Roblox opens up to older players by including themes and elements with a more adult touch

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The game creation platform Roblox has announced on June 20 through a message on its developer forum that it will add a category for players over 17 years old. In this new category, the creators of Roblox may include realistic weapons, to represent violence in a more explicit way, such as screams and the sounds of gunshots; may include realistic blood, which allows them to include gore and more violent scenes; and also red plastic cups, to represent alcohol consumption. We are already talking about a game for adults with all the letters.

Roblox will no longer be a children’s game

Developers can also add elements related to the sentimental relationships, objects related to the game of chance but that cannot be played and certain touches of humor, albeit in a moderate way. Even so, the creators of video games for Roblox continue to have Prohibited from including sexual content or nudity and depictions of drugs and tobacco in their developments.

This measure responds to the growth of players of this age. As Roblox clarifies in the post, “the group of players from 17 to 24 years old is the fastest growing groupand in 2022 it accounted for 38% of active users.” “We’ve heard your feedback about wanting to be able to create experiences with more mature themes and storylines that appeal to older users. We will highlight these new experiences in our recommendations for people over 17 years of age.. As a creator, you will have new opportunities for expression, engagement and potential earnings”, comments the author of the post “Seranok”.

To access this new category which will be implemented in “the next few weeks”, players will have to go through a age verification processin which they must photograph their National Identity Document and send a personal photograph.

Roblox opens a new path in its creations incorporating a series of themes that were previously typical of other video games. With the inclusion of these elements, the game will no longer be aimed at a young audience and will expand its scale of public to a more adultthus taking an important step forward as far as online games for PC are concerned.

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