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Re: Let's talk about this year's upcoming Giftsplosion...

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Siccity is not online. Siccity
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07 Oct 2015 11:21 PM
After 2012's disappointment of a Giftsplosion, they managed to make 2013 really enjoyable by making it a challenging, varied event that required the community to work together to solve the riddles necessary to earn most of the gifts. Not only that, but pretty much anyone could get at least a third or even half of the gifts.

2014's Giftsplosion, though, got rid of pretty much everything that made previous Giftsplosions fun. They made none of the gifts difficult to solve at all; you could either figure it out within seconds of just looking at the info, and some of them even outright stated the requirements in the description.

Plus, pretty much all of the gifts obtainable by players who weren't famous or rich (and I'm saying this while having 100k+ robux) weren't even interesting. Two that stand out, specifically, are the badge hunting one, which was overwhelmingly easy and fairly boring, and the Friday the 13th gift, which was only available for 13 minutes and was completely unannounced.

Every other gift was pretty much designed with developers in mind: having a certain number of thumbs up, three for being in the top percentile of developers, and having a model with a specific number of takes are just a small sample of the majority of the gift from 2014.

I remember some staff saying they made the large amount of developer-exclusive gifts in order to "reward developers", but haven't they already been "rewarded" enough? They get:

- The ability to make real money off of their ROBLOX game
- Endorsement by ROBLOX itself for their games
- At least a couple gifts annualy, always including the biggest one (which nobody complains about, since that's been tradition for years)
- The ability to host events on their games, not only getting paid by ROBLOX but also getting an increased amount of revenue during the event

I'm not saying that they're given too much, but they've certainly been rewarded for being what generates ROBLOX money.

Over the past year, we've already lost the inspired, original event games we used to get, and at this point it's pointless to try and get them back (although Quenty and Davidii's portion of the upcoming event seems interesting, the rest of it is in pre-existing places AND is a Nerf sponsor). Is it too much to ask that we don't lose what makes giftsplosions fun, too?

I'm hoping that ROBLOX'll pull another 2013 Giftsplosion, and make it far better than the previous year's, but I don't know how much longer I can keep holding out hope :/

TLDR: 2014's was bad, and it's getting harder to hope this year's will be better based on ROBLOX's current year-long streak of boring, unoriginal events.
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BaconParadox is not online. BaconParadox
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07 Oct 2015 11:22 PM
Let's talk about when I get a dominus instead ;3


But I don't expect Roblox highly due to their degraded quality into dependent on developers and biasness



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Ajaxurus is not online. Ajaxurus
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07 Oct 2015 11:23 PM
i kind of liked 2012 ;c


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Siccity is not online. Siccity
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07 Oct 2015 11:25 PM
@Ajax

In retrospect, especially compared to 2014, it wasn't terrible. In my personal opinion, though, it was far behind any of the other Giftsplosions we'd previously had.
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BaconParadox is not online. BaconParadox
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07 Oct 2015 11:26 PM
2012 was really BC orientated.
2013 was event and features orientated
2014 was developer orientated.

each year has a semi theme



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Siccity is not online. Siccity
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07 Oct 2015 11:28 PM
@Bacon

Kinda, but the problem is that you're comparing 2013's to the two Giftsplosions commonly agreed to be the worst. Most other Giftsplosions were really similar to 2013, except they were a little more obscure with some of the gifts.
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Ajaxurus is not online. Ajaxurus
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07 Oct 2015 11:32 PM
this years better be good :|


#code print("FusionFall Legacy Is here")
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BaconParadox is not online. BaconParadox
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07 Oct 2015 11:34 PM
I'd really like to compare to the 2011 and 2010 giftplosions, but I had little knowledge and care on those on my old account when I was younger

By scrapping info, the older giftplosions were more random and not orientated. Giftplosions 2012 and past have an objective theme for the general event. Back then, supposedly, it's really random and miscellaneous of cool assortments



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Ajaxurus is not online. Ajaxurus
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07 Oct 2015 11:36 PM
i took the wayback machine and found this in the 2011 category!
ahh look at that theme
https://web.archive.org/web/20110312110058/http://www.roblox.com/


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Siccity is not online. Siccity
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07 Oct 2015 11:38 PM
Which is why 2013 is considered to one of, if not the, best.

It managed to combine the concepts of 2011 and prior Giftsplosions while still showcasing new updates, in that there were varied gifts that required solving riddles to obtain them like the early Giftsplosions, while managing to make some of them related to new features without shoving it down people's throats.
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Redinosaur is not online. Redinosaur
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07 Oct 2015 11:39 PM
2013 and 2011 were the best giftsplosion years IMO

even the harder to get gifts in 2013 like the Impossibility gift were open up to the public to get and was a badge hunt anybody could do
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BaconParadox is not online. BaconParadox
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07 Oct 2015 11:40 PM
That's the really likable part of 2013 to many people it seems yes.

However, now in 2015, Roblox loses the eccentric pioneering development of hats. They're usually released in sets which further hampers originality.



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Siccity is not online. Siccity
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07 Oct 2015 11:51 PM
@Redino

That's a really good point. You weren't excluded from the Giftsplosion solely because of how famous or successful you were on ROBLOX; you could get some of the hardest gifts if you put the time and effort into trying to figure it out.

That's another thing that made 2013 great, and 2014 lackluster.
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Mobiius is not online. Mobiius
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07 Oct 2015 11:53 PM
~Another Dev Event~ = ~Another Crappy Giftsplosion~
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PartyMonsterToast is not online. PartyMonsterToast
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08 Oct 2015 12:16 AM
wow this is great i actually read the whole thing 1. thanks for not putting the words together mashing them up and stuff

2 i agree the last hope i have for roblox as if they shape up in 2016 and im talking about 2016 wintergames If that game isn't made by the game team or if they haven't came up with a better plan then DEveloper events then i lost hope


-hair flip-
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LMQ is not online. LMQ
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08 Oct 2015 12:17 AM
Omg hi Siccity


Nice thread agreed
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PartyMonsterToast is not online. PartyMonsterToast
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08 Oct 2015 01:17 AM
omf im not even going to lie the Gift with the hungergames Badge to get in giftsplosion had me Raging people kept allying making it harder


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Siccity is not online. Siccity
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08 Oct 2015 09:48 PM
@Party

Thanks for liking my post. I tend to write waaaay better when I'm half asleep for some reason, lol.

Also, hi LMQ!
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