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Re: The Roblox Microverse

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Post by juskrey » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

quornxypt wrote: post #5

juskrey wrote: post #4

All I can say is roblox banned in our home network: the whole user experience is targeted to make children judge each other using wrong incentives and extort money from parents. On the other hand I have no problems paying children for games with honorable practices of one time purchase or reasonable subscriptions (which usually end in a month in any case when children get bored)

Can you expand on how the experience is targeted to make children judge each other? Has this been something your kid(s) experienced on the platform? Just curious.

My daughter have asked me several times if I can spend at least something because other children somehow see she is not a paying user and segregate on that basis

Re: The Roblox Microverse

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Post by ryanmarsh » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

I now have 5 or so years experience with Roblox in the house. I've helped my kids make games and I have to say, VC is missing out big time. Roblox (or the concept) has an enormous TAM. Roblox corp is struggling with DX DevRel and moderation. It's an absolute fucking zoo and the tools are shit. Major game publishers have had their accounts taken over by scammers, or just shut down by Roblox because of scammers trying to steal their accounts.

Somebody who understands product, gaming, and devrel could really knock this out of the park. Please do it, so I can go back to making games with my kids.

Re: The Roblox Microverse

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Post by guidoism » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

Roblox pisses me off so so much as a parent. There are some good games but it's mostly wading through an ocean of shit. And the vast majority of games that are popular are clickers that incentivize children to pay money to get more for each of their clicks.

And it's full of scams. Kids spend $10 for a hat or something in the game and it doesn't end up working in all the games and there's no recourse. It's a true free-for-all wild-west.

What we can learn from it is: 1. Making games easy to make and distribute. It's honestly amazing what kids are doing these days. I give Roblox a lot of credit for this. 2. Roblox has become an awesome way for kids to communicate with each other, they share their username at the playground.

Re: The Roblox Microverse

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Post by csharptwdec19 » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

antidaily wrote: post #6

Is anyone making money off Roblox? Tried to make some gear so my son could make money and stop asking me for Robux. Failed miserably. Anyway, I'll be buying stock.

Roblox is.

This is just a near-NCAA tier play by the company to make money off child labor. Change my mind.

Re: The Roblox Microverse

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Post by jayd16 » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

webwielder2 wrote: post #8

Totally ignorant perspective with perhaps no basis: Seems like Roblox must be successful despite its games, not because. I'm sure there are gems as there are with any user-generated platform, but surely most of the 18 million games are about what you used to get on Xbox Live Indie Games: sloppy little experiments made by, well, kids.

And Myspace was often hideous but that didn't matter.

It seems like a solid platform for young creators. They never played the classics anyway, so the million clones is probably not an issue.

Re: The Roblox Microverse

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Post by deelowe » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

webwielder2 wrote: post #8

Totally ignorant perspective with perhaps no basis: Seems like Roblox must be successful despite its games, not because. I'm sure there are gems as there are with any user-generated platform, but surely most of the 18 million games are about what you used to get on Xbox Live Indie Games: sloppy little experiments made by, well, kids.

When I watched my kids play Roblox, I realized it is a social media platform that happens to use games as the medium. Roblox shouldn't be compared to Games Platforms any more so than early YouTube should be compared to Television.

Re: The Roblox Microverse

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Post by joezydeco » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:11 PM UTC

antidaily wrote: post #6

Is anyone making money off Roblox? Tried to make some gear so my son could make money and stop asking me for Robux. Failed miserably. Anyway, I'll be buying stock.

My son's best friend is pulling down $1K/year doing Lua scripting and object modelling for people on a subcontracting basis.

He's 15. He acknowledges he could be pulling in a lot more money if he spent 2x or 4x the time on it. Or dropped out of high school, perhaps.

Re: The Roblox Microverse

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Post by antidaily » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

csharptwdec19 wrote: post #14

antidaily wrote: post #6

Is anyone making money off Roblox? Tried to make some gear so my son could make money and stop asking me for Robux. Failed miserably. Anyway, I'll be buying stock.

Roblox is. This is just a near-NCAA tier play by the company to make money off child labor. Change my mind.

No doubt about that. You have to have a premium account just to make and list items for sale.

Re: The Roblox Microverse

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Post by freewilly1040 » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

an_opabinia wrote: post #10

Roblox games are really clunky to make on PCs, let alone phones. You'll never be able to make one on a phone. It's crazy clunky. A third person character running around with virtual joysticks: so clunky. Roblox has been around longer than smartphones have, it has always been a port, much like Minecraft. Which sure, kids play. Roblox is probably setting back the arrival of the metaverse, not advancing it. Whatever tha…

> would never waste money on Robux

Why do you assume that? My nephew is obsessed with Roblox and has asked for Robux for his birthday, which he will probably get.

Re: The Roblox Microverse

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Post by Railworks2 » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

antidaily wrote: post #6

Is anyone making money off Roblox? Tried to make some gear so my son could make money and stop asking me for Robux. Failed miserably. Anyway, I'll be buying stock.

Yes. Both Roblox and developers (the game creators) do make money from Roblox. This is no small thing either, it is not abnormal for developers to buy expensive products from their earnings, some do create companies to hire employees to work on games.