On November 9, 2026, Roblox announced Ban Lists on its Developer Forum, for launch on January 29, 2027: from that day, a creator can ban a player from all of their games at once, and share that list with other creators, or with everyone. Games also get a Rules tab, and a banned player can appeal from the game's page.
What Roblox announced
A ban list is a list of banned players that a creator links to one or more games. Every player on a linked list is blocked from joining those games, and a list applies to the whole game.
- Where it lives: creators make and manage their lists in the Creator Dashboard, where they also choose who a list is shared with and handle its appeals.
- How a list fills up: through the BanAsync function creators already use, which gets a new optional parameter to name the lists a ban goes into. One call can add a player to several lists.
- Who can use a list: its owner, the creators it is shared with (read-only for them), or everyone, if its owner makes it public.
- Lists kept outside Roblox: creators can import them through Open Cloud. Roblox says such off-platform lists are "often against our policy", and that their owners will be able to move to its own system.
In its announcement, Roblox set the launch for January 29, 2027, before Scoped User IDs, a separate change to user identifiers that it said it would detail as its January rollout got closer.
What players see once it launches
The announcement shows what players meet, in screens all marked "not final design" on November 9:
- A Rules tab on each game, with the game's own rules and the rules of every ban list linked to it.
- A message in the game as soon as you are banned, with the reason the creator gives. Roblox says it is the creator's job to name the rule that was broken.
- A ban notice on the game's page, with a way to start an appeal.
If a game will not open and its page shows no ban notice, check our Roblox server status first: an outage also stops players from joining.
When Roblox announced Ban Lists, bans were issued game by game: a creator who wanted to keep you out of several games had to ban you in each one, or use an outside tool, the practice Roblox says is often against its policy.