Preventing Account Farming and Exploits

Since my last reply was flagged, let’s try this again.

YOU (Roblox Corp) have been shown to be inconsistent with how you deal with bad actors on your platform. Take for example it took literal YEARS to terminate MisterObvious’ Roblox account. No Text To Speech’s recent video revealed to a wider audience the botting issue on your platform- shoot, botting has been an issue on your platform for about a decade. What will be done to actually have your consumer base EARN said respect, and what will be done to address the current botting issue aside from vague promises?

Team Fortress 2 – whom Roblox Corp had compared themselves to in the past (ROBLOX vs Steam: How We Measure Up - Roblox Blog) – suffered from a horrible botting crisis for 7 years (for more information look up the #FixTF2 movement and the movement website Save.TF). It wasn’t until last year that players finally came to arms and made their voices heard about the issue. Since then the botting issue in Team Fortress 2 has been down tremendously and the game is actually considered playable. There is still cheaters present, but they’re not as common in VALVe official dedicated servers and getting game banned in a timely manner due to in-game reports.

Will YOU, Roblox Corp, do something about your botting issue before your own consumer base start their own movement to #FixRoblox? Only time will tell, but so far this announcement reeks of this:

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(Note that this X post was in response to the #SaveTF2 movement and NOT the #FixTF2 movement which initiated in 2024)

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You bring up a very legitimate point I believe most are missing. Sure Roblox would like to say they have a bunch of extra players and engagement, sure that looks nice on paper, but they are likely losing tens of thousands of dollars in maintenance costs due to servers being full of bots, and this is excluding all the money they spend on Dev-Ex for botted numbers. You couldn’t be more correct.

petabyte CPU LOL

also what are “server farms”? i’ve never heard about them before

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You could also refer to them as idle farms. It’s where a bot hoster(s) has a bunch of bot accounts idle in private or public servers farming items. They then collect said items and sell them for actual currency, and they indeed can become profitable (TF2: Nobody’s Home, Zesty Jesus) (click the hyperlink for more info).

lol i think roblox never dies or else…?