The emerging popular online game Roblox suffered a blackout for three days beginning on Thursday. On Sunday, the company said the shutdown had been caused by a ‘’bug’’. Moreover, the issue took longer to fix than ‘’ any of us would have liked’’. Millions of players complain about the outage on social media.
Later the CEO David Baszucki took on Twitter to make an apology to the audience, he said, ‘’ we are sorry for the length of time it took us to restore service. ‘’ a subtle bug’’ –while systems were under heavy load-was responsible.
Roblox Popularity in Gaming Marketplace
Roblox- video-game platform is the world’s largest user-generated game site. On this site, the players use different components to create and share online games. Additionally, it is free to play, game-makers earn Roblox which is then converted into cash.
According to different sources, in 2020 more than 1250 developers earned at least $10, 0000. More than 300 earned more than $100,000. The success of the game is because of its versatility.
Senior game analyst at Ampere Research, Louise Shorthouse says, ‘’ It is not just a game, it is a platform to create games. It is a bit of a marketplace where you can pick and choose whether you play an adventure game, a shooter, or a puzzle. And a lot of it is free to play, which is good for Children.’’
Similarly, the Coronavirus pandemic adds popularity to the game, as children stay home due to the closure of schools. March 2020, 50 million new users joined the site and now there are more than 42 million active users on daily basis. The majority of the users are under 16 years of age.
The game is very popular among schools kids, and the young generation, and most of the games are created by teenagers, some of whom have made a significantly great amount of money from the platform.
Reason of Blackout
About the blackout, some say it’s because of spike traffic due to the popularity of a burrito promotion from a fast-food chain, however, the company denies saying it was not due to a peak in external traffic or any particular experience, rather a growth in several servers the company uses.
Restaurant tweeted on Sunday, saying ‘’Pls don’t yell at me. The burrito is innocent.’’
Roblox also said that when they noticed the trouble of the users, they made it their priority to solve. The problem though persisted for about three days.
