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Re: Roblox needs to focus on the community, Here's why

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parsoktek is not online. parsoktek
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14 Apr 2016 08:48 PM
(I am not breaking any Roblox rule. All you are doing is oppressing free speech, that is even further proof that you are greedy. Feel free to be ashamed about this.)
I am tired of greedy devs, bad company decisions, people defending Roblox, and people flaming anti-tix removal people. They need to learn, that removing TIX is NOT A GOOD DECISION. I was outraged that the Trade Currency was changed, and everything got way expensive. NOW THEY REMOVE A CURRENCY THAT I USED FOR MOST OF MY ROBLOX LIFE. TELL ME, HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE ROBLOX PROVIDED A GOOD UPDATE? 1 year? 2 years? I would say 3. The supporters of Roblox wants this game to be a Dev platform. IT IS NOT A DEV PLATFORM, IT IS A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN GAME.

Before you say "OGM Another TIX thread!" THIS IS NOT A TIX THREAD. I WILL EXPLAIN.

Have you seen old ROBLOX? No? That is what I thought. Let me explain. In old ROBLOX, the company actually listened to the community. The community was always happy, and there were a lot of quality games. DO YOU UNDERSTAND YET? No? Well, let me explain more. Roblox actually replied to their community's feedback. They improved the engine to what they wanted. That is why there were a lot of quality games in old ROBLOX.

Now, let me tell you this, The reason why Egg Hunt 2013 is widely recognized as the best event on ROBLOX, is because that it shows the Games Team at it's finest. They got feedback from the community, and planned the event ahead of time. About 80% of the community thought that this was the greatest event of all time on ROBLOX. The only people that don't like the event was accounts that were created ahead of the date, and people who like the new events.

Now let's go back to Modern Roblox (2014-present). Late 2013 was when everything that made ROBLOX good went down. First came the Price Floors, then came Tax, then Paid Access, then DevEx, then Devents, then the original Friends system, then the community got poisoned with "cancer games", then the old Profiles got replaced, the the old avatar was planned to be completely replaced, and now they are removing a currency that almost everyone depended on at the start of ROBLOX. After the removal of TIX, all of the nostalgia of old ROBLOX is gone. Old players won't have any reason to be on ROBLOX anymore. I think you know the rest of the bad updates.

So, you want to know what will happen? Well, I'll explain.
1. About 20-75% of the community leaves.
2. Clothing companies are pretty much dead.
3. War groups are pretty much dead.
4. Small devs are affected, and leave.
5. Big devs cannot make as much money, so they make their game P2W.
6. Since none of the Robloxians can find quality games, even more people leave.
7. Roblox does Devents again, causing outcry among the remaments of the community
8. In protest of this, no Robloxians buy Robux or BC anymore.
9. Since Big devs do not gain any money, they leave. There is no small, or rising devs to take their place.
10. Shirts, T-shirts, and Pants, are repeatedly cloned, removing quality of clothing.
11. So is gear, hats, and packages.
12. Even more people leave because of this.
13. Roblox eventually goes bankrupt and collapses under inflation, and financial trouble.
See what happens when Roblox makes a small change? They take out most of the community. Many people quit for bad updates as well.

I can summarize ROBLOX making this decision in 1 word: GREEDY. IT IS COMFIRMED. ROBLOX IS GREEDY. IT IS ALSO CONFIRMED THAT THIS IS THE WORST UPDATE IN THE HISTORY OF ROBLOX. No one is safe this time. I TELL YOU. NO ONE. I AM NOT OVERREACTING. I AM SERIOUS. IT'S THE END OF ROBLOX AS WE KNOW IT. I AM NOT WRONG.

"We are getting free hats"
Yay free hats! (Sarcasm)
Seriously, what is good with free hats? TELL ME, I DARE YOU!

"This was made to simplify the economy"
ABSOULTELY OUTRAGEOUS. If it did anything, it angered the community. It did nothing good.

"Agreed"/"Support"
Well that's great.

"OGM another TIX thread!"
FOR THE LAST TIME, THIS IS NOT A TIX THREAD.

"We are getting free Robux"
I don't have ANY PROOF that we are getting free Robux.

"..."
Well, that's great.

"Roblox is a Dev platform"
Looks like you did not read.

"TL;DR"
nope.avi

"Seriously, TL;DR"
You can read this in about 5-10 minutes.

"Word wall"
Seriously? This is not a word wall. I even paragraphed it.

I can sum up my reaction to Roblox removing TIX in 3 words: I. Am. Done. Not even capitalizing it.

Thanks for reading it.

-Parsoktek.
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2013henry is not online. 2013henry
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14 Apr 2016 08:53 PM
Ok
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SirSaberX is not online. SirSaberX
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14 Apr 2016 08:53 PM
OGM Another TIX thread!
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StereoUser is not online. StereoUser
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14 Apr 2016 08:55 PM
May as well add my forum post as well:

--I KNOW THIS IS LONG, BUT PLEASE READ IT. IT WILL BE WORTH IT IN THE END.--

ROBLOX, according to the long-time players, has been arguably getting worse and worse over the years. However, many people are considering this their final straw. Here I am today to explain just why many fans are upset with these decisions, and how ROBLOX should change this. While it is highly unlikely that any higher up will see or let alone listen to this thread (see Exhibit B), this is a compilation for all of the people that think the people complaining are "annoying" or "selfish".

Exhibit A - Emphasis on "developers", excessive use of the word and many others

In the past, ROBLOX used to be about building, thinking outside the box, and doing a bit of coding. Ultimately the goal of ROBLOX was to let your creativity flow in a sandbox environment. However, ROBLOX is slowly taking this expression of creativity away from us, and putting more emphasis on "developers".

For one, the excessive use of the word "developers" tends to be very annoying. It makes it sound as if these people are actual game developers - which they are not. The word is almost always used both on their blog and in video presentations. It is frankly very annoying and it seems to be all ROBLOX cares about at this point. Back in the heydays of ROBLOX, silly and fun games mixed with serious and complex games made up the front page. Creativity and, dare I say it - "mindless fun" - was what ROBLOX was built upon, and now ROBLOX has been taking this so-called "mindless fun" away from us and replacing it slowly with a modern "developer" focus. It seems very unlike ROBLOX to take this approach, and many people would still like the simple, think-outside-the-box that old ROBLOX offered. A good alternative to this approach would be Blockland, and a good alternative to the "developer" approach would be something like Unity or Unreal Engine (which ROBLOX has compared itself to, laughably), but please keep it out of my ROBLOX and stop shoving it down my throat.

What also tends to annoy people is the use of the word "platform" when referring to ROBLOX. ROBLOX is not, and never will be, a game creation tool - which is what the use of this word makes it seem like it is. A "platform" generally lets developers create real games with some skill and put them in the common marketplace. While ROBLOX does offer this, it seems like a stretch, and with ROBLOX's aforementioned comparison of itself to legitimate game creation tools - it seems quite clear that their intention is to seem like a legitimate game-creation tool - which it so blatantly is not, as the "games" made with it are limited to its website and its browser.

Other terms that tend to get on my - and many others' - nerves are "revenue" (come on, ROBLOX, really? "revenue"?) and "economy" (lol, just no).

Exhibit B - Less Expression of the People

ROBLOX very rarely lets the players help decide what changes or features will be made. One could say the same save for the S&I board, which stands for "Suggestions & Ideas". However, ROBLOX has shown a more particular bias towards what they consider their "new frontiers". Take this, for example.

Say on S&I, these six threads were made. Take a guess at which two threads ROBLOX would listen to:

Thread A - "Easier Ways for NBCers to Earn Currency"
Thread B - "Improvements to the Advertising System"
Thread C - "Bring Back Tickets"
Thread D - "Improvements to Stamper Tools"
Thread E - "Lua and Studio Improvements"
Thread F - "Easier Building Tools"

If you guessed Thread B and Thread E, you were correct. ROBLOX seems biased to all who will give in to their "developer" crap. They simply do not care what the players think.

Exhibit C - Borderline Propaganda

Kind of adding to Exhibit B, expression is very limited to the people. People cannot say anything bad about ROBLOX - especially its moderators - without landing themselves at least a 1-day ban. This has caused me to get 2 1-day bans for "spamming", simply for being a critic of ROBLOX. What gives?

The answer is simple. ROBLOX wants to filter out everything they don't think is going to help their image. This is particularly evil and it sounds like they have greedy intentions - which obviously seems to be the case here. A forum mod even admitted to my face that they filter out the ROBLOX Blog posts that they don't like so only "nice thoughts" will be kept.

Yeah, really helps your image, doesn't it.

Exhibit D - Removal of Beloved Features for No Apparent Reason

I think a lot of people know where I'm going with this. As a lot of you may know, tickets have recently been removed. ROBLOX has made up about 4 excuses for this - all in the SAME BLOG POST. One is that tickets "were confusing to new users". It sure as hell wasn't confusing for 9-year-old me in 2011, so why would it be confusing for new users now?

ROBLOX also recently announced that they will be removing personal servers because they "aren't popular". Umm? An entire subcommunity has been formed over personal server nations, and a lot of us (including myself) only stay on here because of PBS servers. Yeah, they have declined in popularity, but this is no good reason to remove them altogether! What is the point of removing such a beloved feature? That's right - none! There was absolutely no good reason to remove PBS servers.

Final Word

ROBLOX needs to step it up and get their crap together, or eventually they could start heading into a deep, dark place that no company ever wants to go to. As an avid ROBLOX player for almost 5 years now, I am actually heartbroken by all of these awful decisions ROBLOX has made to hurt their own community - just because they can!

I will end it with this. I sincerely hope ROBLOX gets it together, or they could be headed straight to doom.

-StereoUser



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KokuZ is not online. KokuZ
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14 Apr 2016 08:56 PM
tl;dr
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leeham123 is not online. leeham123
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14 Apr 2016 08:56 PM
tl;dr
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REALkittyAndCats is not online. REALkittyAndCats
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14 Apr 2016 08:57 PM
tl;dr
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parsoktek is not online. parsoktek
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14 Apr 2016 08:57 PM
Read above.
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Demon_overlord is not online. Demon_overlord
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14 Apr 2016 08:57 PM
tl;dr


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CosmicPigeon is not online. CosmicPigeon
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14 Apr 2016 08:58 PM
IK IT OUTRAGEOUS THE SAME GAMES BEEN ON FRONT PAGE FOR YEAR



BUT R15 IS GOOD UPDATE


https://www.roblox.com/oh-ja-item?id=324615033
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faduli is not online. faduli
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14 Apr 2016 08:58 PM
I still have many of the eggs from the 2013 egg hunt.
Its the bae hunt
Its the best egg hunt so far
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sovalye is not online. sovalye
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14 Apr 2016 08:59 PM
tl;dr


https://web.roblox.com/No-Tix-No-Chix-item?id=398699526 No Tix No Chix
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sovalye is not online. sovalye
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14 Apr 2016 08:59 PM
tl;dr


https://web.roblox.com/--item?id=398699526 No Tix No Chix
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youbms is not online. youbms
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14 Apr 2016 09:00 PM
tl;dr version?




_siggy not found_
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SirSaberX is not online. SirSaberX
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14 Apr 2016 09:00 PM
𝕥𝕝;𝕕𝕣
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matt4560 is not online. matt4560
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14 Apr 2016 09:01 PM
Oh jeez, this is all so true that is scares me. e.e
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14 Apr 2016 09:02 PM
KEEP THE TL;DR AND 𝕥𝕝;𝕕𝕣 GOING CMON!!! TL;DR AND 𝕥𝕝;𝕕𝕣 RULE WE WILL WIN!
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matt4560 is not online. matt4560
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14 Apr 2016 09:02 PM
It* -.-
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LovelyCosmicStar is not online. LovelyCosmicStar
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14 Apr 2016 09:03 PM
Lol kids spamming tl;Dr

Agreed but roblox will die
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14 Apr 2016 09:06 PM
No censorship yet? Amazing!
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14 Apr 2016 09:08 PM
Applause to both parsoktek and StereoUser, bravo, bravo!


https://www.roblox.com/Strange-Isnt-It-item?id=333622144 https://www.roblox.com/Strange-isnt-it-scene-from-Sonic-OVA-item?id=37898901 Trade, please? https://www.roblox.com/Trade/TradeWindow.aspx?TradePartnerID=10376273
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EthanTanya is not online. EthanTanya
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14 Apr 2016 09:11 PM
tl;dr = too lazy, didn't read


Tickets>Robux
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Ghost0ps is not online. Ghost0ps
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14 Apr 2016 09:14 PM
I can summarize ROBLOX making this decision in 1 word: GREEDY. IT IS COMFIRMED. ROBLOX IS GREEDY. IT IS ALSO CONFIRMED THAT THIS IS THE WORST UPDATE IN THE HISTORY OF ROBLOX. No one is safe this time. I TELL YOU. NO ONE. I AM NOT OVERREACTING. I AM SERIOUS. IT'S THE END OF ROBLOX AS WE KNOW IT. I AM NOT WRONG.


all because roblox removed tickets, going to kick back & relax as I watch this community fall apart.
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ProYan is online. ProYan
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14 Apr 2016 09:16 PM
@paro I love all that stuff you say which is actually true and me and my old friend go way back from 2008 and we see all these dam changes what has ROBLOX done and sadly ROBLOX is going to be in some major problems now.... Many people r quitting as we speak, not a lot of groups or stuff will be going active and sales on cards will decrease! Idk what ROBLOX is doing but they need to fix something or else! I managed to become a progressed trader and have 3 dominus hats and I'm trying to go for aueres but since I read this, I think it's not even worth it...... ROBLOX is greedy and has been ever since Telamon/shedletsky, clockwork, miked, bricks mason or Erik cassel (r.i.p ERIK) r gone it's just horribly changing. I don't even feel like spending some Robux for future limiteds I might want for my low Dominus collection....... Now all my old friends got deleted cause of that friend update and my old best friend that ok in RL stop playing ROBLOX and I'm the only one playing now...... ROBLOX is ruined now man....... I miss classic ROBLOX....
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14 Apr 2016 09:16 PM
tl;dr



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