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Wrapping Up the Gifts
Now that all the ROBLOX holiday gifts have gone out, it’s time to clue you in on what the gifts are and how they work. Over the past two weeks, people have randomly been finding gifts in their Stuff collection. You got a gift if you met a certain condition at the time when the gift was being given out. The condition was different for every gift. Each gift will be on sale in the Catalog for a couple more days. Then they will be removed from the Catalog. Each gift will open sometime after that and reveal what is inside. Due to popular demand, you will be able to keep the boxes (some might even argue that the boxes are the real collector’s item). Here’s a list of all the gifts. “Number awarded” is the total number of people who got the gift for free. For the most part, “dead” accounts were not issued gifts. a strong Number awarded: 48454 Who got it: All accounts that never had a 3 day ban or worse placed on their account. a strong Number awarded: 2766 Who got it: All accounts with the Bloxxer Badge (KOs > 250 and KOs > WOs). a strong Number awared: 1521 Who got it: All accounts that owned a pink hat. These were all hats that were pink or hot pink or purplish-pink, but not the Music Theory book, which is purple and not pink. You didn’t need to be wearing it. a strong Number awared: 174 Who got it: All accounts that messaged JohnCarmack prior to the cutoff time. The content of the message did not matter, you just had to send one. How were you supposed to figure that out? You weren’t. Not really. It’s surprising so many people did. They saw the a strong Number awared: 367 Who got it: All accounts that owned a place, model, or shirt with the word “tree” in either the description or the title. This was the first gift that people had trouble figuring out the condition for. a strong Number awarded: 601 Who got it: All accounts with an elite number of profile views - that is to say 1337 or more profile views. Har har. a strong Number awared: 5051 Who got it: All accounts whose user number was prime. Interestingly, due to the distribution of prime numbers, the earlier you joined ROBLOX, the higher your odds of receiving this gift were. Using the a strong Number awared: 710 Who got it: All accounts with more than 100 messages sitting in their inbox. It didn’t matter if they were read or unread. Messages to yourself were not counted, nor were friend requests. a strong Number awarded: 3348 Who got it: All accounts with the Homestead Badge (100 or more visits to your place total). a strong Number awarded: 1774 Who got it: All accounts that had ever used the word “awesome” on the site. This included account names/descriptions, shirt names/descriptions, place names/descriptions, comments, and forum posts. Correct spelling was a must. So basically anyone who said they wanted the awesome gift got one :-) The idea behind the gifts was not that people would collect them all - I don’t think anyone got them all for free. Some of them were meant to be easy to get, others hard. Some were meant to be obvious, others cryptic. I tried to make most gifts the sort that new players had just as good of a chance of getting as veterans. At the end of the day, who can argue with getting free stuff? - Telamon a
| December 12, 2007 -
Need More ROBLOX News?
a Check out ROBLOX News is a professional-looking site that features interviews with players, updates on contests, reviews of places, and commentary on daily comings and goings inside of Robloxia. We like it so much, we’ve added ROBLOX News to our blog roll. - Telamon a
| December 11, 2007 -
Welcome Aboard!
It’s a time of great excitement and change here at ROBLOX. We’re proud to introduce a new Developer to the team, noob007. He’s a .NET and C# programmer who is moving with his family from Boston to come work at ROBLOX HQ.
| December 8, 2007 -
World’s Fair Winners – Lands of Tomorrow
These are the winners of the Lands of Tomorrow category – places people would like to see in the future of ROBLOX. These entries were judged for the idea, the construction, and the writing of how it would work.
| December 7, 2007 -
World’s Fair Winners – Dogs of War
These are the winners of the Dogs of War category – Tools, Armor and Weapons people would like to see in the future of ROBLOX. These entries were judged for the idea, the construction, and the writing of how it would work.
| December 7, 2007 -
World’s Fair Winners – Captains of Industry
These are the winners of the Captains of Industry category – Vehicles (including Watercraft, Aircraft and Spacecraft) people would like to see in the future of ROBLOX.
| December 07, 2007 -
World’s Fair Winners – Tests of Bravado
These are the winners of the Test of Bravado – Obstacles, Rides and Traps that people would like to see in the future of ROBLOX. These entries were judged for the idea, the construction, and the writing of how it would work.
| December 07, 2007 -
World’s Fair Winners – Bizarre Bestiary
These are the winners of the Bizarre Bestiary category – Creatures, Robots and Monsters people would like to see in the future of ROBLOX. These entries were judged for the idea, the construction, and the writing of how it would work.
| December 7, 2007 -
World’s Fair Closed for Judging
The bad news is that no more entries will be accepted. The good news is that over 100 players entered the ROBLOX Better Tomorrow World’s Fair. It’s amazing! I think you’ll all be surprised how many entries there are for certain categories.
| December 05, 2007 -
World’s Fair Closed for Judging
The bad news is that no more entries will be accepted. The good news is that over 100 players entered the ROBLOX Better Tomorrow World’s Fair. It’s amazing! I think you’ll all be surprised how many entries there are for certain categories. The results of the contest will be posted by Category within a couple days. The Robux prize will be delivered a few days after the winners are announced. Don’t ask me how many Robux it is ‘cuz I’m not gonna tell you yet. Remember, it’s only one prize per player no matter how many entries, and they don’t stack. -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 5, 2007 -
Parade of Tomorrow 4
Here are six more entries to the ROBLOX Better Tomorrow World’s Fair! These players have not yet been judged by Telamon, but can feel proud to be on the News as examples of the entries so far. p Please keep in mind there are many more entries than these and the judging has not yet happened. Keep sending in your entries! Tuesday December 4 is the last day to enter! Read the instructions from the -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 4, 2007 -
Parade of Tomorrow 3
Here are six more entries to the ROBLOX Better Tomorrow World’s Fair! These players have not yet been judged by Telamon, but can feel proud to be on the News as examples of the entries so far. p Please keep in mind there are many more entries than these and the judging has not yet happened. Keep sending in your entries! Read the instructions from the -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 3, 2007 -
ROBLOX Grows Again!
Introducing DocStrange has relocated to ROBLOX HQ (in California) from Arizona. He says he’d really like there to be capes in ROBLOX, so his character can wear a flowy cape. I agree that would be pretty cool. He will be helping the Moderation team off and on and is already super busy with projects. You can PM him to say "Hi" or give suggestions for his place. Please don’t ask DocStrange for stuff or ask scripting questions. We can’t have him getting distracted! Hooray for DocStrange! -ReeseMcBlox a
| December 3, 2007 -
Black Iron Gift of Pwnage
The masked malefactor has struck again! Yesterday we reported that there is a crazy gift-giving guy on the loose who is breaking into people’s homes and leaving presents.
| November 30, 2007 -
Some Nice Gifts
Alert! Burglar at large! Several thousand Robloxian homes were broken into last night. So far no one has reported that anything is missing. On the contrary, many citizens are finding a shiny blue present in their Stuff section of their My Roblox page
| November 29, 2007 -
Parade of Tomorrow 2
Here are six more entries to the ROBLOX Better Tomorrow World’s Fair!
| November 28, 2007 -
Parade of Tomorrow 1
Wow! We have gotten a lot of entries for Better Tomorrow World’s Fair! We have so many that it’s going to be hard to show them all on the Roblog like we did for the last event.
| November 27, 2007