Criticism of Roblox

ROBLOX, as a long-running sandbox MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game), has been highly criticized for many reasons. Many users from and outside of the ROBLOX community have criticized ROBLOX through many methods, including videos, posts, and messages.

MSE6
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MSE6 is an administrator on ROBLOX. Users who frequent the Off Topic and ROBLOX Talk forums have recognized MSE6 as a tyrannical ruler. Players often accuse her of abusing her moderation privileges, including banning users for invalid reasons and giving out inappropriate punishments. Despite a lack of evidence from the ROBLOX community, multiple ROBLOXians target MSE6 as the sole administrator who is responsible for all inappropriate moderation on ROBLOX.

RobLiu
On June 26, 2013 RobLiu, a ROBLOX administrator and forum moderator, posted a message on the forums titled Paid Access Public Testing. Shortly after making that forum post, some players discovered that the ROBLOX testing site contained malware.

In-game Report System Flaws
ROBLOX offers a system that allows one to report another user to the moderators of ROBLOX in order for the server's chat log to be reviewed. Because of the report abuse system only allowing chat violations to be reported, many ROBLOXians consider the feature to be useless for offenses like exploiting, where no indication of the rule breaking would be evident within the chat log. Multiple users have also complained that they have been reprimanded for actions they have not performed. This has lead to the assumption of many that ROBLOX's report system is automated and designed to reprimand any user who is reported.

Community
ROBLOX is highly criticized for its relatively immature community. The community of ROBLOX has been known to produce an unrealistic amount of complaints about changes made by ROBLOX and repeatedly criticizes the company for being greedy without any sort of evidence. 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.

Guests
For more information, click Here! Guests are pre-configured ROBLOXians; 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. Guests cannot be reported, which has provided multiple opportunities for exploitation within a game by ROBLOXians wishing to not be reprimanded on their main account. Many users have taken it upon themselves to spend tickets 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 without using secondary chat GUIs.
 * 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 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. Sometimes ID hunters will hunt for guests with rather absurd numbers, like 666, 1337, 9999, 2013,420, 69, 0 or 1.

Change of targeted demographics
Around 2010, ROBLOX started to change its advertising and graphics from an age 10-16 style of demographics to a 6-8 demographics with the new building tools, colorful bright graphics and partnerships with cartoons, toys, and movies for the younger market, such as the Lego Hero Factory line of Lego toys and the Despicable Me 2 animated movie. Also, this is one of the believed reasons that some people switched over from Roblox to Minecraft.

Individual players or groups
Main Article: Controversial Players

Christina8787
Christina8787 is a player in ROBLOX who is mostly known for the older user advertisements 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". In response to this video, Christina made a video to flame XiaoXiaoMan, called "Raging Christy" which caused her fans the leave her. XiaoXiaoMan responded to this with another video about Christina, called "Re: Raging Christy ," which explained why Christina's so called "points" of her "Raging Christy" video were invalid and made no sense and would tell her about the consequences when she makes another hate video. Soon after, Christina took down "Raging Christy." 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, 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
Main Article: 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. However, SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX has lead the First Encounter Assault Recon (  F.E.A.R. ) to become highly successful and renowned by many users.

Jaredvaldez2, Jaredvaldez4, and Jared2valdez4
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Jaredvaldez4 is known for copying games. An 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.

When jaredvaldez4 was deleted, he said notably that 'he realized his mistakes of plagiarism', yet he re-uploaded almost everything from his first account.

JuliusColes
Juliuscoles has been notorious for copying The Town of Robloxia and insert free models into his places aswell as putting it under the title of Different town of Roblox and also been notorious for Copying other people's models and claiming it as his own trying to convince people that he makes the models and not use free models (He doesn't sell his models though and when it's a vehicle, He puts a circular purple regen button next to it.), there is a YouTube user named CodesterProductions who explains that he does this.

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 against him for stealing their name. His RoWar series (A copy of StudioARE's) was also removed due to a copyright claim by StudioARE.

Later the StudioJARE channel was terminated due to a copyright complaint from StudioARE and other youtube users.

Outside Advertisements
Outside ads have been severely criticized by many because they either cause viruses and some ads are too inappropriate for kids.

When their BC expires, they are forced to see these ads until they buy BC again.

Outside Commercial Advertisements
commercials ads have been criticized is annoying, pesky, and time consuming. NBC'ers hated them.

TV Advertisement (2011)
Roblox's new TV commercial has been criticized for being staged: SharpTH Media released a video explaining why this advertisement was flawed in its technique of attempting to get the attention of viewers.
 * The mention of ROBLOX being free with no mention of BC or BC Features in the whole commercial.
 * The advert being only partly made in ROBLOX, with edited skyboxes and effects used to clean up the footage. This is often the most cited criticism.

What Will You Build (2012)
Roblox's latest advertisement has also been criticized for the following: [http://roblox.wikia.com/wiki/File:ROBLOX_Advert_2012_What_will_you_build_REVERSED_MOAR_HIDDEN_MESSAGES%3F! ROBLOX Advert 2012 What will you build REVERSED MOAR HIDDEN MESSAGES?! (01:25) 0 views ]RobloxLOLcomedy's video finding flaws in the second advertisement, alongside playing the video in reverse for finding audible hidden messages.*At 0:12, a sniper first-person view is seen, which is not possible on ROBLOX (unless a script that can function similar to what is seen is used). 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.

Forum
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.

Roblox Talk
Main Article: Roblox Talk

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

Notable Incidents

 * On April 1, 2012, when ROBLOX got hacked, the users posted forums telling about the events, the truth and many other posts.


 * On November 29, 2012 with the release of the Newshound gift, they were many posts about how to get the gift with people saying how to get the gift and then spamming Newspaper :D on the posts which Roblox then said on a post saying that could get you banned.
 * 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 and just click the advertisement in order to receive the egg in question.
 * On April 14, 2013, controversy arose when MrDoomBringer made a post on a thread stating that Roblox Talk might be deleted. After an uproar from the RT community, moderator ChiefJustus confirmed that Roblox Talk will not be deleted via another thread. MrDoomBringer later said that they are not planning to do this and it was just a side note in a meeting and they are not merging Roblox Talk with another criticized Sub-Forum, 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.

Off Topic Forum
Roblox's Off Topic section of the forum is often regarded by the Roblox community as a wild place, and as such, is heavily criticized. Many forum trolls and immature users can be expected to be active in the forum. Common topics in the section may include recent news, as well as ID topics, which focus on a choice based on the generated ID for the thread. Many users in the forum have a tendency to post bad words, as well as extremely inappropriate stories called, "bonuses." Spam is also prevalent in the forum, and trolls often spam with hate threads, and  flamewars are extremely common. Flame wars between Off-Topic and Roblox Talk are common, and forumers test their bravery by actually posting links leading to shock sites, such as inappropriate YouTube videos and adult websites.

Artists on ROBLOX
An example of an advertisement used by a proven drawing scammer. Usually, even the ad the scammer uses is plagiarized.Another art copy which is more of a rip off.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, andBL00XER. These users are victims of ad plagiarism. 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. Even though the issue was extremely controversial and many users wanted ajhockeyfan banned, the ROBLOX administration did not take any actions against ajhockeyfan for plagiarizing Patacrow and BlazerC's artwork.

Many users on ROBLOX have scammed other users into thinking that they can draw well by using Google images/other artists' work to "showcase" themselves, then selling drawings. Some may overuse anime templates from DeviantArt.

The sad fact is that LunarEden won with this type of ad in the Best Advertisement category in RGC 2012.

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. This sparked many hate posts from Roblox, Protest places and extremely profound criticism, and videos condemning 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 by the majority of ROBLOX's user base, Despite such severe criticism, The Roblox Admins never gotten rid of them.

In July of 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 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, and also due to the massive criticism. 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.

The BC only games caused many Roblox users to quit and migrate into Blockland or Minecraft.

Complete the obby for Robux and Tix scams
Builders Club games have also been criticized for the non-authentic and liable titles promising them to give a random amount of ROBUX and Tickets. Despite the criticism, many of these games are on the front page of the Games section. Many people believe this is a scam.

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). 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.

NBC Restrictions
On December 12 2012, the day the full Play on mobile feature was released, Roblox Announced that BC 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.

PardonMyFrench's Eric Frenchman and 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 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 Drops), and as of 2013, they have not done so. This has led to many hate and quit videos from users. The only update that was removed 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 to boost their "skill level"

ROBLOX Studio 2013
In February 2013, ROBLOX released ROBLOX Studio 2013, which was extremely criticized among the Roblox community for it being more 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)

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. ("What the mod says, goes.")
 * No bad places such as 9/11 terrorist attacks, Execution of Saddam Hussein, and sex parties. 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, 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).
 * If a swear word is typed into chat, it will instead appear as "[Content Deleted]" It formerly appeared as an octothorpe (#) with the same number of letters as the swear word to others. Before that, the whole message a player sent was 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.
 * No 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 cancelling 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 were released because the copy tool doesn't function properly and jerks off, and the paint tool removed half of it's colors, and some on which they're important.

Legal issues
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 limitedsales 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 happened in late 2009, when 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, whose band members wear the hat similar to the one found in Roblox. 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 Mischievous Raccoon hat that resembles the character "The Coon" from the popular animated comedy series South Park, Princedom Janitor Bot hat that's very similar to the Reddit mascot Snoo or the Fluffy Unicorn gear that uses the generic colors of the My Little Pony character Twilight Sparkle).

Roblox 3.0 Body
People criticizing the 3.0 bodies.In 2012, Roblox showed up the 1st, second, 3rdexplorations, Previewand 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, on the other hand, will be attracted more into Roblox, but many parents and guardians of children who play at Roblox 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. On the day the bodies were put on sale, they were met with heavier criticism, especially seen on the commentaries for the packages. The notable body wearers included Jaredvaldez2, Shedletsky, and among others.

Terrain Generator
Since the Terrain Generator was released in October 7, 2011, there has been a large amount of negative reviews and criticism about the terrain generator. Many users accused ROBLOX of trying to copy Minecraft's terrain, and others said that the amount of resources the terrain generator constantly uses makes anyone without an appropriate computer specifically made for gaming unable to play due to huge amounts of lag.

Exploiters use some types of hacks to generate random terrain in servers, making many non-terrain games completely unplayable and causing even more criticism and outrage due to providing the exploiters another method of hacking servers.

Dynamic Lighting
As the demonstration of dynamic lighting appeared on gametest1 and gametest2, some users reported that the dynamic lighting was similar to Minecraft's voxel lighting.

So far, this issue is very minor, as it actually does not only resemble Minecraft's lighting due to many other games using dynamic lighting, but due to its release on May 9, 2013, it is making a larger amount lag than the older bevel system of lighting, which caused some users with slower computers to be unable to play ROBLOX.

Outlines
Outlines are tiny edge lines that appear on all ROBLOX bricks that were released on July 11, 2013, but it ruins C-framed places and models like cars, trucks, buildings, and other models. Many users had protested that the feature should be optional instead of mandatory.

As of August 13, 2013, outlines have been made optional and is now able to be toggled on/off via the Properties pane in Roblox Studio, as announced on the August 13 blog for the Outline update . The update has also made outlines more noticeable when they are on.

Paid Access
Not to be mistaken with  BC games.

Paid access is a feature that was released on July 15, 2013. It is a feature that allows players to gain permanent access to certain places through paying a certain amount of Robux or Tickets.

Many players, especially those who do not have Builder's Club membership, have heavily disliked the feature because the feature is thought to be one of which breaks the premise of Roblox being a free game, further limiting People criticizing paid accessunpaid players' access to games, and is heavily abused. Some places charge prices of hundreds of robux, and have been accused by users of being "outrageously overpriced" and have led to users saying that ROBLOX is "not a free-to-play game anymore."

New Cursor
On July 24, 2013, Roblox had released a new default cursor for every player in the game. This has received very negative reviews because of its smaller design and difficulty to use in comparison to the large white cursor. Prior to the update, in 2012, Roblox was also criticized by some players for changing the cursor, this time on disabling the option to move to a location with clicking the left mouse button while not holding a tool, thus making the invisible path type of obstacle courses harder to pass through due to the removal of the assistance of the cursor with its notable green circle when positioning it on a solid floor.

Catalog Item Prices
Usually at every month, Roblox changes the prices on most of their Limited hats and gear to be 3 times or more than the price before. 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.

Cost Of Premium Membership
Many users have criticised ROBLOX for it's excessive price on Premium Membership, particularly Outrageous Builder's Club Lifetime, standing at over 350 US Dollars. This has been compared to three XBOX 360s, or over ten Minecraft accounts. It is also true that the GDP per capita of many developing countries is less than what ROBLOX charges of OBC Lifetime (Ethiopia's GDP per capita is $330).

Events
Many events are criticized for being generic and basically drives to get people purchasing ROBUX. Events like the Clan Battle only had one free gear, compared to SFOTH which had multiple. Apparently, users were buying swords and they did not work in the game, and even though the staff were saying 'We're working on it' in the forums, people were still unhappy with the service.

Another case was in the Egg Hunt of 2014, which was bugged, glitched, and nowhere near completed, as said by some users. There was one part which involved a dark cave, and a torch/flashlight was needed to easily navigate in it. The said torch (the editor is English) was purchasable, but many users believe they should not need to buy it, and it should already be in the game.

The Halloween Event of 2013 was Paid Access, and once you entered, people were claiming it was faulty. Apparently, if you deleted an item in the inventory a random item you did not want deleted vanished. With 30 people and the largest map yet known on ROBLOX, it lagged very hard and the map was not revealed, meaning you could have walked half an hour in entirely the wrong direction completely unknowingly.

The recent Winter Games have been subject to heavy criticism, with one particular thread describing a game not specialized for the event (which was Apocalypse Rising) as the same game with snow textures slapped on roofs and fields. Many found these types of events as simply opportunities to gain hats.

The 2010 Eggstravanganza topic in the blog.The 2010 Summer Eggstavaganza in the blog.On March and July 2010 Roblox announced an extravaganza. However, since the egg basket was released it was a BC exclusive item. Free members could join the fun on Roblox but without the egg basket. NBC'ers were restricted to 3 (6 in the Summer Eggstravaganza) Eggs. This led to a lot of criticism.

Confiscation of Robux
When BC was introduced to Roblox in Mid-2007 it took away all of the Robux from many players, making it redundant to buy things that would cost Robux, and made Robux BC premium, This has been met with moderate to profound criticism, yet many users started to adjust to the change of Robux, and eventually with the introduction of Currency Trade, players without Builder's Club can gain Robux by converting their tickets to it.

30% market fee
The introduction of 30% market fee has been met with mild to moderate criticism on which producers of many items on Roblox would profit less from the fee, yet many users had later adjusted to it, just like the Robux change.

Price Floor Update
Since the price floor update was released, minimum prices the Shirts and Pants are set at 25 Robux and 300 tickets, which is intended to combat imbalanced prices. This has lead to severe criticism because NBC users cannot buy very many shirts with the limit on Roblox and it will take at least 25 days for NBC'ers to save up for even a single shirt or pair of pants for his/her character, and even a normal BC member would have to wait 2 days.

As a result of the backlash, Roblox had responded to it by lowering the price floor in October 3, 2013. Though the price floor is still retained, it was thankfully lowered such that the new price would be 10 Robux or 100 tickets for shirts and pants and reduced the minimum price for t-shirts from 10 Robux down to a meager 2 Robux or 20 tickets. Though some users had requested for the price to be lowered even more after the price floor change, this reduction had made players more satisfied with purchasing clothing.

Some people accuse ROBLOX that their original plan was the second price floor, and the first price floor was implemented only to make people feel better about the update.

New Animations
On October 3, 2013, Roblox added new animations for jumping, static, and falling. Many players give negative reviews to the animations because it made them think that Roblox is copying the game ''Minecraft. ''It also caused lag on older computers due to the added amounts of movements that are processed.