LunarEden
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| 18 Mar 2012 09:34 PM |
Let me sum it up.
You look on the front page just to see a list of obstical courses and free modeled places.
You know. Those things we now complain about?
And once you go into one of those free-modeled obstical courses, there WILL be one person/small group around the first spawn that pushes you off of a ledge/into a deleter brick/lava.
That's right. Players could collide and harm eachother doing so.
Then, after some frustration and time, you get to a rewardless "congratulations" (On occasion) whereas now, you may get some sort of small reward while in the place. Things like a plane to fly around and disrupt other players.
Not only were the places similar to what we complain about nowadays, but the general architecture of places just seemed sloppy. There were no "Wedgeparts", just the mesh. And very few people knew how to put a mesh from the "Insert" menu into a Part. I myself am an example. I looked it up in the "Free Models" menu.
Not only did very few people know to use meshes, but even fewer knew how to resize them in the "Properties". People would use the meshes from hats and just leave them as they came. This made places very predictable, and as I said, very sloppy.
However, I, like some players, would generally just build. I did visit a places occasionally, sure, but I would mainly build my own. This was difficult, since the lack of the "Custom" formfactor, as well as the lack of some useful tools, such as smoke, fire, sparkles (Which, if I remember correctly, sparkles came out in '08/'09, if you're not picky about how far back you go to call it "old ROBLOX"), materials (Wood came out first, for those of you who didn't know that (Then slate)), vehicle seats (We used the OLD cars. The ones that required a tool, or the planes that required button activation. There were no launchers on the planes, either), and, of course, the knowledge that I possess now.
I remember that after a year on ROBLOX, I had about 45,000 visits. Then on another account (after my first account delete), I got 210,000 visits. Then after that delete, I said "Screw it, I'm making clothes", which in old ROBLOX, there were only T-shirts, which were named "Shirts", as the only clothing other than hats. Of course, after that last delete, it was after shirts/pants were out. Long after, as a matter of fact.
Next, one should notice how the balance has shifted between gameplay and the community. I've provided some examples about how the gameplay wasn't as good as now, however, the community was much better, despite what I've said about "pushers", as they were called, in obstacle courses. That whole "Post this 100 times for 100,000,000,000 tickets" thing? Hadn't been on ROBLOX yet. Maybe on other websites, but not ROBLOX. Nope, that started in 2009. Which is when (If I remember correctly, I could be wrong) the "hatsplosion" came into play. That was when we had all these hats pouring in every week. There were maybe 15-20 pages of hats way back when. Now there are hundreds. Everyone complained that the staff "made hats and didn't pay any attention to glitches or updates". Think about that one for a second, reader. Do you actually think that they would totally and completely ignore updates and glitches, since their entire staff only worked on hats?
I sure hope not. But a large amount of people did. And they complained more than needed. And that's under the circumstance that it was true.
So, let's recap, shall we?
-Places that mimic what we complain about now. -People in said places that will annoy you to no end (Refering to pushers). -Less of a "point" (For lack of a better term) in said places. -Sloppy places. -Great limitations in comparison to now. -General ignorance leading to said sloppy places. -Lack of unneccesary (yet helpful) features. -No present day shirts/pants. -A generally better community. -Many complaints due to ignorance. (I still consider the community better.) -No chain spam. -Much fewer hat count.
So, with those now fairly stated, I myself don't understand why people say that ROBLOX was better long ago. Then again, my opinion shouldn't and likely will not match everyone else's. That is definitely not a bad thing. But with these all out in the open, I only hope people don't keep talking about how all was right with the world just because ROBLOX was different.
Thank you for reading (To those that did...), and I hope you feel more well-informed on the subject. |
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| 18 Mar 2012 09:35 PM |
tl;dr
to sum it up.... 2008 was good 2009 was also good 2010 is the year it went down and 2006-2007 was just laggy and nothing much. |
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IpodPig
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LunarEden
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| 18 Mar 2012 09:36 PM |
"to sum it up.... 2008 was good 2009 was also good 2010 is the year it went down and 2006-2007 was just laggy and nothing much."
You didn't sum it up at all. |
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LolMeLol1
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custardo
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| 18 Mar 2012 09:37 PM |
Also, you guys want updates soo bad and hate them when we get it!
Contests, everybody couldn't wait! Now look
-I may be an idiot, but i'm not stupid!- |
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ZZRocks
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LunarEden
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:11 PM |
"mainly because i don't care about the past
it already happened "
Not everyone shares your mentality. |
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FAMOUSMnM
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IpodPig
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:12 PM |
| lol. |
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aygui12
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:12 PM |
Because old years were pwnage :)
~Sorry if I stepped on your dreams,you'll get over it :)
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:12 PM |
tl;dr
~EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED~ |
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:13 PM |
| ok |
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:13 PM |
k
~~In <3 with RT since '11~~ |
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LunarEden
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:41 PM |
"Because old years were pwnage :)"
Did you play back then? |
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LMQ
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IpodPig
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:43 PM |
| Don8 |
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:45 PM |
| The longer you stay on Roblox the less fun it becomes the same with anything else. |
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IpodPig
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:51 PM |
| Please marry me. |
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IpodPig
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:53 PM |
| lolwhy |
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IpodPig
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| 18 Mar 2012 10:55 PM |
| Don8 |
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| 18 Mar 2012 11:00 PM |
| Looking for EK? |
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