When you are at this page, you may looking for the information regarding Roblox. We all know that Roblox is one of the largest online gaming platform in the world. By the way, who is the developer of Roblox? To find out that information, let us talking about that here.
You have to know that Roblox developed by Roblox Corporation. For your information, Roblox Corporation was made by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006 after some years of testing. To make you more understand related Roblox, we suggest you to keep staying on this page because here we also want to inform you the history of Roblox.
DEVELOPMENT AND BETA
Based on the research, in August 1989, David Baszucki founded Knowledge Revolution. It is a company that concentrated on educational physics and mechanical simulation software. There, David Baszucki wrote a general-purpose physics simulator named Interactive Physics. Apparently, David Baszucki was as a president of Knowledge Revolution until December 1998 and during this time he has been joined first by Erik Cassel, later in 1997 by Keith Lucas.
We get information that the Knowledge Revolution was reached for $20 million in January 1999 by MSC Software Corporation where David Baszucki served as a vice president with Erik Cassel to make Roblox in 2004. Soon, they were joined by other employees of MSC Software. Afterwards, GoBlocks.com was bought on December 2, 2003 and was renamed Dynablocks.com from December 12, 2003 to January 30, 2004.
Finally, Roblox was made by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004. Its beta version, Dynablocks was launched in 2004. In 2005, It was renamed to Roblox due to the name being hard to remember. During this time, it was also named Roblox v.10 according to DomainTools Screenshots. The site came out of beta and was officially launched in 2006.
EARLY HISTORY
According to the research, Roblox points could be earned by logging in daily. Or the players of Roblox could earn Roblox points by playing minigames. In 2006 and 2007, some features added included the search bar, avatar customization and private messages. Later, on December 22, 2006, Roblox badges were added. In March 2007, Roblox follow the rule of COPPA with the addition of safe chat where a chat mode which limited the users under the age of 13 to communicating by selecting predefined messages from a menu. On May 14, 2007, Roblox Points were replaced by Robux. Then, a premium membership, the Builders Club, became available on August 16, 2007.
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
For your information, on February 11, 2013, Erik Cassel passed away after his battle with cancer. On September 24, 2013, Roblox established a price floor for clothing in the Roblox catalog. The minimum price to sell shirts or pants was set to 20 Robux and the minimum price to sell a T-shirt was set to 10 Robux. Aside from that, the Developer Exchange program was released on October 1, 2013. You have to know that this Developer Exchange program allows the developers with Outrageous Builders Club membership to get money by exchanging Robux. On March 15, 2016, David announced that tickets would be discontinued after thirty days. Finally, on April 14, 2016, tickets were removed.