Roblox is engaging in illegal anti-competitive anti-trust practices on their platform as of late. Anybody who is angry about their headless avatar accessories and headless avatars being banned except the official headless horseman avatar, they have an legal avenue they can follow. They should file anti-trust complaints against Roblox either through their state Attorney Generals or through the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Legally Roblox has to allow competing accessories and competing products to their products when they claim to run a marketplace where they are supposed to remain neutral.
Roblox is only permitting headless horseman and no other competing products in their marketplace. See Headless Horseman – Roblox.
According to Kreekcraft, a reputable Roblox YouTuber, Roblox is making official policy banning all fake headless and deleting all of them from the marketplace and only permitting people to buy headless horseman on Roblox marketplace. See Why did Roblox ban headless?
The problem is you can only buy headless horseman during the October Halloween period, and all other periods you are not allowed to buy headless horseman.
When you can buy headless horseman during the October period, they charge hundreds of dollars of U.S. money to buy that one single digital avatar product. They will not allow any competing products even if it is their own designs and not based on headless horseman. Roblox is engaging in anti-trust behavior.
We asked the AI on Bing if Roblox’s behavior likely violates the anti-trust laws. It believes so.
Even Google had lost an anti-trust lawsuit and was ordered to open up their Play Store to competing products or competing providers. Roblox can be held liable for banning fake headless since Roblox cannot patent the idea of headless horseman since it is as old as ancient folklore.
A corporate platform as big as Google lost the anti-trust lawsuit when they dictated what was allowed in their mobile Google Play app-store thus not allowing competition in their monopoly. Roblox is engaging in the same behavior here. Roblox should be sued as soon as they remove your fake headless avatar.
A federal judge has ordered Google to open up its Google Play Store to third-party app stores, allowing rival app stores to access the entire catalog of apps available on Google Play. This ruling, issued by Judge James Donato, is part of a legal victory by Epic Games against Google, which alleged that Google’s practices constituted an illegal monopoly. The injunction will remain in effect for three years, starting from November 1, 2024, and requires Google to allow third-party app stores to operate within its platform, prohibiting Google from requiring developers to use its own billing system for in-app purchases and from preinstalling Google Play on devices.
Judge orders Google to distribute third-party app stores on Google Play – Ars Technica
Now if people are selling headless horseman duplicates, Roblox can argue that violates their copyright or patents. However fake headless is just simply any avatar can be headless and not have to be headless horseman. Roblox is making everybody be headless horseman at expensive rates or they cannot be headless at all. Using AI moderation to control and dictate their marketplace to only allow their product to be purchased for a certain genre such as “headless” avatars. This is monopolistic since headless avatars is not simply a Roblox patentable idea. The headless horseman design can be patented, but not the idea of a headless avatar since it dates back centuries talking about the headless horseman since even the days of Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. Sir nearly headless Nick was in that movie.
Harry Potter movie was released on November 16, 2001. Years before the creation and foundation of ROBLOX CORPORATION. Roblox was formed in 2004; 21 years ago in Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Headless horseman had been old folklore and is not Roblox’s original idea. Headless Horseman – Wikipedia. If Roblox claims only they made headless horseman or was their own idea, that is a lie. They made only the design of their headless horseman avatar but did not come up with the idea of headless horseman themselves.
The Headless Horseman is an archetype of mythical figure that has appeared in folklore around Europe since the Middle Ages.[1] The figures are traditionally depicted as riders on horseback who are missing their heads. These myths have since inspired a number of stories and characters in culture around the world, including “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow“.
Headless Horseman – Wikipedia
If you ask Bing AI to do deep thinking and research on headless NPCs or headless avatars, it is clear that Roblox is not the only game industry using a headless character or headless avatar.
Asking Bing AI: Can you provide me a list of video games and year of those video games being published which contain a headless avatar, headless NPC, headless player, headless character, headless horseman?
Quick answer: Below are notable video games that include headless avatars, NPCs, player characters, or a Headless Horseman, with the year each game was published and a short note about the headless presence.
Headless characters in games
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Dead No‑Head — 2022. Play as a literal headless protagonist (Norix) who searches for his missing head; the game was released on PC in 2022.
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth — 2014. Features a Headless Horseman Harbinger boss (and related “pony” item) that can appear as a boss encounter in runs; Rebirth was released in 2014.
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Assassin’s Creed III — 2012. Includes a mission/sequence involving the Headless Horseman legend (Frontiersmen/Headless Horseman memory) in the Frontier content; the game was published in 2012.
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World of Warcraft — 2004 (Hallow’s End seasonal content). The game’s Hallow’s End seasonal event centers on the Headless Horseman encounter (Scarlet Monastery / event boss) that players fight during the Halloween event; WoW originally launched in 2004 and the Horseman is a recurring seasonal boss.
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Dark Souls II — 2014. The game contains several headless enemies and special head/body enemy variants (e.g., Vengarl’s separated head and headless bodies) in the 2014 release.
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The Wolf Among Us — 2013. Includes a Book of Fables entry for the Headless Horseman (an in‑game collectible/entry referencing the headless legend); the episodic adventure was released in 2013.
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice — 2019. Features multiple terrifying Headless mini‑boss enemies (ghostly, headless foes that require special items/strategies); Sekiro was released in 2019.
Notes and scope
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What I included: games with explicit headless entities (player characters who are headless, headless NPCs/enemies, or clear Headless Horseman appearances). Each line lists the game title, year of publication, and a one‑line description of the headless element, with a supporting source for that fact.
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Not exhaustive: there are many indie, jam, and smaller titles (and mods) that use headless characters (itch.io tags, fan mods, hidden‑object and casual games), so this list highlights widely known or well‑documented examples rather than every single occurrence.
According to copyright law and patent law, only original creative content and original creative inventions can be copyrighted or patented because somebody can challenge a wrongful patent being awarded to a single corporation. The idea has to originally come from the applicant who applies for a copyright or patent, otherwise then anybody can patent or copyright other people’s work easily or even do the same for public domain works. Somebody can petition the Patent and Trademark Office to revoke a patent or revoke a copyright upon proving the intellectual property claimant did not have the original idea or the idea is based on general knowledge of an idea or an old idea already made which the general public is easily aware of. Roblox cannot patent the idea of a headless avatar since that idea was not originally of Roblox themselves. They only can patent their original design of headless horseman but cannot punish folks for creating headless avatars of their own and selling it in Roblox marketplace as that itself can be viewed as anti-competitive.
Since Roblox is using AI moderation to ban all fake headless avatars, they are a monopoly on headless avatars by not allowing anybody to create or design their own headless avatars which does not match the design of headless horseman, so therefore would not violate Roblox’s patents or copyright since it is their own design and not their design. However, Roblox does not want any competition to any products they publish in their own marketplace. This stifles creativity, creates a defacto-monopoly on one of the only open online gaming platforms which use LUA scripting.
LEGAL MECHANISMS:
If you had sold any fake headless avatars or fake headless avatar accessories, or bought any fake headless avatars or fake headless avatar accessories and did your own headless avatar design, but Roblox had banned your item when it is not an exact duplicate of headless horseman but is your own headless avatar then you can fight Roblox legally through a few avenues.
File a complaint with your state’s Attorney General for anti-trust and monopolistic practices.
Also you can file complaints with both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and with the U.S. Department of Justice right away. Claim you are the victim of Roblox’s illegal crackdown on all headless avatars except their own product which they sell at an expensive rate and only during Halloween. People like to wear headless outside of Halloween. Roblox is controlling who can buy any products outside of their corporate products.
Antitrust Complaint Intake | Federal Trade Commission
State Antitrust Litigation and Settlement Database – NAAG
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