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Good grief. It's a game for kids. Nobody needs updates. They could even take the weekend off.

charcircuit 5y ago
>It's a game for kids There are companies that rely on Roblox for hosting their games so they can make money. This is the equivalent of cloud hosting going down.
- WhisperingShiba 5y ago
  I think you have a Kernel of truth in your statement, but perhaps you are overlooking how silly it is for someone's well-being to rely on a couple weeks of video game micro transaction. My heart goes out to the Devs in this category, but hopefully this is further impetus not to stake too much on tech services.
  - kjeetgill 5y ago
    It is business relationship like any other. There's always some risk with investing and relying on a business partner, but it's also reasonable to have expectations of cooperation and good faith.
    - WhisperingShiba 5y ago
      100%. Really, I'm more expressing my desire to live in a society which doesn't feel a constant (simulated) risk just to exist. This economy is just a game we play, and I think a lot of people don't know this, and also don't want to be part of it. I think to be working at the top of the Hierarchy of needs (in game development, for instance), people should demonstrably master the lower levels of the pyramid. We really can live in a way, where this is possible. We just have to collectively want it.
      - freewilly1040 5y ago
        Things in the physical world break down sometimes. It’s not a result of some calculated collective choice.
        WhisperingShiba 5y ago
        In my mind, that reinforces my point. One ought to try to mitigate risk to yourself by minimizing the amount of human infrastructure ones needs to keep life going.
- Hamuko 5y ago
  I thought they were just making money for Roblox and other big tech companies (who take like three fourths of the total pie).
  - charcircuit 5y ago
    You both make money
_yoqn 5y ago
As with all businesses Roblox has a paying customer base and the company has a responsibility to those customers.
- notjesse 5y ago
  I would also argue a responsibility to their shareholders. How much revenue would they have missed out on during this time? And how much will it affect their longer term growth? If I were a Roblox shareholder, I would be pretty annoyed by the silence.
  - Maarten88 5y ago
    How much growth and revenue would they have missed had they allocated more resources towards better security and recovery plans before this, instead of better features? As a shareholder, you own the company including its problems. You don't get to complain like a customer, you did not buy any product or service from them, it's the other way around.
    - LurkingPenguin 5y ago
      > As a shareholder, you own the company including its problems. You don't get to complain like a customer, you did not buy any product or service from them, it's the other way around. Huh? So shareholders who literally own a piece of the company don't have the right to complain about poor management, operational incompetence, company strategy, etc.? That's not how it works. Shareholders actually have greater legal rights than customers even though both, in practice, are usually fairly limited when it comes to situations like this.
ramesh31 5y ago
>Good grief. It's a game for kids. Nobody needs updates. They could even take the weekend off. It's also a $50bn company, with thousands of shareholders and businesses that rely on their platform.
jerbearito 5y ago
I can't tell if this aggressively dismissive comment is a joke or not.
newobj 5y ago
It’s an actually a platform and ecosystem in which some people make their entire living.
kjaftaedi 5y ago
It might be a game for kids, but their company is publicly traded and valued higher than Electronic Arts. (More than ubisoft and take-two interactive combined)
TeMPOraL 5y ago
You mean a weekend - in plenty of countries, an extended weekend due to holidays - in which many kids hoped they could play some Roblox?
tfsh 5y ago
There are multiple studios and independent game developers who rely on a consistent and predictable player count as a means of an income. Multiple days of lost revenue whilst not the end of the world is certainly not ideal and the Roblox Corp should be providing regular updates.

>It's a game for kids There are companies that rely on Roblox for hosting their games so they can make money. This is the equivalent of cloud hosting going down.

WhisperingShiba 5y ago
I think you have a Kernel of truth in your statement, but perhaps you are overlooking how silly it is for someone's well-being to rely on a couple weeks of video game micro transaction. My heart goes out to the Devs in this category, but hopefully this is further impetus not to stake too much on tech services.
- kjeetgill 5y ago
  It is business relationship like any other. There's always some risk with investing and relying on a business partner, but it's also reasonable to have expectations of cooperation and good faith.
  - WhisperingShiba 5y ago
    100%. Really, I'm more expressing my desire to live in a society which doesn't feel a constant (simulated) risk just to exist. This economy is just a game we play, and I think a lot of people don't know this, and also don't want to be part of it. I think to be working at the top of the Hierarchy of needs (in game development, for instance), people should demonstrably master the lower levels of the pyramid. We really can live in a way, where this is possible. We just have to collectively want it.
    - freewilly1040 5y ago
      Things in the physical world break down sometimes. It’s not a result of some calculated collective choice.
      - WhisperingShiba 5y ago
        In my mind, that reinforces my point. One ought to try to mitigate risk to yourself by minimizing the amount of human infrastructure ones needs to keep life going.
Hamuko 5y ago
I thought they were just making money for Roblox and other big tech companies (who take like three fourths of the total pie).
- charcircuit 5y ago
  You both make money

_yoqn 5y ago

As with all businesses Roblox has a paying customer base and the company has a responsibility to those customers.

notjesse 5y ago
I would also argue a responsibility to their shareholders. How much revenue would they have missed out on during this time? And how much will it affect their longer term growth? If I were a Roblox shareholder, I would be pretty annoyed by the silence.
- Maarten88 5y ago
  How much growth and revenue would they have missed had they allocated more resources towards better security and recovery plans before this, instead of better features? As a shareholder, you own the company including its problems. You don't get to complain like a customer, you did not buy any product or service from them, it's the other way around.
  - LurkingPenguin 5y ago
    > As a shareholder, you own the company including its problems. You don't get to complain like a customer, you did not buy any product or service from them, it's the other way around. Huh? So shareholders who literally own a piece of the company don't have the right to complain about poor management, operational incompetence, company strategy, etc.? That's not how it works. Shareholders actually have greater legal rights than customers even though both, in practice, are usually fairly limited when it comes to situations like this.

ramesh31 5y ago

>Good grief. It's a game for kids. Nobody needs updates. They could even take the weekend off. It's also a $50bn company, with thousands of shareholders and businesses that rely on their platform.

jerbearito 5y ago

I can't tell if this aggressively dismissive comment is a joke or not.

newobj 5y ago

It’s an actually a platform and ecosystem in which some people make their entire living.

kjaftaedi 5y ago

It might be a game for kids, but their company is publicly traded and valued higher than Electronic Arts. (More than ubisoft and take-two interactive combined)

TeMPOraL 5y ago

You mean a weekend - in plenty of countries, an extended weekend due to holidays - in which many kids hoped they could play some Roblox?

tfsh 5y ago

There are multiple studios and independent game developers who rely on a consistent and predictable player count as a means of an income. Multiple days of lost revenue whilst not the end of the world is certainly not ideal and the Roblox Corp should be providing regular updates.