Roblox is full of dark patterns intended to trap and ensnare kids to spend money - they care about nothing else. Their communications insist on the contrary, example:
“Roblox aims to create a safe platform for users by providing parents with visibility and control over their child’s experience”
This is a blatant lie. If they actually cared about empowering parents to control the experience they would provide one crucial feature: ability to block specific games so the kid can’t play them. But this is not possible. Instead the only way to control content is to use the “content maturity” thing they provide. However this is next to useless because a lot of the content is mis-classified. The lowest category, “minimal” is something I would expect to be able to give to a 5-year-old without reservations. But “minimal” maturity games include:
- Gun and weapon violence
- killing, dismembering *Inappropriate language
- Terrifying imagery (poppy playtime , Sprunki) *References to inappropriate content (squid game anyone)
- disturbing content that might even incite children to self-harm and at best makes them terrified and unsafe.
As a parent keeping a close eye on what the kid is doing I notice these things but the platform leaves me powerless to prevent kids from being exposed to this, short of a complete Roblox ban.
It’s clear to anyone that Roblox doesn’t really care about child safety in their cursed platform.