Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
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Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#2Well my anecdotal experience is that my kids saw videos on YouTube about other kids playing it and then they wanted to play it. I have no desire to play any of the games the popular games seem centered around nearly impossible “parkour” maps. But they love it and switch between it and Minecraft. I wonder how much of their playing base is just young kids.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#3Well my anecdotal experience is that my kids saw videos on YouTube about other kids playing it and then they wanted to play it. I have no desire to play any of the games the popular games seem centered around nearly impossible “parkour” maps. But they love it and switch between it and Minecraft. I wonder how much of their playing base is just young kids.
Roblox is overwhelmingly populated with kids. Much more so than Minecraft from what I've seen. The one big advantage it has over Minecraft is that it's easier to play together with friends from school. The kids all exchange their Roblox handles and put them on their seemingly enormous friends lists.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#4Well my anecdotal experience is that my kids saw videos on YouTube about other kids playing it and then they wanted to play it. I have no desire to play any of the games the popular games seem centered around nearly impossible “parkour” maps. But they love it and switch between it and Minecraft. I wonder how much of their playing base is just young kids.
Roblox is overwhelmingly populated with kids. Much more so than Minecraft from what I've seen. The one big advantage it has over Minecraft is that it's easier to play together with friends from school. The kids all exchange their Roblox handles and put them on their seemingly enormous friends lists.
How some simple things cause great progress. Like the whole swipe idea of Tinder. Or the fact that WhatsApp is tied to a phone number (to which a lot of people were used to already, and had them in their contacts).
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#5Honestly wish I'd known about this when I was younger. In my opinion this could be a gateway for younger coders to start working on larger projects.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#6This is amazing! Speaking as someone who played from ~2011-2013, seeing this type of growth in something I loved brings me nothing but good feelings. It also speaks a bit to a type of business model centered around tech that doesn't try to have completely explosive growth.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#7My 8 year old son switched to Roblox from Minecraft a while back, he loves it, he spends a lot of time in RobloxStudio making his own mini games. All seems quite cool, just make sure you turn on all the parental/privacy controls, there is a high amount of interaction with random other players.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#8Unfortunately neither Minecraft: Bedrock Edition or Roblox really works in Linux.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#9Unfortunately neither Minecraft: Bedrock Edition or Roblox really works in Linux.
I don't know how it compares but Minetest is always a thing
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#10My 8-year-old daughter has paid a lot more attention to Roblox than Minecraft lately. Being able to connect with friends there is definitely a factor, but I think she's also drawn in by the seemingly endless supply of new content. One game or genre getting boring or frustrating? There are dozens of not-bad others waiting right there, clamoring for attention. And honestly, that makes me a bit uncomfortable: it feels like it's actively encouraging a short attention span and shallow engagement.
The thing that I miss most about her Minecraft phase is that as far as I can tell, at least on a tablet (where she usually plays) Roblox is all about consuming other people's content rather than creatively building your own. That makes me sad. I'm sure she'll shift gears again eventually (in fact, she and her friends have been occasionally picking Minecraft back up lately), so maybe I shouldn't be so antsy waiting for that time to come.