![]() ![]() "There is no need for concern,” said spokesperson Robert Sauer. The Minecraft team also responded to CBC Kids News right away when asked if the Lego-style adventure game was shutting down. 6, Roblox CEO David Baszucki said the game attracted 100 million monthly active users in 2019 and the company continues with its plans for expansion. “I have a feeling that 2020 is going to be even bigger and better than ever,” he said in the post. 6, which speaks to all the ways the company managed to expand in 2019. Spokesperson Emmalee Kremer also pointed to a blog post by Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki, posted on the Roblox site on Jan. ![]() The company posted an official clarification on Twitter a few hours later. On Tuesday, the Roblox team returned a call from CBC Kids News and confirmed the multiplayer game-building platform is alive and well. ![]() (Nothing against knitting or chess, by the way, but, phew!) So, is it true? Will kids be forced to power down and pick up knitting or chess, instead? The rumours have been flying about all three of these games in recent weeks. Is Roblox shutting down? What about Minecraft? Or Fortnite? Update: Roblox has posted an update at 12:30 PM ET that it has identified the cause and solution, and is working on getting the game back up.Fake headlines can be traced back to a prank website When I wrote a similar post yesterday, I expected an update from Roblox that morning, but we didn’t get one until 5 PM, so who knows what today will bring. ![]() If it was, my guess is that an org already would have taken credit for taking down one of the world’s biggest games for this long. I have absolutely no doubt that everyone at Roblox is working around the clock, even on the weekend, to get this fixed, and it feels like when the game does come back online, they’ll explain exactly what happened, but I am expecting a level of technicality most probably won’t be able to understand, if this is indeed, like they say, not an outside hack that took them out. And it’s bizarre that this is so widespread it’s even affecting their website. This reminds me of when PSN used to go down for huge stretches of time ages ago, but while games always struggle with server issues and tech problems, a 60 hour outage stands out. It’s hard to even think of other games this large with outages that have lasted this long. ![]()
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