Timeline of Roblox history/2012

January 2012

 * January 6 – Roblox Studio for the Mac reaches beta stage.
 * January 13 – Hack Week begins, and universes are shown and tested.
 * January 18 – Water, buoyancy, and ropes are shown.
 * January 20 – New dynamic lighting is shown.
 * January 21 – Roblox games can now be played on more internet browsers.
 * January 26 – Video thumbnails are shown.

February 2012

 * February 8 – Roblox users can now buy Roblox cards at F.Y.E. and EB Games.
 * February 16 – SWITCH3.wav no longer plays when players zoom the camera in or out.

March 2012

 * March 6 – After two years in operation, the Ambassador program is discontinued.
 * March 19 – Roblox improves their network physics.
 * March 20 – Roblox is featured at the Game Developer Conference.
 * March 29 – Roblox introduces thumbnails for places.

April 2012

 * April 1 – DracoSwordMaster compromises the website. This resulted in the catalog and the trade currency system becoming disabled and ultimately ROBLOX temporarily shutting down. The 2012 April Fools Hack article provides more information about this.
 * April 6 – Roblox's interpolation code is improved, resulting in smooth motion of objects.

May 2012

 * Around May 4 – Roblox shuts down many places in order to apply an exploit prevention plugin for all of the places. When the plugin was finished, however, it caused raycast and debris functions to not function properly.
 * May 15 – The demonstration of the new V2 and V3 (Man and Woman) bodies was shown, resulting in dislike among some users regarding the bodies.
 * May 18 – The Trading System is nearly close towards completion.

June 2012

 * June 4 – Roblox Studio 2.0 Beta is launched.
 * June 5 – The water feature is released.

July 2012

 * July 12 – The Trading System is added.Man and Woman ROBLOX 3.0 packages are added to the catalog but are not placed on sale yet. The packages are, however, met with heavy criticism by many Roblox users due to its questionable appearance.
 * July 15 – Roblox releases the Hall Of Fame for ROBLOX Game Conference 2012 (RCG 2012).
 * July 17 – Both the Man and Woman packages are placed on sale, resulting in heavy criticism from many players.
 * July 19 – Roblox shows a demonstration of new looks of Roblox and graphics.

August 2012

 * August 3 – Roblox updates the loadstring function to prevent it from executing arbitrary Lua bytecode.

September 2012

 * September 5 – Roblox discontinues support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
 * September 15 – Roblox releases the first Game Template, which is a CTF.
 * September 17 – Game Passes are created.
 * September 18 – TIME names ROBLOX one of the 50 best sites of 2012.

October 2012

 * October 8 – Players can now allow and sell specific gear on their game page.
 * October 19 – Roblox for iPad is first announced. Also, the starter place was changed from the Happy Home to a light grey baseplate. The first user to start with this place was titanic15474. It was changed once again a few months later. It is still available as a place template, except the baseplate is darker and is thicker.
 * October 23 – Three game templates are introduced: Control Points, Free for All, and Team Deathmatch.

November 2012

 * November 14 – 100,000 users play Roblox at the same time.
 * November 29 – Giftsplosion 2012 begins, starting with the Roblox Newshound Gift. A rumor spread that the Newshound Gift was earned by posting "Newspaper" on the forums, which resulted in the forums being spammed by players and administrators posting a forum announcement saying that the gift was not earned that way.

December 2012

 * December 6 – Users can now trade Robux with the trading system.
 * December 7 – Roblox releases seven more gifts including The Coolest Gift, High Frequency Trading Gift, Ticket to Ride Gift, Razzle Dazzle Hollywood Star Gift, Festival Gift of Group Fundraising, Self-Referential Gift of Referring, and the Commissioner's Gift of Commissions.
 * December 11 – The iBot is created.
 * December 12 – Roblox releases the Lucky Gift of Sevens.