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Roblox

OOF
Genre(s): Game creation system
Massively multiplayer online
Platform(s): Roblox
Microsoft Windows
MacOS
iOS
Android
Xbox One
Xbox Series X/S
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
LuoBu
Android
iOS
Release Date: Roblox
macOS
Microsoft Windows
September 1, 2006
iOS
December 11, 2012
Android
July 16, 2014
Xbox One
November 20, 2015
Xbox Series X/S
November 10, 2020
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
October 10, 2023
LuoBu
Android
December 18, 2020
iOS
July 13, 2021
Discontinuation: LuoBu
December 8, 2021
Engine: Reality Engine
Developer(s): Roblox Corporation
Tencent Games (LuoBu)
Publisher(s): Roblox Corporation
Tencent (LuoBu)
Country: United States
China (LuoBu)


Note: Only LuoBu was copied and pasted on the page of a defunct wiki, Crappy Games Wiki, however, it was placed on the Roblox page due to LuoBu being a Roblox (but Chinese).

Roblox is an online gaming platform developed by David Baszucki and released in 2006. As mentioned before, it's a platform with a multitude of games/experiences, from a pizza restaurant simulator to a horror puzzle game focused on both Peppa Pig and Granny. Every day millions of users come into Roblox to share enjoyment along with friends or worldwide users. The platform uses a currency called "Robux" in which you can get various props like cosmetics or in-game game passes, and they need to be acquired most of the time with real money (despite there being few methods to get them free, but it's less convenient). It was once a good platform during its first years, sadly as of April 14, 2016, the platform started to go downhill because of many issues explained below.

In 2020, Roblox Corporation infamously partnered with Tencent Games to create the Chinese version of Roblox, LuoBu (罗布乐思), but unlike Roblox, which has always been active until now, LuoBu was extinguished in 2021 due to the app failure. It is currently unknown when LuoBu will return, though it is suspected to return in 2024 or 2025[1][2].

"OOF!" Qualities

NOTE: Some of its flaws that already existed even before this era will also be pointed out.

Roblox

  1. The main problem about Roblox nowadays are Robux, the main currency of the platform. Along with Fortnite's Vbucks, Robux has to be bought with real money for using them anywhere. Despite there being some methods to get them free, like through Microsoft Rewards or community events, etc., require too much time to get and are often too few. Apart from that, Robux is the main cause of many server riots.
    • Furthermore, the cheapest Robux gift card costs $10 for only 800 Robux, which is too much for a digital currency and should be $4-$5 for that amount. With 800 Robux, you can buy almost two game passes, a bunch of clothes (depending on their price), cheap skins, or worse... loot boxes that unlock a random skin (like in Tower Defense Simulator). Cheaper alternatives don't exist.
    • Worse of all, there are even games that need to be paid to be played, like Welcome to Bloxburg. (Although, its the developer's decision to set their games to paid access.)
      • But thankfully, on June 15, 2024, Welcome to Bloxburg became free to play[3].
    • Because of this, there are many scammer sites that say they're "Robux generators" and end up infecting PCs with viruses in the worst of cases.
  2. Similar To Bing Image Creator's lack of quality control at blocking images even they're not harmful & inappropriate, the option to change your display name in the game while a nice new feature, it also suffers from many of the same problems as the chat filter. It blocks names and words typed that aren’t even inappropriate for Roblox such as “Apple”, “York”, “Abdul”, and more including most other last names of U.S. Presidents. However, “Saddam”, “Osama”, and even “NotZee” are all acceptable names.
  3. Roblox has suffered from a lack of direction when it comes to modernising their platform. While they have done good progress on letting developers access to more features in the engine, on modernisation they've taken a massive step back from their original concept. Roblox seems to be more interested in pleasing business interests than the general community in which their decisions leaned toward catering the developers who want to profit from creating games and have been transitioning the platform into a "Metaverse".
    • The games before the era initially were places that creators could show off creations or were simply minigames, profiting from them or making functional games wasn't as focused as it was today, but it was flawed though as the engine wasn't refined back then. Also the initial selling point of Roblox was the physics and the brick built environments, those aspects became largely ignored in the modern era (to be fair developers didn't really utilise these aspects even before this era). Nowdays, the platform went from being a game to show off fun creations for a burst of entertainment, into essentially a collection of free mobile games scraping for a profit.
    • It's apparent that Roblox has been distancing themselves from their established style with radical evolutions to the point the "Blockyness" that was implied by the title is barely even present nowdays. An example would be their inclusion of new body types and scaling also known as Rthro. This addition was controversial for ruining the simplicity of Roblox avatars as many of the models introduced were realistic, slender and uncanny compared to the blocky and cartoony style Roblox was established to be in which many grew with it. And Roblox has been unsubtly promoting this new style in their official images and videos with these out of place avatars overshadowing the classic bodies, the models doesn't represent how Roblox presented itself.
    • The character redesigns in this era are a huge downgrade to the previous era to the point it doesn't even resemble Lego like style.
  4. The game can barely even handle its own physics at times. Back then, the destructible scenery, building, and physics were very advanced for their time and encouraged players to use them. While still decent, now, sometimes during explosions with destructible scenery, the blocks often times bug out and freeze midair. Also, sometimes while driving a car, wheels spaz out and the car becomes uncontrollable or that moving platforms may not always carry the player with them. Also, if the map is full of things, Roblox will lag horribly, sometimes even a Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080Ti struggles to run the game properly.
    • Related to the above, some of the updates break some of the Lua scripts in games, thus breaking the functionality of some of the games.
  5. They announced that the Experimental Mode will restrict every non-filtering enabled game and older games, but didn’t last very long due to massive backlash. Many players critically panned the update, and even DevForumers protested. Thankfully, it has been removed. Many older games were however left broken, due to forced filtering enabled mode, until Experimental Mode will add back and update.
  6. Lots of cosmetic items and even limiteds you can buy for your character are disgustingly overpriced. Who would spend 40,000 Robux for a fedora? (35,000 Robux is US$200.)
    • Also, there's a limited item named Yum! (An official item made by Roblox, which is a face item, that went limited), that costs 320,000 Robux, which costs US$3,200, What basically you are spending an expensive thing for nothing, this price is comparable to Apple products, unlike the limited face, Apple products have much more to do. Somehow, it increased to 520,000, and that's unfair. Although some of these problems are mainly caused by the sellers of these limiteds.
    • Recently, the prices of characters created by the community have now risen criminally, before they cost a minimum of 0 Robux, and now they cost a minimum of 175 Robux, and the worst thing is that Roblox neither announced about the price increase nor gave the motivation to increase prices.
    • During 2024, Roblox updated the price floor of all items to 60 Robux, which resulted in most of the cheap items to be suddenly expensive now.
  7. The newer logos they’ve used since 2017 look extremely generic and lack the style the 2006-2017 logo had.
  8. Since 2016, it became one of the worst/toxic communities ever. It's too rude, egocentric, spoiled, childish, annoying, not empathetic, and toxic to new players (Noobs), full of hackers and other scammers. People would often make fun of new players just for having free Roblox clothes, because they are considered "ugly" just because they "are not purchasable with Robux". For their information, not everybody can afford Robux anyways. It gets worse over the years.
    • Many members were accused of being mentally ill or even pedophiles/groomers. Remember, this is a kids game (It's not really a game just for kids, but because of tons of roleplays present in this game, so it may be more for children than for other ages)
    • Also, many Roblox YouTubers that used to be good became awful people cause of this. Corl from "The Pals" and Lisa Gaming one of the worst Roblox users of all time, are the most notable examples.
    • Some of the players are seen making of the other players avatar for having a bacon hair, noob skin or looking cat-like (usually referred as furries).
    • Roblox's bad community might in some way give negative effects on children, bringing them to act like unpleasant brats and not respecting their parents. As a result, the game ended up banned in Turkey for that reason.
  9. Speaking about communities, the moderation is so terrible it can easily compete with modern YouTube's one:
    • The moderation is shoddily inconsistent, relies on automated filteration in which certain words can be flagged for being innapropriate even if the context is not negative. But on the other hand, while vulgarities unedited won't pass, with some character replacement it can be possible for the message to go through without the moderation taking further action. The comments section in the UGC items are an example of the poor moderation letting spam and scams fill the comments. It's quite easy to be muted or even banned forever.
    • On this topic, if you get banned, you can easily bypass it by making an alt account, unless you get "Poison Banned".
    • Many times, when somebody reports a user, the reporter can pose as the user's parent and lock their account, even if that user is 18+.
    • Also, when you get muted or banned, the reasons why you are it are too synthetic and lack details.
    • The chat filter looks like exactly the one from MapleStory because it can censor sometimes otherwise harmless words even if they aren't used in offensive content, like "Gay", "Twin Towers", "Discord", "Naked", complex usernames or complicated English words, turning them into tags (#). It's also difficult to speak in another native language different from English.
    • The report button is unreliable because rarely it would ban the user immediately, actually works if many users report it. But that button can also be potentially abusable for users and games, especially fan games, since it is much easier to get the user and/or game blocked/banned/deleted, because just spam the "Report" button and Roblox moderation will not analyze it and will ban it anyway.
    • The copyright strike system punishes players who uploaded decals, or clothing based off other properties many years ago, when they allowed it in the past.
  10. In 2021, Roblox was exposed for exploiting children and teenage players in several ways.
    • Most notably, they enticed young level creators into making several levels by promising to pay a huge sum of money, yet they paid little to none to their creators at all.
    • There is also a stock market with cosmetics.
  11. As speaking of "O!"Q #10, Roblox has been known to be insecure with hackers and bots. Many popular games such as Apocalypse Rising, Jailbreak, Arsenal, Prison Life or Phantom Forces have been vulnerable to cheaters who would insert cheats in-game, in which Roblox's anti-cheat rarely detects them. Even if these accounts got banned, the cheaters can still bypass by the account creation which is very easy and quick to do.
    • Bots were another problem that plagued Roblox for a while. Because of the weak human verification at the time and how easy it was to create an account, they appeared in masses with the goal of spamming in comments of items to advertise a link to a scam website that claims 'Free Robux' or briefly join and leave an active game to post the same message. Another thing they did was create Roblox games that also advertised this same scam but tricked users into inputting their password to acquire the victim's accounts. Bots were also problematic in the catalogue for a while in which they copied clothing from other designers on Roblox catalogue and resold them in masses to the point only botted clothing instead of the original appeared in the search of the catalogue. Thankfully by 2021, the bots have subsided thanks to stronger human verification systems being implemented.
    • Speaking of hackers, in some servers, are an everyday thing. They take advantage of everything the server features and they can enter in a random account and steal all your Robux or other privileges. In the platform's history, there were some infamous hackers (like iTrapped) that contributed to undermining the security of the platform.
  12. Recently, Roblox is now the home to an enormous quantity of shovelware constantly published on the platform. These are most made to cash out other popular games or trends, suffer from bad scripting, and lack level design, which can be very repetitive and clichè. The most notorious example of a shovelware game in Roblox is the Obbies, obstacle courses in which you do parkour among platforms and dodge red neon blocks which would insta-kill you, which are simply boring due to their easy difficulty (in which they even arrive to make it evident by calling them "Super easy obby") and the enormous amount of levels. Other shovelware examples in Roblox are:
    • "Slide down" games (where you have to survive a long slide with many traps that destroy your "ship").
    • "Cart rides" (where you find yourself on a cart (principally a minecart), and you must cross an almost entire floating railway as you pay attention to the steep curves.
    • "Roleplay games" (These games are usually a large town with things to do and interact with. You mainly chat with others and role-play. The games overall have the same types of people playing them, the same concept like "paper morphs", etc).
    • "Click-bait/Cash Grab games" (These games obviously include some form of click-bait, whether it is in the thumbnail or title. These types of games normally have a ludicrous objective, such as "SLIDE 9,999,999 MILES TO VICTORY!" or "RIDE A TRAIN TO VICTORY!". They are all similar for the most part, such as poor model quality, bad scripting, and useless morphs/game passes).
    • "Simulator games": (Common on the front page, these games involve collecting items of what the game is themed after and leveling up to access the next area. Many have criticized these games for their unoriginality, repetitive gameplay, and copied concepts).
    • "Morph games" (a sort of scavenger hunt game where you can find treasures that allows you to turn yourself into the character you have found. They may have several puzzles, as well as enemies and traps.)
    • "Find all the [character's name]" games (similar to morph ones, but lazier. You have to find all the characters of a particular media (ex: SpongeBob SquarePants or even Family Guy, mostly represented as cheap PNGs) that are hidden in an open-world map.
    • Anime-based games (principally based on Shonen ones (especially One Piece and Demon Slayer), while they can be funny at first, become quickly boring because you must be at a higher level than you expect to continue the story, repeating the same annoying missions until the full exhaustion.
    • 'Tycoon games" (similar to simulators, these games involve you collecting money while upgrading your base. They don't have lots of gameplay, it's just waiting for money to gather while they have gears that let you pass the time. Not to mention, many of them like Super Hero Tycoon or McDonald's Tycoon are almost the exact same games except reskinned which applies to most others as well).
    • Games that copy Piggy.
    • Cheap FPS games and the list goes on...
  13. Apart from the shovelware, the site has some recent popular games which are bad as:
    • Rainbow Friends: Just like Garten of Banban, it's another bland cash out of Poppy's Playtime, only with a gameplay ripped-off from Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, yet much more primitive, accompanied by a non-sensical story about you and your class being lost in an amusement park and a bunch of evil animatronics who chases you, and unlike Five Nights At Freddy's, that the reason they want to confusingly kill Mike is because they want revenge on William Afton, who ended up killing the children, these Rainbow Friends monsters have no motivation to kill you.
    • Backrooms Morphs: More like "Quantity over Quality: The Game", this game basically cashes out every single popular franchise, milks a lot many morph series like Rainbow Friends and Alphabet Lore, has a poor trophy placement, hideous graphics, Neanderthal scripting and it gets boring very quickly.
    • Blox Fruits: A weirdly very popular game based on One Piece that revolves aroud the same thing: killing enemies 24 hours a day. At the start it is given to you the choice of being a pirate or a marine, but the gameplay doesn't change so much at all. The rest is just "kill your enemies to level up and being able to continue on to the next island" multiplied by 20 times. There's no story and not so much lore. Then, the "Blox Fruits" gimmick would be cool, if it wasn't for the fact that if you bought a fruit, and you want to buy another one because yes and you would keep the last one just in case, simply you can't, because the first would be destroyed, and then you must re-buy it again, which would replace the latter you bought.
    • MeepCity: A role-playing game inspired by the now-defunct game Club Penguin (now Club Penguin Island) and ToonTown (now ToonTown Rewritten), and is often thought to be a carbon copy of those two games due to various similarities, though others think the opposite. The goal is to adopt and look after a round, limbless creature, known as a Meep. But unfortunately, most people who play this game do not aim for that goal as they appear to enjoy dating other players (which, as said before, is against Roblox's Terms of Service) and make parties. Many provocative activities have taken place on this game (such as possible pedophilia, dating, strip clubs, and sex acts among other things) which particularly happen at parties hosted by a house owner or by abusing animations to imply sexual activity, and the creator of the game Alexnewtron hasn't done much major updates to stop it. This controversy lasted until February 2022, it was shut down temporarily due to the said issues but afterward, the game is back online but with the parties removed.
    • Creatures of Sonaria: In this game, you play as a scientific and stranger animal, you have to survive eating, drinking, getting out of dangers, like volcano, hurricane and winter, but the biggest problem is that this game forces you to play this game for so long and gives you very little Mushrooms, even if you die, you will still get a maximum of 50 Mushrooms which is very little, in fact, even if you've played the same creature a long time, in fact, it doesn't even feel like a survival game, Dinosaur World and Holocene TS, although both closed and became like Dinosaur World Mobile and Holocene Mobile, are the true survival games and were released 2 and 1 year ago before this game.
    • Pet Simulator 2: It's the generic "do a certain task to go to the other world" game.
    • Brookhaven RP: (one of the most infamous Roblox games) A mediocre role-playing game often used en masse by the majority of Roblox YouTubers with often ultra disturbing content.
    • Ragdoll Royale! etc.
    • Dandy's World: Same flaws as Rainbow Friends. To add more salt onto the wound, the game was created by pedophiles.
    • Moonlight Outbreak: For being labeled as a fighting game, there isn't really much you can do, and many of its players act toxic to innocent users.
    • Most of Gamefam's games
    • The RNG genre of games, whilst good, can promote gambling to children. ROBLOX IS A GAME FOR KIDS!!!
  14. The mobile version is considered the worst version of Roblox, as the graphics are very low because obviously Roblox Studios never received a lag fix patch, such as terrain texture with fewer bits, there is no blur at long distances and water that isn't even water, but rather looks like cheap slime, which is totally unacceptable for any game, even on powerfull mobiles and 2020's standarts, whereas Call Of Duty: Mobile, Genshin Impact (which is one of the heaviest mobile games ever made), Honkai: Star Rail, realistic racing games, Path Of Titans, GTA games, and many more games, especially 2D ones, with much better graphics than this, and it often lags, despite being a downgraded version and even though there are much more detailed mobile games that don't cause lags.
    • Related to this point, just like YouTube, Roblox is very buggy, bugs in the mobile version are very common, such as sensitivity issues, some parts of the main menu disappearing, bugs in Avatar, a bug that makes the UI buttons on Motorola phones position themselves above the touchscreen when you exit the game/experience to return to the Roblox main menu (this is very serious, because it can also bug Motorola's Android system) and much more, and Roblox never fixed the bugs that were supposed to be fixed.
    • To add more salt to the wound, many premium cell phones, especially the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, although surprisingly it is capable of running any heavy Roblox game at almost 60 fps (although it makes the S24 Ultra hot depending on the game), are basically a portable console, but more powerful than the Nintendo Switch, it is unbelievable that Roblox has not harnessed the power of any Premium gamer phone.
  15. If you have a VR headset (such as Oculus Rift) plugged into your computer, Roblox will default to VR mode and there is no native method of disabling VR mode other than unplugging your headset. Many games do not play well in VR due to poor compatibility and problems with UI.
    • Users have discovered you can disable VR mode by opening the configuration file GlobalBasicSettings_13.xml in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Roblox, and changing the value of VREnabled to false (found in "VREnabled"). This works well saving the headache of unplugging your VR headset before playing Roblox, however, the audio is still being played out of your VR headset, even if you set your computer's default speaker to another speaker.
  16. The platform is updated too frequently, and the worst thing is that these frequent updates are not big and boring, but all these updates are bland and inconsistent because they simply change the menu aesthetics and don't add something brand new and so requested like a stable graphic engine, lag fix, better anti-cheat or the possibility to earn free Robux.
    • Roblox does not explain the exact update, simply "Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Ved", without changing anything, which leaves players confused.
    • Additionally, each time it gets updated, the game becomes slower to open.
    • Furthermore, if you have some original asset changed in the files, even only aesthetics, like custom audios or images, the updates will fully restore them to their original ones, which can be very annoying to the modders who love changing the game's aspect.
  17. An update from November 6, 2024 caused the game to be broken, like the invisible cursor, plain gray character texture appearing, and the experience to bug, making it almost unplayable[4][5]. The game-breaking problem can be fixed by uninstalling Roblox Player and reinstalling it with admin rights[6]. This update was reverted 2 days later.
  18. An update for Audios starting on March 22, 2022 while the audios being free now is a good thing, it will result in many of the audios to become private and no longer be usable to anyone anymore, resulting in games that had a radio feature to break, making them almost useless.
    • Work at a Pizza Place has a DJ Set that you can use for parties to do any song you want to play. But since the update, a fair amount of songs from the popular tab no longer work. However if you uploaded your own audio to the site, you are the only person that can hear it in-game and not everyone else.
    • However Roblox waited two years to implement without updating or addressing the community, but eventually on 23rd of May 2024, Roblox enabled access to freely upload audio to public distribution on the marketplace but with a limitation of less than 10 second files and an ID verification system to ensure the audio is not copyrighted material.
  19. The way the company treats fans and players, in general, ain't so exceptional. The developers will not care about any form of criticism, simply they ignore them to focus on mostly the game's aspect than the resolution of issues Roblox has had since its opening, provoking even most of the community and their fans, which causes Roblox itself to gain more bad reputation, and gaining controversy.
    • Roblox is also notable for false news and promises which are never fulfilled. Once, they said that it would make more free items and ways for users who don't pay to earn Robux. However, they lied.
    • Not to mention that many beloved past features were removed for scarce or sometimes stupid reasons. Features like:
      • The Tickets (Tix, for shorts), those were the only free currency the players could have in their wallet. Tix were used to buy cosmetics instead of using Robux and in the advertising. People could obtain Tix as a daily reward or in other ways like visiting places. However, Tix has been removed on April 14, 2016, it may be because some users made bot accounts to farm them but it was still a dumb move, as they could've thought/come up with another solution, so people now have to buy clothes by using Robux.
        • It's worth noting that 20 TIX were also useful to convert into 1 Robux each.
        • This change actually got Roblox worse, because the number of scammers continues to increase every day due to Robux's rarity.
      • The Guest Mode, as players could play without making an account, like a sort of "demo". Unfortunately, the PC version of it was gone in 2017, as well as the mobile one in 2018, a possible reason for the removal is the disposability of Guest accounts.
      • Limiteds and sales. In the catalogue Roblox used to release classic items and new limiteds to be sold on certain times, with the items considered to be valuable. Possibly as a result of UGC's success in 2019, Roblox discontinued these in favour of community created items. While Roblox has now let community created accessories to be limited quality, this has been with met controversy for devaluing the original limiteds and items of low quality being accepted as limited.
      • The possibility of equipping a cosmetic for a limited time (Rental items as we like to call it).
      • And how to end this painful list without mentioning the most infamous one: the removal of the original "oof" sound! The story tells that the notorious yet memorable death sound came from an old obscure game from 2000 called "Messiah" (which is about a cherub, among other things) and the devs picked up it from a random sound library. The creator of the sound, Tony Tallarico, sued Roblox for using it in 2019. Despite he wanted just $12.000 - $12.500, which is a pretty low price for rich company, to let them use it; Roblox, as an avid company, refused the offer and then, in July 2022, reworked the sound into a new one, angering the entire community.
        • Speaking about the new death sound, it's very poorly done, as it seems to be something between a sneeze, cough and a yawn, lacks emotions and it's boring after all. Even the very first original death sound sounded better than this, despite being low quality.
  20. While the UGC program has been success at reinvigorating the catalogue with fresh accessories, it has fallen victim to inept quality control. Ever since 2022 when applicant requirements became relaxed, the catalogue has been cluttered with low effort and rule breaking items: oversized accessories, low effort meme items, copyrighted models literally ripped from their games, to duplicates of iconic Roblox Limiteds despite being forbidden. Even if these items do get taken down eventually, it clearly shows how awfully ineffective the moderation is at preventing violating items in the marketplace into being sold in the first place.
    • Eventually around April 2024, Public UGC has launched, however it's a disaster for many reasons.
    • In order to upload accessories, you will need to pay 750 Robux (roughly $10) for each accessory, in order to publicly sell it you will need to pay 1,500 Robux (roughly $15), so you would need to spend at least $25 to get a item published on there in total, not to mention having at least being part of premium membership worth 1000 Robux plan.
    • For UGC Limiteds, the stock of limited now has been risen to 100 per item (used to be 10-30 Robux per item amount) making it harder to sell these items in higher quantities.
  21. They even supported Gamefam Studios, which is infamous for underpaying, mistreating, and abusing their employees to the point that one user named "Digital Purgatory" was infamously fired and posted about their thoughts on Twitter.
    • Not only that but they resulted in a lot of controversies such as when they brought and ruined Funky Friday but other games got that treatment to. They even sponsored that game in their Sonic Prime event WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE CREATOR OF FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN.
    • They are also lairs, as after the statement was tweeted, another former employee came out to say Gamefam was lying. They stated they were laid off without warning; failing to provide a two week notice. They also got rights from Roblox to delete games from Roblox in favor of their games, with Anime Adventures being the biggest offender of getting that punishment. They even ruined Sonic Speed Simulator as well as producing some bad/mediocre games such as My Hero Academia: Battlegrounds. Their games can be reskins, such as TMNT Battle Tycoon, which is a generic Roblox tycoon game and SpongeBob Simulator, which is just a reskin of Pet Simulator but with SpongeBob character slapped onto it.
  22. This era, overall killed the reputation of Roblox, and it gets worse every year.

LuoBu

Note: Most of these problems were mainly caused by Chinese video game censorship policies.

  1. Chinese Roblox guidelines range from confusing to downright ridiculous. Here are the examples:
    • Zombies, corpses, skeletons or other scary avatars; avatars that symbolizes money are banned.
    • They have banned cards for instance that "depict gambling".
  2. You cannot choose your own username, instead you will get a randomly generated username formatted as "Robloxian" followed by nine random numbers and lowercase letters. Also, these usernames do not show up in Player search results.
    • However players with verified real names may change their display name to Chinese text in LuoBu.
  3. You can only play a limited amount of games.
    • In addition, racing games are banned, this is most likely because cars can crash on certain obstacles, because of this, the developers were concerned that it would increase car accident rates in real life, which is utterly false.
  4. You can buy Robux for more actual money. At in-app purchases, you can buy 10 Robux for 6 CNY (0,94 USD) in LuoBu while 10 Robux costs 0,13 USD for IAP[7].
    • Robux is unable to be spent in the Avatar Shop. As such, Robux can only be used to purchase Game Passes and Developer Products, meaning that you can't customize your avatar and look unique.
    • There's no limited items at the Avatar Shop, though this reduces children from overspending.
  5. Chinese Roblox DevForum has less features than International Roblox DevForum. This is because of the stricter Chinese law[8].
  6. When you fall from great heights, instead of falling normally, you would instead get a parachute, and fall slower. This is because the developers thought children could imitate what the Roblox character did, and end up dying, however, the odds of a child doing so is extremely unlikely.
  7. When you die, instead of breaking into pieces, like you would in international Roblox, you would instead disappear. Even though children are highly unlikely to be scared by this, the developers still decided to do this anyway.
  8. Around July 21st 2021, non-LuoBu users that had logged into LuoBu QQ Studio ("LuoBu Editor") within a few weeks before had their accounts converted to "hybrid" Roblox-LuoBu accounts. This voided all of their Robux, disabled adding friends, and prevented them from joining groups.
    • On July 22nd 2021, Roblox blocked all non-China IPs from logging into LuoBu or LuoBu QQ Studio, preventing any further accounts from being affected. A few weeks later, all affected accounts were reverted back into normal accounts and their Robux restored. While Roblox never made a statement on this matter; santababy, the staff of the LuoBu Devforum made an announcement presumably related to the incident[9].
    • On July 31, 2021, an oversight was revealed that allowed non-LuoBu users to have Chinese characters in their display names without turning their accounts into hybrid accounts[10]. It involved using the Arkose Labs and LuoBu APIs to log into roblox.qq.com and add Chinese characters to one's display name there, then logging out of roblox.qq.com; the display name change would take effect on the international version of Roblox, and the user's account would remain unrestricted. Around August 18, 2021, the authentication API was updated, and the oversight was ultimately patched, with users now getting "400 Bad Request" errors when attempting to use this method. Additionally, as said before, only LuoBu users with verified real names can have Chinese characters in their display names now. However, users who changed their display names to have Chinese characters before the patch have kept their display names, even on international Roblox.
    • Around February 2022, unknown users found a LuoBu agreement endpoint page that functioned on the Roblox website, which would appear as the "Roblox Moderated Item Robux Policy" agreement page to Roblox players. Any Roblox account that accepted a LuoBu agreement would be turned into a "hybrid" Roblox-LuoBu account, with similar effects to before. Malicious users began sending out the agreement link to unsuspecting players on platforms such as Discord (such as suggesting it was a bugged page that would give them free Robux), only for clicking "I agree" to lock down their account. The issue appeared to have been fixed around March 2022, with all affected accounts were reverted into normal accounts and their Robux restored.
  9. Due to the failure of LuoBu, it was shut down only 1 year later[11]. Meaning players from China can no longer play it.
    • Also on July 17, 2022, Roblox reportedly terminated all of the over five million LuoBu accounts. This potentially showed that Roblox either gave up on the project, on which much time had been spent, or they had other plans for LuoBu, however, since April 20, 2023, they began uploading on Bilibili (almost nine months after the mass-deletion of the LuoBu accounts)[12], being their latest upload from November 1, 2023[13].

Powered-up Qualities

  1. Roblox used to be a better platform during its first years until 2016. That was where the community was nice and the problems were at a lower scale.
  2. Despite all the issues listed, Roblox can be still funny and a good hobby if you do care more about the gameplay than the community itself, although it's nowhere near as good as the previous eras.
  3. There are still hundreds of enjoyable and good popular and underrated games on the platform that came during this period such like:
  4. The administrators have banned some problematic users like MisterObvious (a once respected Roblox animator that was revealed to be a pedophile in 2017) and Spacebuilder (The creator of the Roblox clone Brick Hill who is a racist and a pedophile) for example.
  5. There are still some good YouTubers that made content of Roblox during this period, such as Flamingo (mrflimflam).
  6. As of September 27, 2017, all players, including Non-BC members, can now have up to a maximum of 200 active places making it more useful for non-premium developers.
  7. As of December 18, 2019, you can join or create up to 100 groups, according to the Roblox DevForum thread, so you don't need to join Premium anymore when you create a group that costs 100 Robux.
  8. Since 2019, Roblox Corp. has allowed some qualified users to post their own modeled accessories and sell them to the catalogue. Known as User-Generated Content (UGC), it has significantly expanded the variety of accessories on the Roblox catalogue. Not only that but it also appeals to developers specalising in modeling who want to make a profit from their items on the avatar shop.
  9. It did hosted some fun events such as Egg Hunt 2018: The Great Yolktales, RB Battles and the Annual Bloxy Awards.
    • Speaking of which, some of their sponsored events are decent/good during this period, such as the Ready Player One and Ready Player Two events and the Lil Nas X, Twenty One Pilots and Elton John Concert Experiences.
  10. Later on in 2021, you can now sell clothing as a non premium member for free (Except for T-Shirts since they have a selling fee). You have to note that you have to pay 10 robux for a shirt/pants to be uploaded on Roblox.
  11. During 2021, Roblox have started to make 3D Layered clothing. In which works for every Roblox package, in which means you can have actually jackets on your avatar. Making Roblox avatar customization better than ever.
  12. As of 2022, audio files are now free with a monthly limit of 10 files but can be extended to 100 if you verify your account's age, meaning that not only developers but other players don't have to deal with spending portions of cash to upload their favourite music tracks for their game.
  13. In September 2023, they announced that Roblox will be coming to PlayStation platforms. The Nintendo Switch is the last remaining console not to have Roblox for now.
  14. Despite all the problems listed above, Modern Roblox is still certainly better than all the disgusting clones that try to cash out it.
  15. The graphics look even better in these eras and is a huge step up from the previous ones.
    • The water specifically looks even more detailed and fluid as its animated instead of being just a static texture.
    • The animations looks more fluid and smoother.

Trivia

  • As of August 2020, Roblox had over 164 million monthly active users, with it being played by over half of all children aged under 16 in the United States.
  • Due to the game's updates, many users have made Roblox clones to get the old experience back. (Although some do it illegally since they make money off of it.)
  • An exploit was discovered on iOS, in which users exploited the refund system by buying Robux and then refunding to get lots of it. When Roblox discovered about this exploit, they patched it and terminated a lot of accounts.

Reception

The 2016-present era of Roblox received mixed to negative reviews.

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References

  1. ↑ https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/06/roblox-transition-china-luobulesi-tencent/
  2. ↑ https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/8/22873891/roblox-china-shut-down-new-version
  3. ↑ https://x.com/heybloxburg/status/1802008163191026031
  4. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/RobloxHelp/comments/1glm17r/roblox_client_seems_to_be_broken_after_the_recent/
  5. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/RobloxHelp/comments/1glmapl/gui_problems/
  6. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/RobloxHelp/comments/1glfgja/mouse_cursor_invisible_error/
  7. ↑ https://robuxtousd.com/converter/
  8. ↑ https://forum.robloxdev.cn/
  9. ↑ https://forum.robloxdev.cn/t/topic/1325
  10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq9_n8pC9iw
  11. ↑ https://roblox.qq.com/web202106/news-detail.shtml?newsid=15359110
  12. ↑ https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1EL411v79s
  13. ↑ https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13M411Q7Mg

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