Criticism of Roblox

ROBLOX has been highly criticised for many reasons, though some are arguably biased. 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.

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', and she is often accused of abusing moderation power, banning users for invalid reasons, and performing bans considered 'over the top', or beyond what the reciever of said ban recognizes as a fair punishment for their offense. She is also targeted as a the admin responsible for all of the invalid bans, despite this not being true.

Removal of community moderators
In 2008, ROBLOX hired volunteer moderators for their forum. They were not paid any ROBUX, even if they had an active Builder's Club subscription. Examples of these users were Anaminus, gordonrox24 and Stealth Pilot. In 2010, due to multiple reasons, ROBLOX terminated the moderator statuses of the community moderators, which was met with a rather critical response by the community of ROBLOX, most notably the forum.

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 criticised 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 criticised for it's relatively immature community. The community of ROBLOX has been known to produce a relatively unrealistic amount of complaints about changes made by ROBLOX. 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
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 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 also lack the ability to see others speaking.
 * 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.
 * Their names will be "Guest" then a random number. Sometimes people will hunt for guests with rather absurd numbers, like 666, 1337, 69, 0 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 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 his video aired on the popular video network. 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 OBLOXx), where she was laughed at. XiaoXiaoMan even noticed this leak, to which he made a video on.

Christy's fights with XiaoXiaoMan ended, but they may start again, as she has copied Patacorow's video at the ROBLOX staff, claims it as her own, and aims 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. 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. He is well known for bribing admins, copying games, encouraging online dating and using FEAR members to hack accounts to force them to join the group.

TV Commercial
thumb|right|268px|TheSharpTHOfLulzs video on the Roblox commercial Roblox's new TV commercial has been criticised for being staged and most stuff is not in the game which includes:
 * Every game not being real (The users are real, even TimmyMcPwnage, but the account's banned)
 * Dancing animation which is not in the game and other animations
 * The mention of ROBLOX being free with no mention of BC or BC Features in the whole commercial

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. These stickies have had little effect however. Some include:
 * MSE6's "No XFire usernames"
 * RobloShorty's thread on posts flaming another country (after a debacle of stereotypes against America)

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 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 people into thinking that they can draw well.

Exploiters
ROBLOX has become a real target 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 he was deleted because of his exploits. He was recently "pass-guessed" by MaKKAPAKKA3, to which the account was deleted again.

In December of 2008 a team of exploiters called "Scene" was formed, of which members contained cdskl, stealth100, Eone, and Dignity. The team discovered an exploit that allowed them to script ingame and change their username. A lot of players thought Dignity was 1x1x1x1, despite this is false. Shortly before the group was banned Dignity was voted off the team do 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, 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 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:
 * 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 KILLED (Character) OBBY!
 * Are you/Can you (Verb) OBBY! (Includes Noob Tests)
 * Survive the Rising (Object)
 * Any game that uses a Spongebob decal
 * Call of Duty Games
 * Free Modeled Minigames
 * Roleplay Games
 * Pokemon-Based Games
 * (Object/Service) Tycoon

Builder's Club Only places
Near the end of 2010, ROBLOX introduced a new feature called BC Only 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 and TheAmazeman, who put BC Only places in one of his Fail of The Week sections. 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, and even made computers crash (w/o the BSOD). 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 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, 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, despite it never happening because that updates cost money, and if ROBLOX doesn't have enough money, they cannot remove an update from ROBLOX (or update it), or they would go bankrupt. This 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, the community (especially the older players) are still unhappy with these 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.")

Lawsuit
Roblox has been criticised for the "circle studs". ROBLOX had a lawsuit from The Lego Corporation.This is because the circle studs looked like LEGO studs. After the lawsuit they decided to change the circle to a square shaped. (XiaoXiaoMan mentions this in his "ROBLOX Fun Facts" video.)

In 2007, Roblox released a visor which read the "Got Milk?" slogan on it. Its 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.

A similar instance happened in late 2009, 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. 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 or Disney XD) or if they make an obscure reference or parody (such as the Mischeivious Raccoon hat from South Park).