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Parents worried about children's safety shouldn't let them play Roblox, company boss says
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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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A good deal of people making ~~games~~ experiences on Roblox are minors. They're being promised revenues, but of course they're paid with bogus money that they're encouraged to spend back on the platform, since cashing back is subject to an absolutely ridiculous rate, and to a minimum amount. Only the very few at the top can pretend to get anything back as real money. But all of the games, even the ones that never makes a cent for their creators, are the content Roblox milks indefinitely.
Roblox development is a jungle, completely unregulated and managed outside of the platform by design, since they want to deny all responsibility for any of that shit. They kill the platform forums so dev teams are being formed outside, on discords and stuff. Teams with minors working with adults. Yes, there were cases of exploitation, and worse.
Jesus christ. Here I was imagining something like vortex mods or steam workshop, didn't realize modding was incentivized beyond creative passion.
Yeah, it stinks. Another thing that makes me wish we'd got that Dreams PC port that was apparently considered at one point.
Very cool platform, powerful yet (somewhat) easy to use, and no other incentive than creating and sharing cool stuff. It's mostly dead now , but PC would have given it the critical user mass it needed.
Thanks for fielding this one, I didn't have the mental energy tbh