Monday, October 14, 2013

The Bad and The Good of Price Floors

If you've been checking up on Roblox lately, you've probably already heard of the new "Price Floor."
Some passionate hate against the Price Floor.
My friend and I were playing Roblox together, and I decided that I wanted us to have a matching outfit. I showed her the shirt I wanted us to wear, and to my surprise, the price got really high. I remembered just yesterday buying it for the classic price of 5 tickets, but it got up to 60 times more! At first I thought this was a joke by the creator. 300 tix? Yeah right! Then I looked at other shirts. All of them were 300 tix. This was the day they released the new Price Floor.

The Bad

Save the lame, insightful comments for last. Let's rant and complain first!
  • It's not what we're used to. Remember those days when a plain, white shirt was just a ticket? Yeah, good times, man! Practically-free prices have become a thing of the past, just like bevels and those funky head-shapes they've neglected for years. Expensive prices are the new norm, didn't 'cha hear? Change is hard for a lot of people, especially when it just came as second nature to them.
  • You gotta wait 10 days. A lot of impatient people play Roblox. When all you want is a simple white t-shirt, I can understand why you're antsy. Unless you have something better to do in your free time, you're going to be tired of waiting.
  • A lot of people don't update their prices. After they lowered the Price Floor by 200 tix, people who don't check on their clothes that much (or simply don't care) neglected to change it to the minimum price of 100 tix. Now these green, polka-dot pajamas are extremely expensive (in the comments, you see people complaining about the price of 30 tix. Gee, if only they stuck around long enough to see this!).

The Good

Enough with the complaints. Enough, I say! Let's bring a little positivity to the table.
  • You're spending your cash on the stuff you really want. In real life, you don't walk around with 4 dollars and come home with 2 shirts you're not planning to really ever wear; you just bought them for novelty. With this new price floor, clothes shopping is a bit more, well, realistic. If the shirt has a donut wearing a wig on it, I'm gonna laugh. But I'm not going to spend 100 tix on it if I don't really think I'm gonna wear it.
  • You hold on to what you have. You're not Mr. Playboy Millionaire with your growing collection of beautiful sweaters in every color you can think of. You have to save up, and if you saved up for 10 days, my guess is that you're gonna wanna wear that bad-boy sweater. You're gonna wear that sweater like you were born to wear that sweater because you spent 10 days saving up for it. "Wow, look at that sweater! He waited 10 days for that you know," ladies everywhere will chant. And then in 10 more days, maybe you can get a new one. But the point I'm trying to make is that you have a limited collection, and you're not just going to wear a shiny, bright, new sweater everyday. You're gonna wear that sweater until it grows grey hairs.