oof another devhunt, I hope itsn’t disappointing like the last year one
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You don’t understand how important even a little bit of exposure is for your game. The couple of weeks where those games were popular due to the egg hunt generated a ton of income and exposure for the developer. That can result in a multitude of benefits such as getting more commissions and recognition throughout the community, which can greatly benefit your Roblox development career. With an attitude like that, your game won’t be picked.
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It was better that they could make a team of devs and make one giant event that everyone likes and get credit than a lot of individuals event that everyone deslikes because the game is pay-to-win or it does not goes with the egghunt theme
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I Don’t care about my game not getting picked, i’m upset because of how they’re doing next Year’s EggHunt, it would be way easier if they let Fifteam do it.
Roblox will never listen to the Feedback, The next EggHunt will be a Disappointment just like 2019 and 2020.
And i already listed some of multiple examples of why it won’t help the developer.
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And if it gets an exposure of devs it turns out to be an negative exposure, sometimes people don’t like the game and everyone just play for the prizes and not for the game
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Agreed, egg hunts always used to be the perfect way to show the community how the level of development had advanced year after year. 2018 egg hunt was by far and away my favorite, and one of my best experiences on the platform. It sucks to see them returning to the multi-game way of doing it but I guess we won’t be seeing a return to the old ways of things.
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Where do I begin?
Ah yes, the Egg Hunt, a Roblox tradition cherished by the community, is back for another year. Unfortunately, it’s going to be another DevHunt. It ruined the Egg Hunts from 2015, 2019, and even this year! This brings me to my next point:
Why they’re bad
Basically, in the DevHunts, you go to games, find the eggs, go to another game, find the eggs, and then repeat until you find all the eggs. Going from game to game ruins the fun of the traditional Egg Hunt events, where you go from world to world finding the eggs in a custom game, until you fight the boss, and then get all of the eggs. In the DevHunts, some missions are boring and bland, like having your team win a round (Project LAZER, 2019), hatching a virtual egg (Adopt Me!, 2020), and experiencing Simulator 101 (Egg Simulator, 2020), while some are fun and interesting, like finding stuff in a new world created by the game’s developers for the event (Robot 64, 2019), and going through tough obbies and getting keys to unlock the egg (Eg, 2020). Not only that, but this year, we had pay to win mechanics, a theme that didn’t match most of the games, and a phone replacing a hub world. While we did have fan-made hub worlds to replenish this, it was terrible.
Rthro
Oh, MY GOD!!! Where do I even begin with this?! Anyways, in the form, Roblox asks you if your game has Rthro support. What I fear is that if your game doesn’t support Rthro, you’re not gonna have your game in the event. They REALLY want you to use them so badly. So bad, that I’m even considering protesting this move by wearing a Rthro bundle. Sad, isn’t it? It’s just like Fortnite, where you wear a bunch of skins and stuff, because you have to.
Metaverse Event
This Egg Hunt will be a metaverse event. Based on past events, this Egg Hunt could be like the Ready Player Two and RB Battles (Please save us!) event, where a few people could win rare grand prizes, while the rest of us gets the basic one. The RPT event was trash in my opinion, while RB Battles did this right. Alternatively, it could be like this year’s egg hunt event, with no rare grand prizes. For now, I’m just hoping that the RB Battles game gets in so that we can have a decent egg and quest before season 3.
Xbox Players Being Left Out
The form asks you if your game can support at least two platforms (My guess is PC and Mobile). My worry with this is that players on Xbox consoles won’t get all the eggs, and only PC and mobile players will get all of them. With the launch of the Xbox Series X/S consoles, players wishing to play the Egg Hunt on those consoles and Xbox One consoles won’t be able to finish the hunt. I hope Roblox learns their lesson and follow my advice if they do this in 2022.
Closing Thoughts And Solutions
If you want to make this event amazing, do it like the RB Battles event, and have a Ready Player One styled quest where you would have to find some items to unlock additional prizes. A hub will also make sense, as well. On a closing note, make this event interesting and fun, and do a normal Egg Hunt in 2022. I would be happy to help! 
Thoughts? Questions? Controversy?
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As someone who has been playing the egg hunts since 2012 and 2013 (I still believe 2013 was among the best), I hope that this event will be more like the traditional egg hunts where the games were new and/or made exclusively for the egg hunt. Some egg hunts involved games that have absolutely nothing to do with the tradition (for instance, extremely game-specific eggs - with boring objectives that were lazily implemented). I also hope that this egg hunt will give more recognition to lesser-known games and games that aren’t on front page, rather than games like Adopt Me.
Overall, I am hoping Egg Hunt 2021 will have a theme and be more in the style of egg hunts 2016-2018 - which many players enjoyed. The 2020 egg hunt lacked a formal hub, and it had way too many games to jump around from (especially considering there was only 1 egg in each game). Along with 2019, it was more of a “dev hunt”.
As a sidenote, besides Eggmin, it would be cool to see some traditional egg hunt gear come back in some way or another in 2021 (for example, the Eggdar Ray that allowed players to see what eggs have currently been spawned in the server).
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About all of this “They haven’t learnt from their mistakes” about letting developers host egg hunts inside their games for the event is sort of a 50-50 blame. Yes to some Roblox made the mistake of letting developers basically make the eggs pay to win. However, the developers of the games should also take a chunk of the blame. The developers should’ve at least thought about how much hate adding “pay to win” mechanics would get from the Egg Hunt community. I feel that if Roblox could put a bit more effort into the selection process, then I feel it could run very smoothly.
My ideas for making an enjoyable Dev Hunt system:
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When in the survey to submit your game, make it so the developer has to have an idea in mind about how they’ll incorporate their game with the Egg Hunt. Make them go into detail on how things would work out and if there were any sort of ideas relating to paying robux.
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Make multiple waves for submissions. Example:
First wave being general ideas and the info about the game.
Second wave is where the developers that were accepted from the first wave must elaborate on their ideas and have minimum a blueprint or sketch out of how it’ll play out in their game.
Third wave would be the final wave where, somewhat closer to the deadline, the developers would have to put together a showcase in a private game demonstrating how the game functions. (Yes this third stage idea will leave some developers with work being not used and having time “wasted”.)
And the people who get chosen from the third wave will basically be the developers involved in the Dev Hunt! They would make the final products of the in-game event and get someone to play-test it to ensure it’s working as accordingly.
So over all, I think that Dev Hunt can be an enjoyable event. Roblox just has to put effort into the process of submission reviewing.
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I really don’t want to be negative about the Egg Hunt for the 3rd year in a row, but I’m really disappointed to hear that it’s going to be in this style again.
While I more than understand and appreciate the fact that developers now get a true benefit from the hunt, Egg Hunt 2019 and 2020 felt incredibly disconnected and, as someone who completed them both, felt like a chore to complete.
The theming of the past two Egg Hunts have been incredibly disjointed, with most games not accommodating the theme they set. The actual experiences of trying to get the eggs weren’t really that fun either. Some developers made their eggs very “cheap” to get by offering ways to pay to get the egg faster, which, in my opinion, defeats the fair aspect of the Egg Hunt and makes it more frustrating.
The new Egg Hunts really haven’t felt very inspired compared to EH2017 and EH2018, to me, feeling more “forced”. It doesn’t feel like there was a lot of passion, and a lot of it felt like developers purposefully designed the egg missions to keep players in the game for longer periods of time.
I’ve seen the outcry the community has had for another Egg Hunt similar to 2018, as the common consensus seems to be that it’s one of, if not the best Egg Hunt Roblox has ever had. I cannot recall many experiences I had on Roblox that were as fun or memorable as EH2018, with its pleasant soundtrack, incredible building, and all around consistent and well-designed experience.
I really hope that if EH2021 ends up receiving similar feedback to EH2020, that we get something more akin to EH2018 for 2022. I want to see these events be as cherished by players as much as I cherish the Egg Hunts of the past.
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I really do hope that we get to have a more expressive hunt in 2022, thats all I really want from Roblox.
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I’ve personally submitted my game and It supports all platforms including Xbox, Mobile, PC and Tablet.
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I think many of the points people make in this thread hold validity like yours. Exposure to new games is nice and I think it’s very kind for Roblox to consider this approach.
With that said, I don’t necessarily agree with you or those points.
When joining these games, people only have one incentive; that incentive is finding eggs. You’re right, new developers will definitely get exposure because of this event, but do you know for how long? Not much. Do you know why players won’t stay long? Because their only motivations are to get the egg and then move on to the next game. (That’s pretty much the entire concept of this event. Go into a game, get the egg, move on to the next game.)
I’ve seen multiple videos of Roblox Youtubers back in 2018/2019 saying that they most likely won’t be visiting those games ever again – and I don’t blame them.
It’s not that the games are bad. (Though, that could be a defining factor, but that’s not the point.) It’s just that people are forced to go on those games out of obligation. When you have so many games on the front page that contain eggs, it becomes a very overwhelming chore to bounce from one game to the next.
That chore of visiting so many games takes away the fun and really squashes energy out of you.
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Hopefully they do this one right. Rather than putting decals which rotation on wall.
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PLEASE make it fun and NOT GRINDY like the “Wonder Woman Event”. PLEASE don’t put power-ups behind a pay-wall.
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The exposure created through DevHunts just doesn’t seem to work. Players didn’t come to the games to play the game, they came to the game to get an egg and leave. Personally I’ve had issues with playing a developers game after how they decided to do their DevHunt quest. It doesn’t do good for the developers or players to do these types of hunts. A dedicated game for the hunt and developers paid to make the hunt is probably the best way to go.
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I honestly don’t like these dev hunts, I feel like when there are multiple games there’s no storyline at all. I just see a bunch of random games cramped into an event. When there is only one game, it adds an adventure feel and an actual storyline that makes sense. The majority of the community doesn’t want these dev hunts. It doesn’t benefit developers at all, most players don’t replay their game after the event is over. So please, make the event like 2017/2018
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It doesn’t have to be related to Easter. In fact, I don’t think any of the games last year were related to Easter.
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Can you apply if your game is still under construction?
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I totally agree. This year for the egg hunt, it was an “agent” theme. Literally about none of the missions were related to agents at all, I can only remember one that had an agent theme. 2018 and 2017 egg hunts made sense, and it was pretty fun from what I played from it.
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