Dreway
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| 05 Jan 2016 06:19 PM |
Hi guys! Here's my perspective on the current way that ROBLOX deals with events.
ROBLOX, I don't mind sponsored events and developer events, UNLESS they interfere with holiday events. Like many others, holiday events are a HUGE part of why I still play ROBLOX. If you separated holiday events from sponsored and dev-events, I can just ignore the sponsors if I choose to do so and just enjoy playing the events, like I used to. Honestly, a few admins chucking together an OK map and adding eggs is 100% better than a developer event and/or sponsored event egg hunt. I have now played through 3 egg hunts as of 2015, (I missed 2012 for some reason), and even 2014, which had many glitches, was WAY better than what we got last year. I actually liked the 2014 egg hunt when it came out, but some people didn't. Looking back, the 2014 egg hunt was a gem compared to 2015, or ANY dev and/or sponsor event that we will EVER get. As I said earlier, many ROBLOXians mostly play ROBLOX for events. What is happening is we are having around 25-75% of the entire reason we play this site stripped from us. Ever see those people wearing that t-shirt that says "Quit"? I am approaching my 5th full year on ROBLOX, and I will say, I am thinking abut quitting. I have bought Tbc, Bc, robux, and gift cards all funding you. Many people say that ROBLOX needs money to stay up and that's why they do sponsors/developer events, however, they are repelling the people who fund them, the people that bring revenue to their site; people like me. Many ROBLOXians have already lost hope, quitting the site, but I haven't. Why? Because I still know that ROBLOX has the ability to improve, even after events in the past. I still trust that. Some people have argued that recent events have just been catering to the people who have joined recently, the ones who haven't experienced prior events. It just irritates me and many other veterans when we get excited for, say the ROBLOX Holidays event, we join a game, and two minutes later, we find a horrifyingly ugly, fat chipmunk on the ground, and "Yippee!” that's our prize. Really? As I said earlier, at least putting in half-effort for an event is MUCH better than telling a Developer, a day before the event, "Hey, go put this chipmunk somewhere in your game." It just doesn't seem like you're even trying anymore. I remember that feeling of exhilaration when I found a new egg, and that feeling is just lost as of 2015. I am stuck in a confined space, with eggs that aren't even hidden. One of the things that really irked me was the fact that you earned eggs based off things like winning a round. (Some of you may recognize this from Epikrika's Egg Hunt 2015 Rant video. Check it out on YouTube.) Exploring a map and finding eggs really brought me wonder as I played prior hunts. As Epikrika said, this "Egg Hunt" just completely goes against everything that the word "Hunt" stands for. The Merriam-Webster definition of hunt is "to search for something or someone very carefully and thoroughly". Was I really "Searching for something very carefully", ("something" being eggs), when I earned an egg for winning "Murder Madness"? (Why would you put a game about Murder as an Easter event for children, too?) No, I wasn't and it took the hunt aspect of an egg hunt completely away. Some people could say, "But Dreway! What about Ripull's part of the Egg Hunt?" First, I'd like to give props to Ripull for at least trying to make a decent Egg Hunt. However, I will say that Ripull's Minigames did not come close to saving this Egg hunt. I mean, combined with the fact that his map was so massive with no teleports, eggs rarely spawned, and the fact that his map was the same mini-map pasted around with a few landmarks here and there, there were things that definitely could have been improved on. Now, I know he had 5 days to make the map. That is partially ROBLOX's fault and partially Ripull's. Partially ROBLOX's because they gave him the eggs 2 weeks before the event, and partially Ripull's because he waited 'til the last 5 days to make his map. (I did really like how Ripull brought back the 2013 Egg Hunt's audio; it brought back good memories.) As for Super Bomb Survival, the game is still good, but it just didn't seem like the creator put much effort into making the game an Easter game at all. I know that he designed it sort of like an egg drop, how they used to make the Easter event, but there were so many problems with this. Being in a confined box with deadly lightning eggs and one-hit-kill beehive eggs, really poses a problem when you are trying to run away from bombs. It's very hard to juggle all of these things at the same time. Another issue was eggs falling into lava, or characters falling into lava because of the eggs that tripped them, because lava was insta-killing them.
So, if any moderators, or perhaps anyone read this far, please take my perspective into consideration and spread the word. I and many others are getting tired of what we have been receiving lately. Just remember, I still know that ROBLOX is able to improve and some of us still haven’t given up yet.
Thank you, Dreway
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| 05 Jan 2016 06:21 PM |
Considering I didn't find this on the internet, he probably typed it all
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Dreway
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| 05 Jan 2016 06:24 PM |
@Bacon
I did type all of this out. It took around 30 minutes to type and proof-read all of it. |
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ChoasStar
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| 05 Jan 2016 06:26 PM |
tl;dr
#code ("Take a leak from the otherside!") |
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calirolls
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| 05 Jan 2016 06:27 PM |
and here class is the great wall of text
this person didn't space out their paragraphs which lead to an incredible display of how long a text wall can be |
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Dreway
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| 05 Jan 2016 06:30 PM |
@danbossstar321
TL;DR
Don't make sponsors interfere with holiday events. No more developer events. Put more effort into it, please. Listen to the community. |
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alexshi
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Zifto
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Dreway
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| 05 Jan 2016 06:32 PM |
@calirolls
I put tabs in between each paragraph which should be enough as it is. I also spaced a few paragraphs. |
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Dreway
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| 05 Jan 2016 06:33 PM |
@Zifto
If it was too long for you too read, just read the TL;DR that I posted earlier in the thread. |
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calirolls
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| 05 Jan 2016 06:33 PM |
| still difficult to read but i have read over it and i do agree with you so yay |
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| 05 Jan 2016 06:35 PM |
| everytime they've tried the commonly says it's awful |
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Dreway
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Dreway
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| 05 Jan 2016 08:11 PM |
"everytime they've tried the commonly says it's awful "
I'm just gonna assume that when you said "Commonly" that you meant "community."
I will say that this just isn't true. Take events like egg hunt 2013 and egg hunt 2012. Those are just a few of the many ROBLOX-loved events that they made in the past. |
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rbxbloxks
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| 05 Jan 2016 08:20 PM |
I think the twisted murderer section of the egg hunt was really fun, it's what got me into playing twisted murderer so much... but it was only annoying whenever those stupid egg splats got in your screen. ARRHGG! Ripull Minigames was annoying because I wanted to play minigames not "roam a stupidly oversized map with no spawns" (as I said)
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| 05 Jan 2016 08:22 PM |
tl;dr
(+1553 posts) wew lad http://www.roblox.com/wew-lad-item?id=316910488 |
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rbxbloxks
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| 05 Jan 2016 08:23 PM |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH1Q738UEsQ
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Xioano
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| 05 Jan 2016 08:24 PM |
Good read. Most of your points really marked out the key issues with the current state of ROBLOX events.
- Xioano | "Life isn't that easy, but you get to make it up by playing a virtual game."- unknwon |
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| 05 Jan 2016 09:26 PM |
I agree with you 100%. If any admins are listening we don't mind if there are sponsor events, just as long as we don't have sponsored Holiday events. After 2014's Summer Games (with the Adurite prizes) I was excited from 2015's Summer Games but what I got, What we got was a MINIONS event. It seems like ROBLOX hasn't cared about their users ever since Erik Cassel passed away.. R.I.P. Erik.
Guys i'm not trying to sound cheesy but if we get enough people to join in we may be able to save ROBLOX so lets get this thread to the top of the forums and MAKE SURE the admins see it FOR THE SAKE OF ROBLOX!
Egg hunt 2014 was great the only problem was the constant shutting down problems. Where is the games team they made the 2013 and 2014 memorable. #BringBackTheGamesTeam |
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Dreway
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| 05 Jan 2016 09:57 PM |
To everyone who keeps saying "tl;dr",
I gave you one earlier in the thread. |
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zarek1139
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