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When I was 13 I had a paper route and mowed lawns, and with those earnings I spent about $75 per month on video games and comic books, easily exceeding $500 ove
by hipadev23 2y ago
When I was 13 I had a paper route and mowed lawns, and with those earnings I spent about $75 per month on video games and comic books, easily exceeding $500 over a year.
- ghxst 2y agoThis to me on a surface level this seems totally fine, however I can't help to feel conflicted when that money is being spent on some of the more "predatory" games like gachas, however I'm not sure if it's really too different from kids spending their money on pokemon cards either. Do you feel different about those or would you say it's the same thing?
- hipadev23 2y agoThere’s nothing to say it was predatory games. Roblox is a platform with a vast number of games from unaffiliated developers.
- ghxst 2y agoOh yeah I should have clarified my post wasn't necessarily aimed at Roblox but rather generally speaking.
- rsanek 2y agoi mean they're pretty affiliated, they develop games that only work on their platform and get paid by Roblox directly.
- hipadev23 2y agoThe developers themselves are anyone who wants to make and publish games is my point, and unaffiliated with own another. And those developers are free to build and monetize games however they want. Just like other closed-ecosystem (e.g. iOS) game devs.