this has been pretty consistent for the majority of ROBLOX's history
some fringe nutjobs start gaming the system and instead of fixing the issue directly they decide to remove content to fix the problem, which results in mass alienation and more gaming of the system due to new problems popping up
shirt creators start complaining about people copying their shirts and pants and earning more money than them, so devs implement the price floor and lock off making shirts for NBC
so now about 75% of the shirt creators are completely locked off from being able to make any shirts, let alone profits, and those that can still make profits start making less and less sales because prices are way higher than what makes sense
on top of that, "NBC Shirt Creators" becomes one of the biggest groups on ROBLOX in a matter of days due to a loophole in the system in which the price floor doesn't apply to group-made clothing
this of course doesn't actually fix the problem of people losing profits to copying and in fact makes it worse since it's harder to figure out who's copying who because group-made clothing doesn't mention who specifically in the group uploaded it
this could've been simply fixed with a content ID system similar to YouTube's where if you uploaded the same image as was used for another shirt then it wouldn't allow you to make the shirt, as well as a flagging system for content creators to flag copies that somehow make it past the system, to be reviewed by moderators
but of course ROBLOX is ROBLOX
people start using bots in order to gain free TIX that they funnel into their main account in the thousands, converting a forgetton of it into ROBUX in order to cash out with DevEx, effectively crashing the value of TIX, so the devs remove TIX
I don't even think I need to explain how bad this was for people who weren't going to pay for ROBUX regardless but this effectively destroyed gaming on ROBLOX too, since you could no longer make money from people joining your game, forcing you to buck to modern trends and fill your games with DLC and microtransactions
all the while botting still occurred on ROBLOX and became an even larger problem down the line
this could've easily been fixed by adding anti-bot security checks like recaptcha and other systems before processes such as joining, trading currency or buying items, and the value of TIX could've been fixed by deflating the value of TIX by selling items for both TIX and ROBUX
but of course ROBLOX is ROBLOX
the forums are continually bogged down by spam and stuffposting, so ROBLOX removes the forums
as a result everyone who just wanted to talk to other players and wasn't entirely interested in the games being pumped out these days left pretty much immediately and we have basic confirmation from the fact that they deleted the Suggestions and Ideas subforum without a second thought that they were almost never listening to player feedback
and the community as a whole is still stuff
if they actually put in the legwork required to run a forum the problem would be solved
but of course ROBLOX is ROBLOX
I'm less well-versed on this latest stuffshow but what it sounds like is the following
people using cheat engine and other programs start exploiting in older games that don't have FilteringEnabled and begin asking people for passwords (I have never run across this in my 10 years of playing ROBLOX) which because they're children they tell them and they lose their stuff, so ROBLOX blocks off access completely to older games
as a result, some of the most iconic games ever made on ROBLOX that are a significant part of ROBLOX's history and make up a majority of older players' childhoods are now totally inaccessible
no doubt exploiters are going to find a way around this because they always do
easily fixable by editing ROBLOX's code to be unable to run in the presence of cheat engine and the more popular exploiting programs or by simply editing the loading screen of non-FilteringEnabled games to say something along the lines of "REMINDER: never give out your password"
but
of
course