Roblox cheaters prompt developer to pull a popular battle royale
Citing issues with Roblox cheaters, Easy.gg, the development team behind two of the most platform’s most popular games, announced August 13 that it has decided to pull its newest battle royale game, Rift Royale, from the metaverse platform.
In a statement shared via Discord and first reported by the Roblox_RTC Twitter account, a Discord user named Liam explained the surprise closure in an announcement titled “Rift prototype is closed.”
“Sadly, Rift doesn’t work on Roblox,” the statement reads. “We spent a lot of effort trying to work within Roblox’s restrictions to create an awesome competitive game. Unfortunately what we want to do isn’t possible on Roblox. Roblox forces us to choose between having cheaters or being laggy. We’re going to focus on building games everyone can enjoy.”
Rift Royale, a battle royale game inspired by Fortnite, launched in May and entered a public beta in June. During its time on Roblox, the game amassed more than 76,000 likes and 21 million visits. However, cheaters also flocked to the game. A Google search shows numerous companies advertising hacks for the game, including aimbot and wall hack scripts.
This is the second time the development team, known for the hit Roblox games BedWars and Islands, has chosen to remove one of its games from the platform. Earlier this year, it added Prop Hunt to Roblox before shutting it down just a few weeks after its launch. In that case, the team did not cite cheating, instead simply saying the developers were unhappy with the game itself.
Regardless, Roblox developers’ fight to address cheating in their games appears to be an ongoing issue. Easy.gg’s challenges with handling cheaters echo the sentiments of Hutch, a Roblox developer who recently shared their
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