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Roblox experienced a widespread outage on Tuesday, with thousands of users worldwide reporting problems accessing the gaming platform and logging into their accounts. Facebook/Roblox

Roblox players worldwide are currently hitting a wall as the gaming giant faces a massive service breakdown, leaving its 83 million daily users in the dark.

The trouble started late Thursday, December 18, 2025, with reports on Downdetector exploding around 11:30 PM ET and dragging well into Friday morning.

From North America to Asia, the story is the same: the site won't load, and the apps are freezing up.

The Infamous Error 9007 Returns

If you have tried logging in, you've likely seen the dreaded 'Service Unavailable' message, better known as Error Code 9007. This code acts as a digital 'closed' sign, appearing when your device cannot communicate with Roblox's backend servers. The result for thousands of players has been a frustrating loop of infinite loading screens or '504 Gateway Timeout' errors, a technical breakdown where one server hangs indefinitely while waiting for a response from another.

The data behind this disruption tells an even grimmer story; at the height of the spike, over 29,000 complaints were logged in the US alone, with connectivity failures hitting major metropolitan hotspots like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston the hardest.

Internal metrics suggest that roughly 63% of these users are entirely unable to access the website, while those who can get through are battling persistent server drops and unplayable lag.

Why Developers Are Worried

This isn't just about missing a few rounds of Blox Fruits or Royale High. Creators on the Roblox forums are sounding the alarm over 'DataStores.' These are the critical systems that save your levels, items, and Robux purchases.

When the platform is this unstable, these systems 'flicker.' There is a real fear that if you force your way into a game now, the server might return a 'nil' value, meaning your stats could temporarily reset, or your hard-earned progress could vanish into the digital void.

For a platform economy built on holiday sales and limited-time events, the timing couldn't be worse.

The 'Guilded' Theory and Holiday Stress

While the official status page at status.roblox.com says engineers are 'investigating,' they haven't given an apparent reason for the crash. This silence has led to heavy speculation. Many point out that today, December 19, marks the final shutdown of Guilded, the chat platform Roblox acquired for $90 million and later integrated into its ecosystem. The community theory is that pulling the plug on Guilded's backend might have inadvertently snapped a connection within Roblox's own integrated services.

Others are just having bad flashbacks to the 73-hour blackout of 2021. With the Christmas weekend almost here, traditionally the busiest time of the year for the platform, the pressure is on the engineering team to find a fix before the holiday rush officially begins.

What Should You Do

As of late Friday, some services are slowly crawling back to life, but stability in Europe and Asia remains 'degraded.' Users in India, in particular, are still reporting persistent 504 errors as of this afternoon.

The best advice from the developer community? Stay logged out for now. Pushing the servers right now is a gamble with your save data. While it's tempting to keep refreshing, wait for the green light on the official status page. Roblox says they are working 'diligently,' but until those service instances are confirmed stable, millions of gamers remain stuck in a digital waiting room.

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