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 the ROBLOX community have criticized about ROBLOX through many methods, including videos, posts, and messages, typically including one of the many criticisms that are used against it.

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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 crticism 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.

Removal of places owned by ex-Builder's Club members
On May 7th, 2013, ROBLOX removed the ability for former Builders Club members to keep their places, causing most of the beloved popular games to become inactive. When BC was announced in 2007, it was stated that former Builder's Club members would keep their places. It was later confirmed that this was a glitch.

Due to deep criticism by many players, Roblox then allowed 5 places to be active for former BC members. Former BC members on Roblox are Restricted to 5 Active places on Roblox.==Comment timer== Roblox changed the time at which users can post comments for the same item in between from 15 seconds to 60 seconds or 3600 seconds, or an hour. Its main purpose of the change was to counter the relatively prevalent spamming, but many users had disliked the increase in the waiting time.

['''Note : There is a glitch in which the user would just have to wait 1-2 minutes in order to post a comment. This has allowed spammers to post large amounts of spam, defeating the purpose of the comment timer, while preventing legitimate users from posting more than once an hour.]'''

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 noticable 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.

2010 Egg Hunt
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.

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.

Doge lawsuit
A lawsuit had eventually been filed around late October 2013 during the events of BLOXtober 2013 in which some popular games (i.e. Apocalypse Rising and ROBLOX DODGEBALL!) had been renamed with a "doge" word and added with a thumbnail picture of one of the previous thumbnails but with some Photoshop editing added to it, relating to the doge internet meme involving a picture of a Shiba Inu dog that is typically accompanied by several uncapitalized colored text that are in Comic Sans font that are scattered around it. The descriptions of the games were also changed to reflect the meme.

Some players speculate that TheRobloxDoge is the main cause of the rise of the "doge" meme, but it is actually unknown as to who filed this lawsuit.