$40k / Month From a Stolen Game — MMV Clone Network — SawThat

Case Study

$40k / Month From a Stolen Game

A coordinated network of Murder Mystery 2 clones, organised through a 1.6M-member Roblox community, generated tens of millions of visits (an estimated $40,000/month) and Roblox still hasn't caught up.

June 11, 2026<br>MMV — Murder Mystery clone network · May 18 – Jun 4, 2026

Total Visits (18 days)

~60.7M

across 10 clone instances

Clone Success Rate

60%

4/10 taken down by Roblox

Est. Monthly Earnings

$8k-$40K

from undetected clone games

Murder Mystery 2 is one of the Roblox all-time favourites, surviving a decade without players losing interest and sustaining a strong community that loves the in-game collectibles and trading dynamics. On the other hand though, with the popularity comes a community of impatient, often young players that enjoy just getting everything, whether it's real or not.

Hacks and leaks have made the source code of many old games available (source) which opened the opportunity for low effort clones and near-copies to be posted on Roblox using the leaked code. These clones were most often quickly detected and deleted by Roblox, even games with similar names but original content such as Murder Mystery V

MMV — Murder Mystery clone in-game

Stolen Opportunity

Some developers used the leaked code to recreate Murder Mystery 2, but made everything from the in-game store free, or added other hacks like flying. This attracted a lot of users who are impatient or who don't know the difference.

Obtaining the weapons and skins in MM2 takes a long time, as they're intended to be collectibles. While that version stays popular and those items feel valuable, the quick and fake version has sustained popularity.

Since it was based on stolen game code, and Roblox would remove the clones, the people behind the unfair clones are using the name MMV to be less obvious to Roblox detection. The following data shows MMV clone visit counts between May 18 to June 4, 2026 (about 18 days):

Instance<br>Total Visits<br>Status

#1~1.78MStill active<br>#2~1.35MTaken down<br>#3~2.26MTaken down<br>#4~5.16MStill active<br>#5~11.6MStill active<br>#6~5.5MStill active<br>#7~6.0MStill active<br>#8~16.9MStill active<br>#9~7.26MTaken down<br>#10~2.94MTaken down

Grand Total:~60.7M

Querying one of the clones for the list of in-game purchases returns an empty list:

GET<br>https://apis.roblox.com/developer-products/v2/universes/10286792329/developerproducts?limit=50&cursor=

Response · 200 OK

"developerProducts": [],<br>"nextPageCursor": null

Whereas querying Murder Mystery 2 https://games.roblox.com/v1/games?universeIds=66654135 returns 50 developerProducts

This means they are not attempting to make users pay for in game items. If the game later gets deleted or replaced, it would anyway create a lot of frustration that would probably put the players off returning.

Bots not needed

When someone joins one of the MMV games, they are immediately prompted to join a roblox community called MMV Backup. This group currently has 1.6M+ members. This group maintains the MMV community, and times everything to try to avoid detection and maximise profits.

Playing one of the games confirms that it actually is real players in-game, at least after the initial launch.

The community comments show the pattern. On 4 Jun 2026 1:50pm, one user posted a comment:

"What happened? Why did it shutdown? this is Lwk weird y did it shut down??"

And at 4 Jun 2026 1:58pm, one user posted a comment:

"SOMEONE TELL ME IF THEY FIND A NEW ONE OR IF THEY PUT IT BACK UP. ima be in a corner TWEAKING while I wait"

Including many more, then at exactly 2pm, there was a community announcement:

"MMV is back! https://www.roblox.com/games/96708659220473/MMV"

Getting thousands of hearts and thumbs up reactions.

Then on the 7th June, according to comments it appeared to die out.<br>Now joining that version of the game gives: This experience is not available because it is unrated.

According to other comments, they have just been kicked out of the servers:

"DID MMV GET BANNED ?? my mmv disconnected and when i tried to join back it was FULLY gone ..? when will it be reuploaded"

With some users saying that the reason is because they set the servers to 16+ only.

The quick buck

Based on the rate of clones being posted and successfully obtaining millions of users, and assuming that a clone earns $0.0001–$0.0005 per visit through Roblox's Daily Engagement Rewards payout and Premium Playtime payouts, the above sample (about 18 days) earned $6,000–$30,000 total , which hits somewhere around the $12,000–$50,000/month ballpark.

If we assume that there wasn't time to withdraw the money from those games that were taken down, then the amount drops by 13.76M, to ~46.94M, although that's still between $5,000–$23,500 , or something like $8,000 to $40,000 / month

Disclaimer

I am not a ROBLOX developer and I have never earned money from it. The estimates are created with the help of AI

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