Criticism of Roblox

Throughout its history, ROBLOX has been heavily criticized for a variety of reasons. These criticisms have been expressed through ROBLOX forum posts, YouTube, Twitter, and other media.

B0TM0D/MSE6
B0TM0D/MSE6 is a ROBLOX administrator. Many users on the Off Topic and ROBLOX Talk forums have criticized her for being corrupt. She is often accused of abusing her moderation privileges, allegedly banning users for invalid, inappropriate, or outright false reasons and giving out inappropriate and harsh punishments. Although they present little evidence for their allegations, many forum-goers believe B0TM0D to be the sole administrator responsible for all inappropriate moderation on ROBLOX.

Flawed In-Game Report System
ROBLOX allows for a user, in-game, on the site, or otherwise connected to ROBLOX to Report another player's behavior to the admins. This sends a complaint to the ROBLOX moderation team. The team then checks the chat log, to determine whom, if anyone, to punish, and in what way to do so. Because the Report Abuse system allows only chat violations to be reported, many players consider the feature to be useless for offenses that chat logs do not show, like the use of exploits or trolling (depending on the form). Multiple users have also complained that they have been punished for something they did not do. This has led some to believe that ROBLOX's report system is automated and designed to reprimand any user who is reported enough times. Some people have also complained that their reports take a long time to get read, mainly because of the lack of moderators.

Flawed Filtering System
In early 2017, many users, safe chatted or not, were affected by a wide update causing whatever is said to be filtered #. Most of these users have voiced their opinion on the Forums, and tagging other random words like "a", "my", "don't", "the", and other words that aren't inappropriate for ROBLOX.

Investigation revealed that an AI called CommunitySift was powering the filter, and was most likely being hampered by ROBLOX's strict configurations for said AI (since CommunitySift on its own is powerful enough to avoid mistakes, but can be changed extensively by anyone), causing random words to get filtered before inappropriate words did, the opposite of the obvious intended goal of the configurations. For example, a compound inappropriate word took three months to be detected by Sift, presumably due to the otherwise nonsensical nature the word has out of context.

Community
One of ROBLOX's most commonly criticized points is its extremely immature community. A typical player uses hardly any proper grammar and are quite sensitive. The community of ROBLOX has been known to produce a tremendous amount of complaints about everything on the site, most commonly updates and "greed" of ROBLOX, typically without any real evidence for why these things are problems. Some believe that ROBLOX's community largely has issues with understanding the rules. Some players, when they win games, call the people who lose 'little kids' and say they 'have a life, unlike you.' They also have a rant about them winning and say that the losing players raged because they lost, with no proof.

Guests
Main article: Guest Guests were pre-configured ROBLOXians who have a multitude of restrictions and differences from normal users: Guests are generally disliked because they tend to cause more problems than do regular users due to them being new and not knowing how to play the games, especially more advanced ones. Guests cannot be reported, which allows users to do anything, regardless of the rules, without fear of repercussions. Due to this, some users troll or exploit as a guest and get away with it. Some users have taken it upon themselves to buy ads and create groups simply to show their hatred toward these users.
 * They used to speak via Safe Chat. However, their ability to use Safe Chat disappeared. However, as of an update somewhere within 2016, guests are able to read public chats. As of 2017, Guests are no longer able to read chat.
 * Guests2016.png appear somewhat identical to ROBLOX's official account. In older versions, guests had a yellow head and arms, green legs and a blue torso, the skin of a classic ROBLOX Noob. For a small period of time, when gear was released, guests had all of the gear that the ROBLOX character had. For a short period of time, because of ROBLOX having TBC, guests were allowed to access BC-only games.
 * A guest's name will be "Guest", followed by a random number between 0 and 9999.Former Guest.png

While some users have requested that guests be able to use regular chat, ROBLOX has not yet implemented this feature.

Guests were officially removed on October 3, 2017 and many players were happy or sad. However, Guest Mode can still be played on mobile devices, which might be removed later in the future.

Online Daters
Online Dating is an often brought up issue on ROBLOX and is hated by many players. Players can tell if a player is an online dater by what they say and through their roleplay names. Whoever seeks an online relationship on Roblox is online dating. This includes people putting "single" and "hot" in roleplay names and people saying things like "abc for a bf" or "Want to date?" City games, school games, and roleplaying games are common online dating hotspots. Online dating is commonly seen as a predatory act and can result in outside interventions, aside from not fitting in with the kid-friendly nature. Many child predators try to online date to lure in children and get information about them outside ROBLOX. The dangers of online dating can be viewed here

Demographics Change
Around 2010, ROBLOX's demographic experienced a shift from a target age of 10–16 year olds to 6–8 year olds. New and simpler building tools, brighter and more colorful graphics, and sponsorships by products advertised to this age range exemplified this shift. Many of ROBLOX's older users quit ROBLOX because of this shift.

Christina8787
Christiana8787 is a user known for her Club Christy game, and for her rude advertisements of it. These advertisements attacked IronInforcer's Iron Cafe, using false claims, insults, and even lampooning IronInforcer himself. This led to user XiaoXiaoMan reviewing the game Club Christy through his Raging ROBLOX Reviewer series (and pointing out several lies and misconduct going on at Club Christy). After receiving comments shortly after XiaoXiaoMan's video went public, Christiana8787 created a video response. XiaoXiaoMan later made a counter video response titled Re: Raging Christy . Soon after XiaoXiaoMan's video was uploaded, Christina removed hers. Shortly after this incident, LegoIsReal uploaded a screenshot of Christiana8787's XFire chat with him. Within the chat, she admits to "being a slut". In response to her XFire comments, XiaoXiaoMan created another video.

Though Christiana8787's tensions with XiaoXiaoMan eventually faded, tension continues to exist between her and other ROBLOXians. At one point, she was accused of plagiarizing Patacorow's video.

SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX
Main Article: SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX is a user who, while mostly known for Live in A Five Star Island Resort and his F.E.A.R. group, has been the source of past controversies. In 2010, he created Live in A Five Star Resort, a game very similar to user Wierdoking's Original Five Star Resort, which at the time was a populated "hang-out" game. Many claimed SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX copied wierdoking, and used excessive amounts of free models to make his game different. This created a large amount of tension between the two users, and arguments between them began for a short time, but ended quickly. As of March of 2016, Original Five Star Resort has +1M visits, and SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX's Live in A Five Star Island Resort has +9M.

Soon after Live in A Five Star Island Resort was released, military clan F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) was created, which quickly amassed a large number of members. Not long after, F.E.A.R. was excessively advertised in SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX's games, leading some to believe that SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX used his popularity to quickly garner a large clan.

User XiaoXiaoMan eventually reviewed Live in A Five Star Island Resort, like he did with Club Christy, explaining that there was excessive lag, online dating, and an overabundance of free models, amongst other things, which led to him giving the game an overall negative review. He also claims that, in several other videos of his, that certain friends of his have found their accounts "hacked", and their accounts were soon in F.E.A.R.. XiaoXiaoMan also says that many alternate accounts of many users in the group, leading to a false number of members.

Around mid-2011, SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX was stated to have begged and bribed ROBLOX staff for free lifetime Outrageous Builders Club (which was a recent addition to the growing Builder's Club memberships). Although no evidence has been found (or released), many still believe that SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX did indeed bribe ROBLOX Staff for free OBC.

Since then, most of the controversies about SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX have since disappeared and he hasn't been involved in any for a long time, with most of it being irrelevant. He has been praised by the community for his more recent games such as Welcome to Venezia and Sunset City. His short, Out of Bloxy Cola, won a Bloxy award in 2013.

Jaredvaldez2, Jaredvaldez4, and Jared2valdez4
Jaredvaldez4 is a user mostly known for copying games. He has stolen countless games, most of which were previously front page games. Some of the most notorious copies are: When jaredvaldez4 was deleted, he said that 'he realized his mistakes of plagiarism', however immediately contradicted this statement, with the further creation of multiple alternate accounts and copying places again. His act of hypocrisy further increased the hate toward him.
 * The Infection (The Undead Coming, by Stealth Pilot)
 * What am I Drawing? (RO-Pictionary, by Ajedi32.) (The place is closed.)
 * Jared's Script Builder (Script Builder, by Ananimus) (The place is closed.)

In early 2012, when Jaredvaldez2 created StudioJARE on YouTube, BlabVoid and several members warned Jared that they would take action against him for copying them. Eventually, StudioJARE and his RoWar series, a blatant copy of the original, was also removed due to a copyright claim by StudioARE.

Jaredvaldez has since quit ROBLOX and posts videos unrelated to it. However, he briefly checked out ROBLOX in 2017 on an alternate (alt) account and made a video about it and another one of a retrospective look of his time on ROBLOX.

JuliusColesV2
JuliusColesV2 has been notorious for publishing 1dev2's unlocked game Welcome to the Town of Robloxia and adding free models. He is also known for copying free models and uploading them as his own, mostly as "proof" that he doesn't use free models, but his own.

After being banned, JuliusColes has been making numerous videos hating on ROBLOX, mainly erik.cassel, usually making fun of him because of his death, and the fact that he had cancer.

He now switches between hating on ROBLOX and playing ROBLOX games. Julius has attempted several times to make new ROBLOX accounts under the impression that he has changed, but they all get banned within a short matter of time.

Prophets
Prophets on ROBLOX was originally going to create random false prophecies, hoaxes, and conspiracies but somewhere around February 2017, TheC0mmunity made a prophecy about John Doe hacking everybody on March 18 which was proven false since nothing happened on March 18 so another prophecy which was about an innocent user called Greg hacking everybody on March 24th which was again fake. These two prophecies are believed to be spread around very fast by YouTubers such as Kazok. This is also believed to have introduced some Minecraft YouTubers to ROBLOX. The newest prophecy is a thing called the "The Blox Watch" which, like John Doe is a way users got views. Later, YouTube users such as ItsKolapo made a few videos on how YouTube users are "juicing" for views, basically on how they were using this to clickbait for more views and subscribers. So far, none of these prophets have been right.

Noobs/Newbies
A noob or newbie is a new and inexperienced ROBLOX user. Some people believe that they can cause trouble when they play the game. On ROBLOX, most users use the word "noob" as an insult used when people are upset, to mock others, or if they won against someone else, leaving some users annoyed.

Some people make newbies act like stupid and/or dumb people by having them talk unusually, portraying them as having unusual emotions, doing unusual actions and saying weird things, such as "LOLOLOLOL I CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY FREE ROBUX!". Other newbies type in fake codes into the chat, thinking they'll get free robux.

Adult Users
Although ROBLOX is meant to be mostly for kids, immature teens/adults have done actions that aren't kid-friendly such as swearing, calling people (age) year-olds, insulting, online dating and spreading suicide threats. They also do not care if they get reported because they think that the ROBLOX moderators are too lazy to ban people. Other Roblox adult developers make games without taking copyright law in to consideration.

Nowadays, it seems as if there are only a few younger players in ROBLOX, possibly due to the increase in bullies, online daters, etc.

YouTubers
Some people believe that YouTubers such as DanTDM and DenisDaily have "completely destroyed ROBLOX's community". They think that the reason why bad games go on the front page is because of the YouTubers attracting people who are bad at the game, exploit, or edgy.

Some users are known for spreading fake rumors to scare users such as the John Doe hacking rumor and the Greg rumor.

RobuxianYouTube
RobuxianYouTube is a user known for his fake tutorials on free Robux hacks to get free Robux on ROBLOX. He, like KazokYT has a tendency to lie and spreads multiple prophecies to users.

His YouTube account was possibly terminated in late 2017.

Dragod
Dragod is a very controversial ROBLOX Youtuber known for his clickbaiting and his fake robux giveaways. He was one of the people responsible for spreading the fake June 28/30th 2017 hacking rumor. His channel is also filled with clickbait, with titles like 'If you don't buy this item, your account will be deleted', although the video is just a Jailbreak gameplay video.

It is rumored that he quit YouTube after uploading his last video on August 22, 2017.

Quackityishot
Quackityishot is the ROBLOX account of controversial YouTube user QuackityHQ. He is hated due to him and his fans raiding the ROBLOX forums, spamming the post 'UNBAN QUACKITY' on May 1st, 2017, causing his account to be IP Banned and made ROBLOX instate a 2 year account age limit to post on the forums, but since then this age limit has been removed due to high criticism. On June 4th, 2017, Quackity and his fans again raided the forums, which instated another limit that's 120000 hours long (Approximately 13 years), causing all players, including all admins and even the official ROBLOX account to not be able to post on the forums. This limit has been removed afterwards due to criticism on ROBLOX's Twitter.

KazokYT
KazokYT has been known for spreading the rumor, in which a terminated account named Greg would be hacking people. He has also been accused of exploiting certain games, and has a tendency to lie on YouTube on how to get free ROBUX or a rumor. One reason why some ROBLOX players dislike him is that his YouTube videos, for the most part, are clickbait.

Catalog Item Prices
The prices of many limiteds have been pushed to exorbitant amounts by thosewho own it. This annoys very large amounts of users, because this makes them think that Roblox is greedy for money and make them unrealistically exorbitant in an attempt to make players pay more real life money for Robux to use to buy a single Limited item. An example that demonstrates the fact could be that a Darkheart valued at 2,000 Robux when it was first released 3 years ago drastically escalates to a whopping 13,333,333 Robux for the cheapest item, which costs approximately 6,000 US dollars to purchase with real money.

Third-Party Advertisements
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 for kids or containing malware, but no evidence has truly been given for either claim.

TV Advertisement (2011)
ROBLOX's old TV commercial was criticized for: SharpTH Media released a video explaining why this advertisement was flawed in its technique of attempting to get the attention of viewers.
 * Not mentioning membership and membership features.
 * The commercial using highly edited skyboxes, CGI, and staging to give the game a more professional look. This may be due to the targeted audience being more interested in exciting advertisements.
 * The "ROBLOX, It's FREE!" is criticized by some users because they believe the game is freemium, rather than free. It became a meme, with many people making fun of the slogan. What the ad possibly meant was that Roblox didn't require real money or using a virtual payment such as Bitcoin to create an account, or simply Roblox is free-to-play.

What Will You Build (2012)
ROBLOX's 2012 advertisement was also highly criticized by many for similar "offenses" in the past video, such as special effects and false claims: Tzsara released a video about this advertisement and exploring its contents and flaws. However, despite the false advertising, this commercial was not as badly criticized as 2011's commercial (see above).
 * From 0:16 to 0:19, all the models presented are CGI-animated rather than in-game.
 * At 0:20, a Minecraft TNT is very briefly seen among the debris of the exploded castle. This has resulted in high negative criticism from Minecraft players viewing the video.

Forums
The forums on ROBLOX has been criticized because of the amount of spam of useless posts and highly inappropriate users on most of the forum sections.

Suggestions and Ideas/S&I
The Suggestions and Ideas subforum(commonly abrieviated as S&I) like Roblox Talk, is heavily criticised for it's ridiculous ideas by Roblox users. It even caused the moderators to stop looking at the subforum for ideas. This is believed to have started after Roblox removed the 13+ requirement on the forums.

ROBLOX Talk
Main Article: ROBLOX Talk

ROBLOX Talk is one of the most criticized forum sections in ROBLOX, it mostly consists of internet memes (things which are against the forum rules, along with a useless post that has little to no meaning). Some forum posts will have contents that are off topics such as today's occurrences, advertisements for a user's place and/or group, RT parties, administrator's actions and many other useless posts.

Notable Incidents

 * On April 1, 2012, the infamous ROBLOX "hack", admin accounts began posting unusual threads about "the truth".


 * On November 29, 2012 with the release of the Newshound gift, false rumors spread saying that commenting "Newspaper :D" would grant players the gift. However, ROBLOX stated in a post that doing this could instead give players a ban for spamming.
 * On March 26, 2013, when the egg hunt just got started, users made topics saying "This is a thread discussing the TL;DR egg. This egg can be obtained by writing a long post or thread on the forum." over and over again until the user got the TL;DR egg. However, in reality, to get the TL;DR egg, the player will have to find an advertisement banner that tells the user that he/she can get the egg by clicking on the advertisement to get the egg in question.
 * On April 14, 2013, controversy arose when MrDoomBringer made a post on a thread stating that ROBLOX Talk could possibly be deleted. After a negative uproar from the ROBLOX Talk community, moderator ChiefJustus confirmed that ROBLOX Talk would not be deleted via another thread. MrDoomBringer later said that they were not planning to do this, and it was just a side note in a meeting. MrDoomBringer also stated that they would not merge ROBLOX Talk with Off Topic.
 * On July 2, 2014, another subforum named C&G leaked nude photos of an RT'er, and it very quickly spread into RT and OT. As a result, a few RT'ers and OT'ers kept reposting the link onto their subforum. At least 30 people were banned, many of them were not from the RT forum.

New Forum 'Update'
On July 27th, 2017, a 'update' was made to the Roblox Forums, the update would remove several subforums, leaving only 6 left. The subforums that were added/remained were ROBLOX news and Discussion, Help, Clans and Guilds, Lets Make a Deal, Game Design and scripters. This update was very controversial since lots of different subforums, including the entire entertainment section, All Things ROBLOX, Roblox Talk and Off Topic. Some players thought this update was caused due to the recent forum raids from YouTuber QuackityHQ.

"Get Drawn"
The ROBLOX catalog and advertisements are home to many things, be it good or bad. One of them is both. "Get Drawn" is more or less viewed as a scam, as although many promises to indeed draw whoever buys it (and either comments, messages, etc. so the creator of the item can view the player's avatar), many remain unfaithful to their word. While there are some who do hold their promise, the "Get Drawn" business is almost universally seen as a scam. The pictures are very misleading and the creator just wants ROBUX.

Builder's Club Only Places
Near the end of 2010, ROBLOX introduced a new feature called Builder's Club Only ("BC Only") that allowed Builder's Club members to limit the users who go to their places to Builder's Club and higher only. Unsurprisingly, the community took a new function very negatively, most of which who spammed comments of BC only places, created hateful threads and even went to videos. Users XiaoXiaoMan and TheAmazeman both created videos explaining the downsides of BC only places and XiaoXiaoMan also pointed out false claims, this time on ROBLOX's side of its currently dubious "free" nature.

Most of the negativity came from user Shedletsky (then named Telamon) made one of his ever-so-popular brick battling game Sword Fight on the Heights IV Builders Club only, and despite the very clear woe he created from the choice, Shedletsky even went so far as to making a small post in the ROBLOX Forum which not only belittled the outraged users with his statements "It's my game, and I'll do what I want" and to see if there would be less "newbs" in game, but also explained that by doing so not only made "a ton" of tickets, but can also ban the main accounts of exploiters, and finishing it off with "Trololollolllll" as a "reason" as to why it's BC only. Not long after creating the forum post, Shedletsky deleted it. However, user XiaoXiaoMan has a video where it is featured. The video in question can be found here.

In July 2011, seth1823 made one of his places reach the front page of games section with a stolen copy of the user Ryanmacd 's "Private Clubhouse." It was a BC only place and he made over 33,500 ROBUX from converting the tickets generated from the visits into ROBUX. He has since taken down the place but Ryanmacd is still trying to get the copy of the place back.

As of July 2015, BC only places has been removed on the games page due to players trying to maximize their profits by making both BC and NBC places, and also due to free ROBUX and Tix scams. However, BC games still exist.

There are still a few game creators who want BC games back on the front page. They have been accused and condemned by many users for making successful free-to-play games and then make an exact copy of the game as a BC Only in order to maximize their profit, since it requires relatively few players (often less than a dozen) to make the highly visible "Front Page" section, as opposed to free-to-play games needing often hundreds just to be in the same spot.

Builders Club games have also been criticized for the non-authentic and liable titles promising them to give a random amount of ROBUX or Tix. Despite the criticism, many of these games are on the front page of the Games section. Many people believe this is a scam. Also, in some of these games, they have a fake Maintenance GUI and they might try to steal your account.

On November 1, 2017, a new update was announced on the Roblox Dev Forums. It said that the "BC Only Games" will be removed in a few weeks.

Lifetime Builders Club removal
On August 4, 2015, ROBLOX removed the lifetime and 6 month payment options for BC, TBC, and OBC, leaving only monthly and annually as a payment option, which sparked a large amount of criticism from players, and which made many players think ROBLOX is greedy and poor.

ROBLOX Software
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 (without the Blue Screen of Death that can occur on computers that run on Windows). User Jazman111 once reported RobloxApp.exe to security company Symantec, (home to their Norton range of antivirus software for home users), and the report was accepted.

Also, sometime around 2011, ROBLOX removed the feature to go into Roblox.exe and into Build Mode to access ROBLOX Studio, but was still accessible in the ROBLOX Studio.exe until 2012 when Build Mode, both in roblox.exe and ROBLOX studio only had the new building tools, which have been criticized for creating less creativity for many users. As of now, only edit mode has access to ROBLOX Studio, and the only way to have ROBLOX Studio with a character is going through the play solo test. Also, in July 2012, Roblox.exe was updated, removing the ROBLOX Browser and sending the user to one of the main browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer and no longer needed the player to download the browser to play games. This received some criticism from some players, saying it was slower, but there was also features that users wanted like copying and pasting URLs, which was difficult to do in the original ROBLOX browser.

Lack of iPod 4th Generation Support for Games
On December 7, 2012, when the ROBLOX Mobile app on the Apple App Store was updated, ROBLOX received criticism for instead of having support for the iPod and iPhone that are of the 4th generation and beyond, they decided to only have support for the 4th generation of iPhones and the iPod 5. This has received criticism on the forum because a lot of players do not own an iPod 5. Some users have even theorized that the ROBLOX staff couldn't add support for iPod 4 because the device doesn't have enough memory. Also, ROBLOX Mobile is known for being really laggy, crashing all the time, and draining the battery really fast.

NBC Restrictions
On December 12, 2012, the day the full Play on mobile feature was released, ROBLOX announced that Builders Club users could play all games but NBC users would be limited to a rotating, curated selection of games. This was met with a large amount of criticism from the ROBLOX mobile user base due to ROBLOX's decision. However, despite the criticism, ROBLOX never repealed the restrictions until recently.

Gear Items
ROBLOX Mobile is also criticized because some gear items cannot be used without a mouse and keyboard., usually with objects that are used for flying and gun-like weapons.

Advertisements
ROBLOX Mobile has been known to have an excessive amount of ads that don't pop up on the computer. Usually, some games have ads that pop up only when you join the game. Some creators have started to make their games have ads that appear very frequently.

PardonMyFrench's Eric Frenchman on ROBLOX
Blogger Eric Frenchman (owner of TypePad blog PardonMyFrench) had criticized 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 criticized because users claim it "doesn't make it as good as before" and it sometimes goes to an infinite updating screen when they try to play a game (sometimes unfixable). 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 Drops), and as of 2013, they have not done so. This has led to many hate and quit videos from many users. Roblox is also known to ignore what the players want and just updates whatever they want. They also ban/warn players who don't agree with their updates or want a feature back, but they do not ban/warn players who agree with them.

The only update that has been changed after user feedback since then was Player Points. They were hidden mainly because it caused competitive controversy and had no use, as well as the fact that people were buying lots of player points or going to places specifically made to farm Player Points to boost their "skill level".

Ticket Removal
Further information: Ticket Discontinuation

In March 15, 2016, Roblox announces that they will be removing tickets. This caused an outrage in the community, mainly NBC users, claiming that they cannot afford Robux and/or Builder's Club. Smarter players knew that non-paying developers would be in trouble, as they cannot develop games without the use of free models. The removal of tickets also removed the ability for non-paying players to do many things such as buy stuff from the catalog and create ads. The risk of free ROBUX scams have also increased, possibly because of how difficult it is to get ROBUX. Users have also accused ROBLOX as greedy people after this.

There were instances wherein players were banned after complaining about how ROBLOX "eats off money from people."

ROBLOX 2017 New Logo
Since January 9, 2017, the ROBLOX logo has been changed, causing lots of controversy towards the change. Some say the tilted O that has been used in place of the R looks more like a Cheez-It, Domino's Pizza logo or Bethesda Softworks' logo rotated due to its shape or the red end of the Domino's logo. This caused it to become a popular meme. Some say the logo is ugly and prefer the older logos. Many people have expressed their criticism through Twitter, YouTube, and the forums. They also are known to put games under review for using the old logo and banning the creator's accounts.

Default Clothing
Further Information: Default Clothing

On June 16, 2017, Default Clothing was added to ROBLOX. However, this change has sparked lots of controversy, claiming that players were no longer able to wear classic outfits (like the ROBLOX 1.0 default Noob outfit). This affected all players who had one skin tone for their whole body, and are not wearing pants nor a shirt. However, this change can be bypassed by wearing clothing that has been Content Deleted.

Temporary Server List Removal
On July 13, 2017, the Servers now only show what server the player's friends are in. This caused a major uproar in the forums as players are no longer able to see all servers for good, and sometimes are forced to rejoin the same server or the server their friends are in, repeatedly. The website went under maintenance that day as well, but it didn't revert the Servers list back to its former glory. On July 14, however, the developers have responded to this case. Click here. On November 1st, the servers returned as “Other servers” but you can't click on their profiles.

Anthro Update
The Anthro Robloxian is a new form of avatar that Roblox will most likely add in the future. Many older players have expressed dislike or even hatred of this new avatar, with many climbing that encourages online dating. Users were also worried that the Anthro avatar type will replace the R6 and R15 avatar types, though there is no concrete evidence to support this rumor, because if it were going to be added to the game, then ROBLOX would make a blog post about it.

Removal of Guests
On October 3, 2017, Roblox removed guest mode. Nightgaladeld, the Roblox admin who founded The United States of America, confirmed that they removed guests to "increase in registered users will drive more visits, increased revenue and player engagement in your Roblox games" and "encourage first time players to use our social and interactive features with other users". Many players were happy but others felt that it was because of Roblox's greediness, which sparked a protest in the forums. Also other users believed that it only increases bacon hairs and nothing more which leads to even more criticism.

Removal of Game Genres
On October 26, 2017, game genres were removed from Roblox. This has caused major outrage in the forums. However, it is possible that it was a glitch because the genres are still listed on every game page and still exist in the Catalog. There's currently no forum post on Roblox's developer forums related to this update, however.

ROBLOX Studio 2013
In February 2013, ROBLOX released ROBLOX Studio 2013, which was extremely criticized among the ROBLOX community for it being harder to build and how they released it.

List of known reasons: On February 4, 2013, ROBLOX released a post on the update. [1]
 * ROBLOX Studio 2013 was updated by force without any notice when the player started it up
 * Multiple items are difficult to select
 * Certain items don't save
 * Certain features don't work
 * Studio 2013 crashing when started
 * Duplicating bricks feature being removed (it became visible in the 2014 update of studio when you right click a part or if you press Ctrl+D)
 * No way to get the older Roblox Studio until after the incident

Rules
ROBLOX rules have been criticized for various reasons because community members call it "unfair." These reasons include: Though it is a website intended for children to play, many older users are unhappy with the rules.
 * No links to outside websites (such as YouTube videos or profiles), due to users linking others to shock sites and malicious pages. (Since 2012, users are now able to post YouTube links in their posts, partly ignoring the rule that is mentioned above, so long as it doesn't link to an inappropriate video or channel.)
 * No talking about religious or political content, due to the violent 'flame wars' that are generally sparked by the discussion of it.
 * No debates and rebellions.
 * No inappropriate places such as 9/11 terrorist attacks, Nazis, Execution of Saddam Hussein, ISIS executions, and places containing adult content. They recently added pubs and bars to this list, but many places like Club Boates still contain a bar, where a few of the drinks can leave your character drunk or wasted.
 * No discussion of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in Off Topic (Moderators were more than aware that the popular Brony fandom will reach ROBLOX, so they edited their rules to tell Bronies to visit the Movies/TV Shows/Books forum). That sparked some controversy.
 * No swear words (Some users are very unclean that they couldn't use swear words in the game. They also think that they could get away by using fake letters like * or @ or # but they could still get banned for it).
 * If a swear word is typed into chat, it used to appear as hashtags (#) instead, with the same number of letters as the swear word to others. (or as EverythingIsMacrabe called them in "ROBLOX Fourm Simulator V4Ever", "group of symbols"). It was changed to "[Content Deleted]", but now it appears as octothorpes again. Before hashtags were first used, the whole message a player sent is seen completely blank in-game.
 * Some swear words are not filtered, which allowed many users to get away with using the unfiltered words toward others without getting banned.
 * Most filtered words are solely English ones, leading to some players swearing/cursing in a different language. However, this is bannable.
 * No politics or anything related to politics. (The political discussions may sound like an argument but really if someone is interested in politics to talk about it, they should be smart enough to know what they're talking about.)

New ROBLOX Building Tools
ROBLOX has released new building tools The new tools ROBLOX has releasedExample of the bricks and other building tools that ROBLOX released that many users say are limiting the creativity of many games because of the limited variety of new blocks and the fact that it is often very difficult (and sometimes impossible) to use any other tools, free models, decals or even the user's own items. There are also many complaints that the new blocks are not compatible with the classic bricks. Also, some of the tools have been criticized for glitches and not functioning properly.

There is also mass criticism from many players for getting rid of the Studio Mode button and sometimes sudden canceling ROBLOX Studio when building (believed to be a glitch). Many users look down on this update because they do not have an option whether they can choose between classic tools and new tools. Instead, it is now necessary to use a model in order to get the old tools back, which is extremely difficult.

Many users accuse ROBLOX of trying to copy the look of the popular game Minecraft. Some users believe that ROBLOX released to update to be more similar to Minecraft in order to make more profits. Users have said that it takes away from the uniqueness and the original purpose of ROBLOX, which was to provide a free, creative environment where users would not be limited to a small variety of square blocks since due to the new update they are often unable to use other bricks.

As a result of this update, many old, experienced players quit ROBLOX, causing a rising amount of new, inexperienced players, who think that the new tools are normal and build games out of the new blocks, causing a slow phasing out of the old, classic-brick type games. Users have accused ROBLOX of trying to achieve this phasing-out, claiming that ROBLOX's motive is to make more profit, at the sacrifice of creativity and the quality of games on ROBLOX.

November 2010 Newer tools
Moderate criticism occurred when the new layout of tools was released because the copy tool doesn't function properly and jumps around, and the paint tool removed half of its colors and some on which they're important.

Got Milk lawsuit
In 2007, ROBLOX released a visor which read the "Got Milk?" the slogan on it. It's 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.

Devo lawsuit
On September 11th, 2009, ROBLOX released a Devo hat for 50 tickets. A few days later, it was said that ROBLOX was informed that they cannot sell it due to copyright infringement of the band called Devo. The hat was put offsale and was renamed to "Impossible to Obtain Red Wedding Cake Hat".

Sexual Predators
In 2017, ROBLOX has been criticized by mainstream media because some children had been exposed to "sickening" messages from sexual predators. The first case was a mother of a 6-year-old who found threatening messages, most relating to online dating. (Full story) Most of these cases are the result of trolling, and it is unknown what ROBLOX does to prevent this directly.