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It's the classes. Roblox sells classes as a type of tech education after school activity, where they teach kids to build stuff in their game engine. Parents li
by w-j-w 5y ago
It's the classes.
Roblox sells classes as a type of tech education after school activity, where they teach kids to build stuff in their game engine. Parents like it because they are often worried that regular school curriculums don't prepare their kids for a tech centric economy. HOWEVER, the material for these classes are entirely un-subtle about the prospect of making money.
Even worse, the game will guide you to spend in game currency advertising your game.
It's using the same dynamic as a multilevel marketing scheme on children.
Disgusting
- motoxpro 5y agoEhh, I am more worried about the mobile games that exploit kids to pay to play, give nothing back, and teach no skills.
- boublepop 5y agoYou mean Roblox and the games the kids make on Roblox to make more pretend money in Roblox to use in the roulette market hoping to win it big? Yes, there’s a lot there to be worried about.
- ChrisLomont 5y agoWhen I was a kid, I could get information on how to use the BASIC in my computer to make games. Was that exploitative? The company, knowing kids will consume this media and spend more time on the computers, late into the night, making BBSes and interacting with other kids. Oh, so exploitative! If, as a parent, you don't want your kids to play Roblox, don't let them. My kids (and seemingly all of their friends) love it, have played it a lot, have spent time creating and learning how to create, and interacting with other kids. >It's using the same dynamic as a multilevel marketing scheme on children. I've never seen where my kids are asked to recruit more kids to follow them and filter money up the pyramid. Maybe you and I have different views on what a MLM is? Have you even played Roblox? Interacted with the culture of it?