Roblox is absolutely torching their platform, in many ways besides matchmaking and the age verification. Ask any kid who's grown up with the game. Players are leaving in droves and Roblox has become quite un-cool in the last six or so months.

If communication was proactively filtered to prevent bad actors (which Roblox obviously failed to do for years), why should it matter if an adult is playing a game with a kid they don't know?

They aren't:

> Users only speak to other players ±1 age group

I.e., 18-20 can speak to 16-17 AND 21+, but 21+ can only speak to 18+

US drinking age probably being used as a proxy for "adult-ness".

> Why 18-20 are isolated from 21+?

We have 18-year olds in high school in America. The headline risk from a 40-something sleeping with a high-school student is probably something Roblox wants to get ahead of.

Don’t forget the part where GP says they’re 25 years old (currently) and have spent “tens of thousands of dollars” on the platform.

Roblox is older than Minecraft...

Which parents do you talk with? The consensus around me seems to be that it’s fine as long as whatever you do on there is done with RL friends.

They automatically assign you to an age group based on AI/guessing/face verification. If you've been assigned to an incorrect group, you need to do KYC verification with ID.

There’s a whole bunch of Roblox experiences clearly designed for adults. There’s dozens of us xD

I’m not sure if I’d say it’s better or worse, the games are higher quality because they need to be to keep an older adience engaged.

You'd be surprised to know the sheer number of "experiences" and games people have created on roblox as the platform.

There are fps shooting games that are more playable/mature than your yearly call of duty/battlefield and all kinds of games for older age groups.

In that sense it's probably hard to "age out of it".

LOL, they literally said they want to play with other 18+ players alone. Without kids in the lobby, at all.

What are you, fun police? What's next, ban on bright coloured clothes?

Roblox isn't a game, it's a platform. It has hundreds of millions of monthly users. A significant portion of those are 18+. And unsurprisingly there's plenty of games that target older audiences.

You’re unlikely to convince an adult of that age who has willingly spent 10s of thousands of dollars on a children’s game that they maybe shouldn’t be playing it.

Basically, the game takes place in a medieval walled settlement. The person who's on the server the longest becomes the "leader" and gets to tax everyone/manage the settlement/build stuff. This is extremely profitable.

If the leader dies, the next person in line becomes the leader. Players can also buy swords and weapons.

This means the goal of the game, if you're ambitious, is gain power instead of actually contributing to the settlement. You could directly murder the leaders, but this is slow.

It is more efficient to incite an angry mob and make everyone extremely violent. Then leaders will get repeatedly murdered by the mob as the settlement burns down/devolves into chaos.

Unfortunately, everyone else wants power too. You'll take power and get killed by the angry mob you created.

Being toxic in an emulation of the late Roman Empire is essentially the game.

https://www.roblox.com/games/4598019433/generic-roleplay-gae...

I want to invoke my inner Catullus and insult my enemies but I am limited in what I can say in the presence of minors.

So adults having innocent fun together and perhaps "cussing" while in strictly 28+ game are somehow problematic to you? :D

This comment itself comes across as so toxic, ironically - as if it’s somehow wrong to want to blow off steam in a way that isn’t appropriate for a nine year old to experience personally.

Edit: I swear it seems like infantilizing everyone is suddenly a goal for some reason. This has to be the most annoying personality type on the internet.

Your comment is blowing something out of proportions. He prefers 25+, said so. Toxic in there means "F u", get a "F u and u'r mother" back and both persons laughs after. It's not toxic in the sense of "I will kill you and your entire family", but more like venting something in a safe space. You don't go in real life to a random stranger and say "F u", but in a lobby of a virtual game that's acceptable. And he's saying he prefer that since also going to a lobby full of 9 years old kids and saying that is way more toxic and he prefers the algorithm to actually match him with appropriate ones instead of throwing him in young lobbies and then cannot be able to speak with them. So clearly the algorithm is half baked, made communications worse and needs more tuning. Swearing is part of any culture in humanity, and there is a reason the among the first things you learn in a foreign language is swearing. Used wisely, that "toxicity" is actually a great tool to forge good relations.