Board Thread:Off topic/@comment-38269002-20190124004821/@comment-35998649-20190125051141

Usually, people gradually lose interest in Roblox after a year of their first join date. Roblox will always "go downhill" about a year of nonstop playing on the site. Once you get past the innocence and charm of the game, and start to get more ingrained within the community, you start to see everything fall apart (if that makes any sense?)

For instance, when I joined on my first account in August 2009, I lost an interest for the site about a year later (almost a year and a half actually) and temporarily left. After consistently playing obbies, minigames, tycoons, and generic war-type games (swordfighting and all that), it seemed to just get less interesting for me, with the same game formulas over and over (not to mention toxicity in the SF community, with everyone being boastful and then getting mad and targetting you when you kill them, some would even verbally attack you)

The majority of games at the time were just the same games over and over. Tycoons and obbies back then are the equivalent of the Simulator games today: you just saw them everywhere, and it seemed like it was never going to end. Everyone was making an obby and tycoon of their own to become popular by reaching the front page (just like today, where many small developers are trying to reach popularity by making an addictive simulator). Now, obbies and tycoons have been "slandered" by scammers who make horrible versions of them for the main goal of profit. I'm sure the same can be said to Simulators now, where microtransactions seem to be absolutely unfair.

Roblox as a game development platform is not dying anytime soon. In fact, we already have an actual development studio using Roblox, as well as one of the most well-known game developers of all time using the platform.

As for the community, I don't know... it's always been the "trollers vs. ODers". (If you want an active site for ODers btw, check games like NDS and ZR, seriously I've seen more ODers there than in stereotypical "Adopt" games or even in MeepCity. Most ODers don't even use the chat, they usually talk to each other through a voice chat or a call).