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The World’s Most Valuable Publicly Listed Game‑Focused Companies (infosec.pub)

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[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In game micro transactions, all kids play Roblox and most games in Roblox require kids to spend money to partake in the activities of the server. And the currency is their own robux, which goes to the developers who made the game-modds.Roblox by it self is not a game, more of a platform to make games.

The developers can then withdraw their robux to real corrency but they take a 40% fee for that.

I'm not well vested in Roblox at all, but I know teachers and people who have middle aged kids, all of them are playing Roblox (the kids that is). On their ipads or computers, and parents buy them in-game currency to basically shut them up.

Take this with a huge grain of salt, because I'm going on hear-say, but that is the gist of it. Kids buy robux to play Roblox.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fucking hell...40%. Sweet jeez. So roblox is just a platform where people mod their own game? Like "Gerry's mod"? Guess I finally have to check it out just to check it out.

Thanks for the summary!

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah GMod is a good comparison, but it's more powerful and you can do a lot more stuff, even replace the player characters and UI elements other than one menu. They also have a lot more infrastructure like a marketplace (for both developer assets and avatar items). But it's also more exploitative:

Investigative journalism YouTube channel People Make Games accused the platform of "exploiting" younger game developers by promising them large amounts of money from creating games, only to apply high revenue cuts and leaving creators with little to no income. They likened the platform's business model to a company scrip.[149][150] After Roblox requested the channel to take down the video, People Make Games released several more accusations towards Roblox, focused on an alleged lack of oversight of developers and a method for people to address developer abuse, leading to child developers being exploited for labor on third-party platform's. They also criticized the platform's virtual economy, comparing the limited collectibles market to gambling.[69][155][156][157] It has also been accused by Hindenburg Research of artificially inflating its monthly active player count.[158]

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With that revenue they have to be predatory and exploitative. You can't make so much money with being nice 🫤

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Predatory as in Fortnite, not blanket pedophilia

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't. That place is a sexual cesspool.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is the absolute least description i imagined for that game-thing that is aimed at kids 😟

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought so too. Until I found out that the most popular and high earning instances are the sex ones.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Off the top of my head, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grow_a_Garden and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_a_Brainrot, the actual (record-shattering) top earners, are not "sex ones".

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is just....I don't even know. It's so absurd. Yet I'm misanthropical and cynical enough to surely imagine it's true. I won't check...it would just be another "click"/user they don't deserve.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ya, they're getting used right now because those bigger instances lead to the nastier ones. PSA those aren't the biggest.