After being down for over two days, sandbox building game Roblox is slowly coming back online.
Users have been quick to fault Chipotle, which announced a promotion offering Roblox users free burritos for visiting their virtual Roblox store, with having caused the outage. However, Chipotle’s million dollars worth of free burritos are supposedly not to fault.
The company cited an internal issue as the cause of the outage, which began on Friday morning. We imagine that it made for a spooky weekend for scores of engineers and IT junkies, which were called in to resolve the issues so that people could play virtual Halloween games and visit the Roblox Chipotle. 🎃
Rest assured, Roblox might have bigger fish to fry than this temporary outage — at least in the grand scheme of things. Facebook’s announcement of their own digital metaverse has prompted analysts to question what the future might hold for development platforms like Roblox. It’s untold what competition might await them in the world of Web3 and Big Tech. 😳
$RBLX was up 1.6% on Friday… unfortunately, it’s likely to take a dip tomorrow because of this weekend’s outage. 😩