Roblox’s efforts to scrub clean its really-quite-awful reputation for child safety continued yesterday, with an announcement that, come June, it will be introducing new age-based account categories for kids.
The two new account types are Roblox Kids (for five to eight year olds) and Roblox Select (for nine to 15 year olds), and Roblox Corp says the goal for them is to “more closely align content access, communication settings, and parental controls with a user’s age.”
Kids will be assigned to their respective categories—or at least, that is the hope—either by Roblox’s facial age estimation check or a verified parent. Once there, they’ll find themselves limited. The youngest children, in the Roblox Kids category, will only be able to play games with a “a Minimal or Mild content maturity label,” and “all communication [will be] disabled by default,” though chat can be reenabled via a linked parent account.
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The corporation says its big dream is “to become the world’s healthiest platform for users of all ages,” which is going to be quite the schlep from where it is now. We’ve had numerous stories of child safety failures and controversies at Roblox on our pages, and one particularly memorable instance of its CEO describing its predator problem as “an opportunity”. If it wants to clean its image, well, it’s got a long row to hoe.
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