You can’t block a child from playing a game if the games don’t have an age rating. Every video game has an age rating which makes it easy for the parent to decide if they want their child to play the game or not. The thing with roblox is that previously every game didn’t even have an age rating so it was either a guessing game for the parent or them having to play a bunch of games and decide which ones were ok for their child to play.
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Just a few months ago, I created a hub game for a war clan’s history, it teleports players to over 120 linked games from our history dating back to 2009. Half of these places are files we do not have access to anymore and are on old abandoned accounts. If these become unplayable, my days of archiving effort is going down the drain already, and this will hurt archiving efforts of every group similar to ours. Why is it every time I put effort into something, Roblox has to ruin it with updates that are the worst solution possible? Audio removal (even though the audios I used were fine to use), animation/other asset issues, and now this. Just make them 17+ games instead of entirely inaccessible, please.
Roblox has no care at all for its history as a platform or older communities that MADE Roblox a success to begin with.
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This is going to become a lost media apocalypse for sure, the best I can do now is try and record videos of some of the games I was personally interested in archiving, or finding ways to get into contact with old players who probably don’t even know their own login info anymore.
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good idea, it’s finally become mandatory
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ummm how is the roblox team going to give content ratings to millions of inactive games that span almost 2 decades? i have games in my favorites list that were created in 2008 and havent been updated since 2011 that have 3m visits. are all those games going to be preserved and given content ratings? how is that even possible. all this is going to end up doing is removing and making millions of games unplayable.
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Instead of effectively deleting 20 years of history, maybe just lock old experiences to being 17+ if they aren’t formally submitted through the survey?
I don’t understand how this is an appropriate response to the recent drama. The games that are dangerous to children aren’t the ones tucked away 14 years ago, they’re the new ones players are reporting en masse that aren’t being actioned.
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This update will kill my entire childhood (as well as those of players who joined before 2020) and likely lead to a lot of damage if no adjustments are made. I can’t tell you how often I play old games that have zero players or under 10,000 visits that will never been seen by Roblox staff just for the nostalgia of it, and I’d rather not have to wait for an email response to whitelist a game every time I want to play one again. 99.9% of the owners of these games are adults now and will completely disregard the reminder email they received (if they even use the same email from 10+ years ago).
I can’t imagine manually whitelisting games will save anything other than classics like Crossroads and Daxter33’s Paintball. Think about all of our friends’ old PBS/stamper tool games, obscure myth games, or even your own games on an account you lost the password of years ago. You will be erasing a big part of history for millions of people with this update.
Please either use AI to determine the maturity of old games or restrict them to 17+ (since most players who care about these games are probably 17+ to begin with).
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This is not a good argument for this scenario. What has value to me does not have value in the eyes of a Roblox staff member whitelisting games. I have friends who have not been online for years have PBS games we played together from 2013 with <100 visits. A Roblox staff member will never see games like these unless I bring it up to them, and I’d rather not have to wait days for an email response every time I want to play an old game. Either AI needs to determine the maturity of these older games or they need to be all set to 17+.
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Yes and they understand that, hence why if a game is unrated it will get blocked from playing. They are not just purposely banning old games to ban them.
If a game is unrated you can not play it, hence if a old game is unrated you can not play it. These games were not going to last forever, roblox constantly updates their API and removes old features. After a while the games won’t be playable because of how old they are.
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Y’all had few options:
1. Disable chat and connection(friend) requests and hide user names of unrated experiences;
2. Introduce “Block unrated experiences” option under account settings for the parents who care, for those who don’t, even <13 year old kids will be able to play 13> <17 experiences;
3. Let verified 17+ play those experiences;
But nah, nuclear option was chosen which does not solve your main issue.
Cool update Roblox, very cool.
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Unfortunately the possibility of this not being stopped exists, so I wanted to give you some feedback of what to do to help preservation. Given these places exist and are still filmable, consider recording these places or have someone who’s competent in doing such create film archives of these places. Although Roblox allows 2 videos per client, it shouldn’t be hard to showcase these videos through a Roblox place or online. I’ve done a lot of streams and recordings for the old Roblox Clans & Guilds genre over the years and have been a goto for many big and small groups for producing their media.
If you need any help or want more feedback, feel free to add me on Roblox. Wish you well in your archival efforts. It’s special for so many people who want to come back to it I’ve learned over the years, and worth something.
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Irony, sweet sweet irony, wouldn’t you say so.
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The fact that these experiences are rated and some rated MINIMAL is awful, if these experiences can still exist on the platform they shouldn’t be completely disabling unrated experiences for everyone. It’s a bandaid solution that solves nothing and still allows these types of experiences. With bypasses that allow the especially bad of these types to stay up for months, creators of these experiences don’t have to worry about them being taken down after a short while and allows them to add maturity ratings.
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Before all this disappears, where can I see this hub game? I have been a long time clanner myself, and this is probably the part I am most sentimental about with this update, as I know many classic bases like Fort Fang, TRA’s old bases, FEAR bases, that were part of my childhood and are no longer used as raiding locations will be closed for good. We’re certainly a minority of the player base, but its still sad to see.
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Are Roblox Staff going to respond to this topic to ensure feedback is being taken account for? There has been 1 Roblox Staff who has responded and they deleted their message almost instantly.
You’ve received 245 replies including deleted messages in 2 days, that’s 5 responses per hour, all of much being negative about how this impacts the playerbase, and even the staff who work at Roblox.
This change needs to be U-Turned, all unrated experiences cannot go dark under one night’s time without playability. Your book burning is brainrot disgusting and I have so many words for your incompetent leadership on display.
Instead of actively moderating what we have displayed on your Roblox DevForum for feedback as innapproprite, you’re “moderating” 20 years worth of history. You’ve kept up the actual flagant material on the Roblox website for years and decided to allow it to exist through an update that doesn’t target them, but nonsensically removes almost 20 years worth of history.
This punishing update and allowance of bad actors to lie through these very forms you’re putting through, must stop. How is it that a Community Developers are able to develop technology that accuarately shows Roblox hosted content being Not Safe For Work material? Your community has better tools than a double digit billion dollar company in moderation. Why are you putting out an update that hurts good people and doesn’t moderate bad people? This company is being run into the ground by these decisions. Enough is bloody enough.
When the material at point blank is lied upon so it’s kept on this website, this update does absolutely nothing to help the safety guidelines as it’s bypassed.
You can’t ensure consistency when your moderation allows this NSFW to get through.
Your moderation team allowed 5+ year olds to be subjected to child endangerment material. Who is “they” in reviewing the material? “They” should be fired for not doing their job.
This update adds a maturity label that allows 5 year olds to be shown child endangering material, and remove 20 years worth of games. And your reasoning is because all the old games don’t matter?
To any news outlet, journalist, or child safety organization. I get the CSO owns part of the company, but we really don’t appreciate their actions. We think they should resign their job and stop pushing these terrible updates to the platform that cause irrepairable harm to children. What they’re doing is wrong, they should resign their job and put competent leadership in their place. I don’t want even to think or see from them on the DevForums because these updates show their character and how it shows their horrible morality, how little they think of the law, and how much they don’t care about protections that should come foremost for the community. They are only trying to protect themselves, and they’ve done it the worst way possible. The further they floor the gas with their flawed nature, the worst it will get. All the way into bankruptcy, I gurantee it.
For the next person that gets put in their place, please remove NSFW tags from the platform. Please disallow Bathroom Simulators and Bedroom Simulators to exist where the game’s soul purpose is to groom children. Please undo this update if it perpetuates. This hurt everyone and is unneeded. And if you would, apologize on behalf the company to the community of how wrong this was, and that you’re going to do better and make sure these issues are addressed, day one.
For the CSO, once again.
Thank you.
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I highly doubt this is true, and even if this is, all of us who enjoy the classic Roblox nostalgia games will not be able to play them anymore.
Some developers I even know QUIT because of these stupid requirements and some just stopped developing on Roblox to work on something bigger.
I get it. This change would be a good thing if people who are still developing from long ago are here, but that unfortunately isn’t the case here.
I am going to take a wild guess and say that this is being done because Child Safety. Funny enough, there hasn’t been anything actually good done. Hopefully you still remember that lawsuit that is completely valid.
What happened to the C, E, E+, T, M, A, and RP ESRB ratings? Did we just forget about them completely?
Heh, heard that one before. The whole thing you wrote right there is blatantly false to avoid the backlash.
This banner is gonna give me nightmares
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I think everyone understands this, and this is why everyone is against it. Also, Roblox has stated the following:
While technically true, Roblox has—for the most part—kept support for legacy experiences and code. Roblox rarely outright removes API, but rather only deprecates it. The only update to truly harm legacy experiences was the FilteringEnabled update that broke basically every experience before it, that haven’t been updated for this change. However, this update was also absolutely required for Roblox to continue to succeed and for safety.
This is all to say that Roblox still values legacy support, as does its older community. Roblox will keep certain legacy experiences playable, based on community engagement and metrics. However, the community would like all legacy experiences—at least the ones not supported by Roblox—to be limited to 17+ rather than available to nobody at all.
(I still wish Roblox would change all 17+ labels to 18+.)
Read more regarding preservation:
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Why make the experiences completely unplayable? I’m not sure if anyone has already suggested it, but Roblox could opt for just assigning them the highest rating possible by default. (I do suppose it doesn’t matter much considering Roblox will rate classic experiences manually.)
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Hi Creators,
We appreciate the feedback on wanting to preserve beloved classic experiences, and we want to ensure every experience that our community values remains available.
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For Active Creators: We’re asking you to complete the questionnaire for each experience you want to keep active on Roblox. We appreciate your cooperation as we smooth out the questionnaire experience — thanks for the ideas so far! We are committed to making these improvements in the coming weeks:
- Usability improvements to help fill the form easier and with less clicks
- Progress indicators to show how far along you are in the questionnaire
- Content maturity label status in the Creations section of Creator Hub
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For Inactive Creators’ Experiences: We understand that some of your favorite experiences were published by creators who are no longer active on Roblox. To ensure these cherished classics are not lost, we are committed to preserving all unique public experiences from these creators that have reached at least 1,000 lifetime visits.
This is a significant undertaking that will take time. Our work begins immediately, with an initial push to preserve a large number of classics by September 30, 2025. We will continue this process until every unique public experience with over 1,000 lifetime visits as of that date has been preserved.
We appreciate your contribution to safeguarding our community’s history.
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Thank you, but for the experiences that didn’t get 1000 visits? Shouldn’t them atleast be restricted to 17+?
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