Too bad they never implemented Linux support, and can't fix their network code to work in Wine either. Minecraft despite being controlled by MS now, still has a working Linux client.
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Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
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Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#22Unfortunately neither Minecraft: Bedrock Edition or Roblox really works in Linux.
it is a tautology that minecraft for windows doesnt work in linux. actual minecraft had always worked in linux.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#23Roblox has grown big on other peoples IP. My kids are only interested in it so they can play a Minions game or a Spiderman game. I guess that's how YouTube got big too.
Its better than apps with in app purchases and ads.
I had to remove Roblox from our devices because all of the levels my daughter would load were either not age appropriate or would put IAP purchase buttons under the controls so you couldn’t avoid hitting them accidentally. It was incredibly scummy. My kids are young so maybe they just don’t know how/where to find decent levels but it felt gross and wasn’t something we wanted to encourage. IAPs were absolutely everywhere in the levels I saw her playing before we made the call.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#24It's a minigame-oriented Second Life for kids. With all the time I split between that and Minecraft growing up, Roblox's popularity doesn't surprise me.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#25I used to play Roblox when I was a teenager. The game has a scripting engine that players can use to program their own levels/events in Lua. The code editing/debugging was pretty tough to use when I was playing it, but it's one of the reasons I got into programming. I learned about programming, viruses, and hacking through Roblox. People write all kinds of amazing scripts on Roblox that you can download and put into your own levels.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#26Too bad they never implemented Linux support, and can't fix their network code to work in Wine either. Minecraft despite being controlled by MS now, still has a working Linux client.
Not only does Minecraft work on Linux for me... on the same machine with some weird old intel integrated graphics drivers, opengl flat out doesn't work/isn't supported on Win10!!
Nothing a jump drive and a .deb file can't fix! Thanks MS for having a heart.
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#27Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#28Too bad they never implemented Linux support, and can't fix their network code to work in Wine either. Minecraft despite being controlled by MS now, still has a working Linux client.
Not only does Minecraft work on Linux for me... on the same machine with some weird old intel integrated graphics drivers, opengl flat out doesn't work/isn't supported on Win10!! Nothing a jump drive and a .deb file can't fix! Thanks MS for having a heart.
For MS it's a major exception though (and only because they bought it already with Linux support). Their general gaming attitude is still quite anti-Linux.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#29Both of my kids played a lot of Roblox until we banned it. They easily became obsessed and were violent when removed, even with a tightly controlled schedule. They would try to connect to offer WiFi networks to get access and would steal our phones to get access. We ended up having to detox them like it was a drug.
Beyond that we found that the openly mod-able nature of the game allowed some remarkably disgusting 3D models and game modes. Just Google it. It was not hard to find a room with 50 kids holding adult store items and doing extremely inappropriate things.
The system is also rife with predators. One game let them share pictures somehow. Some guy was asking my daughters to send them pictures of their feet. Try to censor that request in chat, I guess.
This if course sets aside the caste system that is built on their in-game currency. Scammers can convince your kids to trade their favorite items away in a "trust trade".
Roblox is not appropriate in my experience.
Re: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
#30My 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.
I have to say that the parental controls are really strict, in particular the chat auto-moderation, to the point that any word or sentence that could be remotely considered inappropriate is censored. I suppose this is a good thing considering that most players are young kids.
Ah, interesting. That explains the Roblox memes I see from time to time with very odd grammar. "Go commit neck rope", "I will un-alive you", and "Do you are have stupid?"