Popular gaming app and platform Roblox has been down since Friday night, and while there was initially some speculation about an external attack, the company confirmed that the outage was due to an internal problem and that it required maintenance to get Roblox back. is working. and running again. The company posted on Twitter Friday night acknowledging the outage, and confirmed early Saturday that the outage was not related to any specific experience or partnership on the platform.
Why Roblox Had To Tweet This explanation was because some players started speculating that the outage had something to do with the partnership that Roblox entered into with the popular American fast-food chain, Chipotle. The chain is offering free burritos worth $1 million (just under Rs 7.5 crore) on Roblox as part of the game’s Halloween event, which went live just before the Roblox outage.
On Sunday, Roblox was still down, and the company posted that it had identified the underlying cause, and was working to fix it as quickly as possible. “We are in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get the Roblox back up and running ASAP,” said Roblox tweeted.
We believe we have identified the underlying internal cause of the outage. We are in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get the Roblox back up and running ASAP. thank you for your patience.
— roblox (@Roblox) October 30, 2021
according to roblox Situation Page, the service is still experiencing disruptions with “Major Player Drop”, although the latest update states that it has identified the problem.
What is Roblox?
Roblox is a huge global platform (according to statista, Roblox had 43.2 million users in Q2 2021) but many of these users were children and teenagers. Despite being a massive platform that anyone under 18 is probably familiar with, it sometimes flies under the radar compared to more high profile games like Fortnite or PUBG Mobile. according to recent Report by Sensor TowerRoblox was ranked fifth in consumer spending worldwide on the App Store.
Roblox is more of a platform than a game, allowing users to create their own games and explore games created by other people. That means what Roblox Is keeps changing continuously. Users are constantly creating new experiences and these can also be monetized through an in-game currency called Robux.
Developers can create entire games, and monetize them through Robux, which can be withdrawn for real money (as long as they have more than 100,000 robux in their account). As a result, there’s a thriving ecosystem around Roblox from developers who are creating highly detailed experiences for kids who are slapping together in a party room for their friends.
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