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Ticket to Hat Mania!
a Do you have a lot of tickets? Not sure what to do? Well you are in luck, as the catalog is having an amazing hats for tickets extravaganza! Check out these new hats: Talk about the new hats in the -jeditkacheff a
| August 18, 2010 -
Buy Tickets Online and Avoid the Lines at RGC 2012
We have a lot of content planned for ROBLOX Game Conference 2012, but there’s only so much time for you to experience as much of it as you can. That said, we strongly recommend you buy tickets online so you don’t waste any of your valuable t...
| June 22, 2012 -
Saying Goodbye to Tickets
Dear ROBLOX Community: In the next 30 days, ROBLOX will discontinue Tickets. This is one of the biggest changes we have ever made to our platform. While many of you will welcome this change, I know that many of you will be concerned. I want to explain our reasoning here, and also share details of the process we will go through with this migration. Nine years ago Erik Cassel, John Shedletsky, Matt Dusek and I designed the original ROBLOX economy. At the time, virtual currency was a new concept, and typically only used in online MMO’s. Virtual worlds like Second Life and Club Penguin were popular, and social platforms like Facebook were just coming into existence. Smart phone mobile gaming did not exist. In designing our virtual economy, we decided on two forms of currency, Tickets and ROBUX. ROBUX formed the backbone of our economy, while Tickets were designed to reward participation (building stuff and playing the game) without giving out free ROBUX (which would cause inflation for all users who purchased them). At the time, it was a common practice for many games to have two currencies. We have come a long way since that time. Today, the economy in ROBLOX is more and more driven by developers, who create imaginative and creative games. Many of these games have their own currencies, and many of these games provide their own retention bonus systems. We’ve introduced a host of ways for our developers to make ROBUX. The ticket bonus for place visits has become a very small factor to most developers relative to the ROBUX economy.
| March 15, 2016 -
It’s the Economy…
A fabulous new release is upon us! ROBLOX may never be the same! We have two major features in this release, both relating to the economy. strong Most of you won’t remember some of the crazy promises we made about delivering a currency exchange soon after created the "tickets" currency. We have always believed that an exchange was necessary for our economy to work in the way we would like it to. After 14 months, it has finally arrived! strong Here is a good lesson that also applies in real-world currency trading: strong If you go to your My ROBLOX page, you will see a link on your profile that says " em First of all, don’t panic. Instead, let’s take a look around. First: what is going on here? Hundreds of players are trading with each other. When you trade 100 tickets, someone else is getting those 100 tickets and giving you some ROBUX. Players post trade offers on the exchange. On the left hand side, you can see offers from players who want to spend tickets to buy ROBUX. This is the "Tickets Book". On the right hand side, you can see offers from players who want to spend ROBUX to buy tickets. This is the "ROBUX Book". An offer looks like this: 100 @ 5:1. That means "I am selling 100 tickets for 20 ROBUX (5:1) ratio". When two offers match, a trade happens automatically. A trade matches if the ratios are the same. For example: if I want to trade 100 tickets for 20 ROBUX and another player comes along and offers 20 ROBUX for 100 tickets, we trade instantly. If you place a trade that no one wants to do, it sits "on the books" until you cancel the trade. You can cancel a trade by looking at your "Open" ROBUX and ticket positions and clicking the "Cancel" link. If you have an open trade, ROBLOX holds onto your money until you either cancel the trade, or your trade is matched with another player. This is so you can’t go spend the money that you just offered to trade. strong There are two types of trades that you can do. A market trade, and a limit trade. u Pros: Market Trades happen Cons: Market Trades are unpredictable. When you make a market trade, you are saying "Trade this money RIGHT NOW for the best current offer". For example, you want ROBUX right now. So you do a market trade and offer 100 tickets. Basically, your trade is matched with the top open trades on the ROBUX book. Between the time you decide to trade, and the time the trade is matched, other players may have come by and scooped up the best trades at the top of the book. That’s why there is no way to tell ahead of time how many ROBUX you will get in a market trade. u Pros: Limit Trades get you Cons: Limit Trades may never be matched. They can sit on the books forever. When you make a limit trade, you are saying "Trade this money ONLY at the ratio I want. I don’t care if it takes forever to find a match". For example, say you have 100 tickets and you want to buy some ROBUX. You need 300 ROBUX and don’t want less than that. You could offer a limit trade of 100 tickets for 300 ROBUX. Your trade will be put in the ticket book. If it matches, the trade will happen right away. Otherwise it will sit there until someone else comes along and offers a matching trade. Limit trades can optionally be "split" or "unsplit" (the default is to allow split trades). If you allow a trade to be "split" that is saying, "I want to do 100 tickets for 300 ROBUX, but I’d also do 50 tickets for 150 ROBUX". If you don’t allow split trades, you are saying, "I want to do 100 tickets for 300 ROBUX. I don’t want to trade unless I can get all 300 ROBUX". Making a trade unsplitable makes it harder to match. The only time it really makes sense is if you are trying to get an exact amount of money (to buy a certain hat for example). Congrats. You now know more about currency trading than most adults. If you have any questions, be sure to check out the strong User to user advertising is another feature that we have been planning for over a year. However, we never told you guys about it, so you didn’t constantly bug us. We’ve all been there. You just slaved over a brilliant new creation and now you want to test it. But no one will come visit your place! What do you do? You could post about your place in the forum, or spam comments like a noob. Well now there is a better option: create and run an attractive-looking ad. Other users will see your ad; clicking on it will bring them to your place. The best places will probably be able to recoup their advertising costs, from place traffic bonuses and clothing sales. strong strong There is Basically this is what happens: Our interns print out all your ads onto pieces of paper here in the office. If you bid a small amount (like 50 tickets), they print your ad on a small piece of paper (like a post-it). If you bid a large amount, they print a poster-sized copy of your ad. All the ads are printed on special paper that dissolves after 24 hours (the stuff they usually use for top secret documents). Then all the ads go into a giant sack. Every time someone loads a page on roblox.com, we pull an ad out of the sack and display it on the website. Then the ad goes back in the sack. It’s more likely that we pull out the ads printed on big paper (the small ones sink to the bottom you know), so the people who bid higher get their ad shown more. The interns get really tired, so we have to periodically replace them. But don’t worry - it’s easy to find new interns. strong That was a pretty huge release. Some dedicated users might have been running around on test.roblox.com and noticed that the new heads didn’t make it into this release. But we haven’t forgotten about them. - Telamon a
| November 21, 2008 -
ROBLOX Rally 2011–Last Chance for Tickets
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| July 15, 2011 -
The 5th Annual Bloxy Awards Theater is Open!
Tickets are now available for purchase! Find out how you can book your seat today...
| January 19, 2018 -
Ticket Tuesday
I’ve got a case of the Tuesdays and the only cure is more items sold for tickets! Stained Glass Chrysalis – A work of art on your head. It’s made from unbreakable glass so you don’t have to worry about wearing a glass helmet. Sir Beatdo...
| October 27, 2009 -
ROBLOX’s Wealthiest Users: Part 1
Currency in ROBLOX, whether Robux or tickets, is in a constant state of movement. Our currency is bought, traded and sold at all hours of the day and night, and some of our users have found unique and creative ways to fill their ROBLOX wallets. Ho...
| September 21, 2012 -
ROBLOX Game Conference 2012 Tickets on Sale
Last year’s ROBLOX Game Conference –Last year’s ROBLOX Game Conference – aa – had one thousand attendees. This year’s event will be similar in format to ROBLOX Rally 2011, with more of everything that was great – more demos, more computers, more learning, more ROBLOX. – had one thousand attendees. This year’s event will be similar in format to ROBLOX Rally 2011, with more of everything that was great – more demos, more computers, more learning, more ROBLOX. We are offering booth rental this year for use by vendors, exhibitors and ROBLOX groups. Options include 10×10 or 10×20 feet, complete with tables and chairs. You can reserve a booth via the We are offering booth rental this year for use by vendors, exhibitors and ROBLOX groups. Options include 10×10 or 10×20 feet, complete with tables and chairs. You can reserve a booth via the aa ..
| February 17, 2012 -
ROBLOX’s Wealthiest Users: Part 1
Currency in ROBLOX, whether Robux or tickets, is in a constant state of movement. Our currency is bought, traded and sold at all hours of the day and night, and some of our users have found unique and creative ways to fill their ROBLOX wallets.
| September 21, 2012