games

Roblox is the inevitable, capitalistic result of any game that targets or has a major audience of children while relying heavily on additional purchases (ro-bux or whatever in their case) to do fun things or be seen as cool, better etc.

It's very simple. Children do not have access to money in any meaningful amount as they are children. Thus they cannot afford these things. Children also have poor decision making, poor impulse control, are naive, and so on and so forth. Their brains are not fully developed. They take excess risks without thinking of consequences. They're impulsive.

So what are a bunch of impulsive, poor impulse control, dying to fit in, naive, poor decision making, kids who need money to do? They get it from pedophiles who flock there to exchange their adult money and use their adult mental faculties to exploit, groom, and pay kids the thing they desperately need (in-game currency) in exchange for sexual exploitation.

This will never not be a problem. There are schemes for proving one is an adult with a state ID, face scans, AI comparisons, possession of a credit card, etc. There is no similar test or reliable way to authenticate a user as a guaranteed minor so you cannot keep adults out. You can totally kill all ability for player communication but that's not profitable (and also wouldn't stop a proliferation of third party sites enabling such "matchings" of kids who want money for robux with pedophiles). You could remove the in-game currency but that's not profitable. You could do your utmost to get rid of kid players and never target them in the first-place but that's not profitable.

The only solution is banning games with this kind of economy entirely or making a rule that if they target kids as an audience or develop a meaningful audience of children they cannot provably get rid of they are subject to painful loss of money in the form of this kind of stuff being banned for them until that ceases being the case. But that's not profitable.

So, online ID laws for porn or accessing speech platforms online = not protecting kids. Banning predatory games that target and groom minors to need real money to be cool, progress, have fun, etc = protecting kids. Only the former is actually being widely implemented across the west.