03-19-2025, 08:36 PM
Do any parents here have experience with this happening?
For those not in the know, roblox is a game where you can create your own "experiences" (games) for other users to play and spend their in game currency, robux, in those games.
Our kids play a popular game "Game A" which sells access to a VIP section of the game area for paying players. My kid wanted to do chores to earn some cash so she could buy this. She also said it was currently discounted and didn't know how long that would last. What happened was the discount was a copycat experience titled "Cheap access to VIP in Game etc", and I'll refer to it as Game B. The kid loads up game B, walks up to a button they press to pay whatever the discounted rate is for game A. It takes their currency, and nothing happens. Obviously I felt awful for her when she told me what happened, but I told her I'd get with customer service to tell them she got scammed. It's in-game currency they create out of thin air after all.
Well the first response can be summarized that "we can't see or adjust an author's created content and pull funds from it", but there is a report abuse feature on the page for the game that you can use to help prevent this.
It seemed like a canned AI response so I'm pressing further, but this is absolutely insane to me if they just shrug their shoulder at things like this. When my girl showed me what she had clicked on there were multiple other fake discount "games" offering discounts or powerups for game A. Likely all just scams.
For those not in the know, roblox is a game where you can create your own "experiences" (games) for other users to play and spend their in game currency, robux, in those games.
Our kids play a popular game "Game A" which sells access to a VIP section of the game area for paying players. My kid wanted to do chores to earn some cash so she could buy this. She also said it was currently discounted and didn't know how long that would last. What happened was the discount was a copycat experience titled "Cheap access to VIP in Game etc", and I'll refer to it as Game B. The kid loads up game B, walks up to a button they press to pay whatever the discounted rate is for game A. It takes their currency, and nothing happens. Obviously I felt awful for her when she told me what happened, but I told her I'd get with customer service to tell them she got scammed. It's in-game currency they create out of thin air after all.
Well the first response can be summarized that "we can't see or adjust an author's created content and pull funds from it", but there is a report abuse feature on the page for the game that you can use to help prevent this.
It seemed like a canned AI response so I'm pressing further, but this is absolutely insane to me if they just shrug their shoulder at things like this. When my girl showed me what she had clicked on there were multiple other fake discount "games" offering discounts or powerups for game A. Likely all just scams.
