Please add demos for paid experiences

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With Roblox now wanting players to make games that you have to pay REAL money for, we should be allowed to add demos.

It would be a simple API to tell the dev if the player has paid for the full experience, so the dev can lock off later areas and areas not accessible in the demo.

Thank you for your time

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So basically DLCs. The biggest problem is that it’s already possible with gamepasses.

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Not really. for example, maybe it let’s you play a small section in the beginning of the game, allowing you to test the game, and once you reach the end of this section it pops up a prompt saying “unlock the full experience”

Also you can’t do game passes with real money experiences

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Bump!
This would make devs not too shy to make paid games. After all without a demo the player will be afraid of wasting money on slop games, but with demos we can show the player our game and incourage them on purchasing it.

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this might be hard to secure on roblox’s end so players cant just bypass the wall during the demo, but overall not a bad idea for expensive paid experiences

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That would be a dev issue. The dev would just need to make sure there is no way to get past, like disabling interactable objects in the area they are not allowed.

All I think Roblox needs it a API with a few functions: (this was typed on mobile)

DemoService:PlayerOwnsGame(ID)
DemoService:PromptGamePurchase(ID)
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This wouldn’t be a problem, games can have multiple places so a developer can make a demo place and Roblox can add a “Play Demo” button for paid games which would send players to that demo place

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Additionally I think they should let you refund games and gamepasses within a certain time frame, so people can get their money back easily if they got scammed

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This would be such a cool idea, I really hope that Roblox takes this idea into account!

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I believe roblox already does have a 30-day refund period if you contact support, it’s just not mentioned ANYWHERE and is pretty much fully hidden.

Although, it would be nice if the transactions page had a request refund button.
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But yeah, a “Trial” or “Demo” for paid experiences would be a great addition.

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If they did this then they’d need to introduce some way of letting developer code figure out if the user has refunded the gamepass so that any perks it gave can be reversed.

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