Criticism of Roblox

Roblox has been highly criticised for many reasons, possibly more than Windows Vista has been criticised. A lot of people have made hate/quit videos and posts about Roblox, Patacorow made a slideshow animation informing Roblox about his concerns.

MSE6
MSE6 is an administrator on ROBLOX. She has been known by the entire Off Topic forums and normal users for apparently abusing moderations put by her, and taking her bans too far.

Removal of community moderators
Back in 2008, Roblox hired moderators for their forums. They are not paid any more amount of Robux than users of Builder's Club are if they do have the subscription. Examples of these users are Anaminus, gordonrox24 and Stealth Pilot. At 2010, Roblox fired the community moderators, which caused an uproar on ROBLOX's forums.

In-game report system
Roblox has an in-game report system used to report rule-breaking players to the moderators. This service has been criticised by many as "not helpful" and "the moderators don't do anything"

Roblox's admins are also accused of being greedy and money-stealing, with their overload of Builder's Club features and lack of features for free accounts.

Community
Roblox is highly criticised because of it's community. The community consists of 4-21 year olds, and the younger users are more criticised unless otherwise.

Guests
Guests are pre-configured players like the rest of Roblox's players, except: Guests are much hated on, especially from "guest hater" groups. Groups try to defend the guests and get the guest hater groups removed and their owners banned.
 * They cannot speak and require users to use the menu 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.
 * Their names will be "Guest" then a random number. Sometimes people will hunt for certain numbers, like 666, 1337, 69 or 1.

Christina8787 / Club Christy
Christina8787 is a player and Roblox mostly known for the older user advertisments she had made. Her ads were insulting her "competitor", IronInforcer and his most popular social game, Iron Cafe. Her place was then reviewed on YouTube by XiaoXiaoMan, otherwise known as the "Raging Roblox Reviewer", and she was even more highly criticised by many after this video aired on the popular video network. Then 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.Now that crazy bitch even copied Ironinforcer's place and uncopylocked it!

SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX
SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX is mostly known for his game "Live in a 5-Star Island Resort", later renamed to just Island Resort. This place is yawned at by some players because of his apparent overuse of Free Models. His clan, F.E.A.R. (also the most popular group on Roblox), has been known as a group of "noobs". He was also known to be deleted from Roblox, then brought back because he bribed to the admins.

Off Topic Forum
The Off Topic forums have been plagued with forced memes, inappropriate users/trolls, rude posts, and Roblox admins and moderators had to keep creating stickies to stop users from breaking the rules. Some include: The most frequent trolls were lileep (against SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX and furries), SolidSalamander (against Justin Bieber), Jazman111 (against Roblox and abuses hidden symbol alt codes, also trolls the official Facebook page) and IzPiCtIoNaRy (stereotypes and hatred against the United Kingdom)
 * MSE6's "No XFire usernames"
 * RobloShorty's thread on posts flaming another country (after a debacle of stereotypes against America by less popular user Android2point2)

Artists on Roblox
Roblox has a user advertisement feature, as you may have already known. Some users make visually appealing ads as a series of comics. These people include Patacorow, BlazerC, Vego, BL00XER and more recently, Anually. These users are victims of ad plagarism. Patacorow and BlazerC had their ads mostly copied by user "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.

Exploiters
Roblox has become a real targer for exploiting. Legit exploiters, like Zuka, have been exploiting the game in 2008, but have stopped. A controversial exploiter is 1x1x1x1. No-one on Roblox were sure on if he, or they, were a group or an individual, but because of his exploits, he was deleted. He was recently "pass-guessed" by MaKKAPAKKA3, to which the account was deleted again.

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 edting. This was leaked to some users of RobloxHQ. This was patched by Roblox, but not before giving a notice to all users saying that servers in Roblox will be shut down.

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

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

Front Page Games
A lot of front page games don't give many users any interest. Examples are:*(Random Thing) Tycoon! Feed or Be Eaten By (Popular Character) Blow Up (Popular Character)!!! Build to Survive (Random Object) (Includes "Survive (Big Number) Disasters!!!!") WHO KILLED (Random Character) OBBY! Are you/Can you (Random Verb) OBBY! (w/ SpongeBob Pic) (Includes Noob Tests) Survive The Rising Lava! Any game that uses a Spongebob Pic Call of Duty Games Free Modeled Minigames Roleplay Games Pokemon-Based Games
 * Cart Ride Into (Popular Character)!

Builder's Club Only places
Near the end of 2010, Roblox introduced a new feature that allows Builder's Club members to limit the users who go to their places to Builder's Club and higher only, Turbo Builder's Club and higher only or only Outrageous BC. This sparked many hate posts from Roblox, and videos bagging the feature on YouTube, even from XiaoXiaoMan. This feature is clearly not wanted.

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. Jazman111 had reported RobloxApp.exe to security company Synamtec (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 up to 400+MB of unwanted waste from Roblox. Roblox staff removed many sound and meshes from before 2008 as well, mostly those pertaining to modern weaponry, such as assault rifles.

In late 2010, that Roblox update changed the format of build tools. This also broke several of the 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 not been fixed as of February 14 2011.

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. He 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 repied to Eric Frenchman, to which Eric made [http://pardonmyfrench.typepad.com/pardonmyfrench/2009/10/revisiting-roblox.html a new post about. ("Revisiting Roblox")]

Removal of vital Lua functions/properties
During 2009 and 2010, Roblox have broken some games by 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 were frowned upon by scripters.