Due to the high cost of pets within the game, with some rare pets selling for up to US$100, a large number of scammers have risen up within the game. Adopt Me! was averaging 600,000 concurrent players as of June 2020, making it the most popular game on Roblox. As of October 2022, the game had been played upwards of thirty billion times. Adopt Me! is a massively multiplayer online game where the nominal focus is players pretending to be either parents adopting a child, or children getting adopted, though the de facto focus is around adopting and caring for many different pets, who can be traded with other players.
