Summary
Robloxis 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 whichRobloxwas downsince the turn of October.
Server outages have been a fairly frequent problem forRobloxsince 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 afterRobloxfinally reached PlayStation. And while that incident only brought down some instance servers, this past weekend sawRobloxbecome inaccessible to both players and content creators alike.
According to the game’s official status tracker, the issues started on Saturday, October 21, around 7 a.m. PT, when allRobloxservers 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, asRobloxwent 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.
TheRobloxecosystem was finally fully back online by Sunday afternoon, Pacific Time, and has remained available ever since. Who orwhat is to blame for the latestRobloxoutageis 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 keptRobloxoffline 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 historicallykeptRobloxoffline for daysat 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.
Robloxis available on mobile devices, PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox One.
