My apologies, I misunderstood the concept
I may have a solution to the scamming problem, you would have to be running an active project with proof of concept and funding will not be given untill needed by page owner. This may not be enough so ill look into pay protection for donations.
EDIT: Im looking into how companys like Kickstarter screen projects to ensure safety.
Ive also looked into this and since our moderation will screen every post, posts that are duplicated will be deleted along with the original. I also added a new section!
I really like this idea. But, I think there should be some changes. Firstly, I don’t think that bots can be used for anything, without breaking the TOS. Can someone tell me if they can be used without breaking TOS. So you would need to have humans make dev products. But, I think that having just several dev products for everything should be good. Instead use datastores/message service, or HTTP service. I think HTTP service is better for many reasons and you should use that instead of making a ton of dev products or datastores. The idea would be you send a post request of claiming your robux to a server, that server notifies a volunteer to send the robux to you/a group representative. For donating, you just buy a dev product, and send a post request to a server, which puts it into a database.
I’m not a web developer, so I am probably missing some stuff.
Bots can be used to carry out tasks because people use them to store reports, make group posts etc so it wouldnt be against the rules, also, the dev products would be needed to oganize where all the robux is coming from but isnt nessecary becuase we could already see the amount needed via in game funding goal amount reached.
The average users for your games, are, well, players.
It is hard to appreciate as a developer how much even like 10k is to your average player, which is worth ~100$ to them.
Under the assumption that every paying roblox player on average gets 1,500 a year and spends 1,400
on adopt me or something, that leaves them with 100
in their account most the time.
Now I ask you, as a roblox player who has 100 am I likely to give that away as a donation or alternatively, buy some new clothes for my avatar? or if I do donate it, am I not more likely to give it to a friend?
From the perspective of an average player this seem’s quite unnecessary and a waste of money.
Roblox doesn’t interfere with developer related issues.
That’s not an official contract format, lawyers resort to using complex vocabulary which is the only way it’ll be enforced legally. While you could challenge this in court regardless of the contract’s legitimacy you still wouldn’t win.
Would you be covering the costs of programmer(s), or would all payments be handled by the developers themselves? How can you guarantee the programmer(s) will remain productive for an underpaid position?
How much are you willing to invest into advertising the service, how will you manage to convince players to actively engage with the service? What’ll be done to discourage players from clicking away after there’s 0 mechanics included to keep the targeted demographic interested to remain in the server.
This is a prime example of practicing what you preach, easier to state whereas it’s difficult to lead by example. If you want to have any guideline enforced or taken serious than you cannot misspell simplified vocabulary terms such as inappropriate. Here’s a tip, if a red line appears than it’s an error meaning it isn’t the proper way to spell that particular word. I personally use google or auto correct to correct any mistakes made throughout my rough drafts.
Personally I don’t enforce any grammar restrictions because It would be a hypocritical to enforce this policy while acknowledging my familiarity with grammar is below average.
Why first impressions matter
I strongly urge you to familiarize yourself with your strengths and weaknesses before making any further corrections to the rough draft. Don’t always rely on your memories as not everyone is intellectually gifted to have a photographic memory. Don’t rush the post either, proofread it until you’re 100% confident in the final draft.
One lesson you shouldn’t ever forget in life is how you’re judged on every step, move you take. All it takes is one minor slip up to be considered unfit as a leader. Grammatical errors is only the tip of the ice berg my friend, there’s many flaws that someone can nitpick subconsciously without ever informing you.
I didnt state roblox would get involved, it would just send us a report to ban the users page and the Missing Robux button is incase you do get scammed even with the verification and our moderation.
If you read the thread I stated that I would look into the legal aspect and find ways to better enforce this legally.
Who said it was unpaid? Id cover all costs of development.
I would be willing to invest around 10-20k in ads and another 10k in sponsorships. Well, this isnt really a game so nothing can be done to keep them from coming back but think of it like group recruiting plaza, you advertise your group (in this case make a page) and keep checking back on it/advertising your group till you feel its enough.
I am sorry I mispelled one word. My computer dosent have autocorrect and I was typing really fast.
Also the long paragraph on grammar was unessecary.
I already know my strengths and weaknesses, Im good at Math, Robotics, Language and Problem Solving. Im also very creative. I understand you are trying to help but dont keep 50% of your post dedecated to arguing about my one grammar mistake.
I agree with all points stated. However, I have seen many people contribute to things they want to see and added an “Investment” template since asking here is no longer allowed. Also, 1.5k robux a year? I think there are 3 types of people on roblox, those who are free to play, those who spend the odd 3k robux over the course of a couple months and those who buy every limited and spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars a year, or they have a popular game and make money that way. Not trying to brag but I get around 50k robux a year and I my family is low income + I get no allowance, I just save up.
I don’t think you really understand what the average player goes through then, excluding what I give her my sister would get maybe 800R$ a year and I have friends that get maybe 1-2k R$ a year, and I feel many of us developers neglect that since while a 20k Op gamepass is fair game for us, to the average player thats unrealistic.
I mean, yeah, some people are not willing to spend alot on roblox and I get that. I just didnt think it would be that low.
Thats a rip off btw.
Parents who sterotypically would buy the robux tend to see virtual currency as worthless and therefor are leesslikely to actually spend money on it, especially since many parents already have problems with how long their kids spend playing roblox.
And hey, the dark matter gun in big paintball is 30k and is worth it
Feel this got sidetracked, point is, why would I spend robux on another development team rather then investing it on my own, and since people who are donating I would say would tend to be a) developers or maybe B) traders we have a lot better uses for our robux.
Throwing money at a game doesn’t make it successful.
This is even more true on roblox where there aren’t any publishers or the like that demand features from a dev team.
A truly good game that is worked on to completion will almost always see success on roblox, with or without funding.
Just my opinion but I have seen it to be true many times in my decade on roblox.
True but to hire people to make said game to completion you may need some extra money which is why I had this idea in the first place, nonetheless, thanks for your feedback and I understand your points.
Even if this gets enough funding and developers work on it, I do not think it would be executed well considering simple terms, inappropriate and grammar, were spelled wrong. Good luck though.
Again? Really? I get your trying to help but is it really helping when you call me out over 2 mispelled words? Oh no, little Jimmy is scarred because you used grammer accidentally instead of grammar!
This honestly sounds really cool, it’s great to see ambitious ideas like this pop up. I feel like it would be hard to get going, since the average player may not be familiar with concepts such as crowdfunding, along with the fact that games on Roblox don’t really need crowdfunding to begin with, it’s not like big games where you pay artists, audio designers, etc and co-ordinate it all from your office. All the games I’ve seen on Roblox are made by developers who managed to pull it off by themselves, and then as they began making revenue they were able to put that to hiring more developers.
That’s not helping your case. Also, it’s misspelled, not mispelled.
While this idea is good on paper, I’m afraid this place might be a hot bed for scams. There are already horror stories about real kickstarter and on a place like ROBLOX, a place designed for kids, I’m afraid this would be no different.