A Roblox Christmas

   Every year for a long time, Roblox has been celebrating Christmas, usually commemorated by a wave of gifts and items in the catalog and a few blog posts and a site theme change. The rest is left up to the players. The biggest part about a Roblox christmas is the gifts, where as you may know you have a chance to earn or buy gifts. This year there were nine gifts, which sent Roblox into a bit of a craze. The rumor that some gifts could be earned by saying certain things or getting a certain amount of posts did end up with the forums being spammed, not to mention there were countless rumors going around and people were trying to solve how to earn gifts. This brings me to my first criticism of the gifts. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate everything the admins have done for us, but there's always room for improvement. This year, most of the gifts had really easy riddles, or Roblox just came straight out with how to get them. About 1/3 of the gifts had no riddle, just the exact way to get them, then most of the others were easy to figure out. One of the only gifts that was really impossible to figure out was the big one, and it didn't matter because it was too late to change how was getting it. Still on the topic of easy, most of the gifts took very little effort in their category. That's a bit hard to explain, but for example: For the gift of group fundraising, you only needed to sell one item for you group, rather than raise a lot of funds, and the name already made it simple enough. Of course, I'm OBC, so these gifts may be easier to attain for me since most of them were oriented towards paying players. The prices were a little off too, the high frequency trading gift, which was fairly easy for any BC player to get, costed 5000 robux, whereas the lucky gift of 7's, a harder gift, only costed 777 robux. Still, this is a privilige and I'd like to thank the admins for all they'd done. Below is a complete list of the gifts.

    Roblox Newshound Gift: This costed 50 robux and was obtained by signing up for the Roblox newsletter and verifying your account. This was the first gift and Roblox gave the answer on how to get it away in the notifications. Inside were Newspaper Shades. 

 Razzle Dazzle Hollywood Star Gift: This gift was awarded to those who had a video thumbnail at their place. Roblox did not give away the answer for this one. The gift costed 550 robux, 50 more than it costs to buy a video thumbnail. Inside were Hollywood Shutter Shades.

Commissioner's Gift of Commissions: This gift was given to anyone who sold ten or more gear items at their place. This would have been harder to achieve, but the answer on how to get it was given away in the description, and from then on the forums were a frenzy of "Buy my ninja stars." I got the gift by selling and buying ninja stars aswell. The gift costed 250 robux. Inside was "The Commissioner"

Self-Referential GIft of Referring: This gift was awarded to anyone who got a referral bonus for getting a friend to join builder's club in a 30 day radius. It costed 300 robux and inside were Candy Cane Antlers. 

Festival Gift of Group Fundraising: This gift was given to anyone who made and sold an item for their group. I actually put 100 robux and 1000 tix of item sales into my group funds, not sure of how much I need. Inside this gift was Paper Money Hat. This gift cost 75 robux.

High Frequency Trading Gift: This gift was given to anybody who made 8 trades. I have about 200, luckily I had this before the gift came out and I didn't go overboard like with the fundraising gift. Inside this gift you find Profit Vision Goggles. This gift was criticized because the goggles are nearly a carbon copy of night vision goggles, with the exception of having money signs on the eyes. This gift costed  an outrageous 5000 robux.

Ticket to Ride Gift: Roblox gave away the answer for this gift as well, sell game passes. But just like the festival gift, I went overboard. I used my alts to sell 100 gamepasses, and you only needed to sell one, which I had done before the gift existed. Inside this gift was the Conductor's Gold Pocket Watch. This gift costed 300 robux.

Lucky Gift of Sevens: Yet another gift with its answer given away, the lucky gift of sevens was awarded to anybody who owned a number #7 limited. This caused owners of these rare limiteds to be seemingly rich, even if they had very inexpensive limiteds. Many people tried to overpower by huge amounts for these limiteds, including me, but it ended up selling for 777 robux. Shoulda made the trade! Inside was the Seven Jeweled Circlet.

The Coolest Gift: This gift was awarded to the owner's of 2012's top 100 most visited places. (That includes Gusmanak, from our previous review.) It costed 40,000 robux, and inside were the Dual Illuminas.

Thanks to the Rogo Present Tracker, which refreshed my memory on some of this informations so I could include it here. Merry belated Christmas!