- Move comes shortly after Instagram was barred in the country
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Turkey has blocked access in the country to popular online games platform Roblox.
Mobidictum and Turkiye Today reported that the game was banned on Wednesday, August 7th, though no reason has been given publicly.
The move comes days after the country’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) announced photo and video sharing social network Instagram would also be blocked.
Turkish Minute said government officials had accused the platform of censorship and failing to remove ‘offensive’ posts.
Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu also posted the news on Twitter (now known as X), calling the Roblox ban “incomprehensible”.
PocketGamer.biz has reached out for comment on the matter.
Roblox in numbers
According to AppMagic estimates, since January 2015, Roblox has accumulated 41.3 million downloads and made $37.5m from player spending across the App Store and Google Play in Turkey. The country is said to have a population of approximately 85m people.
Roblox recently reported its Q2 2024 earnings, revealing that it had 79.5m daily active users worldwide, a rise of 21% year-over-year.
The company generated $893.5m in total revenue last quarter, up 31% Y/Y, while bookings rose by 22% Y/Y to $955.2m. The firm posted a net loss of $207m.
