Estate planning as a Roblox account holder

Roblox is a gaming and creator platform with a large population of minors whose accounts may be overseen by a parent or guardian through a linked parent account. A single Roblox account can hold several very different things: Robux (virtual currency), a library of purchased avatar items, a collectible Limited and Limited U inventory that has a real resale market inside Roblox, created experiences that may generate ongoing Robux revenue, Community (group) ownership with its own experiences and Robux funds, a Roblox Plus or legacy Roblox Premium subscription, and Developer Exchange (DevEx) eligibility to convert Earned Robux to real money. The distinction that matters to an estate is that only EARNED Robux can become cash: Roblox states that Robux acquired through a gift card redemption or direct purchase, a Premium monthly stipend, or the trading or resale of in-experience items are not eligible for DevEx. The published DevEx exchange rates are $0.0038 per Robux for Earned Robux accrued on or after 10 AM PT on September 5, 2025, $0.0035 per Robux for earlier earnings, and a US 18+ DevEx rate of $0.0054 per Robux effective June 8, 2026 for eligible in-game spend by age-verified 18-and-over United States players. The published minimum cash-out is 30,000 Earned Robux, and Roblox states the DevEx request requires the account holder's own legal name, identity verification, and a W-9 or W-8 on file.

Under Roblox's terms, accounts are not property of the account holder and are forfeited when the account closes at death. No estate planning document—will, trust, or otherwise—can override this forfeiture.

What happens at death

Roblox publishes no bereavement, estate, or deceased-user process. A scan of all 379 English help-centre articles found no death, estate, inheritance, memorialization, or next-of-kin provision anywhere: every occurrence of "death", "estate", or "personal representative" in the corpus is a liability carve-out, an advertising-policy line, an IRS definition of a U.S. person, or boilerplate assignment language, and "deceased" appears exactly once, in a rule forbidding advertisements for services that claim to interface with the deceased. The Terms of Use (Effective Date May 19, 2026) grant "a non-exclusive, limited, revocable, non-transferable license to use the Services," and state that "Selling your Account or your access credentials to another User is strictly prohibited. Similarly, purchasing another User's Account or access credentials is strictly prohibited." Robux is governed by the same logic: "Robux have no equivalent value in real currency," and acquiring Robux "only entitles you to receive a limited, non-transferable, revocable license to use Robux." On suspension or termination, Roblox states that the action "may also involve the suspension or termination of access to any content you have acquired on the Services, including without limitation Robux, Experience access, In-Experience Items, and Virtual Items," and separately that "all payments for Robux are final and not refundable" except as required by law. There is one narrow written exception in the Terms: "transferring an Account in connection with the sale of the right to earn Robux from the sale of Virtual Content created by that Account, pursuant to a valid written agreement, is permitted. This exception does not permit the sale of Robux or Virtual Content outside the Services." That clause is written for a creator selling a revenue-producing account, is not marketed as an estate pathway, and its application to an inheritance is not addressed anywhere in Roblox's published guidance.