is just excessive & damaging to development teams that want to provide their staff a reliable income that can be distributed at a sufficient time; I’m pretty sure that Roblox Staff would be discontent if their wage distribution was delayed due to suspicions of some form.
The current waiting time is a bit inconvenient, but understandable as it sufficiently gives Roblox the right amount of time to process the legitimate & illegitimate income accordingly. Site safety is critical for Roblox & they should pursue with updates that help ensure this. However, the focus should be more directed to countering the sources of the problems themselves, rather than a system, which will cause harm to innocent users that are trying to make a sustainable income through robux.
I really hope that Roblox revises their decision and comes up with an outcome that benefits site safety & the developers that make the platform what it is.
No disrespect to anyone but here are my thoughts:
So I get this its to stop the flow of Robux to validate them and make sure they are from legitimate origin. However I feel like three days is already long enough, there are a few reasons on why us Developers want to receive payment as quickly as possible and no, it’s not because we’re impatient.
So for any market/industry including gaming, currency is the most vital life line in this case Robux. Without money a lot of companies will go broke, this spirally applies for new companies seeing as they don’t have enough in their “rainy day funds”.
With newer games I see this being the biggest issue of all; a lot of new games launch with small sums of funds. These games usually bank on their game doing well and bringing in the money fast enough they can run their sponsorships/ads again before they fizzle out. Yes I get some games set aside a budget of how much they’re going to spend to promote their games in advanced and for what day. However when players do this it cuts their amount down and for a small game it might not bring in enough quantity of players. So what I’m saying here is smaller games need some sort of quick payment enough that their game doesn’t just die out.
So I know funds are also import because sometimes a game might need something done last minute and hire someone asap and get them the new funds asap. Without being able to pay them within three days or even more than a day really extends the stress to us Developers.
Over all, I’d say we need some other measure in place rather than extend one that could kill the smaller games off. I feel like a week is a bit extensive, we have to remember that the issue will never be solved and extending it causing another issue for Devs doesn’t seem to help.
Picture this: You’re an owner of a small group making an RPG with a small team of paid devs. They refuse to work until paid. The game takes months longer then expected. After release, a duplication glitch is found. Hundreds of accounts with millions of coins. You beg your devs to fix it. They say they won’t until they are paid. It takes a week for the payment to go through. By the end of the fiasco, possibly a thousand accounts with millions of coins exist. Why is anyone going to buy some coins with robux anymore? If they do nobody will know until up to a week later.
If I’m being honest here, I think 7 days for it to finish pending is a bit ridiculous. I understand it’s to prevent and stop fraud from earning Robux, but there could be other solutions to it. The original system, where it was pending for 3 days, was perfect fine. I don’t see really why we have to move it to 7 days.
This change will affect developers a lot as many people who have group games, to transfer funds from their account to the group, have to purchase their own developer product of their own group, and it usually took 3 days which wasn’t really that short of a time period. But now it can take up to 7 days! So if someone want to transfer their funds from their account to a group game to buy a badge, they’ll have to wait a whole week to finally use their funds.
That’s just my opinion though. Hopefully they can kind of reverse this update and find other alternatives so it doesn’t have to take up to a week just to get your Robux from purchases.
3-7 days?! That is a very long time to wait.
I understand this is important for moderation/security, but this is going to hurt a lot of developers, like the ones here.
Realize how we already have a 30% (sometimes 70%) tax on assets we make.
Read the comments here, it’s outrageous, and we still have no reply…
Edit:
So, you’re telling the entire community, that ROBLOX’ security protection right now is so bad, that you need to come up with 3-7 days pending time for us community developers, designers, entrepreneurs and workers, in general, to get paid the money we earn.
The thing is, you already take 30% of our earnings
@Typakei Exactly!
I hate to seem rude over this, but this is a horrible problem.
The answer here is to become a streamer/youtuber, they seem to get their (ever increasing) benefits instantaneously compared to what game developers have to go through. I’m surprised people don’t see this is the direction roblox is headed in, video creators give Roblox much more exposure/advertisement than game creators ever will - and they can just put accelerator interns on a temporary payroll to make high quality games anyways
So, you’re telling the entire community, that ROBLOX’ security protection right now is so bad, that you need to come up with 3-7 days pending time for us community developers, designers, entrepreneurs and workers, in general, to get paid the money we earn. The thing is, you already take 30% of our earnings and we already wait 3 days to receive our payment. So, a suggestion would be to lessen our taxes accordingly and keep it 3-7 days but not 3-7 days with 30% of taxes. It is quite frustrating and as well as frustrating when we first got introduced to 3 days pending time. Please make sure to not do this mistake.
One of the biggest reasons that the marketplace fee is so high is because it deters fraud. If you’re increasing the pending window, does this mean it’s more feasible to lower the marketplace fee? I would love to see it lowered.
I understand that Roblox is taking extra measures to keep the platform safe, but is this really the biggest priority right now? There are other things that could be being worked on. Plus, not many people are happy about this update as the cons definitely outweigh the pros. Again, I understand that this update is for safety reasons, but in my eyes this isn’t a huge priority. 
This is too bad 
Classic example of good people suffering because of bad people’s actions.
I just hope that this update will accomplish its goal.
Seven days?!? Honestly, I didn’t think you guys could possibly upset developers anymore… you guys continue to impress me with your questionable updates. So now, not only do you take away 30% of the robux we rightfully earned, but now we have to wait 7 days to get our robux? I mean 3 days is already kinda long, but 7 DAYS is insane.