Roblox, a popular online gaming platform, is adding a 17-and-older age category to expand its user base. This action demonstrates as it wants to broaden its appeal and shed its image as a children ...

It has just introduced experiences and worlds that are restricted to anyone under 17, for example, to cater to the 38% of Roblox’s users aged 17 and older in 2022. Brands also have options when ...

Roblox’s above-17 age group is its fastest growing, and that group comprised nearly 40% of its daily active users last year. The majority of Roblox’s creators — who populate the platform’s ...

To keep underage users from accessing 17 and older experiences, Roblox will require that people scan their driver’s licenses and submit a selfie before they can access the new category.

and that the 17–24 age bracket represents 22 percent of Roblox’s player base. Developers older than 17 make “the majority of our top 1000 experiences,” Baszucki wrote, and “many seek to ...

The company will now allow content intended for people aged 17 or older, as announced in a Tuesday press release. “Roblox is a platform for all ages where no matter how old people are ...