Sorry for this being late but I wanted to make sure I got all the facts right and got info from roblox and not random users thinking they know what is going on.
On April 1st, 2012 it was April Fools Day (it comes every April 1st so you should know that). Roblox experienced many events such as accounts that have been banned for a LONG time becoming active all of a sudden and banners appearing on the top of the website. But think about it this way, if your Roblox account has been banned for a year and un-usable, why in the world would you all of a sudden decide "OH I'm gonna try and log onto my Roblox account today! Maybe it's been unbanned even though it was deleted!". So I believe it was not the actual accounts of the people have screwed with Roblox. I am not saying it was hacked, I am just giving both sides of the story. In the morning people on the forums praised a Roblox user "Minish" for coming back, even though I have never heard of him and he only has 200k place visits. He posted "I'm back!" and many posts followed welcoming him. Some other users such as Are17, Pheedy, Merely, and JJ5x5 were users that people on Roblox talk were welcoming back. Merely and Pheedy are said to be involved also, but as I said, I do not think it was the real users. What does an argument on the forums have to do with Roblox getting so screwed up it has to be taken offline? (Read about that on Roblox News: http://arbirator-robloxnews.blogspot.com/2012/04/prank-too-far-robloxs-recovery.html) They were framed, but they were framing THEMSELVES because they were posing as them. At first I thought this was an April Fools prank by Roblox because, the mods are fun and they love posting April Fools jokes on the site such as these (if you remember Shedletsky challenging Jaredvaldez4 on the front page):
But they released at least 20 EXTREMELY rare limiteds (with 2 or 200 of each selling and for only 10-100 R$), the prices of those shot up to more than 5 times their original price. These limiteds, Roblox is saying, were not supposed to be released yet. This gave tons of money to many users who didn't, sorry if I offend you, deserve it! They were never meant to get them at all! Roblox today changed the prices of them from 10 to 10,000! But the users didn't lose the item, it just changed the number on the catalog, which is pretty much pointless. A new face was also released and given to one user: Stickmasterluke, who had no idea what was going on and thought that the other Admins were playing a prank on him according to his Twitter account. People are saying it is one of the scariest faces ever but I would actually buy it and proudly wear it because of how weird and stupid it looks. (Roblox is about creativity guys!) Here's the face:
Image courtesy of Roblox News
Limiteds released:
Image Courtesy of Roblox News
And what really got me to know this wasn't an April Fools joke is that ReeseMcBlox and other Roblox staff members were CURSING on the forums! They would never do that! It would risk losing their TRUSTe seal.
Image Courtesy of Roblox News
Image Courtesy of Roblox News
Many other users were also cursing on the forums and getting away with it. Many users were given MILLIONS of robux and some even got mod powers! Roblox then shut the site down for the night, and patched how the site was getting messed with.
The Aftermath:
The day after the incident, you were not able to purchase anything on the site (with the virtual currency) and not allowed to trade currency. Two days afterwards (the day I am writing this) all the features are returned to normal and Roblox did a full item rollback returning items to how you had them before April 1st, 2012. But they also made some mistakes where people like me lost some robux in which case you have to contact info@Roblox.com They sent out a PM saying this from the account ROBLOX:
"Hello Fellow Robloxian,
As you are probably aware, the ROBLOX website experienced an issue the evening of April 1st.
As part of the corrective measures the ROBLOX team has taken, one or several of your virtual transactions made on the afternoon of the 1st have been rolled back.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact customer support via email: info@roblox.com
Thanks,
ROBLOX Staff"
So that is the true, real, and unbiased version of the April 1st, 2012 Roblox event.
Thanks for reading
-liama517
8:37 PM
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