Roblox class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Minor plaintiff John Doe B.D., through his guardian Jane Doe T.F., filed a class action lawsuit against Roblox Corporation.
- Why: The lawsuit alleges Roblox exploits child labor through a closed virtual currency system that leaves many developers with no real pay.
- Where: The Roblox class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.
- How to get help: If your child plays Roblox for 15 hours or more each week and has shown symptoms of gaming addiction for at least 12 months, you may be eligible to join a Roblox addiction lawsuit.
A new class action lawsuit alleges Roblox Corporation “deliberately built a multi-billion-dollar empire on the unpaid and underpaid labor of children.”
Plaintiff John Doe B.D., a 13-year-old proceeding under a pseudonym, claims he was recruited by adult developers at age 11 and performed game design, development and testing — including advanced Lua scripting — for more than 40 hours per week while receiving no compensation.
The Roblox class action lawsuit alleges he opened an account at age 8 without meaningful age verification or verifiable parental consent.
His work was performed for adult-led DevEx developer teams whose games generated revenue for Roblox, and the complaint says his effective hourly pay was zero — far below both the federal minimum of $7.25 and California’s $16.50.
The plaintiff claims he was threatened with removal from the team if productivity slipped, pressured to work longer hours as deadlines approached and controlled by adult supervisors who held unilateral authority over all aspects of his working conditions.
He says he relied on Roblox’s promise that creators could “Earn Serious Cash,” and that Roblox never required a work permit or informed his parents.
Roblox extracts AI training rights from games built on child labor
The Roblox class action lawsuit also describes a system allegedly designed to extract value from child labor on a broader scale.
The complaint alleges Roblox requires every creator — including minors who lack legal capacity to contract — to grant a perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license to exploit their content in any medium, including artificial intelligence (AI) model training, without compensation.
Roblox’s Robux currency sits at the center of this alleged scheme, which the complaint compares to historical company scrip or a privately created “fake currency.”
Roblox sells Robux at approximately $0.0125 per unit but pays developers only $0.0035 to $0.0038 at cash-out, barring children under 13 from converting any earnings. Between 2019 and 2020, more than 960,000 developers earned Robux, but only 0.3% converted those earnings to real currency, the lawsuit alleges.
Additionally, the class action lawsuit alleges Roblox collected users’ birthdates during account creation for years, giving the company knowledge of users’ ages. Despite this knowledge, Roblox allegedly took no steps to verify parental consent before allowing minors to participate in its creator economy.
The plaintiff seeks to represent a nationwide class of all persons under 18 who created content or performed game development labor on the Roblox platform for adults, DevEx developers, or Roblox directly, and who received Robux, subminimum wage compensation or no compensation at all.
The plaintiff also seeks certification of a California subclass and an under-13 subclass while demanding all profits from AI training on child-created content be handed over to a governing trust.
Meanwhile, a California federal judge ordered a proposed data privacy class action lawsuit against Roblox to arbitration, finding users received adequate notice that clicking “Sign Up” or “Continue” bound them to the platform’s terms of use, including its arbitration agreement.
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Plaintiff is represented by Mazin A. Sbaiti, Christopher L. Ayers and Christopher J. Geddis of Sbaiti & Company PLLC; Sara D. Beller, Matthew A. Dolman and R. Stanley Gipe of Dolman Law Group; and Aaron Freedman, Robert J. Quigley and James Bilsborrow of Weitz & Luxenberg P.C.
The Roblox class action lawsuit is John Doe B.D. v. Roblox Corporation, Case No. 3:26-cv-04405, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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