Criticism of Roblox

ROBLOX has been highly criticised for many reasons. Many users from the ROBLOX community have constructed hate/quit videos and posts about Roblox. Patacorow made a slideshow animation informing Roblox about his concerns.

MSE6
MSE6 is an administrator on ROBLOX. The forums of ROBLOX, most so to the visitors and users of the Off Topic and ROBLOX Talk forum sections, have recognized MSE6 as a "tyrannical ruler". She is often accused of abusing moderation power, banning users for invalid reasons, and performing bans considered 'over the top', or beyond what the reciever of said ban recognizes as a fair punishment for their offense. She is also targeted as a the admin responsible for all of the invalid bans, despite this not being proven true.

Removal of community moderators
In 2008, ROBLOX hired volunteer moderators for their forum. They were not paid any ROBUX, even if they had an active Builder's Club subscription. Examples of these users were Anaminus, gordonrox24 and Stealth Pilot. In 2010, due to multiple reasons, ROBLOX terminated the moderator statuses of the community moderators, which was met with a rather critical response by the community of ROBLOX, most notably the forum.

In-game report system flaws
ROBLOX offers a system that allows one to report another user to the moderators of ROBLOX to review what the offending user has said in the chat. This service has been criticised by many, touting it as a near-useless service, as there have been recorded cases in which users performing bannable offenses have not been banned. However, often, said cases involve a user performing an offense that cannot be recorded, such as exploiting the game. It should be noted that rude or otherwise irritating behavior cannot be reported, including the deletion of another's work in a building game, and 'spawnkilling'.

Additionally, there have been many complaints of users being banned when they have not violated the rules in any obvious way, or without any reason at all. Such occurrences have led many people to believe that the in-game report system is merely automated and is programmed to ban any user reported of, literally, anything.

Community
ROBLOX is highly criticised for it's relatively immature community. The community of ROBLOX has been known to produce a relatively unrealistic amount of complaints about changes made by ROBLOX and repeatedly criticizes it for being "greedy" without any sort of evidence (although on a few cases people give evidence to back up their theories, but the evidence is normally for other purposes in the actual ROBLOX game). ROBLOX's community tends to contain users that do not understand the fundamental concepts of acceptable behavior, and in many cases also do not understand basic concepts such as internet hosting. During 2011 players have had some bad behavior, like threats from children. Jared (AKA JaredValez) is one of those who are repeatedly threatened by the community.

Guests
Guest are pre-configured players like the rest of ROBLOX users; however they have a multitude of restrictions and differences: Guests are generally frowned upon, as they tend to cause more destruction to games than those that have a regular account. Many users have taken it upon themselves to spend ROBUX on ads and groups, simply to show their hatred toward these users.
 * They cannot speak except via an interface containing predefined phrases. This restriction is also present on accounts with the 'Super Safe Chat' privacy feature. They lack the ability to see others speaking, making it impossible to communicate annoyances and concerns. (Some players have inserted/made scripts or a custom GUI to make Guests talk)
 * They use the same look as ROBLOX's official account. An older version of guests would have a yellow head and arms, green legs and a blue torso. For a small period of time, when gear was released, Guests had all of the gear that the official ROBLOX character had. Also for a short time, ROBLOX got TBC on it's account so it could enter BC games. Strangely enough, this allowed all guests to access TBC benefits, as well, meaning Guests could play on "BC only" games.
 * A Guest's name will be "Guest", followed by a random number. Sometimes people will hunt for guests with rather absurd numbers, like 666, 1337, 69, 0 or 1.

Christina8787 / Club Christy
Christina8787 is a player and Roblox mostly known for the older user advertisments she had made. Her ads were insulting IronInforcer and his popular social game, Iron Cafe. Her place was then reviewed on YouTube by XiaoXiaoMan, otherwise known as the "Raging Roblox Reviewer". She then received a lot of bad press after his video went "semi-viral". Sometime afterwards, LegoIsReal leaked a screenshot of Christina8787's chat with him, saying that Christina admitted to being a slut on gaming IM client XFire (which is banned by OBLOXx), where she was laughed at. XiaoXiaoMan even noticed this leak, to which he made a video on.

Christy's fights with XiaoXiaoMan ended, but tension still exists between her and other players. Recently, Christy copied Patacorow's video at the ROBLOX staff, claimed it as her own, and aimed it at the average ROBLOX user.

SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX
'''Watch what your post here. Any vandalism and insults will be deleted.''' SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX is mostly known for his game "Live in a 5-Star Island Resort", later renamed to just "Island Resort"

TV Commercial
thumb|right|268px|TheSharpTHOfLulzs' opinion on the Roblox commercial Roblox's new TV commercial has been criticised for being staged and most stuff is not in the game which includes:
 * Every game showcased at the beginning not being real (The users, however, are real). Note that the games used as backgrounds for the avatars show later are real.
 * A dancing animation which is not in the game, and other animations.
 * The mention of ROBLOX being free with no mention of BC or BC Features in the whole commercial
 * The advert was only partly made in ROBLOX, with Photoshopped skyboxes and aftereffects used to clean up the footage. This is often the most cited criticism.
 * SharpTH uploaded a video (as seen above) pointing out all false parts of the commercial.

Off Topic Forum
The Off Topic forums have been plagued with forced memes, inappropriate users, "trolls", rude posts, and Roblox admins and moderators failed use of stickies to stop users from breaking the rules. These stickies include:
 * MSE6's "No XFire usernames"
 * RobloShorty's thread on posts flaming another country (after a debacle of stereotypes against America)

Artists on ROBLOX
Roblox has a user advertisement feature, of which some users make visually appealing ads as a series of comics. These people include Patacorow, BlazerC, Vego, and BL00XER. These users are victims of ad plagarism. Patacorow and BlazerC have had their ads copied by users, mainly by "ajhockeyfan", who not just stealing the ads, but also claiming the ads as his own. Patacorow now includes watermarks in his ads, but ajhockeyfan later released an ad of one of BlazerC's comics, adding beards on some of the user's faces.

Many people on ROBLOX have scammed people into thinking that they can draw well, by using google images/others' work to "showcase" themselves, then selling drawings.

Exploiters
ROBLOX has become a real target for exploiting. Legitimate exploiters, like Zuka, were seen exploiting the game in 2008, but have stopped. A controversial subject is 1x1x1x1. This account is now known to be originally an alt created by Telamon, but still many legends persist concerning this account. It was recently "pass-guessed" by MaKKAPAKKA3, to which the account was deleted for a second time.

In December of 2008 a team of exploiters called Scene was formed, the members consisting of cdskl, ceze, stealth100, Eone, and Dignity. The team discovered an exploit that allowed them to script ingame and change their username (Founded by ceze). Many players thought Dignity was 1x1x1x1 (This has been proven false, see 1x1x1x1, above). Shortly before the group was banned, Dignity was voted off the team, due to the fact that he "couldn't pull his own weight". Scene was also responsible for the cancellation of the Easter event in 2009. Currently only 1 member, Eone and ceze still plays.
 * The Day of Darkness is a script developed by stealth100. The skys turn black, every brick turns black and everything starts floating in random directions. You may see this in multi colors.

In early 2010, RobloxHQ Forum member phpscriptcoder showcased an exploit in ROBLOX, where editing the Studio executable in a text editor would allow Studio/Edit mode in an online server, allowing you full building control and property editing. This was leaked to some users of RobloxHQ. It was eventually patched by ROBLOX, who had to shut down all Roblox servers in the process.

Other notable exploits were:
 * The loopkilling exploit (Cheat Engine)
 * Place stealing (Edit the .exe in a text editor)
 * GunCursor exploit (Cheat Engine)
 * Toolbox exploit (Fiddler2, this one was founded by MaKKAPAKKA3.)
 * Username Change (Cheat Engine)

The Game
The actual Roblox game and the games from it and have been criticised.

Front Page Games
A lot of front page games don't give many users any interest. Examples are:
 * Cart Ride Into (Character)!
 * Feed or Be Eaten By (Character)
 * Blow Up (Character)!!!
 * Build to Survive (Object) (Includes "Survive (Number) Disasters!!!!", an exception being Survive The 90 Disasters by TheFurryFox)
 * WHO (verb) (noun) OBBY!
 * Are you/Can you (Verb) OBBY! (Includes Noob Tests)
 * Survive the Rising (Object)
 * Any game that uses a decal that is not in the game
 * Call of Duty Games (an exception being Call of Robloxia II - Roblox at War by litzinnamon)
 * Free Modeled Minigames
 * Roleplay Games (with the exception of kingdom life II.
 * Pokemon-Based Games
 * (Object/Service) Tycoon

Builder's Club Only places
Near the end of 2010, ROBLOX introduced a new feature called BC Only that allows Builder's Club members to limit the users who go to their places to Builder's Club and higher only. This sparked many hate posts from Roblox, and videos bagging the feature on YouTube, even from XiaoXiaoMan and TheAmazeman, who put BC Only places in one of his Fail of The Week sections. This feature is clearly not wanted.

In July of 2011 seth1823 made the front page of games with a stolen copy of the user Ryanmacd 's "Private clubhouse".It was a BC only place and he made over 3352 Robux. He has since taken down the place but Ryanmacd is still trying to get the copy of the place back.

ROBLOX Software (Roblox.exe and RobloxApp.exe/Roblox Studio)
Roblox's software has been described as slow and buggy on some computers. It has caused blue screens on Windows computers, and even made computers crash (w/o the BSOD). Jazman111 once reported RobloxApp.exe to security company Symantec, (home to their Norton range of software for home users), and the report was accepted.

The software saves meshes, sounds and decals uploaded via exploits ever since they stopped allowing users to upload their own meshes and sounds in August 2008. This could leave unwanted waste from ROBLOX. ROBLOX staff removed many sound and meshes from before 2008 as well, mostly those pertaining to modern weaponry, such as assault rifles.

In late 2010, that ROBLOX update changed the format of build tools. This also broke several of the old tools, such as the Copy tool, which would sometimes cause parts to un-cancollide, and also changed the colours in the new paint tool, which left some important colours such as 'black' out. Other tools just generally did not work as well. This problem still has been improved, but not satisfactorily fixed, as of January 2012.

PardonMyFrench's Eric Frenchman and ROBLOX
Blogger Eric Frenchman (owner of TypePad blog PardonMyFrench) had criticised ROBLOX's site and game with [http://pardonmyfrench.typepad.com/pardonmyfrench/2009/08/is-roblox-safe-for-kids-not-sure-so-i-blocked-it.html this blog post. ("Is Roblox safe for my kids? Not sure so I blocked it.")] He complained about the fact that his security program was flashing "like a Christmas tree" and saying that ROBLOX is not parental-safe, and also dubbed World of Warcraft as being safer than ROBLOX. He got many replies, mainly from ROBLOX defenders attempting to get his children back on ROBLOX, parents saying their experiences with ROBLOX. Builderman replied to Eric Frenchman, to which Eric made a [http://pardonmyfrench.typepad.com/pardonmyfrench/2009/10/revisiting-roblox.html new post about. ("Revisiting Roblox")]

Removal of vital Lua functions/properties
During 2009 and 2010, ROBLOX has broken many games via changes in their Lua programming language.

In 2009, ROBLOX secured the Source function on the Script object. This stopped model compilers and Script Builder tools from working. In 2010, this was brought back, but later on, they stopped global variables. Both instances were frowned upon by scripters.

Updates
ROBLOX's updates have been criticised because people claim it "doesn't make it as good as before." Though people have suggested that the administrators undo the updates, Roblox has stated it will never undo an update (unless temporary, such as the egg hunt), and as of January 2012 has not done so. This has led to many hate and quit videos from users.

Rules
ROBLOX rules have been criticised for various reasons because community members call it "unfair." These reasons include: Though it is a website intended for children to play, the community (especially the older players) are still unhappy with these rules.
 * No links to outside websites (such as YouTube videos or profiles), due to users linking others to shock sites and malicious pages.
 * No talking about religous or political content, due to the violent 'flamewars' that are generally sparked by the discussion of it.
 * No debates and rebellions. ("What the mod says, goes.")

Lawsuit
Roblox took a lot of heat for the "circle studs" it used until early 2009. ROBLOX recived lawsuit from The Lego Corporation, because the circle studs looked like LEGO studs. After the lawsuit Roblox decided to change the circle to a square shape. (XiaoXiaoMan mentions this in his "ROBLOX Fun Facts" video.)

In 2007, Roblox released a visor which read the "Got Milk?" slogan on it. Its been said that Hood got involved for copyright, in which the visor was taken off sale (This, however, is only a well-known rumor). It was put up for limited sales in 2010 and only has 4312 buyers.

A similar instance happened in late 2009, Roblox released a Devo hat for 50 tickets. A few days later, it was said Roblox was informed that they cannot sell it due to copyright infringement of the band called Devo. The hat was later changed to the "Impossible to Obtain Red Wedding Cake Hat" and was taken off sale. It had 2866 buyers before it was taken off sale.

Since these instances, ROBLOX only sells items if they have direct permission (such as the Transformers Event or Disney XD) or if they make an obscure reference or parody (such as the Mischeivious Raccoon hat from South Park).