--- title: 'How People Make Money Playing Roblox' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=EpjW9agcmXs' video_id: 'EpjW9agcmXs' date: 2026-07-16 duration_sec: 287 --- # How People Make Money Playing Roblox > Source: [How People Make Money Playing Roblox](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EpjW9agcmXs) ## Summary This video explores the black market for in-game items in Roblox, focusing on how players earn real money by trading items like fruits from Blox Fruits and GPO. The narrator shares personal experiences from four years ago, explaining how the market operates on Discord, the role of game developers, and the ethical dilemmas involved. ### Key Points - **Introduction to Roblox Black Market** [00:01] — The narrator discovered the black market for Roblox items four years ago through a friend named Wi, who taught him how to earn real money by trading items. - **How the Black Market Works** [01:10] — The market operates mainly on Discord servers where players buy and sell items. For example, a Kitsune fruit Game Pass costs 4000 Robux officially but can be bought for 140 Robux on the black market. - **Developer Stance and Enforcement** [02:08] — Developers like Foo (GPO) do not support the black market and ban players caught trading. However, enforcement is difficult due to the volume of trades, and bans often result from reports. - **Requirements for Black Market to Exist** [03:03] — The market requires a trading system within the game. Prices depend on the game and item rarity. Cheating to farm items is common, driving prices down. - **Price Changes Over Time** [03:42] — In the past, fruits like Magma and Phoenix were expensive (e.g., Phoenix at R40), but prices have dropped significantly (e.g., R15 for some items). - **Ethical Perspective** [04:08] — The narrator finds cheating problematic but argues that if a player farms an item legitimately and sells it, it's acceptable. The market benefits both buyers and sellers. ### Conclusion The Roblox black market for in-game items is a thriving ecosystem where players can earn real money, but it raises ethical questions about cheating and developer enforcement. The narrator remains an observer rather than an active participant. ## Transcript you farm? Well, I didn't know that until 4 years ago. And how I that introduced me to this new world and these new possibilities was great, around update 3.5. At that time, it was very difficult to farm any late-game boss or even to farm any fruit in the game. To give you an idea, the maximum level was 250, which made it almost impossible for a late-game player to solo a boss at the end of the game, like made players join Discord or I was in this game of farming with strangers when I met a guy named Wi. I'll just call him Wi because this happened 4 years ago. I don't remember the rest of his name. I tried to find him again to make this video, but my old Discord was hacked and it was all gone. So, if you're watching this Man, I miss you!" He was very strong in the game; he had many VIP servers... As we farmed together, we became that he told me how he managed to live solely playing Roblox. He was the first person to show me how black market, and it mainly operates on Discord. That's where item or a seller for the item you want. Let's take Kidsy from BlockX Fruit as an example. Currently, her Game Pass costs around 4000 Robux. My God, if you buy it from the official website, it will cost 200 little smarter and bought it from link in the description below). This Game Pass would cost 140 Robux. It's cheaper, But let's suppose you don't want to buy a Game Pass; you just want to play with the fruit, and that's it. So you go to one of these Discord servers and buy the fruit for, I don't know, R$ 80 and that's it, you have the item, you can eat it now and use you won't be buying her Game Pass, just her item, but even so, man, because you only want to play with Kitson and don't want to pay R140 for the Game this market is maintained. If you have a Mythical Fruit or a rare event item that doesn't happen anymore, you can be sure that someone is after that item at this not depends exclusively on the map owner. I'll take the GPO, Foo, as an example. He already said that he doesn't support this market, and if the admins catch someone doing this kind of trade, it will result in a ban, man. Foo, the same guy who supposedly, you have to say it this way, sold admin items, bars, fruits these same Discord servers. He can sell them, others can't, but most it, and it's also very difficult to get caught for it, man. Imagine you being the owner daily players, how are you supposed to do that? This will scrutinize every trade that happens within your this are caught because of reports, and even if you get caught, if you use your main account to go there and get banned, right? You'll either create items to them, or you'll use trading bots. This type of market doesn't work in all games since it's based real-world money and not on selling Game Passes or Robux. For this type of trade to work, the map logically needs to have a trading system for you'll sell the item for will depend exclusively on the map and the item. As this market has grown a lot in recent years, many people have started to enter it, and cheats to farm items more easily in maps like Block Fruit, where it's easy to use hacks. Many people manage to farm a lot of items and a lot of fruit using these cheats. Following the same logic, many people will also sell make these items and fruits cheaper. Using the same example as Will, my... My old friend used to make a lot of money selling GPO fruits to Americans and people living abroad. Back then, brother, the fruits were very expensive; there were was the Phoenix. I remember when he showed me this market back then, the most expensive fruits were the Magus and the Phoenix, the cheapest was the Rier, and it was like R40. The last time I checked this market, I managed to find R for R15. The prices of GPO items have dropped a lot in my opinion. I personally What I find messed up is the people who use cheats to get the items and end up disrupting other people's gameplay. But look, brother, if you went there, farmed the offered you money to buy that item, why wouldn't you sell it? You farmed the item, it's yours. Whether you want to sell it or not is up to you. Besides, there's 's buying. Sometimes the guy works all afternoon and only has time to play at he has, he doesn't want to keep it for a week. The whole group is farming to get the item, he 2.20. For him, it'll be good; for whoever sold it, it'll be good; and for everyone, it'll be good. also make it clear here that I didn't actively participate in this market, was the perception of someone who was just watching from the outside and wasn't was just watching from the outside and wasn't part of it.