Summary
- Roblox experienced its third major service disruption event in October, causing the game to go offline for most of the weekend.
- Server outages have been a recurring problem for Roblox since its launch in 2006, with an average of over three disruptions per month in 2023.
- The recent outage was resolved relatively quickly compared to previous severe outages that kept Roblox offline for days at a time.
Roblox is back online following yet another major service disruption event that kept it offline for the better part of the weekend. The incident marked the third occasion on which Roblox was down since the turn of October.
Server outages have been a fairly frequent problem for Roblox since the hit sandbox game first launched in 2006. PS4 and PS5 owners already got to experience one such partial service disruption on October 11, only 24 hours after Roblox finally reached PlayStation. And while that incident only brought down some instance servers, this past weekend saw Roblox become inaccessible to both players and content creators alike.
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According to the game's official status tracker, the issues started on Saturday, October 21, around 7 a.m. PT, when all Roblox servers seemingly went offline at the same time. And while the developers took some 90 minutes to mark the problem as resolved, the outage turned out to be anything but, as Roblox went down again within minutes of that move. The next fix took over four hours to implement and jolted the game's servers back to life for about as long. However, Roblox Corporation reported it was still seeing outages across the board come Saturday evening.
The Roblox ecosystem was finally fully back online by Sunday afternoon, Pacific Time, and has remained available ever since. Who or what is to blame for the latest Roblox outage is unclear, although the 503 HTTP error that most players and content creators were getting over the weekend indicates that the developers were grappling with some severe infrastructure issues during this past weekend. For reference, the said response code is issued in cases when there are no servers to handle the client's connection request, whether because they are all overloaded or because the DNS network was unable to find one that works at all.
Whatever the root cause of this latest outage may be, the incident kept Roblox offline for the better part of the weekend. Some third-party developers took to social media to express their frustrations with this turn of events, arguing that the service disruption robbed them of another prime opportunity to work on content in between their day jobs.
As far as global outages go, this late October incident was actually resolved fairly quickly, as the most severe such cases historically kept Roblox offline for days at a time. The popular sandbox game has been averaging over three service disruptions per month since the start of 2023, as per its official issue tracker.
Roblox is available on mobile devices, PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox One.
Source: Roblox