With game ownership transfer, you can transfer your games to groups you have publish access to. This unlocks all of the features available to groups, including permissions and revenue management, and allows you to efficiently manage your content as your team scales and your priorities shift.
Prerequisites
Before making a transfer or accepting a transfer, you must first:
- Verify your email address.
- Upload your private ModuleScripts and InsertService asset usages to the group you're transferring the game to. If the game uses packages where the package owner is a user and not a group, you might have to recreate those packages or replace them with packages that are already owned by a group.
If you use Open Cloud API keys for the game, be aware that the effective permissions of an API key are determined by the access of the user who last generated the API key. If the transfer changes that user's access to the game, the effective permissions of the API key change accordingly.
In many cases, transfers have no impact on existing API keys. For example, if you transfer a game from your user account to a group you own, your access stays equivalent and existing API keys continue to work as before.
If the transfer does change access, for instance, when you transfer to a group you do not own, or the original owner loses access, you should create new API keys under an account that has the appropriate access for the game.
Transfer a game
To transfer a game to a group:
Go to Creations and choose the game you want to transfer.
Go to Configure ⟩ Settings.
Click Initiate ownership transfer.
In the Transfer Details dialog, carefully read and acknowledge the implications of the transfer. Then, click Next.
Select a group to transfer the game to. You must be able to publish games to this group.
Verify the transfer by entering the game name.
Click Initiate transfer. The Content Settings page updates to include the pending group's username.
Once the group accepts the transfer, Roblox makes your game private and closes all servers associated with it. The transfer process typically completes in a few minutes but may take longer for complex games.
To cancel a pending transfer, click Cancel transfer request in the Content Settings page.
Receive a transferred game
To receive a transferred game:
Go to the game page of the game you're receiving. You can navigate to this page by clicking the transfer request notification you received when the game's current owner initiated the transfer, or by directly getting the overview page link from the current owner.
In the Transfer Details dialog, carefully read and acknowledge the implications of the transfer. Then, click Next.
Verify the transfer by entering the game name.
Click Accept transfer.
Once your group accepts the transfer, Roblox makes the game private and closes all servers associated with it. The transfer process typically completes in a few minutes but may take longer for complex games.
After the transfer to your group is complete, set up any new permissions you need and make the game public again.
Frequently asked questions
The transferred game retains its old game ID, place ID, and URL.
Yes, transfer requests expire after 7 days.
After receiving a transferred game, you must wait 30 days to transfer that game again.
You can continue making changes to the game until the new group owner accepts the transfer and the transfer process begins. Changes you make during the active transfer process specifically aren't carried over.
Roblox removes credit card information when you transfer a game.
The group you transferred your game to receives the revenue from any existing private server subscriptions. This revenue does not respect any group or game revenue splitting.
New private server subscriptions respect revenue splitting.
Transferring a game doesn't impact search as long as the game's title remains the same, the new group owner is not a moderated account, and the game is made public again after the transfer.
Note that transferring a game can impact discovery for up to 24 hours after the new group owner makes the game public again.