Talk:Criticism of Roblox/Archive 1

1x1x1x1 is unknown
Yep.Upsetfail1234 20:32, June 16, 2012 (UTC)

About the OT section (worried)
Did this whole brony thing start recently? I've never seen it until the last three weeks...

• •  •  20:02, June 16, 2012 (UTC)

Off Topic is better than 99% forums (at least), those accusations are all false
75.1.49.43 01:30, November 13, 2012 (UTC)Whoever added the Off Topic section is an [removed, no swearing]. OT is nothing like that. Also, it seems like it was all written by this retarded "Twilight Sparkle" person who fails to understand what Off Topic tries to achieve- humor, in all its forms (even trolling).

I've seen "Twilight Sparkle"s videos and he/she does not understand what they're dealing with. They put up posts that were meant to be humorous (and I find them hilarious) and uses them to make us look stupid. He/she is yet another stupid, blind, mobbing, hatemongering RTer.

Speaking of RT, maybe OT isn't great, but if you've ever been to RT, you know what I'm talking about when I say that there's a lot of spam, a lot of immaturity, a lot of whining and a lot of fighting. They essentially act like bigotting 8-year-olds (which is what I assume they are). OT at least knows how to be mature. I don't think RT should be pointing fingers at OT when they have problems themselves- I assume "Twilight Sparkle" also has problems and needs an outlet. FlamingDinner out.75.1.49.43 01:30, November 13, 2012 (UTC)

Lmfao what a bunch of faggots. ^^ Wandere (talk) 14:45, November 6, 2013 (UTC)

It says join your friends game it takes ages to load90.204.36.196 15:26, May 24, 2013 (UTC)CHUCKERS9009

Roblox Software: Synamtec claims are bollocks?
I use Norton on Windows 7 for a friend(OEM bullshit, horray) and it doesn't actually do that. Wandere (talk) 14:44, November 6, 2013 (UTC)

I'm really quite sad that I couldn't edit this article
If it weren't for that vandal who spammed "poop" on this wiki, i would probably still edit this! BetterSkatezalt (talk) 05:14, November 23, 2013 (UTC)

Doge
I'm a little confused about the newly added "Doge" lawsuit, because that is just purely fiction. -- Gordonrox24 &#124; Talk 22:07, November 25, 2013 (UTC)


 * I have removed this section. If anyone wants to dispute this, please type below. PeterPeter5000 (talk) 01:13, November 27, 2013 (UTC)

You forgot Egg Hunt 2015.
25% like it, like, the comments on the blog post for it were botted, 25% hate it and won't go to it, and half are expected to quit because of this. 75 beats 25. JM1234 (talk) 21:26, March 22, 2015 (UTC)

Where did you get those numbers though? 50% of the entire ROBLOX population quitting is incredibly far-fetched (especially when ROBLOX has millions of players). Acebatonfan (talk) 21:38, March 22, 2015 (UTC)Acebatonfan

"Half are expected to quit because of this"....what? -DashN00B145 (talk) 06:46, March 23, 2015 (UTC)

I honestly don't know how to clean this page up.
This article is just a mess.

Oh my.

Harbynger RBLX (talk) 07:45, November 19, 2015 (UTC)

Rename suggestion
I propose this article should be renamed "Criticism of ROBLOX", replacing the existing sandbox project with that title. The "O" in Roblox cannot be stylized as this is inconsistent with other articles across the wiki project. --DabbingSanta (talk) 01:21, June 22, 2016 (UTC)

This page really needs to be cleaned up.
There are a few biased articles and it could have better catagory grouping.

Also why does someone keep removing my multiple issues notification banner?

Robotcoder (talk) 22:41, June 23, 2016 (UTC)

Problems with this page:
(This post is created because I do not have the time to make the proper edits.)

"A guest's name will be "Guest", followed by a random number between 0 and 9999."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5X8qDDMC-o

It is not random. Nothing is random. It is pseudo-random based on a complex algorithim based on execution since Unix Epoch, which is used to seed an algorithim which produces numbers in an order which appears random. It is not *really* random. Pure randomness is impossible.

"F.E.A.R. ", refers to the original F.E.A.R. group. Use the term "The First Encounter Assault Recon" instead.

"Users without ROBLOX memberships are played ads while they wait to be loaded into a game. However, some ads have been criticized excessively for being inappropriate or containing malware, but no evidence has truly been given for either claims."

They're delivered by the Rubicon Project and Google, ROBLOX has zero control over them.

"It has caused blue screens on Windows computers, and even made computers crash (without the Blue Screen of Death that can occur on computers that run on Windows)."

The ROBLOX Engine is buggy on some systems, and may be the cause of Stop Errors (Wikipedia link to the BSoD article), or Kernel Panics on the Mac and Linux (via WINE.)

"During 2009 and 2010, ROBLOX has broken many games via changes in their Lua programming language."

ROBLOX did not create Lua. PUC-Rio's students did. (Don't quote me on the students part.) ROBLOX has a modified version of Lua which is built into the engine which is stripped down and simplified. It runs on a modified Lua virtual machine, (hence bytecode), and has fewer features and less control than the real Lua.

"being sued by The LEGO Group"

Were they actually? Articles? Sources?

"ent a letter to ROBLOX Corporation to take it down"

Sent a DMCA takedown request on the game.*

"iled a trademark infringement lawsuit against ROBLOX Corporation for an in-game movie theater in Litozinnamon's game Phantom Forces, which featured assets which were about or contained Cinemark theaters."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5X8qDDMC-o

Read the actual legal brief, it is about users who had the name "Cinemark" or had games with Cinemark's IP in it which was infringing upon it.

"was similar to Minecraft's voxel lighting. "

The algorithims are completely different - ROBLOX's dynamic lighting works fundamentally different, whereas Minecraft first maps shadows, then blends shadows based on light values, and then generates shadows which match the light while not appearing to be bound to a specific cube.

ROBLOX's does something else they won't explain. It's also patented so it would be illegal to investigate deeply how by re-implementing it. (ianal).

"making it redundant to buy things that would cost ROBUX"

Huh?

"It also caused lag on many computers due to the added amounts of movements that are processed."

oh boy

The new animations do not affect a processor at all, unless you are already having trouble running ROBLOX in the first place. The changes are minimal, and only shift where a block is located and what data it contains - for example,line at vertex (0,0,0) to vertex (0, 1, 0), may now be line at vertex (0,0,0) to vertex (0, .83, .23). It simply moves where the lines are drawn, the same amount of polygons are rendered, and it requires no more processing power than before other than that now there are more frames of animation, (of which are VERY inexpensive on modern hardware anyway, with so few polygons.) The change doesn't matter. 0 still takes up 4 bytes, just as much as 2147483647, just as much as 0.0000000000002 and 1.7976931348623157 x 10^308 takes up 8 bytes. The number doesn't matter, it's that it fits into the assigned data type given to it by the language ROBLOX is written in (C++, int32_t and double_t, respectively.)

"Lag" is a server-client problem. "Frame rate dips" is more accurate, because all rendering is done on the client, sure as hell not on the server, under any circumstances (Save for streaming and using someone else's computer over the internet to do all the heavy lifting for you.)

R15 is a real problem, but the hardware expected of you to play ROBLOX in the first place makes that problem only matter if you're really running the absolute minimum to be able to play ROBLOX.

please learn how to computer before saying dumb things.

(tl;dr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5X8qDDMC-o)

Harbynger (talk) 05:29, August 21, 2016 (UTC)

John Doe / greg
We need something about this, i mean.. srsly! John Doe was now a supposed 'doomsday' and greg was 'even worse' ElloItsDunna (talk) 18:55, March 26, 2017 (UTC)