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| 17 Feb 2017 05:20 PM |
When I started playing roblox, even though I was at an age where I could not even compute 10 times 10, however, I knew the game was better then (2008-10). There was a huge diversity of games, like the platform, ROBLOX, wants. However, from around 2010 to 2012, there were just tycoons and obbys and they still are prevalent today. That, though, is not what I think is the major issue. I think that ROBLOX is, itself, messing up and not in many ways. First of all, ROBLOX has been going down with controversial changes. To begin with, the removal of tickets devastated everyone, including me I felt when I saw ### update it revealed that ROBLOX either A. Needs more money, or B. Is just being more greedy.. However, I hardly believe A since roblox said it has a large amount of concurrent users. Roblox has also been twitch streaming. While I will talk about this later in this essay, I have to point out now that it is a HUGE change. Later I will talk about it more in detail, but it has shown a lot of what ROBLOX is doing, and, I think it is for the worse. In general, ROBLOX has been going through major changes I believe are bad. Secondly, Roblox has been marketing their platform awkwardly. NOTICE: I AM BY NO MEANS A MARKETING EXPERT OF ANY EXTENT. However, I am completely confused by what Roblox's "audience" is supposed to be. Like Unity is meant for game developers, so is roblox. However, in my mind I cannot determine whether roblox wants to be for professional developers to be "Powering Imagination", but they still are advertising for kids. To be honest, there are some kid developers who are really good, such as AlvinBlox, however, people aren't getting access to the info they need. I have tried going on the wiki multiple times just to find myself more confused on what "i, v in pairs" even means or even the many roblox built-in functions. Even when ROBLOX piloted "Roblox University", it didn't teach many people anything at all where there was SO much potential. To sum this part up, roblox has been conveying to an unknown audience and has not maximizing on teaching, what I believe to be their programming audience, how to script. Thirdly, Roblox has been, once again, giving mixed messages with their Youtube, Twitch, and their Toys. When I heard roblox was going to be making a Twitch channel, I thought it was going to be great. I was actually pretty excited for it. However, as soon as I tuned into the 75k stream, I knew this [the stream] was going to make roblox worse. To just sum up the twitch portion of roblox, here is the following. 1. Let's Plays are not in ROBLOX HQ (to my belief) and aren't even better quality than some streamers besides roblox. 2. Bloxy's have been heavily biased (my opinion) and even then the horrible green screen effects and weird commercials have made it not worth it to watch. 3. Snowed-in tournaments have been pretty good, however, half th###ime roblox's own employees don't know when th###ame is set up without having to talk in th###icrophone and notify everyone they don't know
4. (For All) ROBLOX LOOPS SO MANY CLIPS. I will not try to get angry here, but it is annoying when you're watching a stream but instead its just videos looped OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. Now onto Youtube...This could have been great for roblox, however, like I said before, there is more MISSED OPPORTUNITIES at this. 1. Don't post anything SIGNIFICANT about programming that actually teaches you something that you'll remember 2. Pratically rip their looped videos on twitch and put them on their youtube so you can enjoy the video you have watched 5+ times more. 3. Half of time doesn't reflect what is actually happening in roblox Now toys, this is going to be short since I don't have information. However, like I said before, it is giving mixed messages and WHY WOULD A 13 YEAR OLD WANT A TOY? In general, Roblox gives more mixed messages with their social media accounts and their toy brand. To sum this up, I am concerned about ROBLOX because they are giving mixed messages and are making their game more worse and pay-to-play. Sincerely thank you for reading all of this (even if you didn't), FrostGalaxyGamer
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:21 PM |
tl;dr
I'm a Ice Guardian, I protect the snow, got a cold? Santa Clause is coming to_night!. |
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:22 PM |
A summarized version would be I think roblox is bad since their marketing is unclear, they are making their game worse, and more.
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:22 PM |
"To begin with, the removal of tickets devastated everyone"
Don't say everyone, because me and others were NOT devastated when tickets were removed. Even if most people were devastated, most is surely not "everyone"
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:22 PM |
tldr
I'm a 11'er, not a 17'er, don't call me a 17'er. |
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:23 PM |
It did show roblox getting more greedy and that was my main point there.
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:29 PM |
I'm pretty sure David doesn't even know what he's doing these days. No one does. |
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:35 PM |
"To begin with, the removal of tickets devastated everyone"
I never found Tix useful |
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:42 PM |
actually managed to get through that wall of text. Yes, Roblox did reveal that they were being VERY greedy with the removal of tix (Have you seen how many bacon hair 3.0s there are nowdays) but the concern (and the cause of all the hashtags) is with the incidents with young children seeing inappropriate content. At the moment, Roblox's playerbase is just to large for it to close because of everyone quitting, however it may get shutdown by a child protection company or something. Also i get what you mean by the roblox youtube and the twitch being quite weird, however you don't need to go to Roblox sources to learn how to script, just get a Lua book and read it then use Roblox university to link it with Roblox. And ### toys, i think they will sell well, there are a lot more younger kids on Roblox then there used to be, as long as they are not as expensive as the Minecraft toys, (i mean like £15 for a foam diamond sword, WHAT) Any i realized i am making this too long because of your's being so long, and some of it might not make sense because i am scrolling back into your massive wall of text) (Also there will likly be lots on tags in here so..) ~Scorpion |
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:43 PM |
you don't sound like someone who played in 08 but i'm just saying i played in 2011 and it was ok back then but now there's so many modern games
although now it seems roblox cares less about the website
but 2008 had a lot of bugs and glitches and not that many games so i like it now i just wish they would FIX THE BROKENN THINGS
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:46 PM |
"There was a huge diversity of games" no just no.
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:52 PM |
To clarify that, there was certain games that would pop up that would be very unique, but would get out shadowed by other, generic games
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:54 PM |
Typical complainer wanting "muh old roblox" back.
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:54 PM |
| David just showed up at roblox and was like "Hey i heard there was a job, I know nothing about sales, customer satisfaction, or kids." and roblox was like "sure!" |
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:55 PM |
you dont need to concern about the future of roblox because if dantdm is not leaving, the future of roblox is still very bright but not the bright you excepted
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:57 PM |
| >David just showed up at roblox and was like "Hey i heard there was a job, I know nothing about sales, customer satisfaction, or kids." and roblox was like "sure!" David created roblox ### ###### r+://622884386 r+://48811945 r+://164861361 |
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:57 PM |
Well then... To be honest, DanTDM is a tiny bit responsible for why I decided to make this, however, I can see where you coming from where how popular he is. I feel roblox needs to grow up with its users, and so far its like it went from 8 then to 13, then back to 8. While google mentions its marketed towards 8-18 year olds.
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:57 PM |
of course roblox censors that
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:57 PM |
I posted a simplifyed version if you browse replys
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:59 PM |
You say old roblox is better, no it isn't.
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| 17 Feb 2017 05:59 PM |
I don't want old roblox back, I just want roblox to go back to the morals it was founded upon. Because like PewDiePie, they might lose players [viewers] for changing [Pewds changed from lets plays to blogging].
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