Agreed. Bring the forums back.
People saying that it wouldn't be important anymore never formed. I had 37k+ posts. The community I had on LMaD was great and we hosted gameshows for limiteds, among other things, and really fostered a community. Limiteds, while they still hold a ton of weight, feel like they had more power back then.
As someone who was there when it happened I don’t want it back as much as you do. I did meet some of the best people I’ve ever met through roblox and it’s forums and I’ve also seen some of the most vile shit there. I miss what it was, not what it became. There’s actually still most of the major forums on discord for most part and going to them will remind you why it died. I still see a lot of the same people. People my age too (24) and way older. Still acting a fool the same way they did a decade ago.
imo they're not relevant anymore. Old roblox needed them as a gathering and discussion place, but with stuff like reddit and discord, it just isn't needed anymore
Eh.. I honestly don't miss the forums. They were extremely hard to moderate properly, and some (cough, Off Topic) ended up being horrifically toxic places. Maybe it'd be different today with the more stringent filters, but when I used them, they were not great.
I could honestly go on a whole rant about things I think Roblox did poorly, but I’ll just name a few.
The removal of the ‘oof’ sound, like you said. It’s not a *huge* deal because it doesn’t affect gameplay or whatever. But it does upset me that they’d remove something so iconic.
Rthro avatars. I know their goal was to expand user’s avatar customization options, but I will always feel that Rthro avatars look so out-of-place on the site (and are super ugly). Most people only use them for goofs, anyway.
And, of course, the removal of seasonal events. Specifically, the egg hunts. Eggs Hunts were the biggest event of the year. I especially loved the 2018 one. I loved collecting silly little eggs and being able to wear them on my head on other games. It was fun. There was no logical reason to remove them.
I honestly wish we would have like a “2018 roblox celebration” where we all dress in 2018-2017ish outfits and wear the eggs we found-
It probably won't happen but still-
With UGC, and in-game earnable free items, there will surely be player-ran holiday events, potentially better than the official ones. (I still agree they should bring them back, though.)
I hate how hard Roblox is trying to make rthro happen when literally no one likes it. 90% of the people who use it are using it ironically and the other 10% are kids who were born in 2019 and haven’t gained consciousness yet. You could argue that they’re trying to attract more of that type of audience but most little kids on Roblox still use the classic avatars.
makes sense. they probably should have taken that as a sign, but still. to me, rthro is actually less customizable than R6/R15. a lot of the rthro packages have clothes on them prior, so you cant really put classic clothes on them. you would need to use layerd clothing, but you need to be in UGC program and know how to model clothes. classic clothing allows you to make a randome shirt with ms paint. oh jeez i am starting to rant huh? fun fact: i didnt know rthro existed in 2019 when i joined
back when best friends was a feature, there was also no friend cap, and no followers feature either
i know this because i myself had 3000 friends on my account (i was an idiot kid that friend requested every person on every server all the time)
i sorted the people i *actually* knew and played games with into the best friends list
then they added the friend cap of 200 and the followers, and best friends got removed
I basically never add new friends because it clogs my list and makes my actual friends hard to find. Would be nice to have a separate list that allows me to build a little reoccurring community again
Personal Servers. A lot of them were of course filled with "(obby for Robux!" scams but sometimes you'd pop into one and find someone creating amazing things realtime. Sometimes just fun to hang out in.
It takes so long to find a decent game. Now it’s just “Skibi Toilet Morphs” or “Escape Poppy Playtime Obby” and of course, the copy paste tycoons with a little bit of no effort decoration. Not implying that most “morph” games and obby games aren’t copy-paste either.
what ARE skibi toilets? i only recently heard about that trend and it seems like its everywhere. all the "trending" models in the toolbox are skibi toilets and its honestly confusing
wait you don't want to "play" a game where you sit and wait or click until you have enough money to buy the next colorful thing and do that over and over again?
Tix could be added back as a free currency but wont be able to exchange it to robux like it used to be.
I dont much of a point to add guests back since you can create an account for free. It also makes it less likely to have reoccurring players.
Builders club is Roblox premium just with no levels.
The other things i 100% agree with.
>I dont much of a point to add guests back since you can create an account for free. It also makes it less likely to have reoccurring players.
I fully agree, but I think most people are nostalgic for guests for no real reason other than being reminded of another era.
As a 2014 user, the old website, man it is so much better than today’s one, more character and way more features. Obviously there are more things I prefer.
It's really corporate now with builders club being premium, robux becoming a gold coin instead of an actual roblox currency and the website becoming grey and dull, its as if you took legos, made them out of metal and only made skyscraper and city builds
It all sort of blends together, and a lot of the things I miss probably wouldn't hold up today. We have oodles of so many great advancements, *but* the one thing I absolutely miss is a colorful site design with character.
2008 through 2009 was peak for my experience, but it's totally unprofessional by today's standards. Easier on the eyes than bleak grey and white though!
2014-2016 was peak site design imo. Roblox didn’t have the cheese it logo and the site was cleanly designed but had character and color. Best layout and best design
above all else, I just really wish roblox would stop changing the engine in ways that breaks old games. they don't care about preservation at all, and it hurts
super roblox rush and the a roblox quest series come to mind for me
there was also a recent-ish update (like a year ago) that broke music in pretty much all games, so if the dev didn't/wasn't able to go back and fix it then it was kinda screwed there
Tix, oof, games that were made out of passion and not just to make money. I miss when roblox wasn't monetized and modernized to shit. There's still some games that feel like old roblox but it's outweighed by all the new stuff.
Have you played BIG Paintball before? It used to be pretty good but now you can’t join a server without a hacker, and they constantly push gun packs that cost well over 1k robux.
2016-2017 isnt even that early, roblox was well into its hayday by that point. 2016 saw a massive change in how many players were joining. On the graphs of player count it would always shoot right up at 2016.
Wtf, 2018 is considered early Roblox now???
Jeez guess I'm old, well I guess what I missed most was the red logo, the red dorito was fine.. didnt know why they had to make it gray..
I’m old too, apparently.
I joined in January 2011 and part of me wants to scream that 2018 can’t be early and that 2015 is the absolute latest I’d consider you joining and still be an old account. But 2018 was five years ago so maybe I’m just grumpy.
I mean, I started my account in fourth grade and now I’m sitting here typing this from my big boy real adult office job. It’s kinda wild.
isn’t it so insane how people’s perception of “old” and “new” changes as a game ages? i also joined in 2011 (june) and reading this thread kinda has me feeling like a dinosaur 😭. i completely relate to being old and grumpy about what dates are considered early/peak roblox, lol.
I used to play roblox a lot as a kid and it felt like actual happiness and like it had come to life, and now it's soulless. It's like seeing the kindest kid in your elementary school turn into the worst version of themself in high school.
I just don't think I should exclude 2018 or 2006, of course they're different, but the thing they have in common is that they're the old Roblox days, that's why I included them as one. No hate btw
IMO tix being removed is probably the latest I'd consider to be "old roblox" and even then roblox had been public for a decade. I would personally consider old Roblox to be 2006-2013 but I understand that alot of current players are too young to relate to that so yes, 2018 would seem "old", relatively speaking.
But they arent the old roblox days though, 2018 is well into modern roblox territory. Like the other guy said old roblox is probably 2006 to 2013 or even earlier.
back when the games weren’t littered with 25 gui overlays for paid robux microtransactions reminiscent of modern day mobile games and you could actually see what you were playing, that and the overall simplicity of the design of roblox
The nostalgic feel of classic games that didn't have so much clutter and monetization features and was just stupid fun. Back then it was a website built for kids and having fun, now it's a business seeing how much developer kids can siphon from other creative kids while the corporation takes the lions share of the profit overall.
Doomspire Brickbattle, The Crusher, Underground War and Theme Park Tycoon 2 are the ones I enjoyed so much as a kid and still visit back every once in a while.
haven't played roblox for what... a year in a half now? your comment made me decide to log on and play my old favourite games. so much nostalgia... thank you!
Not something Roblox ruined but, the community has gotten so toxic and weird, not just in a few games but EVERYWHERE
I’m going to be honest but I think TikTok may of played a big part in this.
I remember lumber tycoon and phantom forces, I didn't play them (iirc because lumber required R$ and phantom forces was a shooter which I didn't like) but i definitely remember wanting to play lumber tycoon
The website went downhill once it stopped marketing itself for children and tried to seem adult. Everyone knows its a website for kids so why try and change that? Tbf when i did play roblox i played from ages 8-13 and I always liked pretending I was more mature than I actually was but I always secretly enjoyed the goofy logo, and the fact that games were actually called games. Nowadays it seems the website is filled with 12 year olds that aren’t actually interested in having fun, rather doing grown up activities on a kids website. I believe this is fully Roblox’s fault for trying to market and pander towards an older audience. Everyone knows this is a website for kids even if you change the logo, the sounds, game engine, graphics, names, whatever. Old Roblox felt like a perfectly welcoming website for a bored kid, but nowadays it’s an empty shell of what it used to be, and it’s completely their fault.
Golden years still wouldnt be a 12 year period. They definitely ended in 2016. Thats when most changes happened (ex tix removal) and the player counts skyrocketed ushering in a new era.
I joined in November of 2014 and have been playing regularly since.
• Searching by genre was how I found a lot of games to check out
• Pre-UGC avatars had to be a lot more creative with their clothing options, leading to avatars that expressed the player more (and quicker avatar loading on low end devices)
• Builder’s Club gave you free items and displayed your level of builder’s club off the side of your screen, instead of the simple hexagonal symbol now shown for each rank with a clear lack of free items
• The blue and white background theme with the goofy red logo looked pretty cool compared to what we have now. I remember starring at the log-in screen because it looked like a fun game design
• Surface textures were easy to use and looked fine, I don’t know why Roblox removed them from default parts, but they can still be added by doing part = Instance.new(“Part”, workspace)
• Last and certainly not least; events. Egg hunts, winter events, community competitions, and other things I can’t remember were always a blast playing, and gave out pretty sweet items for F2P players looking for some new style choices
That’s about everything, at least that I wanna say, because I’m on vacation, and not sitting at my desk.
Watching the steady decline of roblox events turn into soulless advertisements was really depressing. The concerts were ok and even some events like the ready player one event was okay imo but both with egg hunts steadily getting worse and just events in general turning into sponsorships its just sad to see.
Roblox will either go in 2 ways, get better and actually listen to their community or get worse and people leaving, turning into a completely soulless company. Nothing in it, just your normal corporate job that you get at 7 am and get a decent salary.
Overall, the death sound is the biggest one for me. It felt like a part of my childhood was being ripped, spit on and stamped out.
More recently though it's whatever change they've made that makes it so I can't do... anything. Roblox Player won't launch, Roblox Studio and Windows Store versions keep crashing constantly... I know it's not a me problem cuz I can run anything else without issue and internet is all good. Roblox is so unoptimized and broken right now it's crazy.
Welp our statuses back then wasn’t really edgy lmao most people just added something stupid!! Or if we’d use it to wish each other Christmas or New Year and stuff like that it was cool! :)
Egg hunts, oof sound, (this one is a personal opinion big time) Builders club, they had better events too. Im a 2018 player, yes we are early because back then we didnt even have premium, it was builders club. Me personally i had builders club and i loved it, i have the normal builders club hat and the corresponding badge for purchasing it.
I loved the egg hunts i was so sad to hear they were discontinuing them, i still have a lot of egg heads from the event too, when i didnt have robux for a good head accessory i would use the egg hunt heads and build an avatar off of that 😭
The iconic oof sound, i miss it, i also remember there being a game just built off of you dying multiple times with whole lotta oof sounds put into it, idk if it exists on the platform anymore but it was nice. I dont remember the name though.
Events, who doesn’t love em? Not only was there egg hunts for events but they had some good genuine ones, now if you go into the event section it just empty on a daily basis, and sometimes theyd have an event but itll be like some concert or some random collab with some shoe company or whatever. Those events are so lame i wish they’d bring back the old good events
Oh and the old website, idc what anyone else says about it, at least we could just log in and play it without having to download it (computer wise) and the old website had more nostalgia to it.
I agree, I would spend days trying to getting sll the eggs, I was a child so I didn't really succeed. I never had builders club (was scared to ask parents) but everytime I hear that name I feel nostalgia Idk why 😭
it would have to be the events
I remember as a kid I would get home from school and when I booted up roblox to see an event, I would be excited and check out the games
Not only did the events help games get more attention but the games usually had some fun little side quests for the event not to mention the free items (I have some outfits that I made using them and ngl some of them ain't bad)
When roblox swapped the egg hunts from a single game to dev hunts, it definitely filled the hole left behind by the decreasing events until they removed egg hunts entirely in exchange for the metaverse which did not feel like the old events to me
Now the events are just stupid concerts with usually little to no gameplay attached. I'm even more pissed at roblox when they did not show Roblox Battles as an official event because I didn't even know it was going on until late into the event
Are the RB events still happening? Because if not then it might be the only event that still brings me back to old roblox, these shitty realistic concerts are trash.
I miss the quality of the games. I feel like its just dropped drastically nowadays and its the same old template just with a different theme thats paired with it
I miss the flicking ability before where you can yeet other players by going first person (can also be done in third person but much easier) then clipping to arms of your target then jumping, making them fly like team rocket. It's like the bloxxer's unarmed combat during the time.
For the oof sound, they were supposed to implement the death sounds as a market place item. Allowing you to buy the OG death sound for your avatar. I guess they are still working on that
I think when they deleted the original weight lifting simulator 3 in 2020, I first played that game in 2018 and I was 3rd on the leaderboard but after they deleted it, I stopped and have since never played Roblox again.
game genres being usable as a form of search, they could've kept it and added more for fine tuned results, basically an advanced search. seasonal events as well obviously, celebrating just american traditions is fine, it shows that the company is based in america, and still lets children on the platform to experience something unique yearly
I didn't play Roblox that much when I was a kid
But when I got an xbox I played it more often. For 1 I miss the oof death sound and for 2 Xbox used to be able to chat but they since removed the chat option which makes trading pets in pet sim x for example much much harder. Plus the whole slew of games I really enjoyed that have since been deleted can't remember the names but the fun I had on them was amazing
My main character 777Mega\_Rukario777 joined in 2016, and it was alright. 2016 Roblox didn't have any problem with music and copyrights, now we have inappropriately loud, rap music. I get it that certain rap songs aren't inappropriate but yeah. Anyways, yeah. I'm glad these game creators are stepping down with the audios
I remember when they deleted all music except their own music it was such a huge deal back then but know nobody cares about it much.
But I remember when the most annoying music you could find is "it's raining tacos" in Adopt and Raise a Baby. And even then I was still loving the song.
Genre search used to be one of my favourite things because I could easily find RPGs (Around 2010-12), the events being discontinued such as Egg Hunt, other than these the platform has improved drastically in a good way!
Events. I always enjoyed doing mini events and massive ones like the Egg Hunt. The egg hunt was just fun to do, even the dev ones. It really just gave me something fun to do.
Genre search. It's really hard to find good games nowadays without it.
Best friends. It was really nice to be able to prioritize people in my friends list.
Games that were made for fun, and not for money. People were actually creative, and it wasn't about who can make the most game passes, it was about having fun. I remember when we didn't have game passes, instead you had to buy a T-shirt to get your VIP!
Guests and people using Super Safe Chat. I don't care about how "cringe" they were, I loved the goobers. The goofy Sparta jokes and "GET OFF MAH LAWN" were so fun.
And of course, egg hunts. I got every egg in 2018's egg hunt because it was just so much fun.
Their Algorithm, Limitations of the Games listened, Removal of Genre selection and the Games Page itself.
When I have started in playing Roblox for the first time, the Games page just had good games. It just had no Simulators, most had a Vanilla Roblox Experience (and not a game inside Roblox, which is something else to be discussed because it's not a side point), but most importantly; the Games page had a *variable game.* **What I just see nowadays are repetitive games because of how the algorithm works and understands.** ***Here's an example of how the algorithm works in general:***
A newly created account has no content to be followed up by, so each video/game have their own separated content until one of them is picked up
A script determines a video/game topic, content name, interactions and group/channel's general content; which then, the script will try to match and understand a game/channel that does something familiar, while trying to push more different content until the user picks up more content they interact with (the more amount of content you see, more the algorithm will push a similar content). *IPs can also be collected to show up what people are searching for at the local zone.*
**But there is an extra problem about the algorithm: there will be a time on when they won't push new stuff after a while until a refresh of the algorithm happens, which is a real problem if you have started to be uninterested at the topic for a while (but it is still showing up).**
# The problems
Now here's the problem about the algorithm at Roblox: *It's generalized* (you won't be able to see different games until a refresh happens or everyone decides to abandon most of current games and move on). The algorithm at these substances can be beneficial to meet up lots of players, but at the same time, there will be not much space for the new developers nor fitting games to play because of what the base of the algorithm is, and I think that it could be user-based so it would be more optimized or even more lucrative than what it is currently using now. Privacy won't be changed, because the HOME page seems to be utilizing a user-based algorithm but I think they're a bit outdated (idk).
Genres is also a problem to this list. So far, not everyone was just playing at the same type of content available at the page, Genres was also a good option for listing Unlimited games with the same topic. It is still called as the worst removal of Roblox is that they just haven't impacted users, it impacted the main game page and about how useful was putting a specific type of Genre for your game
***^(Personal Situation:)*** Back in the day (when I was -13) I was actually looking into some new games, and most of the times I could just use the normal Games page and it was all okay, until one day that I thought of just clicking at the genres and get a random game (I didn't know what a Genre did back then; Roblox was in English and I was just getting started to the language), and (even if toke me a while) I found one game that seemed good to me. After a supposed refresh of the algorithm in 2018, lots of stuff have happened and it really had a sudden change of the games listened; most of the games were familiar to Pet Simulator. It wasn't bad, but the problem is that they happened to be too much. I decided to play them, and I even had fun with a player I've got contact after 2 years, and we were playing these games non-stop until to a point when I've got a bit tired of these games and got inactive at Roblox for months before returning and playing some more games... This happened again, and at that year I've got Minecraft as a present, which made me just play Roblox once in a while. But it was just until 2020 when the algorithm changed again (and some interesting games started to appear again, but not as always).
The creativity
Today i see so many games called "LankyBox Tutorial Tycoon Obby Simulator (FREE AMONG US PET + 5 LIKES CODE)" its insane. Yeah sure there are many other "creative" games like Loomian Legacy and Doors but theres so many Simulator trashes or Roleplay shiss that i dont know anymore.
I wish there were still fun and interesting events. Nowadays the only events on Roblox are lifeless sponsorships. I miss Hallows Eve and Egg hunts. I also loved free event items.
Edit: Errors
Here is a list
Removal of tix
Removal of events
Removal of forums
Rthro
The change of builder club to premium
The change of oof
The chat filter they use now
Changing the logo
Them changing the logo again to black and white because "Its distracting"
What else?
Builders club getting like between 15 and 60 robux per day was the best part of my day but then Roblox premium came out and boom you got all your Roblox within one day they expect oh that's supposed to leave it for a month but no I loved the fact that you could go away for a few days and boom you get like 250 robux instead you get it all at once but I'm getting ahead of myself
Idk about u, but everything was less toxic back then. Now people purposely try to fight because their bored, but back then everyone was just chill. It made gameplay a lot more enjoyable when u don’t have a group of kids trying to get a rise out of u.
I don’t hold roblox responsible for the community they have endured, but that jsut my personal rant Ig.
Back then I could go on the Town of Robloxia server and not get harassed or called cringe, now, if I join a server of a community (ex. FNAF rp or something like that) I get harassed and called cringe, "my fandom is dead" etc.
The OLD ui was better, Builders Club, infinite friends, the Roblox social home- talking about the news, the forums, the updates, community stuff- it made the website feel “homey” in a way.
classic catalogs. No ugc. Although, there are some good ugc items but most of them are questionable at best. Also, old simulator games. Nowadays simulator games are a clicking game with pets with the same UI.
Sorting games by Genre. The front page used to be so much nicer to navigate since you could select a genre and fond a specific game you were looking for. Now the front page is just the popular games and crappy obbies made to scam kids, with the occasional small game popping up.
the forums. i want the forums back, more than anything
Agreed. Bring the forums back. People saying that it wouldn't be important anymore never formed. I had 37k+ posts. The community I had on LMaD was great and we hosted gameshows for limiteds, among other things, and really fostered a community. Limiteds, while they still hold a ton of weight, feel like they had more power back then.
As someone who was there when it happened I don’t want it back as much as you do. I did meet some of the best people I’ve ever met through roblox and it’s forums and I’ve also seen some of the most vile shit there. I miss what it was, not what it became. There’s actually still most of the major forums on discord for most part and going to them will remind you why it died. I still see a lot of the same people. People my age too (24) and way older. Still acting a fool the same way they did a decade ago.
imo they're not relevant anymore. Old roblox needed them as a gathering and discussion place, but with stuff like reddit and discord, it just isn't needed anymore
I think it was good for clans, and for limiteds.
imo an on-site forums have a diff kind of appeal than reddit or discord
Eh.. I honestly don't miss the forums. They were extremely hard to moderate properly, and some (cough, Off Topic) ended up being horrifically toxic places. Maybe it'd be different today with the more stringent filters, but when I used them, they were not great.
bruhhh OT was soooo toxic it was the best LMFAOOO
I could honestly go on a whole rant about things I think Roblox did poorly, but I’ll just name a few. The removal of the ‘oof’ sound, like you said. It’s not a *huge* deal because it doesn’t affect gameplay or whatever. But it does upset me that they’d remove something so iconic. Rthro avatars. I know their goal was to expand user’s avatar customization options, but I will always feel that Rthro avatars look so out-of-place on the site (and are super ugly). Most people only use them for goofs, anyway. And, of course, the removal of seasonal events. Specifically, the egg hunts. Eggs Hunts were the biggest event of the year. I especially loved the 2018 one. I loved collecting silly little eggs and being able to wear them on my head on other games. It was fun. There was no logical reason to remove them.
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THE EGG HUNT I miss it so much dude- i remember hunting for them all day back then, especially the 2018 one-
YEAHHH. Makes me so upset every time March-May comes around because I think, ‘Dang, we would’ve been playing the Egg Hunt right about now.’
I honestly wish we would have like a “2018 roblox celebration” where we all dress in 2018-2017ish outfits and wear the eggs we found- It probably won't happen but still-
Jesus stop with the dashes
It's just a thing that I type, why do you have to nitpick it? Just ignore it.
With UGC, and in-game earnable free items, there will surely be player-ran holiday events, potentially better than the official ones. (I still agree they should bring them back, though.)
The Ready Player One event was insane
I hate how hard Roblox is trying to make rthro happen when literally no one likes it. 90% of the people who use it are using it ironically and the other 10% are kids who were born in 2019 and haven’t gained consciousness yet. You could argue that they’re trying to attract more of that type of audience but most little kids on Roblox still use the classic avatars.
Fun fact: The guy who announced Rthro at RDC got laughed at
nice
makes sense. they probably should have taken that as a sign, but still. to me, rthro is actually less customizable than R6/R15. a lot of the rthro packages have clothes on them prior, so you cant really put classic clothes on them. you would need to use layerd clothing, but you need to be in UGC program and know how to model clothes. classic clothing allows you to make a randome shirt with ms paint. oh jeez i am starting to rant huh? fun fact: i didnt know rthro existed in 2019 when i joined
I could NOT BELIEVE they stopped doing the Egg Hunts!!!! They were one of the best events and there was such a sense of community!!!
I loved the events, my favorites were the ready player one and that superheroes one
Best friends :[
Real:(
i know that best friends existed on the roblox site at some point, but what was this feature? what was it useful for? why do we need it?
It was like friends list: level 2. I dont quite remember what it did besides put that account in a special list, if anything at all.
kinda sounds useless to me honestly... there's much more useful features like genre sorting
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maybe with the right explanation i would. i am interested tbh
back when best friends was a feature, there was also no friend cap, and no followers feature either i know this because i myself had 3000 friends on my account (i was an idiot kid that friend requested every person on every server all the time) i sorted the people i *actually* knew and played games with into the best friends list then they added the friend cap of 200 and the followers, and best friends got removed
ooooh, so it was useful for sorting. understandable
I basically never add new friends because it clogs my list and makes my actual friends hard to find. Would be nice to have a separate list that allows me to build a little reoccurring community again
Personal Servers. A lot of them were of course filled with "(obby for Robux!" scams but sometimes you'd pop into one and find someone creating amazing things realtime. Sometimes just fun to hang out in.
Those were so much fun
genre search probably, most stupidest decision I had seen(maybe on top with valve removing bots from csgo comp)
This. It was sooo much easier to find good games back then. Now it's just all recommended trash.
It takes so long to find a decent game. Now it’s just “Skibi Toilet Morphs” or “Escape Poppy Playtime Obby” and of course, the copy paste tycoons with a little bit of no effort decoration. Not implying that most “morph” games and obby games aren’t copy-paste either.
what ARE skibi toilets? i only recently heard about that trend and it seems like its everywhere. all the "trending" models in the toolbox are skibi toilets and its honestly confusing
wait you don't want to "play" a game where you sit and wait or click until you have enough money to buy the next colorful thing and do that over and over again?
Definitely the problem with trying to use audio you upload in other games…
I took 30minutes to make a joining song for project scp and I realized at the end you could only use them in your own game
Tix, guests, egg hunt, builders club, oof sound and gift boxes
My avatar is a guest, and no one gets it :'(
Guests are forgotten already? I thought they were pretty iconic
Word I use it and nobody gets it (og player here 2009)
dude no way
please no it can’t end like thid
That’s sad…
Gift boxes, that sounds familiar but I can't quite put my finger on it, what is it?
I think they were gift boxes that you get an accessory from
Oh right! I have one
Tix could be added back as a free currency but wont be able to exchange it to robux like it used to be. I dont much of a point to add guests back since you can create an account for free. It also makes it less likely to have reoccurring players. Builders club is Roblox premium just with no levels. The other things i 100% agree with.
Exactly. Make tix an option for all the free items that way non payers can still get stuff but they have a purpose
Makes people have to play to get stuff instead of having a bunch of cosmetics free
>I dont much of a point to add guests back since you can create an account for free. It also makes it less likely to have reoccurring players. I fully agree, but I think most people are nostalgic for guests for no real reason other than being reminded of another era.
removing guests was a good thing
I liked the genre filters, and the good events.
removing them is a decision so dumb that the person who did it probably got a lobotomy
Fr, nowadays events are just the ones that bring Roblox the most money like Gucci.
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I really miss the old clan wars… was the best part of roblox to me and they destroyed it for no good reason
As a 2014 user, the old website, man it is so much better than today’s one, more character and way more features. Obviously there are more things I prefer.
It's really corporate now with builders club being premium, robux becoming a gold coin instead of an actual roblox currency and the website becoming grey and dull, its as if you took legos, made them out of metal and only made skyscraper and city builds
It all sort of blends together, and a lot of the things I miss probably wouldn't hold up today. We have oodles of so many great advancements, *but* the one thing I absolutely miss is a colorful site design with character. 2008 through 2009 was peak for my experience, but it's totally unprofessional by today's standards. Easier on the eyes than bleak grey and white though!
2014-2016 was peak site design imo. Roblox didn’t have the cheese it logo and the site was cleanly designed but had character and color. Best layout and best design
The way you got free tix everyday and you could trade tix for robux!
above all else, I just really wish roblox would stop changing the engine in ways that breaks old games. they don't care about preservation at all, and it hurts
I haven't played Roblox for quite some time, which games exactly did they break?
super roblox rush and the a roblox quest series come to mind for me there was also a recent-ish update (like a year ago) that broke music in pretty much all games, so if the dev didn't/wasn't able to go back and fix it then it was kinda screwed there
Tix, oof, games that were made out of passion and not just to make money. I miss when roblox wasn't monetized and modernized to shit. There's still some games that feel like old roblox but it's outweighed by all the new stuff.
"Games that were made with passion and not money" Preston:
Have you played BIG Paintball before? It used to be pretty good but now you can’t join a server without a hacker, and they constantly push gun packs that cost well over 1k robux.
Before i found out that Preston made that game too, I stopped playing it, it was fun though
YES I DID
Tix. And Builders club.
I honestly wished I got builders club for the badge and hat, but I just spent all my money on robux and now builders club is gone.
I think my furthest was Turbo, iirc there used to be 3 options. I'd have to check my hats out and see what I've got lol
Lol, i remember thinking about buying turbo so i could dress my avatar just like Builderman, but i never did
I'm glad that 8 year old me was smart enough to save money and buy all 3 of them at some point lol
Wasn’t there a lifetime subscription where you paid like maybe a few hundred dollars once or a low price which never got higher
Turbo was the highest IIRC. BC, OBC?, TBC
I feel young having started in 2016-2017. The "oof" sound was iconic though.
2016-2017 isnt even that early, roblox was well into its hayday by that point. 2016 saw a massive change in how many players were joining. On the graphs of player count it would always shoot right up at 2016.
look at me, i joined in 2019 and i feel old. obviously, i hadnt found out about roblox yet. wish i had joined in 2018 and gotten builders club.
BC was still a thing in 2019.
Wtf, 2018 is considered early Roblox now??? Jeez guess I'm old, well I guess what I missed most was the red logo, the red dorito was fine.. didnt know why they had to make it gray..
I’m old too, apparently. I joined in January 2011 and part of me wants to scream that 2018 can’t be early and that 2015 is the absolute latest I’d consider you joining and still be an old account. But 2018 was five years ago so maybe I’m just grumpy. I mean, I started my account in fourth grade and now I’m sitting here typing this from my big boy real adult office job. It’s kinda wild.
isn’t it so insane how people’s perception of “old” and “new” changes as a game ages? i also joined in 2011 (june) and reading this thread kinda has me feeling like a dinosaur 😭. i completely relate to being old and grumpy about what dates are considered early/peak roblox, lol.
Saaame lmao. Even then, 2015 is such a big departure from 2011.
yeah 2015 was definitely the last year of "Old roblox" I miss 2012 man
I GENUINELY THOUGHT ROBLOX WAS HACKED WHEN THEY CHANGED IT TO THE RED SQUARE 😭😭
i missed when roblox wasnt corporate
I used to play roblox a lot as a kid and it felt like actual happiness and like it had come to life, and now it's soulless. It's like seeing the kindest kid in your elementary school turn into the worst version of themself in high school.
If 2018 is early then 2006 is straight up paleolithic. Stop making me feel so old
Why are everyone so focused on the "early" part- 😭😭
It's just funny to lump 2006 players with 2018 players. I went from elementary school to graduating college in that timespan.
I just don't think I should exclude 2018 or 2006, of course they're different, but the thing they have in common is that they're the old Roblox days, that's why I included them as one. No hate btw
IMO tix being removed is probably the latest I'd consider to be "old roblox" and even then roblox had been public for a decade. I would personally consider old Roblox to be 2006-2013 but I understand that alot of current players are too young to relate to that so yes, 2018 would seem "old", relatively speaking.
But they arent the old roblox days though, 2018 is well into modern roblox territory. Like the other guy said old roblox is probably 2006 to 2013 or even earlier.
Rthro in general was a bad choice. Nobody actually uses it unironically
Wait, is 2018 early?
I consider it to be, since it was one of the years for roblox players, and 2018 is 5 years ago
Oh man it feels like it was more recent than that.
Yeaa
Egg hunts Egg hunts And lastly, egg hunts
So true
back when the games weren’t littered with 25 gui overlays for paid robux microtransactions reminiscent of modern day mobile games and you could actually see what you were playing, that and the overall simplicity of the design of roblox
This is the worst part of new games to me. Can’t even play a ducking obby without pop ups every second.
The nostalgic feel of classic games that didn't have so much clutter and monetization features and was just stupid fun. Back then it was a website built for kids and having fun, now it's a business seeing how much developer kids can siphon from other creative kids while the corporation takes the lions share of the profit overall.
Doomspire Brickbattle, The Crusher, Underground War and Theme Park Tycoon 2 are the ones I enjoyed so much as a kid and still visit back every once in a while.
haven't played roblox for what... a year in a half now? your comment made me decide to log on and play my old favourite games. so much nostalgia... thank you!
I'm glad I reminded you! :)
Not something Roblox ruined but, the community has gotten so toxic and weird, not just in a few games but EVERYWHERE I’m going to be honest but I think TikTok may of played a big part in this.
the old format. The blue and white looked so nice and the other thing I missed was the guest and the old games like lumber tycoon and phantom forces,
I remember lumber tycoon and phantom forces, I didn't play them (iirc because lumber required R$ and phantom forces was a shooter which I didn't like) but i definitely remember wanting to play lumber tycoon
party feature, adding good updates, etc.
Dude the party system was so useful
2017 and 2018 is considered early roblox?
The website went downhill once it stopped marketing itself for children and tried to seem adult. Everyone knows its a website for kids so why try and change that? Tbf when i did play roblox i played from ages 8-13 and I always liked pretending I was more mature than I actually was but I always secretly enjoyed the goofy logo, and the fact that games were actually called games. Nowadays it seems the website is filled with 12 year olds that aren’t actually interested in having fun, rather doing grown up activities on a kids website. I believe this is fully Roblox’s fault for trying to market and pander towards an older audience. Everyone knows this is a website for kids even if you change the logo, the sounds, game engine, graphics, names, whatever. Old Roblox felt like a perfectly welcoming website for a bored kid, but nowadays it’s an empty shell of what it used to be, and it’s completely their fault.
Games and places >>> "experiences"
I'm 2018, and idk, I don't remember much
I def miss parties and being able to search by genre.
The ability to delete avatar items. Get a hat by accident or regret getting it later? it's stuck there forever.
WAIT THEY DELETED THAT?
I feel like “early roblox” wouldn’t be a 12 year period lol
I meant in "Players who played Roblox in its golden years" I just didn't know how to word it
Golden years still wouldnt be a 12 year period. They definitely ended in 2016. Thats when most changes happened (ex tix removal) and the player counts skyrocketed ushering in a new era.
THE FUCKING OOF. I MISS TIX. I MISS OLD ROBLOX.
I joined in November of 2014 and have been playing regularly since. • Searching by genre was how I found a lot of games to check out • Pre-UGC avatars had to be a lot more creative with their clothing options, leading to avatars that expressed the player more (and quicker avatar loading on low end devices) • Builder’s Club gave you free items and displayed your level of builder’s club off the side of your screen, instead of the simple hexagonal symbol now shown for each rank with a clear lack of free items • The blue and white background theme with the goofy red logo looked pretty cool compared to what we have now. I remember starring at the log-in screen because it looked like a fun game design • Surface textures were easy to use and looked fine, I don’t know why Roblox removed them from default parts, but they can still be added by doing part = Instance.new(“Part”, workspace) • Last and certainly not least; events. Egg hunts, winter events, community competitions, and other things I can’t remember were always a blast playing, and gave out pretty sweet items for F2P players looking for some new style choices That’s about everything, at least that I wanna say, because I’m on vacation, and not sitting at my desk.
Watching the steady decline of roblox events turn into soulless advertisements was really depressing. The concerts were ok and even some events like the ready player one event was okay imo but both with egg hunts steadily getting worse and just events in general turning into sponsorships its just sad to see.
Roblox will either go in 2 ways, get better and actually listen to their community or get worse and people leaving, turning into a completely soulless company. Nothing in it, just your normal corporate job that you get at 7 am and get a decent salary.
Overall, the death sound is the biggest one for me. It felt like a part of my childhood was being ripped, spit on and stamped out. More recently though it's whatever change they've made that makes it so I can't do... anything. Roblox Player won't launch, Roblox Studio and Windows Store versions keep crashing constantly... I know it's not a me problem cuz I can run anything else without issue and internet is all good. Roblox is so unoptimized and broken right now it's crazy.
Status removal , songs removal , oof sound , builders club The thing that upsets me the most is Egg Hunts being gone 💔
I mean, I can see why they removed status updates. Discord bios and pronouns are… edgy
Welp our statuses back then wasn’t really edgy lmao most people just added something stupid!! Or if we’d use it to wish each other Christmas or New Year and stuff like that it was cool! :)
Fuck this rthro and realism shit, I wanna play with stupid block characters
then play games that use stupid block characters.
So roblox?
Yeah, that's what I'm implying lol. There are roblox games that dont force rthro. A lot of them.
Nobody even uses rthro unironically why even keep them?
Egg hunts, oof sound, (this one is a personal opinion big time) Builders club, they had better events too. Im a 2018 player, yes we are early because back then we didnt even have premium, it was builders club. Me personally i had builders club and i loved it, i have the normal builders club hat and the corresponding badge for purchasing it. I loved the egg hunts i was so sad to hear they were discontinuing them, i still have a lot of egg heads from the event too, when i didnt have robux for a good head accessory i would use the egg hunt heads and build an avatar off of that 😭 The iconic oof sound, i miss it, i also remember there being a game just built off of you dying multiple times with whole lotta oof sounds put into it, idk if it exists on the platform anymore but it was nice. I dont remember the name though. Events, who doesn’t love em? Not only was there egg hunts for events but they had some good genuine ones, now if you go into the event section it just empty on a daily basis, and sometimes theyd have an event but itll be like some concert or some random collab with some shoe company or whatever. Those events are so lame i wish they’d bring back the old good events
Oh and the old website, idc what anyone else says about it, at least we could just log in and play it without having to download it (computer wise) and the old website had more nostalgia to it.
I agree, I would spend days trying to getting sll the eggs, I was a child so I didn't really succeed. I never had builders club (was scared to ask parents) but everytime I hear that name I feel nostalgia Idk why 😭
it would have to be the events I remember as a kid I would get home from school and when I booted up roblox to see an event, I would be excited and check out the games Not only did the events help games get more attention but the games usually had some fun little side quests for the event not to mention the free items (I have some outfits that I made using them and ngl some of them ain't bad) When roblox swapped the egg hunts from a single game to dev hunts, it definitely filled the hole left behind by the decreasing events until they removed egg hunts entirely in exchange for the metaverse which did not feel like the old events to me Now the events are just stupid concerts with usually little to no gameplay attached. I'm even more pissed at roblox when they did not show Roblox Battles as an official event because I didn't even know it was going on until late into the event
Are the RB events still happening? Because if not then it might be the only event that still brings me back to old roblox, these shitty realistic concerts are trash.
I miss the quality of the games. I feel like its just dropped drastically nowadays and its the same old template just with a different theme thats paired with it
I miss the flicking ability before where you can yeet other players by going first person (can also be done in third person but much easier) then clipping to arms of your target then jumping, making them fly like team rocket. It's like the bloxxer's unarmed combat during the time.
it looks like team rocket is blasting off agaaaaiin!
I have no idea what you just said 😭😭
That and glitching through walls are still possible (2008 I think?)
For the oof sound, they were supposed to implement the death sounds as a market place item. Allowing you to buy the OG death sound for your avatar. I guess they are still working on that
I think when they deleted the original weight lifting simulator 3 in 2020, I first played that game in 2018 and I was 3rd on the leaderboard but after they deleted it, I stopped and have since never played Roblox again.
I feel old
OOF
Everything that was once taken, they say was taken for a reason. Fuck that. Give it ALL back. now.
game genres being usable as a form of search, they could've kept it and added more for fine tuned results, basically an advanced search. seasonal events as well obviously, celebrating just american traditions is fine, it shows that the company is based in america, and still lets children on the platform to experience something unique yearly
I didn't play Roblox that much when I was a kid But when I got an xbox I played it more often. For 1 I miss the oof death sound and for 2 Xbox used to be able to chat but they since removed the chat option which makes trading pets in pet sim x for example much much harder. Plus the whole slew of games I really enjoyed that have since been deleted can't remember the names but the fun I had on them was amazing
My main character 777Mega\_Rukario777 joined in 2016, and it was alright. 2016 Roblox didn't have any problem with music and copyrights, now we have inappropriately loud, rap music. I get it that certain rap songs aren't inappropriate but yeah. Anyways, yeah. I'm glad these game creators are stepping down with the audios
I remember when they deleted all music except their own music it was such a huge deal back then but know nobody cares about it much. But I remember when the most annoying music you could find is "it's raining tacos" in Adopt and Raise a Baby. And even then I was still loving the song.
Obviusly the tix
The next level was good until Terrisaurus flossed & the sunset BLOXhour.
Genre search used to be one of my favourite things because I could easily find RPGs (Around 2010-12), the events being discontinued such as Egg Hunt, other than these the platform has improved drastically in a good way!
Guests.
Events. I always enjoyed doing mini events and massive ones like the Egg Hunt. The egg hunt was just fun to do, even the dev ones. It really just gave me something fun to do.
Genre search. It's really hard to find good games nowadays without it. Best friends. It was really nice to be able to prioritize people in my friends list. Games that were made for fun, and not for money. People were actually creative, and it wasn't about who can make the most game passes, it was about having fun. I remember when we didn't have game passes, instead you had to buy a T-shirt to get your VIP! Guests and people using Super Safe Chat. I don't care about how "cringe" they were, I loved the goobers. The goofy Sparta jokes and "GET OFF MAH LAWN" were so fun. And of course, egg hunts. I got every egg in 2018's egg hunt because it was just so much fun.
Their Algorithm, Limitations of the Games listened, Removal of Genre selection and the Games Page itself. When I have started in playing Roblox for the first time, the Games page just had good games. It just had no Simulators, most had a Vanilla Roblox Experience (and not a game inside Roblox, which is something else to be discussed because it's not a side point), but most importantly; the Games page had a *variable game.* **What I just see nowadays are repetitive games because of how the algorithm works and understands.** ***Here's an example of how the algorithm works in general:*** A newly created account has no content to be followed up by, so each video/game have their own separated content until one of them is picked up A script determines a video/game topic, content name, interactions and group/channel's general content; which then, the script will try to match and understand a game/channel that does something familiar, while trying to push more different content until the user picks up more content they interact with (the more amount of content you see, more the algorithm will push a similar content). *IPs can also be collected to show up what people are searching for at the local zone.* **But there is an extra problem about the algorithm: there will be a time on when they won't push new stuff after a while until a refresh of the algorithm happens, which is a real problem if you have started to be uninterested at the topic for a while (but it is still showing up).** # The problems Now here's the problem about the algorithm at Roblox: *It's generalized* (you won't be able to see different games until a refresh happens or everyone decides to abandon most of current games and move on). The algorithm at these substances can be beneficial to meet up lots of players, but at the same time, there will be not much space for the new developers nor fitting games to play because of what the base of the algorithm is, and I think that it could be user-based so it would be more optimized or even more lucrative than what it is currently using now. Privacy won't be changed, because the HOME page seems to be utilizing a user-based algorithm but I think they're a bit outdated (idk). Genres is also a problem to this list. So far, not everyone was just playing at the same type of content available at the page, Genres was also a good option for listing Unlimited games with the same topic. It is still called as the worst removal of Roblox is that they just haven't impacted users, it impacted the main game page and about how useful was putting a specific type of Genre for your game ***^(Personal Situation:)*** Back in the day (when I was -13) I was actually looking into some new games, and most of the times I could just use the normal Games page and it was all okay, until one day that I thought of just clicking at the genres and get a random game (I didn't know what a Genre did back then; Roblox was in English and I was just getting started to the language), and (even if toke me a while) I found one game that seemed good to me. After a supposed refresh of the algorithm in 2018, lots of stuff have happened and it really had a sudden change of the games listened; most of the games were familiar to Pet Simulator. It wasn't bad, but the problem is that they happened to be too much. I decided to play them, and I even had fun with a player I've got contact after 2 years, and we were playing these games non-stop until to a point when I've got a bit tired of these games and got inactive at Roblox for months before returning and playing some more games... This happened again, and at that year I've got Minecraft as a present, which made me just play Roblox once in a while. But it was just until 2020 when the algorithm changed again (and some interesting games started to appear again, but not as always).
The creativity Today i see so many games called "LankyBox Tutorial Tycoon Obby Simulator (FREE AMONG US PET + 5 LIKES CODE)" its insane. Yeah sure there are many other "creative" games like Loomian Legacy and Doors but theres so many Simulator trashes or Roleplay shiss that i dont know anymore.
RP isn't that bad because it's just kids but the sims are just money machines and I hate it.
I wish there were still fun and interesting events. Nowadays the only events on Roblox are lifeless sponsorships. I miss Hallows Eve and Egg hunts. I also loved free event items. Edit: Errors
Here is a list Removal of tix Removal of events Removal of forums Rthro The change of builder club to premium The change of oof The chat filter they use now Changing the logo Them changing the logo again to black and white because "Its distracting" What else?
happiness
I can’t think of anything other than player points, it seemed cool ti have a system you earned points by playing games like how Xbox has
everyone complained that points were useless from day one tho
I see people complaining about pretty useless features like clans or rthro but I think the main answer would be actual events
Builders club getting like between 15 and 60 robux per day was the best part of my day but then Roblox premium came out and boom you got all your Roblox within one day they expect oh that's supposed to leave it for a month but no I loved the fact that you could go away for a few days and boom you get like 250 robux instead you get it all at once but I'm getting ahead of myself
Not to mention the free hat
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The voice chat is a nice feature, but I don’t want to share personal info to be able to use it
Idk about u, but everything was less toxic back then. Now people purposely try to fight because their bored, but back then everyone was just chill. It made gameplay a lot more enjoyable when u don’t have a group of kids trying to get a rise out of u. I don’t hold roblox responsible for the community they have endured, but that jsut my personal rant Ig.
Back then I could go on the Town of Robloxia server and not get harassed or called cringe, now, if I join a server of a community (ex. FNAF rp or something like that) I get harassed and called cringe, "my fandom is dead" etc.
The fact roblox got rid of all the good audios
The OLD ui was better, Builders Club, infinite friends, the Roblox social home- talking about the news, the forums, the updates, community stuff- it made the website feel “homey” in a way.
Definitely the bloxy awards, now it’s just the equivalent to room temperature coke
Bloxy awards yeah! I completely forgot about these.
I see nobody saying this but, them switching games to experiences, it's just that one detail that'll always trigger me
Tf is experiences for real. It sounds so corporate
2018 isnt really early or old roblox but i definetly think guests shouldnt have been removed
classic catalogs. No ugc. Although, there are some good ugc items but most of them are questionable at best. Also, old simulator games. Nowadays simulator games are a clicking game with pets with the same UI.
Sorting games by Genre. The front page used to be so much nicer to navigate since you could select a genre and fond a specific game you were looking for. Now the front page is just the popular games and crappy obbies made to scam kids, with the occasional small game popping up.
Innocence
Too much children in innaproprite games
I miss Roblox building that was so fun :(
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I remember that, I used to make obbies instead of building to survive. I wanted to replay those for the past few weeks
1st:the oof sound 2nd:online daters (hope they all get banned) 3rd:toxic people (these are almost found in any popular game)
How simpler it was to build and make a game.
I miss being able to exploit games. Filtering Enabled changed everything so in turn, I quit.
2018 is not old roblox bro what. old roblox ends in 2014-2015