Updates to the Roblox Terms of Use [November 2024]

No, I can’t. For some reason this option never came up on my account, which is +13 and even ID verified, so I just can’t “customize my ad experience” and what Roblox will share about me to advertisers.

Although I personally wouldn’t think of changing these options, I think this is definitely a problem.


(Even the option to permanently delete my account didn’t show up, which I also won’t use but seems wrong to not have it)

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This is big for third party ecommerce platforms, but does this include the asset purchasing goods with Robux on platform and off platform something like the most popular examples of this are itch.io and Parcel? I would love to see a change in this to be more upfront about this.

Thanks for the amazing terms of use updates! :heart:

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This means Roblox will be able to monitor our activities on our devices even if we are not using Roblox??

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Honestly I agree. Please remove the 2 week waiting period in certain circumstances, such as:

  • group owner hasn’t been changed for 3 months
  • group name hasn’t been changed for 3 months
  • user receiving funds and the group holder are friends
  • group owner & receiver both have 2fa & email verification

or just remove it compeltely!
We already have to put our 2fa code when paying our developers, so there’s no need for the waiting period.

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This is one of the best feature!!
Will stop scammers/hackers from stealing Roblox accounts and so much more!!

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It’s ridiculous to act as if the only legit form of freelance payment is group payouts. There’s a lot of creators who released experiences and avatar items under their own personal account. Right now, you need to pay 30,000 R$ to transfer one experience to a group, and there isn’t even an option if your revenue comes from avatar items under your account. You can’t even upload avatar bundles to groups yet!

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This is actually something I’ve wondered about! I’m glad that it’s been elaborated upon.

However, I wish this had been elaborated upon. What “behavior”?

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This is flawed, if the group does not have the necessary funds, there’s no way to deposit Robux into the group from an user account or even other groups.
The only way to fund a group balance is through the purchase of a gamepass.
Having to fund the group rather than just buying a gamepass outright to the user, adds an additional up to 1 week of wait for the pending Robux to be processed and available to pay the user, and if the user were not already in the group, we need to wait 2 weeks for them to be eligible to receive payout. Depending on the circumstances this adds up to 3 weeks of additional wait before the user sees the payment, as well an inevitable 30% tax cut because the funding, or payment happens through a gamepass.

There’s legit reasons for why you may use an alternative group for payout on a different project. Perhaps the active group with your funds is part of an official business or company. And your other project/group is a different company or personal project. Where the accounting/logs is managed separately, so paying unrelated users for unrelated business is not ideal.

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  • We clarified that we will collect information about your behavior when you interact with your device for security and safety purposes

roblox please provide more details on this because it sounds like you are spying on users devices. what does this mean? are you monitoring users only while roblox is active or at all times?
what are you collecting? are you collecting processes in memory or are you looking through data stored on someone’s device?

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I agree, we need to pay artists somehow, and they’re not going to wait 2 weeks in a group for us to be able to.

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This seems like a great update since you will be finnaly able to recover your account easier when a hacker changed your birthday to under 13

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If you are going to enforce this, we need a way to pay creators accordingly. We have a tax on the Robux we earn, and a tax if we don’t have the game under a group and want to add funds to it, and then we have to wait 2 weeks to do a payout and 2 weeks to devex. See a problem here?

Either give us a way to directly pay creators from our personal funds or to add funds to a group without needing to buy a pass. Because this is absurd

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With how hard Roblox is pushing for companies to grow on Roblox, why are companies still not allowed to link to their own websites? Roblox claims it’s for user safety when everyone knows its for anti competitive reasons. Roblox wants to try push merch so developers can sell the IP they make themselves, but only if a couple multi billion dollar companies get their cut first so developers can get the last few dollars left over…

It’s good Roblox is expanding into physical merch, don’t force developers to use Shopify. We should be able to use whatever supplier we want and sell at whatever price we want. If a developer wants to go the easy route and do it thru Roblox and Shopify so you can take 80%, let them but don’t make that the only option. Give developers a way to earn without leeching most of the money players spend.

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Okay, continue? Not worth tip toeing on this. Every one of the data points collected should be listed here. Only specifying how said data will include ages is insanely shady.

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I love government espionage!!! More of it please! Make sure roblox next time is entirely baked into our OSes kernels please! OOO maybe start forcing roblox users to ID verify in order to use the platform at all!!!

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This was most likely done to prevent people from DevEx-ing Robux acquired from selling passes in games like “pls donate”, though there are other legitimate reasons why people might want to use passes.

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Try disabling your extensions: looks like they might be messing with the page.

If thats the case, it would be a privacy violation, they will know what we do on our devices xD (outside of roblox), they can know what we do like listening to music on youtube?

I guess I gotta use a spare gaming pc just for roblox so I can freely listen to my music w/o roblox knowing it, bc the song can be explicit.

Otherwise it needs clarification because everyone (may think) that it will monitor our behavior

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You can link to your social media on your experience pages and groups – Discord, Guilded, X, YouTube, etc. Only 13+ accounts will see these social links. Those social pages can have links to your official website / merch. Are you really complaining that it takes a 2nd click to hit your merch website(s) once you go to your social page?

As much as you believe that Roblox doesn’t care about user safety, a huge number of policy decisions are made directly to curtail actual instances of user harm over the years by bad actors. It would be a lot simpler if people weren’t out to take whatever wasn’t locked down tightly. Unfortunately, bad actors exist.

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Can you explain the official way to pay someone with robux that is on your personal account?

Buying a gamepass of a group you own will Mark it as ‘unearned robux’ now?

How do we pay someone with personal funds?

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