> would be financially better off just using a standalone toolkit to make their own app and selling it on Itch or Gumroad. Arguably not, because Roblox offers

> would be financially better off just using a standalone toolkit to make their own app and selling it on Itch or Gumroad. Arguably not, because Roblox offers distribution. It's like selling on Amazon or Etsy — you give up an onerous-seeming cut to the platform, but people do it because a percentage of something is more than 100% of nothing.