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Roblox server outages are not much common. However, they have become pretty frequent during the whole ‘quarantine and lockdown’ situation when the number of active users have increased rapidly. The last major Roblox down occurred on 20th March 2020, when the servers were not working for more than 2 hours in the USA, UK, and European regions. A lot of users were left confused and tweeted a lot about it.
Today at 9:00am Eastern Pacific Time, CEO of Roblox Corporation announced that they are shutting down Roblox. “I know there has been speculation about Roblox being on before, but this time, it is true. On the 31st of June, we will be deleting Roblox forever.
What is Wrong With Roblox Right Now? The famous online game Roblox has been down since this morning (October 29, 2021), and thousands of people have reported the problem. The game has been down since 4:00 A.M. IST early morning. The problem is still unknown as many engineers and technicians are working on the problem.
Roblox has been experiencing issues since last week, when the site when down on Thursday.
Yes. Roblox identified the identified “root cause and solution” on Sunday afternoon and worked to bring regions back online incrementally.
Roblox is an online gaming platform which allows users to develop their own mini-games, which others can then play. It is most popular with children, with 56 per cent of its 200 million monthly users under the age of 13.
After some technical difficulties overnight on December 13, Roblox is now back online.
After three days of downtime in October, Roblox went back online on November 1. You can read all about it in a blog post below.
If you’re asking yourself, why was Roblox down? Well, we aren’t too sure, to be honest, except that it was an internal system issue. As soon as we know the reason, we’ll let you know.
On October 30, Roblox Corporation issued a statement on its official Twitter handle stating that they have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. "We’re in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running ASAP," the video game company said.
At 06:58 PM IST on October 29, 2021, Roblox Status tweeted about a few services that may have been back online, including Groups, Games Page, Thumbnails & Images, and Authentication. The update was not received well by Roblox users as these services were not up for all users. At the same time, it mentioned that their engineers are working on a fix.
At 12:17 AM on October 30, 2021, Roblox acknowledged that some users have been seeing the Roblox maintenance popup, but in the same tweet, the platform says that engineers are working on a solution, and some services are still unavailable.
As of 07:30 AM IST on October 30, 2021, Roblox is down. As the platform tweeted about taking the site offline for maintenance, users are not able to log in on Roblox. It is important to note that it has been more than 24 hours and Roblox has yet not declared a reason as to what caused the Roblox outage.
According to the latest tweet, Roblox is working on fixing the platform and engineers are trying to figure out the cause of the problem. That being said, it is now known how long will Roblox be down at this point of time. As mentioned earlier, the online gaming platform has not conveyed any relevant information through its official channels.
The Roblox Status Twitter account reports that the game will be back up on October 29th.
Below are some amusing reactions from Twitter to make you smile despite the disruption.