Board Thread:Roblox help and discussion/@comment-35118797-20190516180431/@comment-35118797-20190712065800

First of all the games were more enjoyable. Back then there was less to work with so people generally made up for it by making games with interesting concepts. The games back then were distinctly Roblox. Nowadays the games look a lot more polished, but tend to be pretty conventional. Back then you checked out cool little games people built as a hobby. It was fun to check out their quirky little creations. Now you play a game made by a professional. Very polished by Roblox standards, but lacking the zany and fun aspects of the old games. At the same time obviously not as good as an actual game. They in the middle: a kind of a lower end made professionally made game. The games back then also used to cycle around a lot. Every week you would see different games giving a lot of variety. Nowadays the same few games are stuck on the front page for months.

The community was also better. It was a lot more friendly. You could make friends with a random guy you meet in a game and you would go on to play together for weeks or more. People seem to talk a lot more back then too. The toxicity was much lower back then too. Back then generally the worst was a calling each other noobs and other funny stuff. Now there is a lot of edgyness that was previously much less common. This increasing edginess forced the removal of several great features.

The old Roblox also had a lot of feature that got removed. Lets talk about the most famous one, tix. I understand that tix was messing up Roblox's business plan and needed to be removed, but this does not negate the fact that it was better when it was still around. Tix allowed NBC people to buy stuff. This allowed them to express themselves. It also made way for a much more vibrant econnomy. Things could be sold to NBC'ers. This helped especially in the uniforms for groups. Another feature that was removed were Personal Servers. Personal Servers were a good feature for beginners to build on. It also had a more serious fanbase that enjoyed its features. There were interactive cities on Personal Servers. The forums and comments are one too. The community became too toxic and they had to be removed. However, it was formerly usable. Sure there were chain messages and self promotion, but they were done manually so it wasn't that bad. You could still easily see legitimate comments. The forums used to not be too shabby. There were a lot of helpful forum posts. A decent conversation could be had on them. They started getting more turbulent towards the end.

This one is more controversial, but the aesthetics could be argued to be better. The old logo was pretty iconic. It was cheerful and unique. The new one is a metallic square. It is so generic. The old terrain was also better. The new terrain is more "realistic", but at the same time falls short of being actually realistic. It is sad looking mush. The old one was stylized and fit in with Roblox. R-thro looks like some rejected cartoon characters. The classic Robloxian is distinctive. The packages are preferable to R-thro too. They may not be blocky, but they have Robloxian proportions.

Admittedly not everything is better in old Roblox, but looking at all their pros and cons Old Roblox was superior.