Update for gamepasses

It would be nice to see a new way players can spend.
From my own experience, I rarely buy gamepasses because I know its unlikely I will return much to the game.

If, however, it was possible to rent a gamepass for a day/week that would be appealing to a large amount of potential customers.

It would also be nice to award gamepasses- as a trial for your audience, like Amazon Prime does (1 free week- if you like it you buy it)

These ideas would help boost revenue for devs- ultimately ROBLOX too.

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IIRC they want to get rid of gamepasses completely.
¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Where did you find this information

Can’t you can already do rentals with dev products?

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Some time ago, not sure. But all I remember is that they want to get rid of gamepasses in favor of developer products.
Still, that’s only what I remember, it doesn’t necessarly have to be a fact.

Prob, i haven’t made them myself

but it would be nice to have a feature for this- like when you could rent gears from the catalog.

Personally I never liked renting gear. I just wanted to buy it.

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http://devforum.roblox.com/t/game-passes-this-is-ridiculous/14393/54

Aside from them wanting to remove them, adding the features you requested is a little clunky and unneccesary imo.

Additionally everything you said can be done with some dev prods and data stores.

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D: Dont remove gamepasses they are great, Renting gamepasses would also be pretty handy too :stuck_out_tongue:

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I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but Roblox is not an engine, it is a platform. While it’s nice for us more skilled devs to have the ability to fine-tune control things with dev products, most people don’t want to, or can’t script the required DataStore and DevProduct, and time management and receipts required to pull off a rental.

For the reason of Roblox being friendly to new devs, I think this should be a thing. I would personally not use it now, but the me of four years ago would have.

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I don’t think gamepass rentals should be a thing, but I do not want to see gamepasses removed either. Not to mention ROBLOX already implemented a gear rental system and then removed it some indeterminate amount of time later. No, I don’t see rentals making a comeback any time soon. The feature is way too niche.

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Going off topic a bit, but I’d personally think it’d be cool if we merged gamepasses with dev products: as in, you could choose some dev products to highlight and sell from the website game page.

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I sell gamepasses for several thousand robux each.

They are the best way to securly sell highvalued ingame assets.
No chance of loosing data, great way to start selling ingame items for robux!
May they never be removed…

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That’s a good way to do non disposable high value item sales.

Gonna try that myself.

I agree that gamepasses shouldn’t be removed completely… Scripting DataStores and devproducts and checking receipts and everything can get pretty confusing for new developers (IMO). You don’t have the risk of losing stuff either with gamepasses :stuck_out_tongue:

They should revamp gamepasses with “products” and the developers can check off options like “recurring payment” or “user can buy multiple times”. The stuff would save onto the user like a gamepass would but with all the data included like times bought etc. Also they wouldn’t be able to be removed from the user like gamepasses are now. Would allow a lot of un-script savy developers to make some profits.

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