To the dismay of tens of millions of youngsters — and the dad and mom making an attempt to maintain them busy and deal with their anguish — the favored gaming platform Roblox crashed Friday, and the corporate was nonetheless making an attempt to revive service Saturday.
“The scariest a part of Halloween this 12 months is Roblox being down,” lamented Twitter person @NikilisRBX.
In a press release Friday on social media, San Mateo, California-based Roblox apologized and stated it was “nonetheless making progress” on the outage.
The reason for the issues was unclear, however Roblox stated that it was “not associated to any particular experiences or partnerships on the platform.” This was apparently meant to quash rumors that the difficulty was brought on by a free burrito giveaway at a digital Chipotle on the Roblox platform.
For its half, Chipotle tweeted: “Miss u Roblox.”
On the Roblox platform, gamers can create their very own video games and play with different customers. It grew to become wildly in style after the coronavirus pandemic closed faculties and stored kids indoors on the lookout for one thing to do.
In response to numbers compiled by the social media consulting agency Backlinko, Roblox has greater than 43 million lively customers a day (up from 14 million in 2016), 40 million video games and 9.5 million builders. The most well-liked sport on Roblox, in response to Backlinko, is “Undertake Me!” — which permits customers to boost digital pets.
