Only Roblox administrators can sell accessories, body parts, gear, and packages under the official Roblox user account virtual hats and accessories can also be published by a select few users with past experience working with Roblox Corporation. Clothes can be bought by anyone, but only players with a Premium membership can sell them. Roblox allows players to buy, sell, and create virtual items which can be used to decorate their virtual character that serves as their avatar on the platform. Although Roblox has received generally positive reviews from critics, it has faced criticism for its moderation and microtransactions and accusations of exploitative practices directed toward children. As of August 2020, Roblox had over 164 million monthly active users, including more than half of all American children under 16. Roblox is free to play, with in-game purchases available through a virtual currency called Robux. Roblox began to grow rapidly in the second half of the 2010s, and this growth has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. For most of Roblox 's history, it was relatively small, both as a platform and as a company. Created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006, the platform hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in the programming language Lua. Roblox ( / ˈ r oʊ b l ɒ k s/) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program games and play games created by other users. Game creation system, massively multiplayer online

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