Nefarious game makers appear to be leveraging a chat-based Roblox exploit that results in automatic account bans for unsuspecting users.

Roblox also banned the owner of Crosswinds [A.2], which appears to have been the first game to abuse the exploit and connected accounts, the RTC Twitter account report s.

Roblox was beta tested for several years and launched for computer play in 2006. The company released its platform for iOS in 2012, Android in 2014, Xbox in 2015, and PlayStation in 2023.

A new video investigation from People Make Games has accused Roblox Corporation of "exploiting" young game developers.

However, it is not all that simple, and there is another controversy around the game, this time on how Roblox exploits young developers to create the same content that has made the platform popular.

On the PlayStation side of things, Roblox releasing on PS5 and PS4 remains blocked due to concerns that the game would “exploit” the platforms younger audience, though it seems like those ...

A metro Atlanta mother is suing Roblox Corporation, claiming the popular online gaming platform enabled predators to groom and sexually exploit her 10-year-old son while marketing itself as a safe ...

Roblox ’s VP of marketing told AListDaily in 2018, “From the very beginning, it was about having kids develop games for other kids.” DevEx’s terms require users to be 13 or over.

Roblox has an average daily user count of 97.8 million. In July 2024, cosmetic company e.l.f. trialled real-world commerce on the Roblox platform via Walmart technology.