Families are suing Roblox, alleging the platform failed to protect underage users from illegal online casinos accessed through Roblox accounts. These third-party casinos allow players to gamble with Robux, the platform's in-world currency, potentially leading to gambling addiction in children.
Illegal online casinos are allowing children to gamble using their Roblox accounts — and now, families are suing the video game's parent company over it. Illegal gambling outfits like BoxFlip and RBLXWild are not hosted on Roblox itself. Rather, these third-party online casinos allow people to log in with their Roblox credentials and play games like blackjack and slots using Robux, the massive social gaming site's in-world currency.
Winnings are then exchanged for cryptocurrency, which can be converted to real cash for a fee. As with all forms of gambling, however, the issue is less about the money people — or in this case children — than the money they lose.The teen said he was just 14 years old when he began using these online casinos, and at the time, he 'didn't even know what gambling was.' Initially, he thought it was a fun way to make extra cash, but eventually, he began to enjoy 'the adrenaline of doing bigger and bigger bets.' While that's essentially the same ethos that goes into gambling addiction in adults, it's far more egregious when it happens to children who are still learning how the world works.But it may be the incident that finally pushes the court system to finally hold it accountable. As a group of familiesthat only recently began proceeding through the courts, Roblox failed to protect its underage users and profited off them in the process.that the suit should be allowed to proceed because Roblox seemed to have made 'deliberate design decisions' that would knowingly put children in harm's way. Because Robox incentivizes developers to create games that users must pay to play, 'it seems entirely foreseeable that developers would want to create highly addictive experiences.
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