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Or perhaps you’ve aged out of a game that is primarily meant to be a place for children. The child safety measures make things more difficult for you because nobody wants you there. And it seems to be working as designed. Maybe it’s time to find a new game that’s more for your age group.

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LOL, they literally said they want to play with other 18+ players alone. Without kids in the lobby, at all.

What are you, fun police? What's next, ban on bright coloured clothes?

You'd be surprised to know the sheer number of "experiences" and games people have created on roblox as the platform.

There are fps shooting games that are more playable/mature than your yearly call of duty/battlefield and all kinds of games for older age groups.

In that sense it's probably hard to "age out of it".

There’s a whole bunch of Roblox experiences clearly designed for adults. There’s dozens of us xD

I’m not sure if I’d say it’s better or worse, the games are higher quality because they need to be to keep an older adience engaged.

Roblox isn't a game, it's a platform. It has hundreds of millions of monthly users. A significant portion of those are 18+. And unsurprisingly there's plenty of games that target older audiences.

You’re unlikely to convince an adult of that age who has willingly spent 10s of thousands of dollars on a children’s game that they maybe shouldn’t be playing it.

Tens of thousands of robux. That's hundreds of dollars, reasonable for a long term player.

Ask me what I’ve spent on a League of Legends account I can no longer even use. My wallet weeps.

This is quite like saying that because you’ve “aged out” of high school, you must be suddenly cut off from interacting with all the friends you made in high school

IRL, you stay in touch with some of those old high school friends for years.

I don’t know if it’s the Roblox system deliberately trying to prevent players from maintaining contact outside the game with their friends? Or maybe just that the players haven’t foreseen the need to be ready for the abrupt cut in communication on their next birthday? (Happy Birthday!)

Sounds like a serious strategic error by Roblox though.

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