Why Roblox Islands "ENDED"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- #roblox #youtube #documentary
In today’s video I go over on how "Roblox Islands" a beloving game went from 80.0k+ players to not updating anymore with a very small community.
This is a Downfall of the game, "Roblox Islands," some information may vary against real facts, some may be opinions or guesses/estimates.
Enjoy the video!
- It took me 3 weeks to make :)
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Dupers
1:46 - The Wipe
3:52 - Join my Discord Server!
4:13 - The Downfall
5:34 - A new Islands?
6:00 - Outro/Conclusion - เกม
W video
the downfall started with weekly updates that were focused mostly on economy and giving new extremely rare items
Glad you’re sharing great info, as I may have missed some. Thank you! 🙏
not really info. just when i started to enjoy the game less. it was around the time when they added the washing machine but it was much further down the update path that i stoped playing it. But im still looking forward to seeing what they make if they make enything new
@@spyra408same, when game start to get over complicated
@@spyra408You're right! the game started its downfall with washing update
@@Axyno if you guys have any questions or opinions then join the discord so you can share thoughts on your perspective on a game, as it will give me more info for other videos
Be honest, this roblox game gives nostalgia when we were new smelting irons on the smelter cuz we were too poor to buy industrial smelter..
Brooooo I still remember when I was smelting iron on the furnace
Roblox Islands holds a place in my heart, I will always remember starting my islands with my 2 Cows named Bessie & Buttercup, & My chicken Henry, and I made many friends. I’m gonna miss this game getting updates.
Im gonna miss my cow milkshake
@@IAmTheGrunkler #relatable
Islands was my first game which i played on roblox i will miss this game so much
I named my cow “Boo” and my chicken “Chica” because I was obsessed with fnaf at that time lol
I started way before the animals (slime update, one of the first) but I remember vividly entering and finding a cow in my base 😂, I was so confused.
I used to play islands 24/7 and i made alot of core memories bit the reason why i left is i guess that it started to feel overwhelming from all the updates, and after a while i felt as if the updates were pointless and when they updated the main islands i found it hard to adapt to it, I spent 40% of my time just looking for the portal.
Islands will always be a core memory of mine, remember chilling in the first main hub listening to the og music. Counting down the time to the Kong Event or checking out the new mailbox update or checking out their new game "bedwars"
I agree with you, I used to play islands 24/7 but nowadays it extremely hard to keep up with the economy, also I think the down fall started from the Jan 2021 wipe.
Same, used to play it all the time! I didn't get overwhelmed by the crazy updates back then, but what really put me off was the lack of user-accessible content over the later months and the last year of it's lifespan. Still going strong though, if only they could rework their code to prevent memory leaks...
what put me off islands was the insane powercreep of weapons that needed long time to grind, then suddenly nerfing all of them. Like static scepter where it was so trash before, but gotten buffed so hard during halloween 2023 that people splurged 250m into it. Right after halloween, the devs changed scepter to become similar to speelbook, shooting projectiles instead of rays, causing people to waste their millions
Oh man I remember those hours spent with my best friends from 3 years ago grinding pink sticky gears to finally get our first Industrial Smelter. I remember the rush of dopamine when we broke through 10m coins. I remember the panic of noticing that we only had 2 days left to get christmas tokens and buy the trophy to sell to a shop owner for 250m. I remember the day that we logged on to see all of our coins gone, all of the totems from my amazing multi-million coin per hour auto starfruit farm lost, and a new levels system that rendered our Guilded-Steel pickaxes completely useless. I remember the pure excitement of the Diamond Boss update (cant remember his name), and I remember the intense frustration of when nobody would spawn it. I remember the excitement of crafting our first Rage Blade which we shared and took it in turns to use against the monsters. I remember the pure wonder of exploring the Wizard Island, and then annoyance when we realised that our Rage Blades were no longer useful there.
I didn't know it then, but I made so many happy memories with my best friends (who I am no longer in contact with). I would pay a lot to go back to those times.
TLDR: devs got greedy + bedwars was more sustainable
In my opinion, bedwars is quite repetitive unlike many skyrocketing games.
Fr they wanted to focus on bedwars only because it makes more money and you can’t put that much game passes in islands
this is CRAZY GOOD. I am surprised you dont got a mil subs or more. this is more underrated than the beginning of islands
Thank you
Amazing video, brings me back to the old days of islands. The game got me through the pandemic when I was just a little kid, and I still am, but it still holds a special spot in my heart. There will never be another islands, but I hope ur channel grows bigger because u deserve it. (Waiting for islands 2 now)
Thank you, and glad the video gave back memories to you.
This video is very high quality, I was surprised you have under 1k subscribers! Keep up the good work!
This game was very close to my heart and a very huge part of my life so far between th playz and dv playz inspiring to start my own channel this game was amazing i miss the updates already and miss og islands on top of it
This game was one of my favorites in 2020, and its so sad to see it become another game that gets left to rot, i came back to the game very recently and started a new islands with my friends and the game is so different. The hub island is way bigger than i remember it being, most islands dont look anything like they used to, except for slime island, and everything is based off a forced progression system due to the leveling system. I will always remember spending 5 hours in the lake getting the aquamrine for the spellbook even if it was painful
Same, I remember fishing in the lake trying to get some propellers for washing stations while talking with my old buddies. So many memories that’s I will never forget.
hey man the editing and story line was crazy good im counting days and you will become a well known roblox youtuber Keep up the Hard Work
cool video! the sound from the caption was a little bit annoying, but the editing was really good, and i was entertained through the whole video. keep up the good work!
Sorry about that, I already rendered the previous clip, so I couldn’t go back and fix them as I wanted to, but next time I’ll not use the sound effect. Just still testing stuff. Thanks for the feedback and glad you enjoyed the video!
@@Sharknadowarswhat's the soundtrack for 6:00?
its sad how islands got an down fall and how there's duplicators that will find any way to dupe thank you for the video.
To be completely honest I haven't seen a video edited this good in a while. As an Islands player you don't see many videos about the game So it's nice to see some. It was overall a really good vid Really good explanation about how it happened, other peoples clips, and the updates. I have been playing since 2020 It was a really good game with a bunch of potential but. Keep up the good work really good video and I have a feeling you will end up with thousands maybe millions of subscribers. Good Job.
Wow, thanks
@@Sharknadowars You're Welcome :D
#1, great video shark, that beginning was straight CINEMA, amazing work!!! and #2 OMGOMGOMG, I SAW MYSELF ON DISCORD AT 3:55, MEGA MEMBER!!! YIPPY!!! (btw, you should teach me some editing, im not that good at that stuff yet)
Thankyou!
Thank you so much!
1.) The trick to good editing is dedicating a lot of your time into one video. Because the longer you spend editing a video the more you will get done.
2.) Also, have a positive mindset, this is crucial for good editing.
3.) It's your video, everyone has their own editing styles. Don't copy others, as it will not be as fun to edit in the future because of boredness, meaning you will burn out.
@@Sharknadowars thanks for the info, W man frfr
The economy changes were too crazy, it went from industrial to washing machine being 800k to now 130m.
right now trophies are unbuyable coz vending cap is 1b. Im a weapon and trophy collector and the only ones im missing is mushroom trophy, halloween 2023, gold fish, dao, cursed grimoire and cursed hammer. I rlly want to just collect those items and start a new co op with my friends, but with only 1b coins, i doubt i can get any of them lol. I wish there is a way i can get them...
Cool video.
I used to play island last years, everyday I had to work hard, and I collected trophies and blocks and new benches and industries and swords until now I have quitted the game so sad and my heart is breaking since I missed to play this game with my brothers, my reason for quitting that my inventory is little poor, and I have small budget of money in the game, and then till now all items are costs 500K - 1B and like I have quitted the game once I had been busy for months later I come back to the game and I cant afford to buy anything so Im feeling bad to work hard again, so the reason I dont play the game to much because the weekly updates made all item to much cost and my budget is 440M cuz I sold all my inventory but still have more good stuff and I saved other stuff costs 100M and 1B in other alt account and I am trying to remember which account cuz I need to take them now and sell it so I can get richer
Keep it up good work!
island has alway hold a special place in my heart,i remember when it still called sky block,back then the game was simple and fun but then slowly after bed war came out everything just went down from there,the game start to become more grindy and unfun
Keep doing documentaries 😮😮 seem to be popping up
I took a break from this game for a few years, and joined back to realize how corrupted the economy became, I remember when smelters were a million coins are 2 million, I had items that cost 200x or more the price it originally was, R.I.P this game, it will never be the same
I loved Island I still play it time to time but the most I remember playing was building a base, the Halloween 2022 and 23 event and when the underworld I think is called, I spent 3 days, probably 6 hours in each day to get all fragments
Islands or should I say, skyblox or skyblock was my go to roblox game back then. Sad they stopped updating. Also there's a game called "Islands Archive" and it perfectly replicates how the OG islands looks like. I'll personally grind the game again because the original island is in shambles with how inflated the price is for everything and since the OG island is much much simpler.
mb i couldnt stop my friend from duping billions of smelters 😭
I saw friend come and go. Many factors took place. Bed Wars also had an impact on many of my friends leaving islands to play that popular game. Also I agree with other people on here about making items harder to make, and limited items harder to grind. I actually appreciated players that duplicated items. They made it easy for us to get cheaper items at shops.
I remember using alt acc to get easy berry seeds, good times.
Its sad to see it sinking into the bottom of the forgotten.
W video SOo Much Nostalgia I Played It When It Was Called "Skyblocks" I witnessed the DV trophy come in game and get duped i witnessed the first ever vending machine 2 😭
Hopefully in the future, a new islands comes out and they find a way to prevent duping in all ways. Even if it may be be hard to code. I’d rather it take them years to make a better version over one that comes out tommorow with a lot of problems
@@Sharknadowars hopefully i made soo much friends in it my besties in irl also played it its just sad that its gone also would u be able to make a game trailer for my game ? its like islands when its done il pay R$
@@RagezzGamingKitchen sure, just dm me details on discord.
User: yt_sharknadowars
@@Sharknadowars KK
honestly the amount of freaking inflation is crazy i used to remember shops being 100 for cry iron but now its like 1mil
fr, being a billionare is easy at this point, its pointless
as an og of islands who even has an account named after one of the rare items, i quit long time ago and it was simply because of the grindiness of the game cuz many items on other people's shops seemed overpriced, like my dream item i wanted to get increased the price of it BY ALMOST 10X. and thanks to this video i know about the inventory wipe
I miss islands btw nice video u will be a great roblox youtuber.
Im glad you liked it and thankyou
it’s sad this game is over it will always hold a special place in my heart the reason it fell off for me was there was so many farms that made getting coins easy making the economy really bad and dupers because islands had to wipe everyone’s inventory at one point so like 60 percent of people left also they made bedwars so I don’t think as many people where focusing on islands and it had to many updates you may think that’s a good thing but it just made the game more confusing so for some people like dv mentioned the game got kinda complicated and lost its simplicity what it used to have anyways as I said islands will always hold a special place in my heart this is just my opinion if you don’t agree that’s okay I hope you guys still enjoy island’s/ won’t forgot it like me if you read all this god bless you
This editing is as good as someone with 300k+ subs your so underatted!
Alright let’s get to 300k now…
Another big issue with the game was the rng. Not many people wanted to spend hours just to have a slim chance of getting their desired item.
I played from the beginning, when it was called skyblox. I remember I started at the same time the slimes were added, and I saw the game progress so much.
It is so sad what slowly happened with the economy, that ended up killing the game, but the weekly updates were also kinda hurtful, if you take a break, you had A LOT to catch up to.
This game will always be in my memory :( as it is essentially dead now.
This really needs more exposure.
I played the game a few months after launch and was an active player until the mastery update. The game went from fun grinding to grinding for the sake of grinding for me.I tried to keep playing but at some point it was just to boring for me.
it also constantly lags every time and kicks you out in mobile devices
💯
as an islands go whenever I play islands, or see on my recommended or see videos about it I feel sad knowing that it won't update anymore
I respect your video bro, made with tragedy, cool editing skills, improved knowledge(im not being sarcastic)
Thanks man, I appreciate it. With school and everything its hard-to-find time to edit, but when I do, I make the best out of it that I can.
Good editing!
Thanks!
This is a life lesson actually because you work so hard for something and you can loose it in the future but you just don't know when it will come and that's what happened to islands
reminds me old school runescape, with og runescape being renowned for all sorts of exploits and duping cases that has affected the economy severely, they will keep doing it no matter what the devs do. the big difference is that islands as a project has discontinued entirely.
I use to love islands months and months ago. I recently got back into it. I had stopped awhile ago because I fell to far behind since I could not get the T4 workbench. The game was so fun and much better when I use to play, free drops were the main server and were the goat. I also played both during coin bsgs existing and the item reset. Crazy thing is, when my inventory reset, I didnt get a wood axe or anything so I had to buy one. I remember the joy I would get from seeing players drop 1k coin bags... Man I even played while ot was called Skyblock. I remember the Spongebob movie update as well. OMG I remember the Kor Island update and all the old mob islands before their revamp. Loved Uslands, now it has inflation...
I remember when i got that ping in the islands discord and i started crying i knew it was going to happen but i still hoped they would continue updating anyways one of the saddest pings i ever got on discord
I played this game with my family but it soon got to complicated and confusing for us
I started playing only 2 days after it was realeased. Everyday after school i would play islands and grind, i even got the big fish trophy. I loved to play minigames on my island and give away all my money .❤😢 i will miss you "Skyblock".
1b coins for your fish festival 2021 trophy 🥺🙏
A legend, goodbye.....
the editing is Insane
W vid. Keep grinding lil man.
Thank you!!!! and you keep being positive :)
May peace remain with you 🙏
Edit: btw I saw your videos, that's really great editing. I subbed!
i remember when the first big wipe happened, i had almost 400 billion coins and was one of the richest than i logged on and found i had 426k coins and no inventory and as compensation i got a golden portal instead of purple
I used to play this back in like year 7 or 8 and i made many great friends and enjoyed building my base and i will forever miss this game after logging on for the first time in over a uear 😢
it's sad to see the game die :(
just saying the inventory wipe was only for players who had duped items on them or bought them i still have my entire inventory and i was playing during beta
and to be fair 4 years is a long time nothing stays for good
I remember when roblox islands were so popular back in 2020-2021 to Dropping down on Stop Update, Lost players, and the players not playing islands for a long time
I didn't know there was an inventory wipe, I literally had island's first anniversary cake, other rare items ans stuff. and now it just goes down the drain like that.
how do i get my trading does it just not work anymore?
Honestly, the duping made me quit the game. While i was grinding wizards, i found a tidal spellbook blueprint and was shocked. For the next 2 days, all I played was islands. I was so happy to get the tidal spellbook because of its value, which was extremely high at the time of release, but nowadays, the dupers shredded its value to it now only being around less than 400k. I felt as if my time would have been better spent doing something else.
Fr. Another thing that made me so mad was the removal of cactus spike bp in crafting it. I grinded like 4 months for cactus spike bp and used it so i could craft it. But then islands decided to make cactus spike dont require bp. I technically wasted my time
personally i stopped playing because they just kept reworking stuff.
they completely redid the hub like 3 times and all the mob islands too. i love the game how it was and they just kept changing stuff. its a thing i see a lot with games of its kind. you love them how they are and they just keep majorly changing stuff instead of just adding new content
but yeah i love this game i will never forget grinding for starfruit seeds with my friends, breeding flowers, making pixel art, grinding for spell books and diamonds, anyway yeah it will always hold a special place in my heart i wish they just left things how they were
(also i really hate bedwars)
Nice vid 👍
I hope they transfer game passes if they ever create a new one. This was my childhood.
alright, tip. lower the sound of the subtitles so its more suble, the voices should also be louder than the music not the other way around.
its a good video.
I think its pretty good the way it is plus the subtitles disappear at the climax
Yeah, I was going to remove them but I already rendered a previous clip for that section so I couldn’t really go back and fix it. Thanks for the feedback back though, I’m sure the subtitle sound were a little annoying.
@@Sharknadowars ah, i know that pain. But thats understandable. glad i could give feedback. cant wait for the next video!
I will never stop playing this game, my first. I will be there when there are no players. And i will see you, in a few, years.
no eonder its like 30 million for a vending machine or like a billion for a sword nice vid it explains it all
Honestly i loved the game I would try to get every weapon but then I waited for the new Halloween and Christmas event to see if they brought back snowball battles because I loved to play it in my time in Texas but I was left hopeless after hearing it would never update again
what you use for editing
anyone miss the og roblox "skyblock" with the og hub, og menu, og starting island?
me and the music too
me too
@@johnparkes2452 yeah
When i watched this video i quickly went to my island and notice 3/4 of my inventory was gone and i only had 1/4 left in my backpack and all the stuff i grinded for was gone
Islands not updating is really tearing it down. The player base dropped to around 3-4k and the economy is bonkers. I took a 6 month break and i came back to see stuff costing 100b. It's sad to see that back then everything costed thousands or millions at most to now cost billions as if it were thousands
Long story short was they dug their own grave and refused to fix it, they saw bedwars are more profitable = more money for than and last idk how true this is but I heard it from DV but allegedly the coding for islands is archaic especially for modern Roblox games which made it take more time for updates
btw if anyone is wondering there is going to be a islands type game but its not make by the makes of islands, its from a TH-cam called dv
I always played this when vending machines were released me and my freind found a dupe glitch we duped a load of smelters (worth the most at the time) it was amazingly fun and I’ll never forget it I also held big item drops witch when vip islands or whatever were released it made my island very popular for me when the game started to lose me was when more plants and random stuff like washers were introduced and I loved there new game bedwars aswell until a lot of kits were introduced and a lot of sweating no life’s joined the game when that game eventually became popular easy games seemed to not care as much about islands and this is when there main downfall happened for me personally however I continued playing becoming extremely rich and quitting for months giving everything I owned to a small streamer however I quit awhile ago now but this game still has a big place in my heart
i miss the old islands i dont like how they added so many things like oil rigs and stuff
for me it was the leveling system cuz i couldnt even use my own vending machines after it was added
Yeah, I agree with that too, leveling definitely has change many aspects of the game.
UR VIDEOS ARE INSANE AND U DONT EVEN HAVE 1k SUBS THATS CRAZY U EARNED ME AS A SUB KEEP GOING
absolutely editing maddness
Thankyou!
I keep getting distracted by how this man says economy
i miss the old Islands
Tgis is so good am subbing
Ty!
@@Sharknadowarswelcome
I remember when I found a portal that led me on to bedwars in island
I’m gonna miss this game’s good days:(
I don't think people realize that islands is based off a much larger game, hypixel skyblock. It's the original game on hypixel and gets 30k players daily.
can anybody tell me what the song of the outro in this video? i just like the beat yk
the funny thing is that i was one of the first players who started duping i was using migrating data method and i duped shitttt toon of treasure chests and diamond mine portals which made me quite rich when the economy was stable bc no one knew the method and i never got inventory wiped ^^
That’s crazy
you fraud. now this dead state of islands is because of you.
whats the song for the wipe part at 3:00
Down fall started when it was more of building than being coop(pro servers)(and removal of public servers)
I edged to the editing 💯💯
Ty
@Sharknadowars bro he meant he beat his schlong to it 💀💀
Can you give me a list of the music you used here? Thanks.
W vid. But the downfall of islands didn't start with dupes, or dupes weren't even the problem. It was just a part of the problem. The true problem was coding. There was old devs that had left the islands developer team. And this made it really hard for the new devs to code with the old.
And bed wars was just a bigger success
i know im late but dv plays is making a game like islands called high realms
Good news, my inventory didn't get wiped
The only reason I stopped playing is because it’s so complicated and hard and when mastery came out I was extremely mad because I couldn’t do anything without needing a mastery and everything was way too expensive
My first roblox game i played damn im speechless
why is the intro so epix
skillzzzzzzzz........ maybe..???
Went bad when levels for economy and that happend
1st of all... great video but the text sound effect is louder then your voice so you might want to speak up.
2nd of all... actually the dupers got islands a bigger fan base then it already had, at some point islands used to avarage 120k players a day but when they did the level update when you needed to be a certain level to buy or craft something, thats when they lost about a 100k players.
The dupers still destroyed the economy either way, making the player base fall because there inventories got wiped. Without the dupers the wipe wouldn’t exist.
Either way there are multiple ways the game has died but why do you think levels were added to the game, well they were mainly added to slow down dupers since they wouldn’t be able to sell to early in the game and they would actually have to grind the game to get the levels to then start selling
hopefully the new upcoming island game will have npc's that don't stay still
lol
yeah the game fell long ago when the devs wiped everyone that was the catalyst for the end of islands after that the game slowly started to fall apart over time now the game is basically dead rip islands!
The updates at the end were so mid like they added flowers and furniture every other week
How are dupers still alive? i thought they dont dupe anymore because the game patched it and also the prices on shops were 100x lower like 7 months ago