The Pirated Version

Hello. My name is Devin. I always liked video games growing up. In fact, I plan to become a video game developer one day.

A few days ago, I was browsing on YouTube and I found a video of this game called Roblox. It looked really fun and interesting so I went into my browser and searched “Roblox download”. I clicked on the first result and it opened to a website with a giant “Download” button in the middle. I clicked the button and it froze for a short moment. I waited about a minute and it was finally installed on the computer.

I launched up the game and it told me to create an account. I did what it said and it bring me to a big list of different games to play. I clicked on one of the games. It was called “Adopt Me!”. I played for a little bit and was able to decorate my house. It seemed normal at first, until the game started to slightly lag. I didn’t really question it, my computer was a little old so that wasn’t a surprise. I walked outside of my house and saw dead bodies scattered around the map. The bodies and blood looked extremely realistic. The sky was also red. It freaked me out so bad that I immediately pressed Alt + F4 to hopefully shut down my computer but it didn’t work. I tried to open the menu so I could leave the game but they option was grayed out. Since I had nothing else to do, I walked over to one of the bodies.

Big mistake.

I was instantly teleported to a black room. I waited a little while to see if something would happen. Eventually, a bunch of virus pop-ups appeared on the screen. I started panicking right away. I tried to close out the pop-ups but more and more kept on appearing and soon it got so bad that my computer crashed due to the amount of pop-ups. I wasn’t even able to sleep that night because of how much it scared me, and knowing that I probably lost so many important files.

The next day, I tried to turn on my computer and it worked. It was ridiculously laggy and there was a delay on my mouse. I noticed the Roblox app was no where to be found. It just vanished off my computer. I decided to search up the website URL I got the download from. Because everything was extremely laggy, I had to search it up on my phone. All it said was “The server could not be found.” It was like everything that related to this website randomly disappeared with no trace.

I won’t list the website URL for safety reasons, just in case if the website returns and a curious person tries to download the game. I don’t think the app that I installed was the real Roblox, it was a malware infested version of Roblox instead.