Roblox is discontinuing its video chat service Roblox Connect, which allowed users to chat via avatars that mimic real-life movements, as users aged 13 and older prefer the platform's Party Voice feature for voice calls.
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Roblox will be shutting down Roblox Connect, its video calling service introduced in 2023.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Roblox Connect let you video chat with other people using your Roblox avatar, which would be able to mimic the movements you were making in real life. You could also run around with people on the call in a shared virtual environment. But in a statement, the company says that users 13 and older "predominantly" chat via the platform's party voice chat functionality for calls.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">"Roblox Connect is being discontinued today, including both the developer-facing APIs and the Roblox Connect feature itself," Roblox spokesperson Angela Allison tells <em>The Verge</em>. " …</p>
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# Roblox is shutting down its video chat service
Source: [https://www.theverge.com/games/966181/roblox-connect-video-chat-calling-service-shut-down](https://www.theverge.com/games/966181/roblox-connect-video-chat-calling-service-shut-down)
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Roblox will be shutting down Roblox Connect, its video calling service introduced in 2023\.
Roblox Connect let you video chat with other people using your Roblox avatar, which would be able to mimic the movements you were making in real life\. You could also run around with people on the call in a shared virtual environment\. But in a statement, the company says that users 13 and older “predominantly” chat via the platform’s party voice chat functionality for calls\.
“Roblox Connect is being discontinued today, including both the developer\-facing APIs and the Roblox Connect feature itself,” Roblox spokesperson Angela Allison tells*The Verge*\. “Users 13 and up predominantly use our more recent[Party Voice](https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000432483-Party-chat-In-App)feature instead to make private voice calls with Trusted Friends on Roblox\.”
In a post last month announcing the shutdown of the APIs, a Roblox staffer[noted that](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-connect-calling-apis-are-sunsetting-july-15/4684409)Party Voice “handles private voice chat in a way that’s more capable and better suited to how players use Roblox today\.”
To be able to[use Party Voice](https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000432483-Party-chat-In-App), a user’s age must be[verified by Roblox](https://www.theverge.com/news/856696/roblox-age-check-estimation-chat)to be 13 or older\.
When Connect was announced, Roblox said it intended to open source the feature, but I haven’t been able to find if that actually happened\. I’ve asked the company for details\.
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