Roblox Recap: November 2024

Catch up on the latest and greatest Roblox platform news, updates, and announcements for the month of November 2024.

Bloxy News
3 min readDec 1, 2024

Hello, Robloxians! Thanks for tuning in to the Roblox Recap monthly newsletter, a quick and easy way to get caught up on everything happening each month on the Roblox platform. Here’s a summary of the latest and greatest news, updates, and announcements for November 2024…

New Features

  • Leave feedback when upvoting/downvoting an experience
  • Improved Performance with Occlusion Culling (Studio Beta)
  • Curate and sell outfits on the Avatar Marketplace
  • Report individual chat messages in experience Chats
  • Manually set experience Genre and Subgenres
  • Thumbnail personalization
  • Channel Tabs & UI Gradient now Available in TextChatService
  • Mesh & Image APIs now available in published experiences
  • Studio Script Sync (Alpha)
  • Quality filter on Trades page
  • Marketplace fee for selling Roblox-created Limited items lowered to 30%

Updates

  • Friend limit increased to 250 users
  • Earn up to 25% more Robux when purchasing on computer/web
  • VR Support for Gamepad Emulator in Studio
  • Analytics: View acquisition sources for curation, continue play, charts, and search ads
  • Studio Solid Modeling (CSG) performance and robustness improvements
  • Improvements to Avatar Auto-Setup (Studio Beta)
  • Improved Pathfinding Algorithm
  • Avatar Joint Upgrade: Enabling Physically-Simulated Characters (Studio Beta)
  • Visibility of previous usernames on profiles temporarily disabled
  • Updates to Roblox Terms of Use

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Roblox Communities

  • Groups rebranded as Communities
  • NEW: Permanently ban users (and alt accounts) from a Community
  • NEW: Additional Permissions for Creator Group Roles in Creator Hub
  • NEW: Asset Privacy and Permissions for Audio and Video

Changes to Child Accounts and Parental Controls

  • New Parental Controls
  • Roblox Chat disabled for users <13, permission needed for Experience Chat in 2025
  • Changes to discovery and playability of unrated experiences for users <13
  • Posting to and visibility of Community Walls removed for users <13

Coming Soon

  • Paid Access experiences eligible for Engagement Based Payouts (December 3, 2024)
  • Forums within Communities (2025)

Events

  • Black Friday Sale on the Avatar Marketplace

Corporate

  • Applications open: 2025 Community Apprenticeship - Product Design hiring program at Roblox HQ
  • Roblox to open new office in Washington DC in Q1 2025 for lobbying United States lawmakers

In case you missed it…

Catch up on the October 2024 Recap for a full list of news, updates, and announcements released last month:

Tune in to the latest episode of Bloxy News: LIVE today (December 1, 2024) at 9:00AM PT where everything in this Blog post was showcased in detail live on stream, plus a special announcement:

That’s a wrap! Check back next month for a new Roblox Recap, and follow Bloxy News on social media to keep up to date with the latest and greatest Roblox news! Whatever’s happening on Roblox, it’s all here.

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