Good to hear that Roblox will be solving this. Preston’s recent activity may or may not break Roblox’s ToS, but we must also consider the off-platform consequences.
Here’s the context for those who don’t know about the situation:
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Yes, and that you should go into everything with morality in mind.
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they mentioned that they might be revising their policies so, you can’t infer that from the post
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Preston earning 100k just from having a large audience with no morality in mind just shows his self
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they’re selling goods related to direct gameplay off-site for USD. That’s against the TOS
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I hope they don’t accomodate for this.
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Yep. I’m surprised PSX wasn’t taken down a while ago because of this.
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I just hope they choose to do the right thing and fight it instead of changing their own policies to allow it. I would not enjoy seeing Roblox support the selling of NFT’s.
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Here is a hyper-controversial take: why not? If it is off-platform, what can/should Roblox do to control it? What stops the big game studios from having the same type of option for the headaches that is external payment processing (NFTs, Crypto, or typical credit cards)? Cloud/Web services make their money off of developers paying bills. We currently pay by our revenue, not by the services we use, which leads to some games paying much more for resources and others freeloading off of the others - including people like me. Should this be the way Roblox continues?
Edit: To be clear, because I know someone will take this out of context for NFTs: I am against the current implementation of NFTs. It is insane to think a company like VISA can handle tens to hundreds of thousands of transactions at the same energy cost for 1 Ethereum blockchain transaction (this is what the major NFTs use). Will NFTs be viable in the future? I don’t know, but I am not counting them out yet. Just… not now. Not with their current power usage and stigma.
I am overall not surprised this vague post happened, but it makes me wonder: why now? The action being “investigated” has been known for over a week now, and this post is after the transactions were made. If Roblox stepped in, clearly the initial “transactions” would have been cancelled.
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they wrote that they might revise their policies to allow it
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massive w for what roblox is doing right now thanks for taking action 
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Hell yeah! Thank you guys for taking action regarding this!
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Just please dont be biased and please do not incorporate NFTs as a normal thing, thank you.
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Roblox has always had 0 tolerance to this. They won’t allow it, I’m sure
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Would this count as infringement of some sort…?
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Good. We need clarification on this.
So I can’t speak for Roblox here and am not a lawyer (duh) but based on the current ToS and US copyright laws, what they did shouldn’t be illegal (you own the copyright to UGC you create on Roblox, as Roblox says in their ToS), however it’s a crappy thing to do and could be against Roblox’s ToS. Also NFTs suck.
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“Please bear with us while we conduct a full review of our policies and ensure that they are up-to-date with new developments in the market.”
Wait… Instead of punishing a game for pretty blatantly breaking ToS, they’re going to instead rewrite the ToS to make legal what they did?
That would be pretty scummy, honestly. Only large/profitable games would have enough pull to make this happen, and it would be kinda sad if they continue to allow it without punishing them.
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I think something to consider is that selling offline products that can be used in-game circumvents the sales tax Roblox charges on all sales. If this became a mainstream practice, it wouldn’t be the greatest thing.
There’s also the fact that NFT’s are environmentally unfriendly; but that is limited to the topic of NFT’s.
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From a scholarly point of view though, where in the ToS is it explicitly mentioned? I think there are things in the ToS that allude to it being against rules but as I said earlier even if it’s against ToS, that’s not a violation of law so the worst thing that could happen is he gets yeeted off the platform.
Not necessarily. It could be viewed either way. Their current ToS does not say anything about the concept of NFTs, so this could be read like they’re planning on updating their ToS to better reflect that.
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YAY no more pet sim NFTs!!!
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