Minecraft-style game Roblox touts roughly 64 million monthly players and is geared toward children ages 7 and up.
The shocking incident managed to slip through despite the presence of the game’s moderators, which operate 24/7 to remove offensive content, and the ‘maximum privacy’ settings Petersen and her husband had put in place. ‘Then the 3 characters ran away, leaving my daughter’s avatar laying on her face in the middle of the playground.’ 'My sweet and innocent daughter’s avatar was being violently gang-raped on a playground by two males. A female observer approached them and proceeded to jump on her body at the end of the act. ‘At first, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,’ Petersen wrote on Facebook. The Minecraft-style game touts roughly 64 million monthly players and is geared toward children, with the ability to put in place certain restrictions for kids under the age of 13.īut, recent incidents have increasingly caused parents to sound the alarm.Īfter the latest, Petersen says she’s been left feeling ‘traumatized and violated on so many levels,’ and is now concerned about how the disturbing event may have affected her daughter. In other shots, the avatar can be seen lying alone on the playground (shown above) Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Disturbing screenshots too graphic to share show two male characters attacking the avatar before a third, female character jumps on top of her. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.
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