Roblox will need age verification to ensure you are at least 9 years old

Roblox is about to make a big change in how you access games on its platform: If you want to play any game intended for users age nine or older, you’ll have to complete an age verification process. This transformation occurs as part of a rollout New Roblox Kids and Roblox Select Accountswhich has different levels of protection for children of different age groups.

When new accounts are rolled out, if Roblox’s age verification determines you’re between five and eight years old — or if you choose not to do age verification at all — you’ll be assigned to a Roblox Kids account. Roblox Kids accounts will be limited to access to “Minimum” or “Light” level games Content maturity labelsChat will be turned off by default, although a parent can approve who their children can chat with. Roblox Select accounts, on the other hand, will be reserved for users between the ages of 9 and 15 and allow access to games with “moderate” ratings. “Chat is also gradually rolling out within Roblox Select accounts based on the age of the user,” says Matt Kaufman, Roblox’s chief safety officer, in a briefing with reporters.

Parents who have linked their account to their child’s account can also select their child’s age. When the child grows up, he or she will automatically move from the Children’s Account to the Selected Account and then from the Selected Account to the Standard Account.

Users of both new account types will only be able to play games that pass a three-step review process. The developer must be Verified with a government-issued ID Or link it to a parent’s account, turn on two-factor authentication, and get… Roblox Plus Subscription. The game must pass Roblox”Real-time multimedia moderation system“, Roblox will also monitor user reports from these older players to determine if the game is safe for younger players. The game must have a content maturity rating, although these ratings will It has been replaced by Standards compatible with the International Age Rating Alliance such as the ESRB are due later this year.

Roblox does not have specific timing to share on how long the review process may take. “We want to make sure we have enough information about each game to evaluate in real-time before offering it to Select and Kids accounts based on the maturity of the game’s content,” says spokeswoman Juliette Chaitin-Lefcourt. Edge.

Chaitin-Lefcourt couldn’t share which games might be available for Kids and Select accounts because “the games haven’t gone through the three-step review process” yet. But Roblox believes that “the majority” of user-favorite games that go through the review process will be “ready and waiting” for players to come back to, it says.

The company is also introducing some new parental controls, including the ability for parents to block their child’s individual games until that child turns 16. Roblox plans to make all of the updates announced Monday fully available worldwide by the beginning of June.