Timeline of Roblox history/2022

== January 2022 ==
* January 3 - Ralph Lauren: The Winter Escape event ended.
* January 4 - Roliday 2021 event ended.
* January 5 - Users can now easily change group names.
* January 7
**Luobu services in China are paused due to Roblox taking in 'important transitory actions'.
** Roblox servers go down in Oman, a country in the Middle East.
* January 9 - Allegations of Roblox being blocked in Oman start to circulate.
* January 17 - Benjamin Robert Simon (Ruben Sim) and Roblox settle their lawsuit in an out-of-court agreement that prohibits Simon from accessing the platform and from being within the premises of Roblox headquarters, and requires Ruben to pay $150,000 in damages instead of $1.6 million.
* January 18 - The My Feed page begins to be removed on the web and mobile as part of efforts to keep Roblox simple and streamlined for users.
* January 22 - Social links for experiences become nonfunctional due to major disruptions.
* January 23 - Social links for experiences regain functionality.
* January 28 - Group owners can now allow certain roles to manage Open Cloud settings.
== February 2022==
* February 1 - David Guetta DJ Party event started.
* February 6
**David Guetta DJ Party event ended.
** Roblox collaborates with Target to release the Roblox Avatar Collection.
* February 7 - BRITs VIP Party event started.
* February 9 - NFL Tycoon event started.
* February 10 - Alo Sanctuary event started.
* February 11 - McLaren F1 Team Racing Experience event started.
* February 12 - Roblox experiences technical issues, initially reported on mobile platforms.
* February 14 - BRITs VIP Party event ended.
* February 16 - MeepCity has been held under review, then brought back shortly after. The game is brought back without Parties.
* February 18 
**Achille Lauro Superstar featuring Gucci event started.
** Roblox announces the postponement of the Roblox Innovation Awards 2022 until fall.
* February 19 - Roblox begins to experience a critical service disruption which is seen at https://status.roblox.com/pages/incident/59db90dbcdeb2f04dadcf16d/62113cd7a0a0a9052db881c8.
* February 26 - Achille Lauro Superstar featuring Gucci event ended.
* February 28 - NFL Tycoon event ended.
==March 2022==
*March 1
**Jackets are released.
**Players experience a bug where users on Roblox Mobile can't equip hair on R6 characters.
*March 3
**Roblox introduces the Analytics Dashboard.
**Players experience a glitch where they cannot combine multiple hair accessories.
*March 4 - Many Russian developers receive a notice informing them that they may be unable to use the DevEx program due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
*March 5 - Roblox experiences technical issues at around 12PM ET.
*March 7 - UGC creators begin uploading Jackets.
*March 8 
**A wave of copyright takedowns saw numerous audio assets removed.
**Applications for the Roblox Fall Accelerator Program 2022 open.
*March 9 - Roblox announces a major update to audio asset uploading and privacy. Uploading audio to Roblox is now free, but players now have an audio upload limit every 30 days that vary depending on the user (10 audios for all users, 100 audios for ID-verified users, and 2,000 audios for users who have made a DevEx transaction). Additionally, all existing user-uploaded audio longer than 6 seconds would become private by March 22, and all uploads afterward would be made private by default. This change has caused controversy and major disapproval from developers and players alike.
*March 11 - Alo Sanctuary event ended.
*March 14 
**McLaren F1 Racing Experience event ended.
**T-Shirts and Pants are released.
*March 16 - Roblox responds to the controversy and major backlash of the community about the upcoming audio privacy changes in a DevForum post. They tell everyone about how these changes are necessary and that they understand everyone's frustration. Roblox announces that they are going to have a dedicated team try to keep SFX clips public, even if they are longer than 6 seconds. They are also going to upload 100,000 SFX clips in partnership with prosoundeffects.com. Roblox is also going to release an update that allows the owner of an audio clip to change its privacy status. Either they can whitelist certain experiences to use the audio clip by pasting its universe ID, or they can allow all experiences to use the audio.
*March 21 - 24kGoldn El Dorado Concert Experience event started.
*March 22 - The controversial audio privacy update goes into effect.
*March 23 - Some time at around 8 PM EST, the Roblox username filter seemingly ceased working. Many accounts containing inappropriate messages that would otherwise be prohibited were created during this time. Account creation was halted at around 8:15 PM EST and was later re-enabled. Offending accounts were soon terminated.
*March 27
**24kGoldn El Dorado Concert Experience event ended.
** One of Roblox's most popular experiences, Pet Simulator X by BIG Games Simulators, was temporarily Content-Deleted by Roblox.
* March 28 - Applications for the Roblox Fall Accelerator Program 2022 close.
* March 30 - GRAMMY Week event started.
* March 31 - Pet Simulator X is compromised by exploiters.
== April 2022 ==
* April 3 - GRAMMY Week event ended.
* April 4 - Shorts, Shirts, Dresses/Skirts, Sweaters, and shoes are released.
* April 5 - Roblox announces the 9th Annual Bloxy Awards would also be held in person at RDC 2022 for the first time.
* April 7 - Chipotle Burrito Builder event started.
* April 12 - Roblox's TikTok account accidentally gets banned due to "Multiple Community Guideline Violations". It was later unbanned.
* April 18 - Chipotle Burrito Builder event ended.
* April 19 - Beatland event started.
* April 21 - Roblox's Community QA Program shuts down.
*April 24 - Beatland event ended.
* April 25 - My Hello Kitty Cafe event started.
* April 26 - Logitech Song Breaker Awards event started.
* April 27 - Roblox stock drops below $30 for the first time.
== May 2022 ==
* May 2 - Logitech Song Breaker Awards event ended.
* May 3 - Spotify launches its first event on Roblox Spotify Island, which is the first event from a streaming service.
*May 6 — Sinister S went limited. This marks the first instance in years of an off-sale item going limited.
*May 8 - Appears to be a standard outage. Although this isn't planned, it does appear to be an issue on the developers' side of things.
*May 10 - Roblox's shares decline to their lowest price ever. Investors hope that the price will eventually rise again for a long-term investment.
* May 12 - Roblox stock goes up for the first time in several weeks.
*May 13 - Samsung Superstar Galaxy event started.
*May 18 - Tate McRae Concert Experience event started.
*May 22 - Outrageous Builders Club Hard Hat becomes limited.
*May 24 - Roblox Developer Forum is temporarily shut down after developers were being logged into other people's accounts.
*May 30 - The Bighead becomes limited.
==June 2022==
* June 2 - Roblox Connect 2022 starts, in next few weeks, and with all about collaboration.
*June 5 - Investment website TheStreet releases an article criticizing Roblox Corporation's poor performance in the stock market.
*June 8 - Some players experience major issues with their characters, this was fixed hours later.
*June 9 - Roblox removes users’ profile images and names from their homepages.
*June 13 - Mining Simulator 2 gets content deleted.
*June 17 - The Roblox Creator Marketplace releases.
*June 18 - Roblox suffers a major data breach and multiple internal documents are leaked on the internet by unknown attackers after Roblox refused to comply with the attacker's extortion demands. Internal employee information was also leaked. The attack was a result of an employee being socially engineered and extorted.https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/07/roblox-breached-internal-documents-posted-online-by-unknown-attackers
*June 18 
**Mrs. Tentacles goes limited.
**Arsenal's development gets slowed down because a key developer, Dev_Keni's account gets terminated for inappropriate behavior and/or content. He says that wasn't the case. He was working on the UI for Arsenal's biggest revamp yet, which now got delayed. Dev_Keni got his account back hours later.
*June 22 - Updated the Roblox logo intellectual property guidelines to prohibit any experiences created from June 22, 2022, onwards from being titled with the terms "Roblox" or "Blox" within it, or any terms deemed too similar by Roblox. Roblox also announces the prohibition of the commercial use of the R6 and R15 avatars.https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001708126-Roblox-Name-and-Logo-Community-Usage-Guidelines
*June 24 - Redesigned for the server list.
== July 2022 ==
* July 1 - The WimbleWorld event starts, which also features a sponsor from American clothing brand Ralph Lauren.https://www.roblox.com/games/9463737803/WimbleWorld
*July 6 - Players are now able to upload embedded images to the Description and Requirements section of Job Postings on the Roblox Talent Hub.
*July 9 - Roblox starts hiring people to bring Web3 & similar related “NFT technology” to the catalog.
*July 11 - A post was published on the Developer Forum regarding the Experience Questionnaire.https://devforum.roblox.com/t/experience-questionnaire-update-age-recommendation-preview/1867490
*July 12 - Counter Blox gets shut down after suffering a source code leak.
*July 14 - Voting for the Roblox Innovation Awards 2022 begins.https://twitter.com/Roblox_RTC/status/1547618220630106113
*July 16 
**Some users can exploit Roblox to swear their created account usernames. It was fixed a few hours later.
*July 17 - A ban wave occurs, with around 5 million LuoBu accounts getting terminated.https://youtu.be/nO8-HdHkeGk
*July 18 
**Removed the 'Community Creations' sort from the marketplace. It was used to separate UGC Items from Roblox-Generated Items, but over time it has become less and less useful due to UGC items taking priority on the main pages.
**Multiple malicious experiences received attention across the Roblox community due to their abuse of a long-standing oversight in the in-experience chat, causing spoofed inappropriate messages to be sent on behalf of users who join in order to get their account banned.
*July 20 - A new material system was released: new materials are added while older materials have been revamped for a more immersive look. In addition, a new component, "Material Manager" replaces the legacy Material system in Roblox Studio.
*July 23 - Roblox Stars Licensing Program gets shut down, which means creators will no longer be able to partner with Roblox to create new Toys themed after themselves/their Experiences. They will instead have to use third-party resources to make new toys & other products related to their brand.
*July 26 
**Volumetric Sounds were released.https://devforum.roblox.com/t/volumetric-sounds-public-release/1894881
**Roblox replaces the OOF death sound with a new one due to licensing issues.
*July 31 - Mike Batt releases the experience Ace Hansel Jr Cyborg Attack to promote the release of his new album Songs From Croix-Noire.
==August 2022==
*August 2 - Roblox becomes #3 on the Fast Company's list of 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators.
*August 4 
**Roblox sues the toy company WowWee over allegations of copyright for "admittedly" copying Roblox's avatar design.https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/roblox-sues-tech-toymaker-wowwee-over-avatar-figurines-2022-08-03/
**Roblox developers can now import animations from a video - and an AI will process a video onto your avatar and generate a keyframe animation.
**Spin Master updates Bakugan Battle League to add more than 100 on-demand episodes of Bakugan: Battle Planet to the experience.
*August 6 - The Epic Egg went limited, making it the first limited egg since April 2017.
*August 8 - The Developer Exchange program has moved to its new home on the Creator Dashboard, same goes with the Creator Marketplace.
*August 9 - Roblox Corporation reports their Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results and July 2022 Key Metric Estimates.
*August 10 - Roblox hosts a live Q&A session to answer questions regarding their second quarter 2022 results.
*August 18
** Roblox begins testing a new feature that would allow users to trade with another user directly from the item's Resellers page.
**Roblox begins providing users with a verified phone number with access to spatial voice.
*August 19 - Roblox hires Steve Park, who is the longtime government relations head for South Korea and Japan at Meta Platforms, as its new Asia-Pacific head of public policy.
*August 26 - Ulta Beauty launches Ultaverse.
*August 29
** Roblox begins to roll out a new brand identity and logo. The square "O" has a bigger hole, and the logo received a new typeface. The slogan was changed from "Powering Imagination" to "Reimagining the way people come together".
** Roblox acquires TriplePlay, a company that develops virtual gamified social events for companies.
*August 30 - Roblox removes all blog posts prior to 2021.
==September 2022==
*September 1 - The new Roblox logo is now visible on the homepage throughout the platform.
*September 5 - Lavazza, the Italian coffee products manufacturer, launches Lavazza Arena.
*September 7 - On the Avatar Editor page, limited items now show the limited icon in the bottom left corner of the icon. This is only available for PC players as of now.
* September 8 - The ESRB rating for Roblox gets raised from E10+ to T for Teen for the first time in history.
*September 9–10 - Roblox Developers Conference 2022 happens at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco, CA. On September 10, the winners of the Roblox Innovation Awards 2022 are announced there.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDkcr3v1w3g
*September 12 - Roblox introduces verification checkmarks.
*September 13 
**Roblox introduces the new age guidelines system.
**Roblox rolls out the new version of the Roblox client to all PC and Mac devices. (Roblox desktop app)
** Roblox's Metro app on the Microsoft Store now shares the same client as the new Roblox client, discontinuing the original Metro UI.
*September 14
** In-game advertisements will launch next year, which will be 3D ads to generate revenue.
** Adopt Me! shuts down in The Netherlands and Belgium due to the countries' loot boxes regulations.
*September 15 - The Computer History Museum releases CHM TechQuest.
*September 16 - Livetopia collaborates with Polly Pocket, adding a popup shop and "Polly Plaza" to the experience.
*September 26 - Walmart Land event started.
*September 27 - Roblox releases Dynamic Heads with different face expressions.
*September 28 - Toya Play and Dove launch Super U Story.
*September 29 - The Trap Nerds Podcast premieres an episode of their podcast in IHeartLand: Music Tycoon, becoming the first podcast on Roblox.
*September 30
**Livetopia collaborates with Barbie to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Barbie Dreamhouse, adding another popup shop and "Barbie Dreamhouse" to the experience.
**Walmart Land event ended.
== October 2022 ==
* October 1 - Roblox gets sued by Lamborghini, possibly over copyright infringement. Many experiences remove Lamborgini cars as a result of this.
* October 6 
** A profile emote feature enters A/B testing.
** Hot Topic releases a series of Halloween-themed accessories.
*October 9 - Roblox restricts Private Server links to work only with accounts that are 13+ and ID-verified, or are friends with the owner of the server.
*October 11 
** Roblox Corporation acquires Byfron Technologies, a security and anti-cheat company.
** Crocs launches Crocs World.
*October 12 - FIFA launches FIFA World.
*October 24
** Users under 13 can no longer see User Ads and Sponsored Experiences & Items on Roblox.https://twitter.com/RBXNews_/status/1584670557261291520
** The 4 billionth Roblox account is registered under the username "".
== November 2022 ==
* November 2 - Netflix partners its series Stranger Things to launch Countdown to Stranger Things Day.
* November 3 - Roblox launches Elton John Presents 'Beyond The Yellow Brick Road' to promote his final tour, Farewell Yellow Brick Road, and it is owned by Elton John. 
*November 18 - The experience loading screen is given an overhaul. The new version is redesigned and improved when launching experiences. This new loading screen loads almost three times faster than the current one. The loading screen also features a blurred version of the game's first thumbnail scrolling in the background
*November 29 - The Roblox Creator Dashboard renames to the Creator Hub.https://twitter.com/Bloxy_News/status/1597682142703943681
== December 2022 ==
* December 2 - Roblox wins the Best for Chromebooks award in Google Play's Best of 2022 awards.https://twitter.com/Roblox_RTC/status/1598667633083252736
* December 9 - A notched screen support is released, which allows to play experiences on devices with notched screen from 2017 or newer (with the removal of black bar).
* December 16 - Roblox adds the new layer clothing sorting system in the Avatar Editor.https://twitter.com/Bloxy_News/status/1603819707991064576
*December 27 - Embracer Group announces to acquire Welcome To Bloxburg and will rename to "Coffee Stain Gothenburg".https://twitter.com/EvanZir/status/1607561857950154754https://twitter.com/EmbracerInvest/status/1604827690053390336
==References==
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