RELATED: Roblox Bans 'Romantic Gestures' Like Holding Hands The Boorito event was scheduled to last through October 31, but it was expected that the 30,000 free burritos would go quickly. A special Chipotle Halloween 'Boorito' stage could be visited in-game, allowing 30,000 costumed guests to earn a free burrito. This past week, Chipotle announced that it had partnered with Roblox to give away $1 million in free burritos through the game. The reason why some frustrated Roblox players are blaming Chipotle for today's server outage is quite funny. What makes the situation all the more absurd is that some Roblox players are blaming fast-food chain Chipotle for the issues. The hugely popular online game has been taken offline for unplanned maintenance most of Friday. Yet even Roblox's servers appear to have their breaking point.

Suffice to say, Roblox must have astonishingly strong server infrastructure in order to support that many players. Hundreds of millions of people play Roblox every single month. The outage seems to be affecting users from all around the world, too – it's not just the EU, NA or UK servers that have been affected.Īt the time of writing, there has been no official response or acknowledgement of the outage from the development studio, but we have seen connection wobbles like this before – and they seem to level out rather quickly when the developers do respond.Īt the time of writing there's no word on what might be wrong with the servers online service or when it might be fixed, but we'll keep you updated as soon as we hear anything more about the issue.Roblox is one of the most popular games in the world. So this could take time.' said one panicked Facebook user. It Often takes Roblox 20 minutes to fix something wrong with the server, but instead of part of the website being down, all of the website is down. 'Its almost been an hour and the issues are still happening. Some users are unable to login to the game's server, whilst those that can are noticing that connections appear slow, with servers taking a long time to respond to player inputs or load menus.ĭown Detector, a website that tracks outages for online services using social mentions has also seen a sharp rise in reports. Many users on Twitter and Facebook have been messaging the official social network accounts for the game, outlining the problem. Roblox – the incredibly popular kids' game and content creation platform developed by Roblox Corporation – appears to be struggling from connection issues this morning.Īs per Down Detector, the independent online outage monitor, the game has been seeing connection issues since about 3am this morning.

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