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> As I understand it, it's mostly a casino for children, complete with its own currency, and it offloads most of the labor of content creation to the kids and t
by robonerd 4y ago
> As I understand it, it's mostly a casino for children, complete with its own currency, and it offloads most of the labor of content creation to the kids and then pays them in company scrip.
From what I understand, it's a sandbox which does encourage/facilitate those things, but is a flexible sandbox used in other ways as well. It seems generally toxic though, I've heard they've nurtured a culture of children bullying other children for having default/free skins and cosmetics (parallels to the fashion industry at large...)
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago/me sits back, waits for someone to make a Robux<->ETH bridge
- AndrewOMartin 4y agoHere's more than you wanted to know: - People Make Games: Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ - People Make Games: Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY I think you're right that it's something that can be used in good or bad ways, and the thrust of the argument is that there aren't the kind of safeguards you'd hope for to stop kids falling to one of the bad ways. Like how we keep kids out of Casinos (or used to at least, now we just ship casinos to kids in their FIFA games).