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Roblox follows Minecraft into the education market

• shmerl 8y ago
  They should fix their mess, so it would work in Wine[1]. Or better release it for Linux to begin with. 1. https://github.com/roblox-linux-wrapper/roblox-linux-wrapper/issues/135 https://github.com/roblox-linux-wrapper/roblox-linux-wrapper...
• lifeisstillgood 8y ago
  I am parent to three kids and am encouraging and happy to see them playing minecraft - the local lan facility is where almost all their online playtime goes. But roblox, after a ton of pestering we downloaded it, i don't know who messaged my kids, i don't know who ran round setting people on fire. honestly i don't care. in the remainder bin of history
  • SOLAR_FIELDS 8y ago
    Roblox also has IMO some dark UI patterns intended to make kids buy things in the game. Minecraft is a much healthier game.
    • Nullabillity 8y ago
      Microtransactions have no place in any game, let alone one directed at kids.
• seabird 8y ago
  Hilariously enough, Roblox provides what is likely one of the best programming/development environments for a game targeting a very young audience. Making a change of any sort to Minecraft is needlessly arcane; decompile, deobfuscate, no official tooling, no API, boatloads of incompatible attempts at implementing one, etc. Although I guess it would prepare kids for the reality of "buttons-to-push-the-buttons" software engineering, Roblox is the development process that could have been, but wasn't.