Criticism of Roblox

ROBLOX has been highly criticized 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(WARNING: INAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGE. WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK)

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 that are considered as 'over the top', or beyond what the receiver of said ban recognizes as a fair punishment for their offense. She is also targeted as the admin who is responsible for all of the invalid bans, despite this not being proven true.

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 criticized 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 criticized for its 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. Jaredvaldez4 is one of those who are repeatedly threatened by the community for his notorious reputation.

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 when a vulnerability was discovered that you could change the boolean value of the SuperSafeChat property of a player to true or false. This was abused in Script Builders. Exploiters can use a function to allow normal chat.)
 * 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 had 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, 9999, 2012, 69, 0 or 1.

Christina8787 / Club Christy
Christina8787 is a player in Roblox who is 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 numerous amounts 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 Roblox), 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. At one time, Christy copied Patacorow's video at the ROBLOX staff, claimed it as her own, and aimed it at the average ROBLOX user.

SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX
SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX is mostly known for his game "Live in a 5-Star Island Resort", later renamed to just "Island Resort". He has been criticized for making a place that is entirely made of free models, but despite this controversy, in late 2010, his games were very popular. He is also known as the founder and leader of the controversial yet most popular war group, F.E.A.R.

jaredvaldez2 / jaredvaldez4
jaredvaldez4 is also known for stealing games and/or creating bad ones. A recent act of his was stealing Ajedi32's Ropictionary, claimed it as his own and called it "What am I drawing?", similar to a title for alexnewtron 's old game (Alexnewtron's game was then changed to Ultimate Pictionary then to DrawSomething, a blatant ripoff of the popular OMGPOP iOS game). He once recorded a video of himself grabbing a box of Nestlé's Cheerios, grabbing some of the cereal pieces, and throwing them away into a sink, singing in a forced British accent, then blaming it on his grandmother. This video was edited with Team Fortress 2 sounds and voices for him and the Cheerios by SharpTH. He also had his profile description narrated by a friend of Ro-War Reboot's team member BlabVoid, to which the video was "YouTube Pooped" by TwiIightSparkle, more famous for his Roblox Off Topic Simulator. Jared will most likely hack another game shortly. Here's a fact about him: He is known to use a stolen credit card. Rumor has it that he uses a stolen credit card to give each of his accounts BC and bribes the mods not to report him to the police.

StudioARE's Reaction and Warning
In early 2012, when Jaredvaldez2 created his "unoriginal" StudioJARE in the video website YouTube, BlabVoid and several members warned jared that they would take action him for stealing their name.

Later the StudioJARE Channel was closed. No reasons were given regarding the closing of the channel.

TV Commercial
thumb|right|268px|TheSharpTHOfLulzs' opinion on the Roblox commercial Roblox's new TV commercial has been criticized for being staged and most stuff is not in the game which includes: SharpTH uploaded a video (as seen above) pointing out all false parts of the commercial.
 * 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.

Off Topic Forum
Just like Roblox Talk, 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)
 * MasterChiefAlpha's ban on posts involving "sensitive current events", after several threads talking about the Chik-fil-a political problem and the Batman theater shooting generated a lot of flaming. Directly after this post, dozens of threads blatantly breaking this ban were created.

In detail, Off Topic is a giant haven for trolls to blab out vulgar terms and forced memes and fads like "If this ID ends in... I will do this...". Most people on Off Topic are also bronies (fans of the popular animation series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) and are known to force the show down the throats of young ROBLOX players. MSE6 and gordonrox24 have stated that discussion for My Little Pony belonged in the "TV/Movies/Books" forum but Off Topic "forumers" rebelled against this. Most bronies in Off Topic are known to flame fans of Happy Tree Friends or the recently-passed away animator Edd Gould (known to fans as Eddsworld while Patacorow's popular video Just a bit nooby was based on an Eddsworld animation), Discorded Flaky (Bloxxer at the time) created a story called "The ROBLOX Brony" to address these issues in a gory manner, similar to Happy Tree Friends, Final Destination or the My Little Pony fanfic "Cupcakes". Off Topic has not yet reacted to this. When brony haters speak out, OT (abbreviation for Off Topic) bronies will flame the hater and send death threats. Brony memes or sayings are spammed more than memes now deemed dead to the rest of the Internet thanks to the show's unlikely popularity from teenage or adult men.

Some people on Off Topic are known to have a thing for a certain word or phrase. For an example: waffles. Literally every post will have a mention of waffles and everyone will post about waffles. Off Topic is also criticized as a "ripoff" of 4chan's /b/ (random) board, in which derogatory images and posts are seen on both, although Off Topic have negative thoughts even of 4chan. Flame-wars occur with the greatest frequency of any forum on Roblox, even the famous Roblox Talk.

A lot of Off Topic's problems have been presented in a "simulator" format by Discorded Flaky, known on YouTube as TwiIightSparkle. Roblox Off Topic Simulator is a two-video series based on the form of "Pony Thread Simulator", a video showing the worst of bronies on 4chan's cartoon board, and was inspired by the Pony Thread Simulators and SharpTH's ROBLOX Comment Simulators. Voices from Mac OS X repeated the posts that were shown, the main posts being about communism, Call of Duty, waffles and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The first video used the Werehog music from Sonic Unleashed while the second used a chiptune version of Boten Anna/Now You're Gone by Basshunter. Off Topic welcomed this video to their forum, and they now assume every "Off Topic in a nutshell" video is made by "Twilight Sparkle".

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 other people into thinking that they can draw well, by using Google images/others' work to "showcase" themselves, then selling drawings. Some may overuse anime templates from DeviantArt.

Most of the people have been Criticizing people for copying some Amazing Artist (Bethanyfrye, etc.) and claiming themselves to be famous, even though they're not.

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 though MrDoomBringer has made a thread closing most of the nonsense.[Thread.] This account is now known to be originally an alt created by Shedlesky, but still many legends persist concerning this account. It was recently "pass word -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)
 * Plugin exploit (Get exploit/half-admin GUI ingame)
 * Place stealing (Edit the .exe in a text editor)
 * Place stealing and limited Studio acess (DLL. exploit via Cheat Engine and it was) (PATCHED)
 * GunCursor exploit (Cheat Engine)
 * Toolbox exploit (Fiddler2, this one was founded by MaKKAPAKKA3.) (PATCHED)
 * Username Change (Cheat Engine, clientside only - meaning only you can see what's going on)

There are also exploiters in 2012 such as IceFinn938. Who has YouTube videos on an account named TheFinn938.

The Game
The actual Roblox game and the games from it have been criticized by many players.

Front Page Games
Many 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,or The Complex V.4,by spyro372.)
 * Pokemon-Based Games (Exceptions being Pokemon Legends,by Blueeyes00whitedragon,and Pokemon Arena X,by Randomguysr.)
 * (Object/Service) Tycoon, an exception being dennisvdz's Pool Tycoon and Theme Park Tycoon
 * Games that have a misleading title. Example: A game could say Build and Roleplay and could just be a Tycoon and the owner could also change the title of the game every day.

Builder's Club Only places
Near the end of 2010, ROBLOX introduced a new feature called BC Only that allowed 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 was 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. As of June 2012, 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.

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. The 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.

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 Chome and Internet Explorer and no longer needed the player to download the browser to play games. This recevied some criticism from some players, saying it was more slower, but there was also features that users wanted like copying and pasting URLs.

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, 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.
 * 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.")
 * 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, yet Off Topic's community rebelled against this).
 * 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 @ but they could still get banned for it).

New Roblox Building Tools
Roblox has released new building tools that many users think are limiting the creativity of many games due to the limited amount of bricks and the inability to use any free models and decals and even the user's own items and that the bricks are not compatible with the classic bricks. Also, some of the tools have been criticized for not functioning properly. There's also criticism from many players present for getting rid of the Studio Mode button and sometimes cancelling Roblox studio when building in Roblox studio, They could not have an option whether they can choose between classic tools and new tools. Automaticaly, they need to use a model in order to get the old tools back.

Lawsuits
In 2007, Roblox released a visor which read the "Got Milk?" 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.

In early 2009, Roblox changed the old circle studs to the new square studs because ROBLOX was concerned that the old studs may cause a lawsuit to LEGO, due to its resemblance.

A similar instance to the Hat happened in late 2009, when 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, Hasbro's KRE-O and Battleships brand or Disney XD) or if they make an obscure reference or parody (such as the Mischeivious Raccoon hat from South Park, an alien head that's very similar to the Reddit mascot or the Fluffy Unicorn that uses colors of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic character Twilight Sparkle).

Roblox 3.0 Body
In 2012, Roblox showed up the 1st, 2nd, 3rdexplorations, Preview and the Open Letter of the new prototypes bodies which their arms being similar to LEGO/KRE-O's arms, leading to Online Daters, or ODers, wanting to use it and many other users disliking it. Many parents of children players could be afraid that Roblox could force them to use the bodies and be sued by LEGO/KRE-O. If they released the new prototype bodies and forced all the users to use it, then Roblox could be sued again and many of the current players in Roblox may leave ROBLOX except for ODers. ODers will be attracted more into Roblox, but many parents of children players were afraid of ODers using the new prototype bodies and attempt to date with the children using the body. In July 12, 2012, the 3.0 bodies, Man and Lady, were released, and put on sale for BC only and 25 ROBUX in July 17, 2012. Unfortunately, many players have criticized the new 3.0 bodies, many of them reacting to the bodies with disgust. The notable body wearers were Jaredvaldez2, and Shedletsky.



Terrain Generator
Since the Terrain Generator released in October 7th, 2011, People started hating on the terrain generator which the others thinked the new terrain feature were similar to minecraft's terrain.