Roblox's official Chinese logo, from Chinese media; as part of Tencent-Roblox collaboration
Posted Oct 7, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC
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The logo reads "罗布乐思" (traditional chinese: 羅布樂思), romanized as Luóbùlèsī. It is a transliteration of "Roblox" into Chinese. I don't know Chinese but I think it means something along the lines of "collect/display and publish fun thoughts/[your] imagination" or "collect/display and make [your creations] known with joy, and think."
Tencent is now using their qq.com domain to host the Chinese version of Roblox: https://roblox.qq.com/
The site also serves as a proxy of the Roblox website: https://www.roblox.qq.com/games/?SortFilter=default&TimeFilter=0
User-provided text containing roblox.com links get automatically changed to roblox.qq.com, as exemplified by this game (https://www.roblox.qq.com/games/184848810/roblox-com) and this profile (https://www.roblox.qq.com/users/74771710/profile); compare the roblox.com versions of these pages for reference.
It is unknown how they will handle content/media that is illegal in China (e.g. LGBT topics, tiananmen square, etc.) since you can currently publish that kind of content on Roblox without censorship.
External links regarding the Tencent-Roblox partnership and new logo, from Chinese-language media:
Digital authoring tool Roblox announces Chinese name and begins testing in China, from 4399: http://news.4399.com/roblox/zixun/m/899463.html
Roblox introduces Chinese name "Luóbùlèsī", from PTT News: https://pttnews.cc/b89bbca4c9
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hoi you forgot to show translation of the chinese version name. because as i know they dont have something like katakana in japanese to pronounce english, so they have to make sense for game's name
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ah ur right, added
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arigato or should i say xiexie (wtf is chinese romanisation)
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lol np
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can I sign in with my US account?
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wouldn't recommend it.
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you can, and everything works fine, but it's slightly slower than the main site. not sure if tencent or the chinese government collect or track anything when you do so but they probably can't do much if you're outside of greater china. u/FrozenNoober
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Really cool!
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Now if you were to support Hong Kong you'll prob be banned.
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Super cool!
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why isnt rthro into it :(
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I came across the chinese website a few months ago so i searched up winnie the pooh just to trigger the president of China lol
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LET'S GO GAMERS ROBLOX CHINA
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I can search winnie the pooh on the website
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I think the Chinese version would just be the same as the version we use except Muslims' organs are being harvested in conce- Whoops! I wasn't supposed to say that! Now I got to make sure to never step a foot into China or else I will be arrested at the airport. for totalitarian propaganda being shown on every advertizement and much higher levels of cencorship.
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Current best option for Roblox is to decline Tencent cause soon enough Tencent will put their hands on Roblox’s shoulder and take away their rights and censor the heck out of Roblox in short sentence destroy the Roblox community . Tencent is owning many small parts of big game company like Ubisoft 10% owned by Tencent . All of Mobile version of PC games are owned by Tencent , Epic Games are 50% owned by Tencent . Losing a big market in China is okay but losing a loyal market is not good for Roblox eyes , I can understand since that Roblox is already digging themselves a grave by removing probably the most popular feature “Builders Club” with a worse plan Roblox Premium
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Current best option for Roblox is to decline Tencent cause soon enough Tencent will put their hands on Roblox’s shoulder and take away their rights and censor the heck out of Roblox in short sentence destroy the Roblox community
i appreciate your concern but that’s not what’s happening any time soon
I can understand since that Roblox is already digging themselves a grave by removing probably the most popular feature “Builders Club” with a worse plan Roblox Premium
tfw a renaming means roblox dies
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Losing a big market in China is okay but losing a loyal market is not good for Roblox eyes
Can you please elaborate on why forming a "joint-venture company" with Tencent is bad for Roblox as a whole? Censorship normally happens on China's side, and there is that API they allows them to so this with games so far.
I can understand since that Roblox is already digging themselves a grave by removing probably the most popular feature “Builders Club” with a worse plan Roblox Premium
This reeks of lack of research.
Roblox Premium has the same benefits as Outrageous Builders Club except for the way your Robux allowance works and the removal of the restrictions on Builders Club only catalog items. Even the lowest tier Premium 450 gives you the same benefits as Premium 2200 except the amount of monthly Robux for just $4.99. That includes DevEx, which even more people now have access to now thanks to this change.
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This is likely the reason for the "New Moderation System" seen at RDC 2019.
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1989年天安门大屠杀
nothing happened in that square
Nothing happened in the forbidden city that day. ^(/s)