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Are we likely to ever receive official functionality for selling a game space? I could see that being useful as devs leave and want to make some cash quick cash, and for players who don’t see their favourite game die.
I am also aware of the ENORMOUS complications, but I think this would be useful to at least be able to buy the game space
@RBXKyle No, this is just one of the reasons why they can’t allow selling groups/games. It doesn’t mean they don’t allow any sort of transaction where that particular argument holds.
@Operatik You cannot sell whole groups or whole game spaces (i.e. buying an account or group with a game on it) for neither virtual nor real currencies. You can sell assets and maps just fine.
Remember to employ common sense when interpreting announcement threads – Roblox wouldn’t stop developers from taking/offering commissions or hiring others to do development work.
I can’t even think of a use case where you would ever buy a whole game.
It would be far cheaper to just make your own clone (if you have any scripting skill whatsoever), or hire a scripter.
Plus, why would someone sell their game if it was good? You can only ever get bad games this way…
Finally, even if you bought a good game, you would need to spend more to advertise it, and also possibly to add monitization to the game by hiring a scripter.
Uhhh so I’ve sold old maps/new commission maps, and old outdated games I no longer have time to focus on… will I and those rbxdev members be banned or something? Is this some sort of new rule?
It just feels to me that assets and games are pretty much the same thing? I don’t mean this to be rude or anything, so please don’t take it that way- I’m just clarifying a few things.
Say if I sold all of the maps and programming work for my game, and any other assets in the game, I’d be selling the entire game- but technically I’d be only selling assets. Where is the line drawn? It’s just a little confusing if that makes sense.
The only reason I bring this up is because the original post isn’t specific to game spaces, it identifies Roblox games and groups as separate things which (with selling a Roblox group being the only way to sell a game space), says to me that selling game assets is prohibited too- which brings me back to my original statement.
