The Federal Court for the Northern District of California has rejected an attempt by Boris Said, Jr., the owner of the RBLXWild website, to close a class action filed by parents of underage Roblox players. 

According to them, the children spent the Robux virtual currency on gambling on a third-party platform that masqueraded as an entertainment service but actually operated as an online casino. Said insisted that Robux was not real money, which meant his website had not violated any laws.

Judge Vincent Chabria thought otherwise. The decision states that Robux has a real monetary value: it is bought for ordinary money, used to access digital goods, and can even be exchanged back through the Developer Exchange programme. 

Therefore, in the context of this case, Robux is equated to an “object of value” in the same way as real money. The court noted that California’s gambling laws are outdated, but they still cover such cases.

The case file says that RBLXWild brought in up to a five-figure amount of revenue daily, and Said personally supervised the work of the project. The court classified the site as an illegal iGaming operator, and the process will now move on to the next stage – the consideration of the essence of the parents’ claims. 

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