Roblox developers are burning out in their fight against hackers

pcgamesn.com:

Roblox developers who make competitive games say they’re burning out in their fight against hackers, to the extent that some claim they no longer have the desire to develop these types of games within the platform. The issue has grown to the extent that one prominent developer went as far as to say they’ll never make another competitive Roblox game due to the sandbox game’s lack of effective tools.

Though hacks and exploits have long been topics of discussion within the Roblox community, a developer named Hutch showed the extent of the issue while discussing the status of their game, which they did not name in the post. On July 1, Hutch’s team switched the game from a paid access model to free-to-play. The developer shared that the game had more than six million visits and an average player count around 2,500, and that throughout the month of July, there had been 2,964 moderator bans (40% assisted by user reports) and 25,342 automatic anti-cheat bans, for a rate of about 817 per day.

“It is exhausting and demoralizing dealing with exploiters all the time. The enjoyment I get out of developing games on Roblox doesn’t even start to outweigh the burnout myself and my moderation teams suffer through,” they posted on the Roblox Developer Forums. “It’s so much larger of an issue than just an anti-cheat problem and it never feels like any meaningful progress is made by Roblox to assist developers with these issues.”

The developer went on to suggest that they’re unable to keep turning hackers out of their game or reporting them to the platform, and are limited to banning individual accounts. They also indicated the company has only one developer-facing moderation tool, which they claim is outdated and has no tutorial for