• slowcakes@programming.devEnglish
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      10 months ago

      In game micro transactions, all kids play Roblox and most games in Roblox require kids to spend money to partake in the activities of the server. And the currency is their own robux, which goes to the developers who made the game-modds.Roblox by it self is not a game, more of a platform to make games.

      The developers can then withdraw their robux to real corrency but they take a 40% fee for that.

      I’m not well vested in Roblox at all, but I know teachers and people who have middle aged kids, all of them are playing Roblox (the kids that is). On their ipads or computers, and parents buy them in-game currency to basically shut them up.

      Take this with a huge grain of salt, because I’m going on hear-say, but that is the gist of it. Kids buy robux to play Roblox.

        • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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          10 months ago

          Yeah GMod is a good comparison, but it’s more powerful and you can do a lot more stuff, even replace the player characters and UI elements other than one menu. They also have a lot more infrastructure like a marketplace (for both developer assets and avatar items). But it’s also more exploitative:

          Investigative journalism YouTube channel People Make Games accused the platform of “exploiting” younger game developers by promising them large amounts of money from creating games, only to apply high revenue cuts and leaving creators with little to no income. They likened the platform’s business model to a company scrip.[149][150] After Roblox requested the channel to take down the video, People Make Games released several more accusations towards Roblox, focused on an alleged lack of oversight of developers and a method for people to address developer abuse, leading to child developers being exploited for labor on third-party platform’s. They also criticized the platform’s virtual economy, comparing the limited collectibles market to gambling.[69][155][156][157] It has also been accused by Hindenburg Research of artificially inflating its monthly active player count.[158]

    • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Frankly I dislike something about Nintendo games in general. Maybe you’re like me. I can’t bring myself to appreciate any of those luigi donkey karts, they have such a childish vibe and aesthetic

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      10 months ago

      And Roblox. Aren’t they just using kids as free ways to create content while enabling grooming.