the current state of ROBLOX

i joined roblox on 2017 on a now lost account [scammed]
i lost MANY, MANY accounts due to me being extremely gullible and doing free robux scams multiple times
anyway

roblox is crazy now
i mean it has changed alot in an arguably good AND bad way.
the state of roblox youtube is terrible
but they are improving [and removing] many features
now i was a mobile roblox gamer in 2017 [due to me being young]
so i never experienced "parties".
they removed those so i never got a chance to experience those
such as* tix, events, and alot more like the list goes on*
and many many more terrible topics that i will not discuss here
if you are intrested, go do research on them
roblox has also IMPROVED alot
they have an improved menu,
people who make good games [and bad ones but this is the pros section]
and the community is ALOT more divided into what's good and bad
they also have UGC! [user generated i forgot]
where people can make their own items
there are a ton of good and bad items
and i mean the list goes on
i could write 17 essays about what happened to roblox and what it was

but i want to know YOUR opinion on this
what do you think happened to ROBLOX?

Personally, I find the shift of Roblox from a creative platform in the vein of old internet kids' games to a more profit-driven "metaverse" rather disappointing.

• I prefer the time of R6 before R15, Rthro, and dynamic faces were added, as R6 is very recognizable and is in a way, to me, emblematic of the game's identity.
• I don't like how they're trying to phase out more classic avatars either. Although I have not been actively playing Roblox lately due to some issues running it on Linux, my friends have noted that my avatar's face, which is normally the default, was automatically replaced with a dynamic face twice.
• I will admit the engine has improved greatly, enhancements to Lua through Luau are nice, and the general development experience has grown much better over the years. UGC (user-generated content) is also quite neat. I think developers from years ago would have killed to have the suite of tools currently available.

(To get a general idea of my history with the game, my account turned 12 years old last month.)

They saw a loophole to employ kids as "content creators" and when the money started flooding in, they just went to the logically next step. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just plain and simple greed.

wackbyte says:

Personally, I find the shift of Roblox from a creative platform in the vein of old internet kids' games to a more profit-driven "metaverse" rather disappointing.

• I prefer the time of R6 before R15, Rthro, and dynamic faces were added, as R6 is very recognizable and is in a way, to me, emblematic of the game's identity.
• I don't like how they're trying to phase out more classic avatars either. Although I have not been actively playing Roblox lately due to some issues running it on Linux, my friends have noted that my avatar's face, which is normally the default, was automatically replaced with a dynamic face twice.
• I will admit the engine has improved greatly, enhancements to Lua through Luau are nice, and the general development experience has grown much better over the years. UGC (user-generated content) is also quite neat. I think developers from years ago would have killed to have the suite of tools currently available.

(To get a general idea of my history with the game, my account turned 12 years old last month.)

So what you're saying is arguably they got better and worse.
That's litterally the best way to describe it!
Better in some ways, But less in others.
[ahem ahem KonekoKitten Ribs Parlo +100 others]

i think the downfall of roblox started around 2015-2017. the forums were deleted, tix and bc was deleted too. bad, as in predatory/dangerous games showed up. now, no way in HELL am i saying "old roblox was better" or "i miss old roblox". old roblox's gameplay was boring as hell, and the graphics were terrible. if you DO think old roblox was better, please tell me why people think this, because i don't get it.

but here's an answer to the question of "what do you think of roblox now". from 2018 to onwards they started adding things like R15, the "metaverse", bad updates, and replying to eerosiuh, yes, the state of roblox youtube is also bad. people will go out of their way to make youtube shorts baiting religion, scamming children, or just making brainrot content. while there's some good people on youtube trying to stop things like this, this community keeps growing and growing, and it's basically unstoppable. in terms of games, there's some good and bad aspects i want to point out. roblox has added a LOT of studio features that you can mess around with, and it gives you a lot more freedom for people to make games. there's a lot of amazing creations, but roblox chooses to hide some of them, and show others that make lots of money, so THEY can make money too. if you haven't been living under a rock, you've probably heard of "sus" games. luckily roblox is banning some of these games. SOME. a lot of them, they do nothing to stop. this brings me to another point, moderation. do i even need to describe this one? moderation has been terrible throughout the entire game's life.

tldr: roblox always sucked

Oh, the troubles of corporate greed.
It's all about the money.

I'm a Roblox veteran too, And i think that if you take your time to research anything good, you will find. Including UGC, Games, And other...

The only downside is all the freakin apps that tell you "You will get 10k robux if you play one level !". Oh and also the exploiters. There's too many.
But i think Roblox, is more like a community based "game", and that's why there is so many downsides and good sides.

I started playing Roblox in 2015 or 2016, I gone through many main accounts since then, my current main is psrman_lemon.

Roblox is WAAAAAAAAY out of touch of its community. Say goodbye to official events that aren't corporal, I guess! Roblox has a whole lotta good games, as well as some really bad ones. There are some ppl on Roblox that shouldn't be on there, I cannot specify why because the site rules. Roblox mods aren't doing their job! They don't realize that BBC can mean something very different.

No, Parlo is not a y'know what, the YouTuber called ThatBoredGamer warped it to where it looked like where he is, you should check Parlo's side of the story before hating on him.

Rant aside, a few good things came out of Roblox: UGC (which needs to be modded better), voice chat (debatable), a new rule that's gonna take place on Feb 15 that bans games that have rule breakers galore if the owner of the game doesn't take action, etc.

Electromagneta says:

I'm a Roblox veteran too, And i think that if you take your time to research anything good, you will find. Including UGC, Games, And other...

The only downside is all the freakin apps that tell you "You will get 10k robux if you play one level !". Oh and also the exploiters. There's too many.
But i think Roblox, is more like a community based "game", and that's why there is so many downsides and good sides.
I've researched SO MUCH and found few good games.
Enough to hold me off until I need to look again though.

Rugiball says:

I started playing Roblox in 2015 or 2016, I gone through many main accounts since then, my current main is psrman_lemon.

Roblox is WAAAAAAAAY out of touch of its community. Say goodbye to official events that aren't corporal, I guess! Roblox has a whole lotta good games, as well as some really bad ones. There are some ppl on Roblox that shouldn't be on there, I cannot specify why because the site rules. Roblox mods aren't doing their job! They don't realize that BBC can mean something very different.

No, Parlo is not a y'know what, the YouTuber called ThatBoredGamer warped it to where it looked like where he is, you should check Parlo's side of the story before hating on him.

Rant aside, a few good things came out of Roblox: UGC (which needs to be modded better), voice chat (debatable), a new rule that's gonna take place on Feb 15 that bans games that have rule breakers galore if the owner of the game doesn't take action, etc.
I'd agree with you if the person in question wasn't parlo.

aneasyusername says:

i think the downfall of roblox started around 2015-2017. the forums were deleted, tix and bc was deleted too. bad, as in predatory/dangerous games showed up. now, no way in HELL am i saying "old roblox was better" or "i miss old roblox". old roblox's gameplay was boring as hell, and the graphics were terrible. if you DO think old roblox was better, please tell me why people think this, because i don't get it.

but here's an answer to the question of "what do you think of roblox now". from 2018 to onwards they started adding things like R15, the "metaverse", bad updates, and replying to eerosiuh, yes, the state of roblox youtube is also bad. people will go out of their way to make youtube shorts baiting religion, scamming children, or just making brainrot content. while there's some good people on youtube trying to stop things like this, this community keeps growing and growing, and it's basically unstoppable. in terms of games, there's some good and bad aspects i want to point out. roblox has added a LOT of studio features that you can mess around with, and it gives you a lot more freedom for people to make games. there's a lot of amazing creations, but roblox chooses to hide some of them, and show others that make lots of money, so THEY can make money too. if you haven't been living under a rock, you've probably heard of "sus" games. luckily roblox is banning some of these games. SOME. a lot of them, they do nothing to stop. this brings me to another point, moderation. do i even need to describe this one? moderation has been terrible throughout the entire game's life.

tldr: roblox always sucked
The downfall started in 2019 - 2020.
2016 - 2018 was just the beginning...

From a business standpoint, Roblox is so big they literally cannot fail. However, their stock is low, meaning the public perception of the company isn't good. If they listened to their community more, their stock would go up and be worth more. But, stocks do not represent how well the company is doing financially, it actually represents public perception of the company. As for how this is happening to Roblox, I believe the three major parts to it are the death of Erik Cassel in 2013, who majorly contributed to the development of Roblox, the always-has-been horrible moderation, and the company not properly communicating with the community, ever.

tristan says:

From a business standpoint, Roblox is so big they literally cannot fail. However, their stock is low, meaning the public perception of the company isn't good. If they listened to their community more, their stock would go up and be worth more. But, stocks do not represent how well the company is doing financially, it actually represents public perception of the company. As for how this is happening to Roblox, I believe the three major parts to it are the death of Erik Cassel in 2013, who majorly contributed to the development of Roblox, the always-has-been horrible moderation, and the company not properly communicating with the community, ever.

R.I.P erik
Though yes, I agree with you.

the roblox corporation is evil. the community developers are reduced to content mills, pumping out endless "games" that serve no purpose other than to milk as much robux out of people not out of malice, but because they have no option other than to do so because of the 65% cut roblox takes. it's disgusting, frankly

Most games i see on roblox are all simulators, they have some basic stuff, then they add pets which makes them rise up in popularity for ~2 weeks, after the hype is gone they make another game, and they do the same to that game, and also dont forget about the map and the big timewalls that you can reduce with robux, most of the time there is always 50% off on an op upgrade for robux, saying that its "limited" when its actually not.

roblox before 2020 was so fun

windy says:

roblox before 2020 was so fun

roblox 2017 magnus opus

At least there are still good games being made and played. I mostly play Phantom Forces, Airship Assault, town (building/fighting game), and Trenches:Beta.

i used to like simulator games before the pet simulator plague

galaxyuser63274 says:

Oh, the troubles of corporate greed.
It's all about the money.

I feel like this is happening everywhere in the world too. Big Tech (Samsung, Apple, Google, etc) no longer pays attention to their genuine users (even when they say they do) and has basically turned into a convoluted duplicate of the scamming industry, YouTube is profiting off of its comment bot plague, and as demonstrated here, Roblox only cares about money too.
We aren't going to Mars because humanity will destroy itself by 2050, mark my words
First with the phasing out of privacy as a concept in favor of money-making, then a slow descent into chaos climaxing with nuclear war

Sorry, got a little off course

(Very late to this thread...) I'm not particularly a Roblox veteran (at least, if having history with the game since 2018 is still counted as somewhat "new"...), but I'd say modern Roblox is a terrible environment, especially towards the main audience who plays it being around 7-12 year olds. Now that Public UGC has been released, there's been a LOT more items that display content harmful to kids, and I feel like this would have NEVER happened if UGC never became public. Roblox has gotten a bit better since it's Metaverse Era (2020-2023? I think?), but it feels like the safety of its users has been put in a lot of jeopardy because of allowing harmful users to make UGC content on a game with lots of children. Also, Roblox in 2018 felt a lot more lively when comparing it to Roblox today! It just feels like a shell of it's former self, with users trying to make as much money off of their games as possible instead of making things with genuine love and care. I miss 2018 Roblox, even if events were slowly being fizzled out by that time.

Any Tierd obbyist here? A dying breed of niche roblox games.

I might have to be a little bit controversial with my opinion, but the current state of Roblox is fun. I get it, there's plenty of crazy shit going on, but the games are pretty decent. with the time and dedication of the roblox engine AND custom engines that have been handled, the games can be higher quality than ever. Obviously, there's the front page slop, but there's also the hidden gems that make their way throughout the internet. I'm a fan of most UGC, because I create tons of avatars. At this point, I cant really call Roblox a kids' platform anymore. Games are gearing towards more mature themes, Roblox is introducing 17+ games, and they've always been supportive of at least mild amounts of gore in their games as evident by their sponsors of Phantom Forces and Bloodfest in the past. If there's any gripes I have to say about Roblox, it's the terrible moderation and soulless support of money making games. That's why the front page is so bad; because all the games there are the ones that have made Roblox themselves the most cash. I haven't been around for long, but there's some glaring issues with it today.
Edit: forgot to mention how much I hate the nearly forced swap from R6 to R15, Rthro, and the like. The models aren't worth it, some packs are wicked expensive for little value or usage, and generally look worse than that original charm Roblox had.

why are you aguring about roblox on a incremental site

@Dark7: true, why are we doin this?