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We noticed bots going into one of the games I managed for a few days now, and ever since we first noticed the bots in the game our average session length has dropped dramatically.
We’ve done all we can to ensure that this is not due to any in-game bug (and it’s not…)
This is also occurring on several other games the studio owns, and games by other developers.
Issue Area: Engine Issue Type: Other Impact: Very High Frequency: Constantly Date First Experienced: 2021-07-06 00:07:00 (+02:00) Date Last Experienced: 2021-07-08 23:07:00 (+02:00)
This has severely impacted our game as well. We get a significant amount of players which should offset such attacks, yet we still see significant damage from this.
Roblox has been lacking in security for a while now and games on the platform are becoming more vulnerable to attacks.
I really hope Roblox is able to solve these security issues causing developers to loose out on play time, and therefore game expansion, and therefore profit.
I actually wrote a bot that is capable of getting IP addresses/ports for roblox game servers for education purposes.
Unfortunately, there is nothing much you can do other than a game hub solution. DDoS attacks are problematic worldwide, and generally people can save their servers with packet control services such as Cloudflare, which is not a solution in this case.
(This is just so Roblox admins could further identify how this problem is being exploited)
