WHAT DO YOU THINK? Should Roblox limit roleplay games to Ages 13+?

As an ex-Roblox player I can definitely understand where these parents are coming from. Roblox was a fun platform where these types of games didn't exist yet. The scariest game at the time was *Escape Jeff The Killer* or *Escape Area 51* and that was about it. Now kids can play games that can cause a trauma and will make them scared of anything which isn't supposed to happen on a kid-friendly game such as roblox. Age restriction was also available at that time so if you compare the Roblox from then with the Roblox from now you'll clearly see a significant decrease of child protection + more games and toxic people that can injure a child's mental health. Roblox should really step up their game.

This is not Roblox’s fault. Parents need to check in on their kid’s devices and their recently played. If it has inappropriate content, punish them. Just be a decent parent. That’s all you need to do.

i’ve always loved kreekcraft because of his pure honesty. he’s not afraid to make videos criticizing roblox, or developers, but he doesn’t do it in a way that makes you think “wow, this guy really hates roblox/ roblox devs”

I think they should add a special feature to the account settings where parents can manually block games.

I think roleplay games should have a special roleplay tag, and if a setting is changed to block games with the roleplay tag those games can no longer be played. This way if a parent sees inapropriate scinarios coming up on their child's screen, they are simply able to block roleplay games and never worry about it.

Maybe Roblox should start giving warnings out to these people and put role play games at 9+

I am actually 50/50 about this. Yes, some games may be inappropriate for kids but it's usually the playerbase that's the problem. And also, the one about games being set as all ages even though it's not supposed to be is actually true. I just checked and saw Judy set to all ages [I'm 15 but that game gave me nightmares for a few days. Which is saying something since I'm usually calm when I'm in a dark mall] and Flicker is set to all ages, which I remember there are very... Graphic death scenes there

One thing I love about kreek is that he doesn't just immediately call out the parent for being a boomer but also tries to understand the parents' point of views as well

Roblox getting called out so much!

I think something that also caused old roblox to be more appropriate is because back then, there were no (or very limited amounts) of teens that had genuine experience with roblox. Back then it was just only kids and adults. Now the children that used to play have gotten older and instead of just playing games as they should, they look for other ways of amusement in said games, because they have repeated the process of playing them normally enough times. This is just my theory though, i could be completely wrong lol

think about this scenario: you are a principal that walks into a teacher's classroom. you see students misbehaving but the teacher doesn't notice it. later, you blame the teacher for the students misbehaving and the teacher is fired from their job. would it make more sense to punish the kids, or was it right to punish the teacher because they weren't fully doing their job? if you havent already figured it out, the teacher represents roblox moderation, the principal represents a parent, and the students represent bad influences on roblox. i feel like the kids should be punished because they were misbehaving, but the teacher should also get some punishment for not catching them. but its a very tricky and opinionated situation. and its even more complicated in roblox, where you cant directly punish kids that are misbehaving on roblox because of its non-working report and moderation systems. what do you think is right? leave a reply, i'll read it :)

Kreek gets the point. Roblox is a platform with millions of games, making it almost impossible to moderate every single thing. Most of the time with the games, it's usually the players who are making it inappropriate. Such as online dating, etc. The parents seem to not get the point. If they see that their children are experiencing something inappropriate, they shouldn't be calling out to everyone and roblox like that. If they see a particular game "harming" their children in offensive ways, they should just tell their children to stay away from it. Maybe tell them why, but if they don't listen, their child is the one who is not listening, not the whole platform. Honestly, parents are just trying to help their children out, and may misunderstand some parts. These games also can't do much about this problem, considering it's usually the players. Roblox also can't rate all the games, if you think about how the platform has millions to billions of games, and many players. The developers also can't do much, except fixing glitches and bugs and moderating the games. The players got to understand what is happening around them, and how they may affect others by doing these inappropriate actions. If roblox wants to step in to help, they can inform the developers to moderate their games, or add in more settings. Roblox has a moderation team, but most likely not enough to moderate the whole platform. This is probably where their bad moderation comes out. I can agree with that, as there are many inappropriate things happening in roblox games. Basically, please understand what is going around you, and think before acting in a way that may affect others. But yeah. Huge respect to Kreek for helping out in the conflict.

As a developer, I was not able to give my game an age rating due to being retired, so my game was left as N/A. Recently, it was automatically given an All Ages rating. Even though my game does meet the All Ages category, i suspect there are other games out there that have not been rated, and was given an automatic All Ages rating.

I think the when rating a game players rate it first then the dev of the game rates it and after roblox makes a desicion and also whenever your making a account you can set your spisific age and if your below to age of playing a game it disconnects you from it

5:34 that’s not true your bottom part doesn’t disappear (at least it the games I’ve played). Im pretty sure the character in the picture just has very small shorts on

I think roblox should add a feature to block certain types of games. For example: Roleplay games, shooter games, violent games. Although the ratings are there, this still happens. A developer can set multiple types to say what the game is like. Players can report a game if it doesn't have the right tag so roblox can put it to it's correct category. Then, parents can block games such as these. Edit: MOM IM FAMOUS! Anyways thx for 70 likes I didn't expect this comment to be popular! Also ty kreek for hearting.

8:45 bro i thought you were gonna say you could do that irl 💀

When it comes to RP games, for me it highly depends. For example games that are also focused on trading such as Royal High or Adopt Me at this point aren't really RP games anymore. They technically still are, but most people decide to ditch that aspect of play in favor of focusing on getting the best items/pets. I believe games like these should remain All ages. However others such as Brookhaven, Welcome to Bloxburg, etc, I believe should at least be considered to go up to 9+, since these games are mainly RP centric games with player-bases that do such. (Welcome to Bloxburg may be exempt due to the house building aspect being a large drive for playing.) Essentially, not all RP labeled games are actually RP games anymore. Those that are still RP games may need to be reconsidered, those that are not RP games anymore should stay how they are.

In my personal opinion I think what Roblox should do is Make a separate rating just say for example called “Roleplay” and make it so all ages can play but maybe a little pop up would come up telling you that the online interactions that happend in the game are not age rated

I have to say, role-playing games are normally inappropriate, yet some have models which make it hard to make the game inappropriate. But I have to say, it depends. Developers should be looking out for inappropriate actions. I will say I would want players visiting my game, but rating it all ages when there's inappropriate actions involved. I never really noticed this until I watched this video. Thank you for explaining it!

they should just make it mandatory to add an email to your account instead of just giving you like access to commenting on items, and liking games, also giving you a free hat. that way they could make it so that the email gets daily reports of every game your child has joined, along with every single chat message they have sent. Also they should have a thing where when you make your account you choose types of games that you arent allowed to access, such as fps games, rp games, or others

my quick and dirty solution to this mess would be to just recruite or hire admins/mods to moderate inappropriate player behavior in their game. in my opinion, this is much more fair than just changing the rating of their game because that would bottleneck the game's concurrent players *(unless their game is actually trying to support this behavior, which is a much different story)* but even that has it's own problems because the mods/admins might not actually do their job

Imo they should add a feature to block games not based on age, but if the parent wants to. If they notice their kid playing a game deemed inappropriate for the kid, they can go into a parent setting (With a pin attached for access) and disable that game specifically aswell.

If roblox sets a higher age limit, some role play games would definitely be going down. Roblox should probably make a tag for "Roleplay games" in the age restrictions, and let parents decide if they can turn if off or leave it on.

they blame the wrong person those games not 18+ or anything like that its just the players who turns games into horrible things as a 5 year roblox player i can confirm that roblox has nothing to do with those stuffs it all comes from terrible persons who pretend to be a kid but turns out to be a grown man

I think why this is the biggest issue is because Roblox automatically sets your account to be 13+ so that’s why a lot of kids are seeing stuff that’s not really appropriate I think when you’re making account you should click off what age limit is appropriate for that account

"it's unacceptable the way Roblox is not parenting my kid for me" just sums up this whole situation in my mind

the thing that is wrong is that she lets her 5 year old kid play video games like roblox has got more things to do than moderate literally everything on the platform. it's also the parents' job to protect their kids

I can't enter a game without something inappropriate in the chat, or some kind of user interaction. I think roleplay games should be set to 13+. People put Roblox down for all of this inappropriate stuff, when it's really the players and the community, the very people who are complaining. I miss the old Roblox...

what's the extension u have that let's you see the live visits change without refreshing

I’ve been in many vibe games..... every time there would be multiple ways to be inappropriate (one game allowed people to cuddle) and many people go their with the intention too be inappropriate, date and sexualise each other. Some things people have done and said is quite concerning.

Hey kreek, I can confirm that most of the information here is accurate, however I did want to let you know as a developer that the age ratings work a bit differently than you explained it. Now essentially, yes, developers do set their own age rating, but they don't just select All ages, 9+, or 13+, instead they have to go through a questionnaire that has specific questions about violence, in game purchases etc. Once the survey is finished, based on your answers they give your game an age rating. However, in essence the developer does select the age rating, because they can retake the survey at any time and potentially could lie about what is in their games.

Since the age recommendation policy comes through and Roblox forces developers to act upon it or else their games won't be recommended and push through the algorithm, there has been a Report Abuse feature for misleading/false age ratings on games that Roblox will manually review and check to see if it violates their Questionaire terms or not.

I used to play the bathroom game thingy a LOT like 5 months back then, but I wasn’t roleplaying or anything I was just making friends and talking with people there. But I can confirm that yes, I would just be standing talking to people and some random boys would go back and forth behind me referring to the you know what. I recommend they make it 13+ just for that reason since I also used to play this a little when I was 8 and people would still do that.

Growing up mostly playing roblox since i was about 5, Seeing parents go "oh this isn't child friendly" is so unbelievably hilarious.

6:19 *me who saw baller*

They should probably add a option to block all roleplay games in the settings like a extra age rating devs need to turn on if they have a roleplay game. (You need to activate it in the settings manually.

I fell so bad for those kids that got there accounts deleted by their parents

There is one kid friendly game on Roblox called Berry Avenue. But the kids are recommended to join on a private server.

This guy should just be CEO of Roblox at this point

Respect to kreek for still mentioning jailbreak to this day. Shows that he has a respect for the game and still hasn't left it in the dark since 2017 (when he started).

I like how kreek talks about this because he doesn't go to a side, he explains the roblox's point and also understands the Parent's point, I love how he explains these types of videos

7:29. Fun fact, that toilet is from the roblox's Suburban template thing

9:26 let me be honest here kreek, most of the players are in build mode while there are updates of new stuff and most roleplays are a family without a dad- 😅

Honestly I think for the parental options, because this is the main problem with this that there isn’t an option to disable role play games, I think it could be good to make a separate rating which is roleplay, and make an option to disable roleplay rated games in the parental control settings

I found the girl who was doing * inappropriate dances * to the mother on Roblox and they seem to be a flamingo fan, she has a deformed werewolf emo avatar and has gotten a badge in Ohio (the Roblox game) The other candidate is someone who was the same name, one of those bread avatars with a top hat that covers the head and tiny stick arms off of the French fry avatar. They are a small Roblox game developer. And then there’s just other noobs who have the same display name. I think we know who the culprit is here.

I feel like roblox should add a feature where like in Vrchat (if you have played it) if you get close enough to someone they go invisible or you just see the outline of the player. Roblox should do that so people don’t do inappropriate stuff.

I love how Kreek just completely switched sides from the whole star program incident earlier 😂

roblox should let parents block certain genres on the parental control settings so that your kids arent actually seeing this innapropriate behavior very often

Simple solution 1: dont let ur 2 year old play roblox Simple solution 2: get rid of roleplay games Simple solution 3:ban complainers and karens on twitter

Personally as someone who enjoys role play games, It’d depend on what T͟y͟p͟e͟ of Rp game it but I don’t see how people could “Role-play” by someone slipping in a game that’s literally called "Bathroom Simulator “ (which I don’t play “. But if the Rp game was like Royal high I think it’d be 9+ but I don’t play Royal high a lot but if you were putting a game like Maple Hospital (which they prob should put at 9+ ) or WCUE (Warrior Cats Ultimate Edition) which WCUE I think is good as all ages bc it’s a pretty neat Rp game . Just bc of a hangout bathroom game exists shouldn’t fully cover saying “all role play games should be 13 + “ because I believe it’d depend M͟A͟I͟N͟L͟Y͟ on what type it is and how it works .

6:28 | *_lmfao_*

kreeks got serious balls to support these parents and give them advice instead of straight up attacking them

this man hit 6m not to long ago and is almost halfway to 7m keep up great work no doubt u will hit 10m this year

I like how kreek craft is not choosing sides and being considerate of other peoples point of view, he explains very well to then we get a very thorough explanation and he breaks phrases down to easier sections to be read and understand

9:15 no way bloxburg has online daters 💀 It’s a game most likely for preppys and aesthetic girls (no hate I like the game) but I have never seen an online dater

roblox should think of a personal bubble feature, the closer someone is to you the more they become transparent.

See Roblox should make it where parents can go and pick what games to block like a custom option where you select certain games the work like instead of having 9+ you can have 9 + but taking away some games like selecting block role play,or shooters

eh i do agree beacause today in area 47 alot of 5 year olds try to do a bug and it was so annyoing for me

Honestly, this kind of stuff will happen no matter what Roblox does, when you are on the internet bad stuff occurs you cannot COMPLETELY censor it all, just doesn't work like that sadly. Not much Roblox can do to make it fair for both parties here.

Tbh, if you have parental restrictions on, the parents should be able to blacklist games by going on their kids accounts via prob email

Having an 18+moment in a roblox public bathroom? Girl, you didnt see fortnite lobbies

It should NOT be 13+ because not everyone is gonna do that type of "stuff" and if they are really worried THEY CAN SET PARENTAL CONTROLS. Some ppl might wanna play for fun and normally so it wouldn't be fair to them. The devs would also start making less profit.

honestly if she wanted to encourage parents to delete roblox, she should of posted it on facebook. A lot of parents are on there daily. If she did, i would say goodbye to my account

I love how Kreek makes these videos apropriate for kids!

I think roleplayers games should be at least a 9+, with a warning about possible inappropriate actions, because like Meepcity and Bloxburg the game itself isn't bad, but the audience should also be mature enough to know when something is inappropriate if it happens.

As someone with prerental controls brookheven used to not be playable for me until recently but idc anymore cus I'm turning 9 soon

Let’s get him to 10m+ he deserves it! He works really hard!!!

As a Kreekcraft watcher, I can confirm that all information is valid.

it depends which roleplay game, if its just like an average roleplay game and its not actually innapropriate then sure, i think it should be around all ages, maybe 9+. places like public bathroom simulator on the other hand should be 13+ since quite literally as you mentioned no one follows the rules.

yes, once I was in BrookHaven RP once and was told by another player quote on quote want to make a kid? and I left the server BUT HE FOLLOWED ME IN THE SERVER so I just took a break

“I have witnessed attempted murder” 1:15

I had Parental guidance enabled once, and I was able to play adopt me, after a few months, I had amazing pets, a few moths later, adopt me was restricted for me, so to answer your statement of “I don’t think adopt me was restricted” it was for me when I had parental guidance enabled.

this is why roblox is cursed sometimes but you have to deal with it

Well who would let a 5 year old play roblox?

Roblox actually kinda does set those ratings As a roblox developer (kind of) you have a questionnaire and to get those ratings you have to take the questionnaire. It will ask questions like, is there blood in this game, is there trading in this game, etc. After you take that questionnaire you have the rating Yeah i spent 30 minutes typing this all out 😅

8:10 "kids game" oders and *** roleplayers using parties: you forgot about me?

There should be server separations based off of what parental setting the account is set to.

Man I remember the first time playing Brookhaven, first thing someone said in the chat was “wanna be my boy” and more. I literally never played Brookhaven again and I just sticked to first person shooters like arsenal.

in my opinion i feel like parents should be able to like select games that their children are playing and if they want to add a game they can check it out on their phone or other device or something and if its good they add it to like the playable list

Truly it's hard to come up with a solution for this but hopefully it will work out

Devs do a questionnaire to get the rating but there’s only blood, violence and loot box questions

I feel like they should limit RP ames. It's not the games fault, it can have a whole different theme and setting. But instead, it's the playerbase's fault. It SHOULD be limited as you don't have control over what other players do and say. An example ot this would be having a Horror RP game and having the players romanticize it out of nowhere.

7:13 WAIT WHAT

0:45 Roblox players really be making games from the most random stuff ever, these are some of the prime examples🤣

I feel like role-play games like brookhaven should be set to 7 or 8+ cus of all the online daters, but I don't actually see many online daters like all there is in the chat is "ABC for mom" or "ABC to rp". U don't see many online daters in rp games except for a few servers. Bloxburg doesn't really have too much rp either like its just people building their homes and parents could easily turn on the parental controls and just moderate their children and what they do on Roblox. I think the scariest game ur child would play is "survival the Jeff the killer" i don't think a 5 year old would search up bathroom simulator.

For roleplay games, it can get a little crazy sometimes so I think that it should be for 13+ just to be save. But in this case, Kreek got a valid point

7:03 it indeed is

i agree on both her part and not. though there are inappropriate things on rp games, that does not mean the whole of roblox does. sure, it can happen in any game. but parents try to help their children. if anything, its like real life. any real life person could do anything anytime to any person. in roblox, though, its not like there are cameras sensing what you do. (besides chat) so no, rp games should not be 13+, but there should be a certain option to block a game. like you block a player.

At this point parents don’t need to waste time complaining surrounding the games or just players acting their age, all you’ve gotta do is just set ur child a minum amount of time to play for or simply not at all (take the anger “somewhere else yeah.”)

I really think they should cause its horrendous the amount of inappropriate content on roblox games and then 8-9 year olds dont know what that is and then think its something normal and then they do inappropriate things like that which is not good.

Kreek I'm definitely in between because I do see both perspectives but I am older myself so I see why some parents are concerned about it. Maybe it would be better if they could find an in between solution that way it suits both sides and not just one. That's just how I feel about it Kreek great video overall was informative to your audience. Love the content.

Roblox is in danger from the foreign forces of the Parents Army. Edit: everyone is saying that I am first but I do not care nor did I asked.

well a lot of the bathroom games can be crude but its like 1 in 10 servers where people are actually doing something bad

She's not wrong about the bathroom simulators- I would see my family members that are around kindergarten age, playing those type of games where many complete incorporate scenes including drama, happen in the game. I got bullied once and it really effected me. The only reason why I was playing was just because I wanted to explore and play with friends in a kind and family friendly matter. The most popular rp bathroom game is really the 1st game you played. I also very much agree with Kreek bc he has had more experience in the game it's self, and he actually has an valid point. Only reason why it happens is really because the times are really changing, it all started on social media where all trends, rude, sexual and unmature adults were being completely rude, usually parents think that there child is safe and okay with the child safety on. But really there are many platforms that the child can have access to that can change a child's mind and making them lure into doing it.

8:52 ayo kreek?

The process to choose a rating for a game from the developer portal is quite easy and isn't really secure. Just a very short 4 questions then it will choose rating. I don't think roleplay games should be marked 13+ As you said younger audiences on those games. However if roblox showed that they read and do actions with their reports then I think that would encourage some people to hold back on what they do. As of right now roblox doesn't really do much with the reports unless it's an extreme case.

2:39 thats why there is quotes in them.

I think the innocent roleplay games (like Brookhaven) should be left alone, but games with actual issues (like Meepcity) should either have the developer(s) be warned about it and be given some time to fix it, or put it to 13+ temporarily until the developers fix it, depending on how serious it is.