User blog:Alienation999/2014-Present, The Dark Ages and its History

Many users will agree that 2013 was the last good year of ROBLOX, having many popular events such as the Roblox Easter Egg Hunt 2013, Roblox Bloxcon, Virtual BLOXcon, though had the then infamous BLOXtober 2013, which was criticised for its 20000 x 20000 map, which was the largest ROBLOX map to date (Though considered good compared to the recent ones).

This Blog Post will cap on the dreaded year of 2014, which began the Dark Ages of Roblox.

The Universe Events
After being discussed about for a few years, Universe's, a highly anticipated feature, were finally added to Roblox. Its release coincided with the ROBLOX 2014 Winter Games, which utilised the feature. The event, unlike most others, was recieved well for its map and ambitious design.

This was followed by April Fools Day 2014, which gave players the Egg of Destiny. It was also during this month that Player Points were created, however, in this early incarnation, only limited Player Points could be issued, and their creation relied on the purchase of Developer Products. Instead of having a leaderboard for each game, there was a ROBLOX-wide leaderboard, and Player Point counts were displayed on the users profile.

Everything after this however turned horrible, with the beginning being the Roblox Easter Egg Hunt 2014. It was criticised heavily for being laggy, relying too heavily on Universes, and for having been created with lackluster effort. It was considered far inferior to the 2013 equivalent.

Player Points Era
In an attempt to recover from the disaster of the Egg Hunt, ROBLOX decided to cash in on the success of the Winter Games, and began The ROBLOX 2014 Summer Games, which heavily revolved around Player Points, which led to it being criticised. People however appreciated that it showcased Developer's Talent, instead of work created by the Admins.

It was during this era that ROBLOX became competitive, as people fought for Player Points, even leading to events being made solely to earn them, such as the ROBLOX Clan Battle. In the months following the ROBLOX Clan Battle, Player Points were reformed. Developers could now give an unlimited supply of them, the ROBLOX-Wide Leaderboard was replaced with individual game leaderboards, and PP-Counts were removed from profiles, and ROBLOX believed that PP made ROBLOX too competitive.

Rise of Devents, Phase I
BLOXtober 2014, also known as Hallows Eve 2014: The Witching Hour Returns could be considered a Proto-Devent (Excluding Winter Games and Summer Games), as it featured Developer Created maps, based on popular games, such as Work at a Pizza Place. The event was ridiculed by many for being too simplistic and not fun.

The first true Devent was BLOXgiving 2014. The term Devent had not yet been coined, and the widespread hate had not yet grew. The event was again riduculed for too simplistic, and that it was only Developers games decorated in a certain way, in comparison to the ROBLOX Thanksgiving Turkey Hunt 2013, where an entire game was created and scripted by Admins.

By the time of ROBLOX Holiday 2014, unrest had began to grow about the growing trend of Devents. People were upset that a ROBLOX tradition was turned into a moneymaking scheme for Developers.

Rise of Devents, Phase II
This year is considered one of the worse in the history of ROBLOX. The year got off to a bad start following The ROBLOX 2015 Winter Games, which were considered mediocre, but this was later overshadowed by the next event.

The Roblox Easter Egg Hunt 2015 was widely hated for the breaking of tradition. Instead of being hosted in a large Admin-Made game, it was hosted in a few Developer Made games. The term Devent was coined on the forums, and was used derogatively to refer to Developer Made events.

Proliferation of Devents
2015 saw the massive use of Devents, despite being heavily criticised and hated by the community, many of whom began to feel betrayed by ROBLOX.

Following the Roblox Ultimate Competition, sponsored Devents began to appear. Not only were they like regular Devents, they were also littered with sponsorship from real life companies to bring extra money to ROBLOX.

Such events were the 2015 Jurassic World Event, Teen Titans Go Sponsorship and the We Bare Bears Sponsorship among many more.

The proliferation even got to a point, where there were three Summer Events: The ROBLOX Summer Camp 2015,  The ROBLOX 2015 Summer Games and the ROBLOX Endless Summer Campout. It also happened around this time, that all lifetime Builders Club subscriptions were cancelled, and were made unavailable for purchase, causing controversy.

BLOXtober 2015 became the end of the line for many users. Not only had another main ROBLOX event been transformed into a Devent, but was also a Sponsored Event, and its game had little effort put into, and was ridden with glitches. BrightEyes, a ROBLOX Admin, had also lied to the community, promising a new hat mesh would be created, despite a retextured hat being created instead.

Devents began to take their toll on the website. Bloxgiving 2015, part of the usually successfull Thanksgiving events, was unnoticed by much of the community, who were fed up with the mass creation of Devents.

What happened next, however, caused the eventual downfall of Devents. The Roblox Holiday 2015 was transformed into an Alvin and the Chipmunks sponsored Devent, which caused mass protest for the end of Devents, and for once after almost a year, the Proliferation of Devents was over.

Hopeful Beginnings
Following the turn of the year, people thought that ROBLOX had reformed, and that the Devent Proliferation was over. The year started with a few sponsored events that were mostly ignored, as people mostly focused on the upcoming Egg Hunt.

The Roblox Easter Egg Hunt 2016 was applauded by many for not being a Devent, and for being similar to the 2013 Hunt. However, instead of being developed by a ROBLOX Admin, it was developed by a designated user.

It was during this time that ROBLOX was released for the XBOX ONE, a console developed by Microsoft.

Avatar 2.0/R15 Controversy
Immediately following the Egg Hunt, leaked images of a ROBLOX concept named Avatar 2.0 arose. Avatar 2.0 was designed to replace the current Roblox Character, which was renamed Avatar 1.0.

Mass protests similar to the Devent protests arose, and ROBLOX decided to cancel Avatar 2.0, but eventually came out with another hated feature, which was this time, not to be cancelled.

R15 was the name of the new design. Avatar 1.0 was then renamed R6. It was this time, similar to the old ROBLOX character, but had 15 Joints instead of 6. People hate it still, because the animations are ugly, and people find R15 unnecessary.

Removal of Tickets
In March 2016, ROBLOX announced that Tickets, a well rejoiced and historic currency of ROBLOX, was to be removed on April 14th.

People were outrageous, and even to as far to say that 2016 was worse than 2015. All this had happened, and it has only been three months.

Despite many complaints over the removal, ROBLOX declined.

Following the removal, Trade Currency was removed, many new Developers quit, clothing groups collapsed, and the current front page developers now had a monopoly over others, who now have no income at all.