Event — roblox

An event is an officially created limited-time challenge that usually involves different objectives and has different limited-time rewards that cannot be obtained after the event ends. (Unless the item becomes limited, such as the Riptide, which rarely happens.) Roblox events are commonly sponsored events where new movies or brands, have limited-time events associated or themed with their product.

They were replaced with Developer Events on May 13, 2019. Events were brought back on Roblox again for the Egg Hunt 2020 as of January 11, 2020, according to a Roblox tweet about the Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G.

Types of events

A contest may be held on a certain date encouraging users to do a certain objective to win it. The winners were usually announced at the end, and they were usually awarded a variety of Robux, a Roblox Premium membership, or a hat or gear item related to the event (for example, winners of the Domino Rally Building Contest were granted 5,000 Robux, Builders Club membership, and a Domino Crown for gold, 2,000 Robux and a Domino Crown for silver, and 1,000 Robux and a Domino Crown for bronze).
A livestream may be run by Roblox on Twitch for each increment of 25,000 Twitch followers they reach. During these events, a notification would appear on top of the Roblox website informing users to watch their live stream. Occasionally, several items related to the event would be obtainable for a limited time, usually through promotional codes. On a few occasions, Roblox may put these items on sale for usually a cheap price (for instance, the Transylvanian Cape was put up on sale during the Hotel Transylvania 2 live stream featuring Selena Gomez for 1 ticket).
A developer-made event consists of one or more experiences developed by popular users. Users would usually have to obtain a variety of prizes (mostly related to the event) in each experience. Occasionally, a special prize would be awarded to players for finding each item before the event's deadline (for instance, a gear item known as The Dragon Eye was awarded to users if they found all 3 lenses before the event ended).
Sponsored events are a type of event that sponsors an upcoming TV series, movie, or game which is usually kid-friendly. Like developer-made events, several experiences made by famous users may be featured for the event and users would often have to obtain items related to the event and not before the event was over. These events were also heavily criticized because their prizes were of low quality and most of them were aimed at children.
An egg drop was when eggs spawn or drop in various places in the featured experience(s). Eggs featured in the game commonly have special abilities (such as being able to kill users) while a few others don't, which makes them more challenging to obtain. Purchasable items may also be available for these events, but many of them only work for the experience featured in the event.
"Giftsplosion" was when a various amount of wearable presents were released in the Marketplace. To obtain these presents, users would either have to buy them with Robux (or Tickets when they were still on the platform) for various prices (depending on their rarity) or complete the objective required to obtain the gift before the gift becomes unavailable. After the gift becomes unavailable to obtain, an accessory, gear item, face, or rarely, Characters (formerly packages), may come out of the gift. Some gifts contain clues about what might be inside them by their design.
An event that is a permanent addition to Roblox will provide prizes, remain accessible, and continue to be maintained for an indefinite period, unlike most events. However, not all prizes will be available for an indefinite period. Permanent additions usually take the form of creator challenges or more recently, sponsored events.

Criticism

Roblox events have been criticized because of there being too many Developer-made events, also known as Dev-ents (or Dev-Hunts for the more recent egg hunts) in the Roblox Community. These developer-made events have been criticized because of the lack of effort put into the events as well as Roblox not making their own specific experience for these events, instead of using experiences made by the community and adding earnable items to them. They also have been heavily criticized because of the items having bad objectives to get them.

Some developers reported stressful crunch times and low pay when developing for the events.^[1]

Although this complaint has recently simmered down in 2022 due to there being good sponsored events, a lot of sponsored events are quick cash grabs that are often broken at launch. This is especially true for LuoBu events.

History

Discontinuation

On April 2, 2019, Roblox announced that they were replacing monthly and seasonal events with developer-made content to boost developer experiences' concurrent visitors. This was heavily criticized due to events being a long-time tradition on Roblox. Along with this, Roblox had announced that they were no longer giving out prizes for these developer-made experiences. This change took effect from May 13, 2019^[2] to November 21, 2019.

Comeback

On January 11, 2020, Roblox confirmed in a tweet that the Egg Hunt would be returning for 2020, which led to some speculations that other events could be returning as well, which was later confirmed with RB Battles Season 2 and Ready Player Two (although events will not be as common as they were in the pre-discontinuation era).

Rework into Events Platform

Although new events continue to be produced and released, the event tab on the sidebar was discontinued in February 2023, after having last been used in October 2022 with FIFA World, However, it was brought back on March 12, 2024, to promote "The Hunt: First Edition", and later events, When the event finish, the event tab on sidebar is removed temporarily, when event is not available.^[3] In March 2023, the Events Platform was added to replace the previous event tab.^[4] The Events Platform holds community events that do not award accessories. With this new events system, places can schedule the start and end time for an event, and any player can subscribe to events they wish to participate in.

UGC Limited events as de facto replacement

The introduction of UGC Limited items and the ability to sell them within experiences has allowed users to host events and distribute UGC, usually as free items, themselves. The first free limited UGC events began appearing in June 2023. As many developers consider limited UGC events a more convenient alternative to getting Roblox's approval to distribute UGCs as regular, unlimited quantity free items alongside Roblox themselves no longer offering developers unlimited quantity free items, the practice of hosting free limited UGC events has become much more common and replaced almost all events containing regular free prizes since August 2023.

Revival

In early 2024, official events were revived officially with the release of The Hunt: First Edition. These events usually air once or twice per season, and would occasionally be tech demos for new Roblox features as shown with The Haunt and The Hatch.

The event system follows the formula of having a selection of tasks to do in participating games, and using the points to redeem items. There is also usually a deluxe counterpart of each free item which can be obtained by owning a battlepass, or buying the item individually. A special bundle available throughout the event will contain the deluxe pass for free. There is no official term for the format, but due to most of them following the naming pattern of "The (Word)", the conjectural name of the collective event format is "The Series".

Trivia

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The former Valiant Community QA Team was commonly tasked with testing upcoming Roblox events before they were released. The community helped make sure events made by different developers functioned properly.
Since Riptide and Joyful Bell Helmet, it has been very uncommon for a former event item to go limited until recently; when the Ultimate Competition Laser Swordpack and Spider Antlers went limited, as well as multiple eggs from Eggstravaganza 2010, and Egg Hunts 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020. Although both items began selling for very cheap, this proved to be very rewarding to users who spent their time collecting the free rewards while they were available.
In 2019, eight monthly events scheduled for that year that haven't commenced yet (between May and December 2019) were cancelled due to the replacement of monthly events with Developer Events. The themes for these cancelled events included: Mystery, Avatar, Racing, Back to School, Fly Around the World, Future is Bright, Royale, and Games of the Year.
2006, 2007, 2009, 2022, and 2023 are the only years on Roblox in which no badge/hat hunting Springtime event was held.