Speculation is rife over another potential shutdown of Roblox, as the platform is targeted by lawsuits and TV investigations.

The famous "oof" sound from Roblox, which was comically played whenever you met your maker, is no more.

Roblox announced the news on their social media, saying: "due to a licensing issue we have removed the "oof" sound from Roblox and have created a replacement default sound which launches today ...

They can then explore ROBLOX — interacting with others by chatting, playing games, or collaborating on creative projects. There is no cost for this first plot of virtual land.

According to a Roblox Status Twitter account, which is not affiliated with Roblox, users attempting to log into the website were receiving 400 and runtime errors.

ROBLOX is still down hours after players started getting booted from the game – all 48 million of them. Reports of a Roblox outage first started popping up on social media over 12 hours ago ...

— Roblox (@Roblox) July 26, 2022 Related to sounds, due to a licensing issue we have removed the “oof” sound from Roblox and have created a replacement default sound which launches today.

However, now two years later, in their latest announcement Roblox has confirmed that the famous 'oof' sound effect would be removed.