The surplus value went to Builderman 'cause he owned Noob's Place's bricks

And thousands of Robloxians like Noob did every day

Checked Robux conversion rates — alas, Tix went away!

For Builderman is bourgeoisie, and Noobs are merely proles:

That is the class contrast they have, e'en Guests know these two roles!

  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    I hate that I glanced this title and my brain instantly remembered what Tix were. I hope I did not spend countless hours in the fremium block game; I hope small me spent more time in pirated Minecraft instead.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    7 months ago

    Side note apparently John James Shedletsky III (who I only knew by his OG pseudonym Telamon) made a transphobic joke in his Twitter bio, because of course every classic block-based video game that I played for countless hours as a kid had to have transphobic developers.

    Anyways in case you don't get the reference, this is based on "Krupp und Krause" except with classic Roblox references, because I watched Izzzyzzz's recent video about classic Roblox and holy shit it awoke some memories rooted deep inside me, the immense frustration that I had with the inaccessibility of literally anything cool in Roblox because you had to buy everything with Robux and Robux were frigging impossible to get with those BS conversion rates, and then Roblox fucking REMOVED TIX, so I just had most of my virtual currency *poof* before my eyes... Laugh at me, sure, but as a kid that would've been my first introduction to what I would later find out is called "scrip" and the problems that tend to arise from it (like that the entity that issued it can just render it invalid at any time).

    If I remember correctly, you had to get Builder's Club in order to sell things for Robux, and I know that I did in fact have Builder's Club at some point because my childhood bestie had some very generous parents, but it would've only been a brief period. I'm not super sure about all of this, though. All I really remember is that I was pissed about losing my Tix, and that I thought of the removal of Tix as insult on top of the injury that there was hardly anything I could buy with Tix at all.

    Edit: According to the Roblox Wikia, non-BC members earned a measly 10% of the price tag of an item sold, while BC members earned 90%, but it doesn't say anything about whether selling things for Robux rather than Tix was limited to BC members. At the same time, it says that "selling stuff" was a perk of getting BC, so I don't know what the heck the deal is...

    So that was probably little baby me's first real experience with Enshittification™ and for that matter Exploitation of Child Labor™ (ongoing problem! Roblox as a business basically relies on literal child labor that's still paid for with scrip!). I remember taking my childhood friend to "museums" of classic Roblox to "relive the glory days", because obviously I didn't know what a capitalism was back then, I just thought that the Roblox developers were being greedy jerks!

    Edit: Oh, and I'm pretty sure that all users on Roblox at least in the Good Ol' Days started out with one place, but that you needed Builder's Club to create more places.