Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program games and play games created by other users.
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30 Facts About Roblox
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Roblox began to grow rapidly in the second half of the 2010s, and this growth has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Roblox is free to play, with in-game purchases available through a virtual currency called Robux.
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Roblox allows players to create their own games using its proprietary engine, Roblox Studio, which can then be played by other users.
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The majority of games produced using Roblox Studio are developed by minors, and a total of 20 million games a year are produced using it.
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Roblox allows players to buy, sell, and create virtual items which can be used to decorate their virtual character that serves as their avatar on the platform.
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Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts and hosts an annual event called the “Bloxy Awards”, an awards ceremony that functions as a fundraiser.
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Roblox occasionally engages in events to promote films, such as ones held to promote Wonder Woman 1984 and Aquaman.
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In 2020, Roblox hosted its first virtual concert, which was compared by Rolling Stone to that of American rapper Travis Scott's virtual concert in Fortnite, during which American rapper Lil Nas X debuted his song "Holiday" to an audience of Roblox players.
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In October 2021, Roblox partnered with Chipotle Mexican Grill to give $1 million of burritos away to the first 30,000 people every day as a part of Chipotle's Halloween Boorito promotion.
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Beta version of Roblox was created by co-founders David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 under the name DynaBlocks.
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In March 2007, Roblox became compliant with COPPA, with the addition of safe chat, a change that limited the communication ability of users under the age of 13 by restricting them to selecting predefined messages from a menu.
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In December 2011, Roblox held its first Hack Week, an annual event where Roblox developers work on outside-the-box ideas for new developments to present to the company.
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On December 11,2012, an iOS version of Roblox was released, and on July 16,2014, an Android version was released.
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On October 1,2013, Roblox released its Developer Exchange program, allowing developers to exchange Robux earned from their games into real-world currencies.
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In July 2020, Roblox announced the creation of “Party Place”, which functions as an online hangout.
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In October 2021, Roblox experienced its longest downtime to date, with services being unavailable for three days.
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In September 2022, Roblox Corporation announced that it planned to add an age rating system, which would allow for moderate portrayals of violence in worlds flagged as suitable for users 13 and over.
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Users of Roblox have been noted for their efforts against racism, with numerous regular users and co-founder Baszucki having declared their support for the George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter.
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The dispute ended in 2022 when Roblox pulled the sound from their platform and replaced it with a new sound effect.
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Roblox has received widespread criticism for its chat filtration system.
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Roblox offers privacy settings; parents can limit what people a user can contact, restrict access to private servers, and turn on parental controls.
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Such spaces on Roblox are often called "condos" and there is a constant effort in taking those places down.
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Roblox has been criticised for making it easy for children to spend large sums of money through microtransactions, leading to numerous instances where children have spent large sums of money on the platform without parents' knowledge, and deleting the accounts of players who file chargebacks or request refunds for Robux payments through their banks, card issuers or other third-party companies.
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Roblox has been accused by the investigative journalism YouTube channel People Make Games of "exploiting" child game developers by promising them huge amounts of money when they monetize their games, while only giving them little to no money in return by having high revenue cuts, an exchange rate in selling Robux lower than the rate for buying Robux, and lack of methods to make their games easily discoverable.
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TechCrunch noted in March 2021 that Roblox games are largely distinct from established traditions in free-to-play video games, finding that successful Roblox games were geared towards immediate satisfaction, and finding that the addition of tutorials significantly decreased player engagement, contrary to established wisdom about free-to-play games.
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The iOS version of Roblox passed $1 billion of lifetime revenue in November 2019, $1.
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Several individual games on Roblox have accumulated revenues of over $10 million, while developers as a whole on the platform were collectively projected to have earned around $250 million over the course of 2020.
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In 2019, Roblox Corporation released a new line of toys, branded the "Roblox Desktop" series.
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