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Roblox is minting teen millionaires

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Re: Roblox is minting teen millionaires

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Post by 2001zhaozhao »

I come from the Minecraft modding/server community. There is interesting fact that I like to tell people about the sheer size of Roblox compared to other communities like Minecraft.

The largest Minecraft server in the world is Hypixel at around ~30K concurrent players. Most other servers are very far behind.

There is one Roblox game that looks and plays like Minecraft and copied one single gamemode (Bedwars) common in servers like Hypixel. It had 60K+ concurrent players last time I checked late last year.

There are almost definitely more people playing BedWars on Roblox than there are playing it on Minecraft at this very moment.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

Jabrov wrote: post #10
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or RuneScape.

RuneScape millionaires?

I had swim teammates who made at least hundreds of thousands minting and selling autominers on eBay. I assume if I knew a couple who did that well some made millions.

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Post by 0x3f »

zerr wrote: post #11
SoftTalker wrote: post #2

This is so far out of the realm of what I do with computers that I'm not even really sure what Roblox is. I guess sort of a virtual game world? Seems crazy that there's so much money in it.

And how does it differ from Second Life?

Kids in current year like it

Re: Roblox is minting teen millionaires

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Post by intrasight »

"According to the company, their monthly player base includes half of all American children under the age of 16." - Wikipedia

2 decades in the making, they are really hitting their stride. But they are not doing enough to protect children from predators and that's a huge legal and regulatory risk.

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Post by NuclearPM »

zerr wrote: post #11
SoftTalker wrote: post #2

This is so far out of the realm of what I do with computers that I'm not even really sure what Roblox is. I guess sort of a virtual game world? Seems crazy that there's so much money in it.

And how does it differ from Second Life?

The main difference is there that Roblox games are fun.

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Post by kentm »

zerr wrote: post #11
SoftTalker wrote: post #2

This is so far out of the realm of what I do with computers that I'm not even really sure what Roblox is. I guess sort of a virtual game world? Seems crazy that there's so much money in it.

And how does it differ from Second Life?

Second life is trying to be a metaverse in the style of snowcrash; it’s one big world. Roblox is more like Newgrounds, where you have a bunch of distinct games or experiences that you select from a menu, but skins and currency and whatnot are portable between the games.
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