The sheer thought of something like this happening to me, literally makes me want to vomit. They do not know how long, and how frustrating the development work I have done for my group and games that are for other’s entertainment have been. This never should’ve been an option to begin with, and should be fixed immediately.
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Major support, why have an appeal period if you’re going to release the users assets immediately?
Especially now adays where almost all developers have their games hosted in a group, with all of the income going to the group, this is something that should seriously be changed ASAP.
At the very least, give them the appeal period to keep ownership.
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This is ridiculous. Groups are not something you inherit when someone gets terminated. The group has a rightful owner and roblox has no place redistributing the group, no matter what happens to the owner.
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Well the other side to that is a group becoming useless once the owner is banned. It should have some way to transfer owner/be reclaimed but not by opening it to the fastest clicker.
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you know what is every more ridiculous? having almost 2k USD stolen from you
roblox should either lock group ownership or hand down the group to the next highest ranking member
having that much money be stolen that easily is unacceptable
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It is more of a way to keep random users from claiming the group, this way the terminated owner doesn’t have to worry if it was someone that they know or trust.
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Why not just don’t give it to anyone?
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I think terminated users should get to keep their groups, unless they have been fully terminated, meaning their appeal was declined.
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I agree, I’ve gotten my account back after being falsely deleted but I couldn’t get all my group name snipes back. I don’t think they should be given away at all though, it’s basically a lottery after a user is deleted where you can claim a group potentially worth millions
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It ALREADY happened to me.
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I really like the idea of a succession system, but that would be vulnerable in malicious infiltration situations. If someone were to target a specific group owner, somehow get them terminated/hack their account and make them leave; they would be able to look at the name of the successor and hack them as well. It’s a very low chance of this happening, but I like these odds rather than what’s going on right now with the “up-for-grabs” problems terminated devs are dealing with right now after the plugin fiasco.
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Sometimes I’ll use assets derived from the Unity Asset Store, which are subject to a licensing agreement. An excerpt from this agreement says:
You agree that you will not, and will not allow any third party to,
(i) copy, sell, license, distribute, transfer, modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Unity Asset Store or the Assets, unless otherwise permitted
Assuming I am understanding the agreement properly - while it’s unlikely that I’ll get in trouble with Unity and/or an asset author should something like this happen, it is irritating that I’m forced into potentially breaking the ToS by using the group features.
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What does Unity Asset Store have to do with Roblox groups :\
If someone takes ownership of my group due to an incorrect account termination, they also have access to all content uploaded to the group - for me this includes some assets governed by a separate ToS
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Ohh that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
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Using groups for development purposes is like using VIP t-shirts before we had gamepasses.
The t-shirt feature Roblox added long ago had no intention of developers using it to sell special access to their games. (VIP t-shirts from 2008 to 2012) When Roblox caught on that the UGC of their platform’s game experiences were making more money than selling gear and hats in their catalog, they gave us gamepasses and then dev products.
Now, we need to make a lot of noise that we want secure places for our team developments to be stored. Modern features for Roblox groups for the purposes of running full on E-companies are usable like a t-shirt was somewhat usable for special access to a game, but it can be so much better.
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I uploaded a decal with unreadable usernames and came back to a temp-banned account with the message like:
"Don't break the rules, we are not afraid to terminate your account!"
I don’t trust the banning system one bit, there needs to be securities in place so that a single employe can’t ruin another mans lifework just like that.
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This is a stupidly old thread, and I have not been on Roblox in two years, but since this reply sent me an email notification why not?
I did not think at that time the banning system was one bit fair, but I made an educated guess towards the possibility of this being implemented. Seeing as this is still an issue, I suppose I made the correct guess?
From an outsiders perspective (and honestly: someone who doesn’t care much about the platform anymore), it seems the bigger issue is that at one hand the audience is kids, who they want to give some sort of educational values and experience in coding etc. But on the other hand, they’re a company that needs and wants to make money. Mixing those two up, and you get a reasonably popular platform with a very limited set of tools. Well, if they want to grow even further I have this 24 second video for them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
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When a user gets terminated just lock the darn group, it really isn’t that hard to comprehend.
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Can concur with many people here. I’ve lost thousands of Robux which I’m no longer able to make (trying to find work and ways to make Robux now that I’m pretty much in the ground) because of issues like this.
I’ve said before that groups are a valuable part of the user experience but they aren’t given enough attention. Groups should not just be dropped if an account is terminated as there is great damage left to the person if they’re able to return; we’re talking about careers on the line for those who use Roblox as a tertiary, secondary or even primary source of income. Thousands of real life dollars can be lost as well as days, weeks, months, years of effort all to one ban and the fastest clicker can obtain all that. It’s not fair that a developer who works endlessly to make cash and games suffers while some randomer can snag everything up with the click of a button. I’ve seen it happen countless times and it’s sickening.
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