Developers criticise “demoralising” lack of anti-cheat support from Roblox

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Roblox developers have criticised the lack of support from the Roblox Corporation in providing adequate anti-cheat tools, saying it’s becoming “demoralising and exhausting” to create within the platform.Back in April, a developer named Hutch took to the Roblox Developer Forum to start a thread titled “Developers are not equipped to deal with exploiters” (via PCGamesN).

In his initial message, he wrote “This is a post targeting the severe lack of tooling and support provided by Roblox in regards to exploiting and dealing with generally abusive users.”Are you a Roblox dev?

Exploiters have you burnt? Tell me about it: https://t.co/dCbWmnNVeF— Liam Hutch (@LMH_Hutch) April 27, 2022“Despite my best efforts to build functioning anti-cheats and arm my moderators with tools I will never be able to build a better culture for my communities so long as Roblox as a whole fails to address exploiting in a more hands on way,” they added.Yesterday (August 2) Hutch posted an update, saying that since Apocalypse Rising 2 went free-to-play, their moderation team have handed out nearly 3000 bans with another 25,343 bans coming through anti-cheat software.It's been a month since #ApocalypseRising2 released for free!

In that time we gained 6M visits. Our moderators banned 2,964 accounts, and our automatic anti-cheat banned 25,342 accounts. @LMH_Hutch posted an update on his exploit thread: https://t.co/FvanvA9qiN#RobloxDev #Roblox— Gus Dubetz (@Gusmanak) August 1, 2022“It is exhausting and demoralising dealing with exploiters all the time,” they wrote. “The enjoyment I get out of developing games on Roblox doesn’t even start to outweigh the burnout myself and my moderation teams suffer through.