Personally, this doesn’t seem like a good idea what-so-ever, not only do a lot of people rely on payouts to pay out developers or to make trades, but it also could cause issues with people who use it for personal income. As mostly everyone says 3 days is already a long wait time, but if it increases to 7 days, yikes.
Doesn’t it take 1-2 weeks or so to get money from your average job? Isn’t this kind of normal for a job?
I’m not trying to get into an argument, I’m just curious to know some more reasons of why this is harmful for developers.
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It’s not exactly roblox’s fault that some bad people play the game. They are doing it as a security measure to combat hacker’s using exploits to steal other peoples robux etc. I do understand that 7 days is a long time, But think of it like this. Imagine your a kid who joins a game that’s getting exploited. You click a button by accident (Cause it pops up on your screen and overrides the Core GUI) and it takes all of your robux that you have been saving for week, maybe even months. Wouldn’t you be mortified that a scammer, Exploiter, Just stole all of your robux and there is no way to get them back. In my eyes this seems like a good update (Not for the time, But if it keeps someone safe better now then never. If roblox can find a way to remove exploits of the sorts all together then it would be even better.)
I am very sorry if this comes off as rude, but this is just plain terrible. How will this “help us continue to keep the platform safe and secure” as all it does is serve to screw devs over. 3 days was already long enough. This change will make paying devs a lot harder. this is just a plain useless update and I believe it should be rolled back immediately before any more backflash happens.
edit: Im gonna add onto this. This update only does more harm than good. theres tons of things that people in these replies are concerned about. again This update is doing more harm than good
signed-
eternal_mugen
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And roblox didn’t even say that ALL transactions will take 7 days.
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Unless your someone relies on scams and fraudulent activity to make money you should be fine. They said UP to 7 days will ONLY affect fraudulent activity probably to give them more time to look at incidents.
Sure it gives them more time to look at incidents. But isn’t 3 days already long enough?
As I said before. It won’t apply to everyone. Pretty sure everyone who doesn’t get flagged should still have the 3 days (as per usual).
What do you mean by “flagged”?
Not sure what the fuss is about here. It’s written that they do a risk assessment, so if you aren’t doing dodgy business and are a legitimate developer, this change apparently shouldn’t affect you and it should still be 3 days. (has nothing to do with “big” vs “small” developer)
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Facts, I think all they comprehended was “more time before i get my robux”
I agree however, there is no info on how they will determine what transactions seem “dodgy” and “illegitimate” . What if I just created an alt and need to transfer Robux to it? Roblox might see this as sketchy and take up to 7 days to send it over or they might not send it over and claim it as fraudulent.
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That is actually pretty high up there on the sketchy scale. 
I totally want Roblox to focus more review effort on dodgy situations like that and less on legitimate traffic from players to developers. This seems to be doing just that.
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Of course it is high on the sketch scale, the problem is what if its legit? That would hinder my ability to transfer funds between accounts.
I totally get that security needs to be improved but I just don’t think this is the right way, maybe increasing it to 5 would be at least tolerable to some extent but I just don’t trust Roblox mods with issues like this.
( alr so imma stop replying here before I get flagged for spam this like my 3rd reply)
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How is that a legitimate developer use case? It shouldn’t matter if you had to wait a bit longer on that, it’s a rare action that doesn’t seem like essential income to me. I’ve never had to transfer funds to an alternate account while using Roblox.
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If you don’t trust Roblox mods, Then who would you trust for security? Someone else?
I heard about a controversial update regarding pending sales and I came here thinking that it was going to go down
With the amount of people DM’ing me for refunds and having to redirect them to Roblox support for buggy purchases (Roblox failing to give players gamepasses after they spent robux) I was hoping this period be extended and some more features to remedy people incorrectly spending robux being introduced
I don’t mind if this waiting period goes up at all
I also don’t understand how a 7 day waiting period is an issue since Robux isn’t super liquid to begin with. Any transaction has a 30% tax on it, so it’s not like you NEED that turnover to be quick to do a lot of things. (The platform heavily disincentivizes lots of back and forth with R$)
I would assume group payouts are largely ineffected by this- once the R$ is in group funds you’ve pretty much done a check on whether or not its legitimate, so transferring to members can already be near instant (or the minimum 3 day wait period)
This update is simply inconvenient for people just starting a game or putting something on sale for their first time. There’s virtually no difference when I receive the robux. 3 days, 5 days, 10 days- doesn’t matter once the game is up- UNLESS I’m doing something silly like investing a ton of R$ into ads and blowing through my entire stack of cash at once or investing in some trade (paying someone a ton of money for something)
I don’t want to deal with money from fraudulant purchases anyway- the further I am separated from money that’s been scammed or stolen the better.
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The problem with that “shadey” business is how its gonna work.
The problem is that we have no idea if this is going to be if someone reports you, or if they are going to manually check you.
Already knowing how horrible moderation is, people fear that if you mess up one time on anything, then this will apply to you.
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I was under the impression that even us legitimate devs would also have to wait the seven days. Thanks for the clarification.
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