An Open Letter to ROBLOX about Our Third-Gen Character Parts

Prototype Characters Lineup

We have a big vision. The future of ROBLOX is an online world where many physical phenomena are simulated. Ultimately, wind will blow small parts around, metal wires will conduct electricity, lasers will cause wooden parts to burst into flame, magnets will attract parts made of iron, and water will freeze, flow and vaporize. This is not a world that will be composed only of blocks. Our characters will evolve and adapt to live in this world.

Over the last few months, we have been sharing our development progress on new bodies, heads and faces for ROBLOX characters. Each of the four blog posts we’ve published has received upward of 1,000 impassioned comments. Your feedback has helped us, but we have also noticed that some of our users are concerned about the new character parts.

The new bodies, heads and faces will be optional, and all previous character parts will remain available. The character parts will not release as the default in ROBLOX. They will initially be available to Builders Club members in the Catalog. Controlling the release will allow us to evaluate how the new body parts fit in with the greater ROBLOX world.

ROBLOXian 2.0In 2010, there was concern when ROBLOX introduced new body parts. However, ROBLOX users have adopted the body and its various morphs almost 1 million times. If you prefer a first- or second-generation ROBLOXian, I encourage you to stay with it. We are placing the power in your hands, which is a theme that permeates the ROBLOX platform.

Thank you for your passionate feedback over ROBLOX’s future.

1,555 thoughts on “An Open Letter to ROBLOX about Our Third-Gen Character Parts

  1. This very good. This is an improved version of 1.0, 2.0 wasn’t the best, it didn’t fit many shirts to look well. 3.0 does better, it has any shirt fit the package, and it doesn’t make the player look to real, I don’t see why people hate 3.0. 2.0 in my opinion SUCKED. I only used it once, but when I saw the plans for 3.0, I was 100% in.

  2. This is not Roblox, It suppose to BLOCKY! Not realistic. If Bertie(A popular mincecraft player) played Roblox AAAAGHHHHHHH CIRRRRCLEZ!!!!

    But seriously, Change this to Ro-Kreo. Then re create Roblox. If you ignore this, Have fun watching nearly all of Robloxia quit. I won’t because I am addicted no matter what :P

    • People won’t quit roblox just because of a package, People hated the new Youtube, but we got used to it, It might take a few weeks until people start to like this but it won’t end Roblox.

  3. Welcome, to the new world of; Ro-Reality. Used to be ROBLOX. Now it’s beginning to turn into a whole new website! :[

    • This is NO realistic. 1, the hands are not human hands. 2, It looks like lego, and that is not realistic.

  4. 1.0 2.0 and 3.0 should all be nbc so charictors could pick 1 baced on there personalitys and allow more customization i understand the fact that roblox is a bisnus and they want to make money bc items should be armors and such

  5. Get READY for OD’ing! The new packages has just been released to be sold! And already over 2,000 were sold already. o.o

  6. Roblox, you better listen to us Robloxians out there that say to scrap the idea. Your gonna get sued by Kreo/Lego.

    • Kre-o will NOT sue roblox, roblox has worked with Kre-o for battleship, also these look nothing like lego figures, so lego has nothing to do with this.

  7. I for one do not like these characters. But over time I will get used to them and probably, so will Roblox.

  8. For starters , all of the people saying it would be rubbish if it was BC only.Well you’re wrong , completely.They may look horrible , but does that give you the right to go and annoy them with your silly lies.The only thing that needs to change with this , is they look too much like KREO , if you want to keep them looking like KREO.Just change the name to ROKREO.

  9. I’ve been following this issue since the beginning, and I’m not just going to sit by while two parties go at each other’s throats. I personally do not like the new skins, they don’t stand for what roblox was originally created to be, and they show no uniqueness that represents roblox. Unlike ROBLOX 1.0 and 2.0, even though ROBLOX was always referred to as ‘similar to legos’, roblox had many uniquenesses, which seemed to have faded away in many years. ROBLOX also has watched the minority and cared about their word a lot more than the majority of us, probably because statistically, most of them are in fact non-veteran players, who ROBLOX probably believes are going to play longer. I’m just going to speak right now, players who are older have been leaving due to the recent changes. I’m considering leaving myself because of the changes, but there are a lot of ROBLOXian Veterans who would want to stay on ROBLOX because it’s one of the best online games in existance.

    On the other hand, players may not like the blandness of the 1.0 and 2.0, and even some veterans may want to make the switch, just because the new skins have some detail to them that the old ROBLOX characters didn’t, no matter how similar they look to other games and products out on the web. Looking at the new skins I do think that there are enough differences to them that no other company has, meaning that they have a safelock for any lawsuits. This will also give players the ability to if anything be more unique, finding creative ways to use the new character skins, as with 2.0.

    The downside is that a lot of the old skins will actually not work with the 3.0 skins, even though they’re supposed to, they’re designed to fit with the form of 2.0 skins, and most gloves, shoes, among other unique accesories will not work, depending on what skin you use, these skins will have to be reworked.

    ROBLOX 3.0 still may in fact be good for roblox, and I agree with other people in the fact that this skin SHOULD be an NBC item, relying on the fact that it would allow new players to change their look to something a little more fitting to their personalities, and all of the concerns for online dating I believe are unjust, solely for the fact that players have always had the option of distincting themselves as male or female. The addition of skins that sure have male and female forms, in reality hold no shape of a human male or female body. This means that in reality, there will be no difference in player behavior.

    So, do I believe that 3.0 should exist? Personally I don’t like the new skins and don’t want them implemented, sheerly for the fact that I think it’s too big of a change to the uniqueness that once was ROBLOX, but we should hear out the arguements from other players, as I’m sure they have their reasons for wanting the new skins in.

    • Colin21698 Awsome comment i agree But now it is out and it is bc only and 25 robux I Would like roblox to make it for people who had bc tbc or obc that expired to buy the 3.0′s

  10. Gen 3 will be the bane of Roblox.
    It will support ODing, looks too much like LEGO, and takes away the BLOX in ROBLOX.

    Also, you pretty much said that thousands support these bodies. You liars.

    Scrap these. Shred these. Throw them into the incinerator.

    • yes i agree these new bodies will take the blox out of roblox but us robloxians could use a change so think about it is this gonna help roblox or destroy it

    • Not everybody wants to shred them you know. Even though most people might want to, some people like myself actually like them

  11. I have been on ROBLOX since 2008. I have been NBC since the day I joined. I noticed how everything is now BC. When the ROBLOXian 2.0 came out I was mad, I wanted it and I didn’t get it. But I pulled through. This body looks terrible. Take the idea away. I don’t like the body. ROBLOX in 2008 was so much simpler, less complex. If these come out, and they are BC, I’m done.

  12. We gave you feedback from your later posts and you just ignored us. For the last time, WE DON’T LIKE THESE BODIES. The point of Roblox was to bring us out of reality, not in deeper! By adding human bodies, it crosses out the whole point of what Roblox was about besides the building and scripting…

  13. these body parts should be available for nbc. Thousands will quit as soon as bodies are realeased. your destroying roblox. us nbc made roblox this popular. if this bc only crap kepps going on, roblox will fall apart. I know all of you are too busy to read this in the roblox office, but if you dont listen, your walking up to robloxians and telling to go die in a hole. Change needs to happen

    • Totally agreed. Plus you are losing robux by having packages for bc only. I have enough to by Robloxian 2.0. Now if you make 3.0 BC only many people will quit. And I will be really mad cause I like the army 3.0 Morph.

    • You are wrong. Builder’s Club is a paid membership, and without players paying, then ROBLOX wouldn’t even exist. It would have vanished in 2010. And if Builder’s Club members didn’t get anything special, then who would pay for it? So you are wrong, because it wouldn’t be fair if players who do not pay get this. Things like this is what makes Builder’s Club worth paying. And check your spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. You are just showing that you have no care about neatness.

    • Anyone who thinks ROBLOX isn’t recording BC members enough is dead wrong, and although I don’t like the new skins at all, I do agree that if released they should be available to NBC. Roblox has generated enough revenue off or R$ purchases, current mesh purchases, advertisements and things of that nature. Those will NOT go away in the next update, and money will continue coming in, as roblox has been pushing themselves to earning more and more money with every new player. I also believe that Roblox will do the same thing with this as with ROBLOXian 2.0, where they’ll release ‘special’ versions of the same skin and make them BC only, one skin not being BC only isn’t going to change anything at all. BC doesn’t make a player better than anyone else, you shouldn’t be able to buy your way to victory in a minigame, if you’ve been on for four years like the rest of us, you’d understand why it should be NBC.

      • Also, it’d actually be MORE fair and MORE equal for EVERYONE to be able to get the item, even if they charged R$ to get it.

  14. these look horrible! but I’m not gonna hate on them if some newbs think its cool to run around like a Lego dude with retarded hair then fine but I cant stand them! although I might buy just for the face.

  15. i like these new looking packages but they look to much like KREO people,they need to change the look a little bit so they dont look like a laim Kreo toy. No affence to KREO their legos are fun to use.

  16. They Need To Repect Non-BC More Often. Its Always BC This, BC That, BC Everything. Its Not Fair.

  17. @weegeeman4457

    Speak for yourself! I’m in love with these bodies! and btw, when are they coming out! it’s been a day and a half since you released two of them that we can’t buy! :(

  18. know what i am tired of bc this bc that, they need to respect non-bc too, if it wasn’t for us they would not be having success, it would of been a lost cause, but because of us non-bcs they were able to succeed, they need to respect that

    • Actually, BCs get a lot of things because they pay for it. Things this cool are too cool for someone who doesn’t pay to play. Im glad I got bc so I can get this.

  19. If you can make the suit that the one on right wearing i can give you 30 robux for them 15 for shirt 15 for pants pm lukestav12345 if so

  20. i think theses characters are a good idea i cant wait for them to come out :)..[My Roblox Profile Is Newboylazy]

  21. I,personally don’t care about these bodies as long as theyre optional.But hear this,ROBLOX: THIS WILL INCREASE ONLINE DATING!!! I’ve seen it happen before with the 2.0. bodies. And personally,I think it will become MORE and MORE popular until eventually ROBLOX will turn into a dating site. It was great the way it was. then u tried to make it cooler and more modern. You failed roblox. BRING BACK THE SIMPLICITY!! delete ALL PACKAGES!! I’m not asking u to take away the tools u added to make it easier to build,Just pay more attention to the community more. ok? this is how all of us feel.

    • I don’t feel that way, I like ROBLOXian 2.0. But I don’t like these bodies that much.

      • i dont really care about the packages if i look cool to myself im k with it but your saying theres dating i have over 1500 friends and i look around only like 6 of them are online dating seroiusly thats an untrue fact plus if these packages come out then there will be more cussing and violance from nbc and bc people argueing about who looks better even though its just a charector that could be erased at any time with no concerne for others feelings this is joek33 speeking the truth peece out rbloxians!

  22. Yeah i really like it good job roblox. Pplz try to be wise guys by being like a forum mod there really cool keep it up and whens it coming out?

  23. Hello, as being a veteran of Roblox (2008) I believe this is not the direction that roblox should take. We should focus on more IMPORTANT things like stopping the growing force of exploiters/hackers. And besides, I hate these bodies. And to add on to that, they look EXACTLY like Legos/KRE0, AKA they are going to get sued by Them, sooner or later. So roblox, I wouldnt make these. You will lose veterans like me, and also increase Online Daters. All in all, your future is going to look like Minecraft with lego characters, what a horrible fate for Roblox, a game turning bad…

    • I totally agree! Im also an 08er and I think Roblox is going to total crap! They should NEVER make these bodys. I dont mind the flowing water but Im starting to hate the physics of the game. I likes Roblox because it was unique. A fun game for people of all ages. But now its total crap and I hate it. I think they should make an option to make everything to look like the old Roblox. The gui ingame, and the things outside the game like the website.

    • %90 agreed all but the dating thats untrue i play roblox almost 24/7 and i see barely anyone online dating

  24. I think they got the idea from the recent KRE-O game (KRE-O Battleship) These look very similar.

  25. I don’t see what the big deal is, it looks great, better than 2.0, and I don’t see why people don’t like it.

    • Ikr! i mean, the one in the Catalog (NotForSale) looks fine. they would just have to update a ton of the faces to fit the head.

  26. These new character look good so far. There isn’t much yet, but imagine the future. While I like these new packages, I also like that you won’t be forced to use them. I usually use Robloxian 2.0, but sometimes I dress like a newbie just for the memories.

    I do have some concerns, however. The shoulders on the male arms look bad. “If you like Shirts and Pants, you’re going to have a really bad time.” That’s what I was thinking when I saw these packages for the first time. But it looks like they’ll still work, unless it has gloves, shoes, ect. Other than that, I like this idea. Keep up the good work!

  27. I totally am against this new body… It just doesnt look like a robloxian… I hate and I dont want it to ever be able to get out to the catalog….

  28. I started playing in ’09. Back then, everything was simple. There were barely any meshes, barely any CFraming, and most of all: no online daters. Of course, as Roblox grew popular, it attracted almost everybody, and the “Good Old Days” of Roblox were gone. Everybody that joined in 2009 or younger were upset that Roblox would be having “Robloxian 2.0″ bodies, or when Clockwork and JJ5x5 suddenly disappeared. Eventually, we grew used to seeing skinny Robloxians everywhere we went, and we also got used to seeing OD’ers in every single RPG. And now that Roblox is releasing “Robloxian 3.0″, everybody (including the newbies) is speculating that Roblox is turning into *ahem* MINECRAFT! I personally believe that this has its Pros and Cons. For one, this can be a good thing, as things will be more realistic and it isn’t going to be the default Robloxian. But, it can also be a bad thing because Roblox’s famous simplicity will be gone, there will be a mix of 1.0s, 2.0s, and 3.0s everywhere (which might look weird), and it’ll take MORE than a computer to hack the Pentagon (reference to Thalium), and could have the Old Timers (the ones who built the foundations for Roblox) leaving Roblox forever. So, I believe the “Robloxian 3.0″ project has its pros and cons.

  29. ok instead of oding this oculdnt uve fixed the insert tools in the insert wars? these are RUINING ROBLOX i for 1 do not like them at ALL and also i think ur gonna get sued by KRE0 so i just rly think this isnt….well…good :I and on another note can ui plz bring back the insert tools in the insert wars games? ive always wanted to play 1 but i never got to…

  30. I’ll Be Fine With These As Long As We Can Still Buy And Keep The Ones We Have Because I’ve Spent 7000Robux On Packages

  31. So, after playing Roblox for roughly three years now I feel I’ve gain the right to say what is on my mind about these new bodies and Roblox in general and speak my very likely bias opinions. This is very had due to the fact that Roblox is a steaming pile of blocks with terrible graphics, repetitive gameplay (meaning you always see the same games on the home page and there is hardly anything new–however when something new does come along it is shunned for being too complicated or some other make believe reason) and lets face it–it requires a computer able of hacking into the Pentagon to run. However, despite these flaws seemingly longer than the dictionary you guys have manage to get player numbers up in the millions. It is probably one of the best games I’ve come across with the complete lack of enthusiasm for creating a better visual game. On the other hand you have these “high graphic” games that strive to shove as many polygons into the game as humanly possible. A few minutes after you start a game on Roblox that you really don’t care what the graphics are, you are just happy you are playing the game. The (possibly) crowning achievement is that you can build ANYTHING from a small brick battle place to a giant RPG with nothing but your imagination to guide you. The last thing I have to say is that the thing that makes Roblox stand out is its players. Though there are the occasional “n00bs” out there that have absolutely no idea what they are doing and will probably quit in a week you cannot deny the fact that Roblox’s community is what makes Roblox–well, Roblox. The shear number of games you can play and things you can build is unbelievable! The development of the game by all of you at Roblox is indisputably AWESOME. So is all of what I have to say really worth quitting for a body that you will mostlikely NEVER get to wear?

  32. Alot of people that posted comments said WE DONT LIKE THIS BODY well you can only speak for your self in life. I like the body it makes it seem more younger. I mean the 2.0 body looked like you were 16 this one kinda looks like your 12. I really hope ROBLOX will add this body one day.

  33. Ho, ho, HO! This may not be December, but you are silencing your naysayers to make these bodies look good! I mean, compare this one’s likes to the other non-Character-Explorations posts. Polish a piece of crud, it’s still crud! And this is said crud! And I don’t like these bodies. Don’t you want to avoid the lawsuits? And don’t you want to discourage OD’ing? And can’t you show some respect to British players? (Bloody Sarge) You are leaning closer to getting on my naughty list. Avoid that!