Roblox is shutting down its video chat service

Roblox 即将关闭其视频聊天服务

Roblox will be shutting down Roblox Connect, its video calling service introduced in 2023. Roblox 即将关闭其于 2023 年推出的视频通话服务 Roblox Connect。

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 允许用户使用 Roblox 虚拟形象进行视频聊天，该形象能够模仿用户在现实生活中的动作。用户还可以在共享的虚拟环境中与通话对象一起走动。但该公司在一份声明中表示，13 岁及以上的用户“主要”通过平台的派对语音聊天功能进行通话。

“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 feature instead to make private voice calls with Trusted Friends on Roblox.” Roblox 发言人 Angela Allison 告诉 The Verge：“Roblox Connect 将于今日停止服务，包括面向开发者的 API 以及 Roblox Connect 功能本身。13 岁及以上的用户现在主要使用我们近期推出的‘派对语音’（Party Voice）功能，与 Roblox 上的‘受信任好友’进行私人语音通话。”

In a post last month announcing the shutdown of the APIs, a Roblox staffer noted that Party Voice “handles private voice chat in a way that’s more capable and better suited to how players use Roblox today.” 在上个月宣布关闭相关 API 的帖子中，一名 Roblox 工作人员指出，派对语音功能“以一种更强大且更符合玩家当前使用习惯的方式处理私人语音聊天”。

To be able to use Party Voice, a user’s age must be verified by Roblox to be 13 or older. 要使用派对语音功能，用户的年龄必须经过 Roblox 验证，确认已满 13 岁。

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. 当 Connect 最初发布时，Roblox 曾表示打算将该功能开源，但我目前无法确认这一计划是否已经实现。我已经向该公司询问了相关细节。