We introduced phase one of ROBLOX character customization last night. Kudos to Erik and Matt for their heavy lifting on this. Can you identify the first six people to create their own custom shirts and characters on ROBLOX late last night?
This morning is a momentous occasion. I am emptying my Inbox. Often people send me messages like “… so-and-so was calling me names, please do something…” or “yo dude, give me a custom character plz…”. However, occasionally I get some interesting questions to which I send a thoughtful response. I’m going to start posting some of these. The first is from MrDoomBringer, with whom I exchange several messages a week.
MrDoomBringer writes:
Continue reading Have you ever wondered what the most rare badge on Roblox is? Or which is harder to get: the Bloxxer Badge or the Bricksmith? I was wondering the same thing myself on Friday and I found some interesting numbers out of our database. I put together this table (data from February 16th):
The other day a player, gameshark, complained to me that he did not like the new Rocket Arena map because it required no skill to play. His main criticism was this: whoever shoots the most rockets wins – just find a good place to stand and spam them. Now obviously this is not entirely correct because if the Rocket Arena map required no skill to play then it is a game of luck. One person is just about as lucky as another, so everyone should be equally good at Rocket Arena. If you visit the Rocket Arena map for 5 minutes, you will notice this is not the case.
Continue reading I want to discuss something that I’ve been thinking about for two months now – a problem that all of us at Roblox have been anticipating even before we started tracking combat statistics. Actually there are several problems…
Problem #1: The players who have the most time to play Roblox tend to rise to the top.
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