The age check is part of Roblox as a whole. It dictates what games you can access and the range of ages you can communicate with. They also extend age check to who you can develop games with, as the Roblox Studio IDE is basically a real-time multiplayer 3D environment with chat.
Accounts without age verification can only play all-ages games, chat is fully disabled, and they cannot publish any content onto the platform.
Every major government around the world is rapidly rolling out online bans and age checks of some form for social
media, online gaming, or general internet access.
I agree this is dumb but this isn't a Roblox thing so much as "what the fuck are we collectively doing with privacy?" thing.
> For friends, they need to do an age estimation only.
Thats not true. It says to share with trusted friends and 16+ they need an account in good standing (paid) and an age check, which constitues sending a face scan or id.
I literally pasted the rule directly from their site, Im surprised you dont understand it.
"Good standing" means your account wasn't moderated for violating the community standards [1] (exploiting, saying bad words, threatening users, uploading illicit content, etc).
I'm dev games on Roblox. Trust me, you're the one confused here.
You are still ignoring the fact that they have to provide a face scan to publish to trusted friends now.
Also that kids < 16 might be the ones who want to share games to thir friends who are < 16. They still need to pay a subscription and submit face scans to do that now which they didnt before. Thats the whole issue here.
16+ audiences have no requirement.
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