![]() ![]() But Baszucki said that the company is approaching a point where most of its players won’t be tweens. The majority of the company’s players are kids 13 and under. Roblox had 32.6 million daily active users at the end of 2020 and the company is predicting that it will have 34.6 million to 36.4 million by the end of 2021. People walk by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in the Financial District in Manhattan in New York City. The company also said earlier this month that it now expects sales to rise about another 60% this year to a range of $1.44 billion to $1.52 billion. Roblox posted revenue of nearly $925 million last year, up 82% from 2019. That’s a big – and rapidly growing business. More than half of those sales are through the app stores of Apple The company generates nearly all of its revenue from the sale of its Robux currency, which can be used to purchase in-game virtual objects. ![]() Roblox is free to download on phones, tablets and consoles. His stake in the company is now worth more than $4 billion. “Roblox is an amazing community where people are creating together,” said Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki in an interview with CNN Business Wednesday. Roblox describes itself as a “metaverse” where players can make their own avatars and environments to play in, such as virtual theme parks or scuba diving. Shares of the popular video game platform debuted on Wall Street and surged nearly 55% to $69.50, valuing the company at more than $45 billion. One more thing I would like to mention is that, from what I've seen, there was never a real GoBlocks logo that was ever created or shown online, there is one recreation that I commonly find, but its not real.Investors weren’t making the trademark “oof” Roblox death sound Wednesday. ![]() Logo that is commonly thought to be a 2002 logo for Roblox (its not) If we go to the Wayback Machine and look up, we find a really old archive from October of 2002, however that is NOT a domain from Roblox (at least at that time), if we go forward a year to December 2003, it mentions that the domain was registered, implying that Roblox might have bought it around then. Most of these domains redirect to today. ![]() It appears the Roblox team was brainstorming many different ideas for what would be the Roblox name, buying domains that matched. "So, you're saying that Roblox was created in mid-late 2003, and it had the name eBlocks?"īefore we end off this blog post, I would like to debunk a few misconceptions about Roblox's name choices over the years. Unfortunately we have no screenshots or archives of how eBlocks looked.Į was registered in 2002, but this doesn't prove anything, as there is no name attached to it's whois lookup, and it doesn't redirect to unlike most other Roblox domains. Well, I can't say for 100% certainty that eBlocks was Roblox, but considering that Roblox has gone into stealth mode in 2005, it is entirely possible this was it's original name. "So, what was eBlocks, was that the original name for Roblox? What did it look like?" We're not quite done yet, hold your horses.īetween July 2003 and October 2003, David Baszucki's personal website listed a project known as "eBlocks" calling it a stealth mode video game company. "So, the earliest confirmed existence of Roblox is sometime in 2003, and was called GoBlocks?" This screenshot seems to have been taken in January 2004, but it mentions "Copyright 2003 DYNABLOCKS,Inc." Suggesting that DynaBlocks had it's name created in 2003, and that GoBlocks came possibly earlier than that. In this screenshot we can see a lot more detail and information about years. There was a PowerPoint document found in the description of one of David Baszucki's recorded presentations on YouTube, found here: Unmodified, higher quality "DynaBlocks" screenshot from a downloadable powerpoint file First, let's continue off with the finding of the Higher Quality screenshot of this page, that was found linked in a corrupted, but complete enough PowerPoint document. "So that solves it, right? Roblox was originally called GoBlocks?" At this time code we see the following screenshot: "DynaBlocks" screenshot from Virtual BLOXcon 2013ĭynablocks is prominently showed as the logo, and eagle eyed people might have noticed there are some references to "GoBlocks" in the page, and on the title bar, suggesting that it was originally GoBlocks but was changed to DynaBlocks shortly after. Let's start where everybody else started, with the Virtual BLOXcon 2013 Live stream. However, the rabbit hole goes much deeper than you might think. The most commonly accepted answer is DynaBlocks, or maybe even GoBlocks depending on who you ask. So, the question seems simple, "What was Roblox called when it was first being created, and when was it made?" ![]()
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