Key Takeaways On May 19th, we’re making a change to our publishing model by adding new requirements to publicly publish games, helping keep Roblox online and users under 16 safer. You can check your eligibility in your account settings. Hi … Read more
Because of Roblox’s high cost to serve per hour, users in lower-income or lower-propensity-to-spend markets typically reduce profitability, rather than just harm overall margins. For Facebook, Twitter, Snap, etc., low monetizing users are still accretive because however little revenue they … Read more
Starting October 28th and fully resolving on October 31st, Roblox experienced a 73-hour outage.¹ Fifty million players regularly use Roblox every day and, to create the experience our players expect, our scale involves hundreds of internal online services. As with … Read more
Roblox has been down for more than two days, with the game and its related website offline for millions of players. The hugely popular game-creating platform first started having issues at around 7PM ET on October 28th. Roblox initially said … Read more
As our community continues to expand, both globally and by age (nearly 50% of the users on our platform are over the age of 13 as of Q2 2021), we want to make sure that everyone can express themselves in … Read more
Game developers today are reacting strongly to a YouTube video posted by the channel People Make Games, in which host Quintin Smith argues that Roblox Corporation is taking advantage of young people trying to make games on the platform. In … Read more
Roblox Player working on Arch Linux under Wine on June 13, 2021 While Roblox does not officially support Linux, the Wine compatibility layer for running Windows programs can run Roblox Player and Roblox Studio on Linux. Running Roblox with Wine … Read more
The degree to which Stratechery Weekly Articles are pre-planned varies; Eddy on Twitter, though, had this article pegged: Tomorrow, after a number of delays, including switching from an IPO to a Direct Listing, is finally the day that Roblox goes … Read more