ROBLOX Discussion - Is ROBLOX Changing Their Audience?

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ROBLOX, a perfect game for kids ages 9-12 to build their world and explore other people's creations. Or is it?

I have a feeling that ROBLOX is trying to change itself to appeal to older kids, people around the ages of 14-17. These people will either be graduating in the near future, or almost off to college, and the most likely to learn to script and make games on ROBLOX, since Lua can get complicated and younger people might not want that much of a challenge.

I mean, just look at some of the things they've been doing. We're going to have multiple points here.

1. Developer Exchange

This is probably one of the more obvious ones. Dev Exchange allows you to cash in robux for actual cash. You will need OBC (unless given access to it by doing something like winning a contest) and lots of robux, meaning around 100k robux for the minimum.

This is only an amount of robux developers and investors will be able to reach, or a spoiled ROBLOXian that spends thousands of dollars buying robux. As stated above, scripting is something that will mainly attract older ROBLOXians, and ROBLOX is putting a lot of emphasis on becoming a developer.

2. Site Layout

This is more of an exaggerated point, so feel free to dismiss this as rambling. Anyways, the old layout used to encourage creativity and fun. Now, with the new site updates, everything is extremely bland and it looks like a rip-off of Facebook. I use Stylebot, which is a Google Chrome extension that lets you change the CSS code of a website and share your themes, and I changed the colors of the navigation bars, since the extremely ugly color of the header was too much for me to bare.

Little kids (at least in my experience) want something fun or something to look cool, not have a header with a solid blue background. The older layouts, specifically the one used around 2011, had characters and ROBLOXians shown, such as a ninja and a pirate, and pets to go along with it. That was my favorite layout, but sadly they removed it. People who are used to things like Facebook and Twitter, which are aimed towards teens and adults, will like the design of the navigation.

3. In-Game Ads

In your games, you can set it so that people can watch an ad if they are on a mobile device. You also earn robux from each player that watches an ad, which is an extremely good way to get robux, if your game is popular. Developers are mostly at an older age, so the only people that will profit from this are people with a steady flow of players on mobile devices. ROBLOX was originally on PC & Mac, and are most comfortable played on those, so a lot of the players coming to games will be on a computer. That means you need to have a lot of players so that you will have some mobile players coming to your games and watching ads.

4. Thumbnails and Video Thumbnails

This is a relatively old feature, and something that I use even though I'm not a well-known developer and never finish games. However, it still can contribute to my point. Thumbnails help attract more players, and also give your game a nicer look. I personally love these features, and thumbnails are very cheap if you have a membership, since you can purchase one for R$25.

These thumbnails, as I've said, attract more players, and are mainly used to tell players that there's been an update or just to make the game look nicer. If you want more players in your game, you're probably doing a big event like a video or hanging out with people, or you're trying to get people to play your game so that you can make a profit or just have a lot of people in your game.

What does this all mean?

All of these features are things that will specifically appeal to older players, which probably means ROBLOX is trying to get an older audience to come play their game, or to get a wider audience. They've even become more lenient in what they allow, such as letting people use certain curse words that aren't as bad as others, and even using swear words or controversial words such as the 'h' word in their own items.

I think that ROBLOX is trying to switch their audience. In this year's Giftsplosion, half of the gifts were for developers. If that's not a clear sign, I don't know what is. What's your opinion? Feel free to comment below!

The Review - Mad Paintball!

UPDATE: There's a new code! Look below for Gordon's code.
UPDATE2: More codes have been released. Look below for the rest of the character codes!

The Review is an article in which we review something in ROBLOX. The writer explains what it is and what they think of it. Along with other posts, there will be a Review every week.

This Week's Review: Mad Paintball! by loleris

Mad Paintball is a shooter game where, instead of bullets, you use paintballs. This game was extremely popular on release and still continues to have more than 1,000 players on it at once every day. While there's not much you can do in this game, it is still lots of fun. The game has not had very many bugs in it at all, and the ones that are there aren't game breaking. This game appeals to most people who like shooters, and an even wider audience since the use of paintballs makes it less violent.

MY EXPERIENCE

I have loved this game since the day it was released, and it still continues to please me. I was one of the people to purchase the Mad Paintball Mystery Box, which gives access to 2 exclusive characters, Axel, a sniper, and Adam, a minigunner, and also gives you 150,000 credits. Adam is my personal favorite character, and at the time of writing this article he is level 73 (2 levels until the next level bonus!). There is a wide variety of characters, however, such as Billy and Summer, who are shotgunners that are very strong close range but not good at a distance, and Peter and Chazz who have a rifle, who are pretty good close range but deadly from a long range since other people won't be able to do much damage to them.

There's also things to unlock, such as Harry (the code will be down below), a sniper with low health but is brutal in the right hands, Drew, another sniper who is wonderful for quickscopers since his sniper charges up nearly instantly, Jack, a minigunner with lots of health but like Billy and Summer is terrible from a distance, and then the robux characters, Tyler, Shedletsky, and the Beast.

Multi-kill!

I was able to access the testing server, and what I saw was impressive. The players were not able to play a round but the menu was able to be accessed, and there were many characters and paintball guns that were not yet available. There were lots of characters that were yet to be seen by the public, and then some people from The Mad Murderer. As pictured above, Dennis was one of those characters, who I think was a minigunner (but don't quote me on that.) Some characters that were not in any game yet include Red and Angel.

And while there's a lot of content in the game, the gameplay is amazing. One downside is that waiting to play the game or spectating when getting killed is excruciatingly boring, especially when early in the round. But if you're able to survive, the game is lots of fun. The thrill of hunting down players on the opposing team will be loved by nearly any competitive person, and scoring a kill might take a while, but it's worth it. Once you get kills you can earn credits which are used for buying characters (and soon paintball guns and skins), and you also get experience which you can collect to level up, earning level bonuses at level 25, 50, 75, and 99.

RATING

7/10 - While this game is loads of fun, playing for too long can get boring. I haven't been playing this game as much as I used to, but I do occassionally visit and wipe out the field with Adam. If you're looking for a challenge, Mad Paintball is the game for you.

UNLOCKABLE CODES

This section is where you can visit to see character codes.

Harry's Code - DominusHeadshotus
Gordon's Code - itstimetochoose
Blaze's Code - hebeblazin
Nemo's Code - whalin
Cupcake's Code - morecaikspls
Zero's Code - 6183

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