Okay, so, at this point, everyone knows Roblox has a history of discontinuing features that everyone loves and replacing them with more “modern” stuff, even if that’s not what the community wants. A good example of this happening are the limited items. They have existed for over a decade now, and, besides some problems, pretty much everyone loves and respects them and their legacy. However, we despise the passion that the community has over limiteds; Roblox randomly discontinued them back in late 2019, and we haven’t had any new non-branded limiteds since 2022, when Roblox randomly decided to make old items go limited again.
Unfortunately, it didn’t last long since they stopped doing this again after they released UGC Limiteds. It’s been nearly a year since the release of UGC Limiteds, and clearly there are many issues with the system.
First things first, they’re easily manipulable. Take, for example, the image below (source: “Flex Your UGC Limiteds”).
(Don’t send hate to any of the creators named on the image, it’s just an example to prove my point.)
This game provides a leaderboard with multiple details and stats regarding these items. As you can see in the image, most of the highly valuable UGC Limiteds are hoarded or bought by their own creators. It’s mostly not natural sales, but rather the creators buying their own items. One of the only items in this screenshot that are not totally manipulated is “Pet Simulator X” Banana Pet, and I think it’s pretty obvious now, but the item is only this much because it gives in-game perks, and it was one of the first UGC limiteds to ever come out in the catalog. In general, this means that these items are easily manipulative, and the ones that aren’t are made by popular creators or influencers and/or give in-game perks, meaning that nobody is actually buying these items for this much because they like them, but for other reasons that go beyond the accessory itself.
Classic limiteds, on the other hand, are not as manipulative as UGC limiteds, although they still have some issues, but not as big as the UGC items. Since they’re made by Roblox and not by the community, they’re usually way more special and desired compared to UGC items. Also, UGC Limiteds aren’t tradeable at the time of this post, while the Roblox-made ones are. Since classic items are more special, more desired, and more versatile regarding the stuff you can do with them, people tend to like them way more. It’s worth mentioning that Roblox has made various relevant item series in the past, and (in theory), nobody can make additions to those series other than Roblox themselves.
Roblox stated earlier last year that they stopped doing new limiteds so small creators wouldn’t have to “compete” with them, and, at least in my opinion, this is non-sense. As pointed out in the paragraphs above, classic limiteds and UGC limiteds are two separate concepts, and no matter what happens, UGC will never replace or replicate classic items’ legacy.
Those are two completely different features, and Roblox wanting to replace classic Limiteds with UGC will never work properly.
I also wanted to point out that, recently, a lot of creators have been uploading copies and knockoffs of Roblox-made limiteds, and, although I don’t condone this, it’s proof that those items are very desired and loved by everyone.
Also, another proof of this happening is the layered clothing section in the catalog.
Roblox promotes layered clothing a lot as part of their “vision,” but a lot of creators are actually using it to make limited-inspired hats, and they’re uploading it as layered clothing since they can make bigger items beyond the accessory size limits.
TLDR: Roblox should start making classic limiteds again; pretty much everyone likes those, and one of the only reasons they stopped making those was because they didn’t want to “compete” with UGC. This argument doesn’t work because classic limiteds and UGC limiteds have nothing to do with each other and it was never a competition in the first place, and even some creators themselves are making their own knockoffs of classic limiteds, which proves that those items are very loved or desired.
