Holy shit I didn't realize roblox was nearly worth as much as nintendo
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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Disappointing to see EA still up there.
And Roblox. Aren't they just using kids as free ways to create content while enabling grooming.
Ya a lot of pedos out there. They're the ones pending the money. Not kids.
Wut? I thought it was just some "cool" Minecraft for the very Lil ones.
I was under that same impression but think about it like a server where everyone can VR hang out with avatars. Now imagine that server with avatars aim at kids and you can spend lots on money buying gifts.
How could it not go wrong?
Oh boy, one cynical ass like me could even argue it was the whole intention of that. But so many billions just from fucking pedos and a handful kids that actually kinda play it? Hard to imagine. But sadly not THAT hard 😔
It's far more than a handful (I think it was like 400 million?) and the vast vast majority don't encounter the pedos, but far too many do
I meant a handful kids that PAY. Can't imagine 400 million kids actually paying more than a few bucks every month.
Guess the problem is in the numbers. Only 1 pedo amongst 10000 "normal" people sounds realistic (or optimistic). But with 400m players it is a small City of dregs.
Oh shit and I thought it was just a kid's game builder...
I'm a passionate gamer for like 40 years now, yet I have not owned a Nintendo anything or played roblox. I seem to have missed something 🤔
Frankly I dislike something about Nintendo games in general. Maybe you're like me. I can't bring myself to appreciate any of those luigi donkey karts, they have such a childish vibe and aesthetic
That is also true. While I have nothing against childish games, I love e.g. Slime-rancher or palworld etc. I usually don't care. I even loved games that were made just for american teenage girls.
But Those classic nintendo-games have a very special weird vibe to them. It's not the childish alone, it's maybe that the target demography is kids only? I couldn't really nail it.
Plus I never even thought of buying their devices, and I started gaming on a vc2600 and was also a kid...
I hadn't realized just how far Ubisoft had fallen. Amazing.
I'll admit I was at first surprised by how low Paradox is on the list. But thinking about it for more than a second I realized that Paradox games are somewhat niche. Not many regular people want to play a spreasheet simulator with graphics like my weird self.
~~Where is fucking steam??~~
And why roblox? What do they sell? Goldmines? Cars? Do they charge 99,99 a month? I thought it was just some "cool" kiddie-hype for the very young. How can they even spend so much. So many of them....
Valve is not publicly traded.
Oh darn, yes. I totally forgot.
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.
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!
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]
With that revenue they have to be predatory and exploitative. You can't make so much money with being nice 🫤
Predatory as in Fortnite, not blanket pedophilia
Don't. That place is a sexual cesspool.
That is the absolute least description i imagined for that game-thing that is aimed at kids 😟
I thought so too. Until I found out that the most popular and high earning instances are the sex ones.
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".
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.
Ya, they're getting used right now because those bigger instances lead to the nastier ones. PSA those aren't the biggest.
Where did Ocean come?
Ubisoft hopefully can't ruin anything anymore. Yes it's been almost 20year I am still salty about silent hunter 5.
So far I'm enjoying U-Boat. Seems to be the spiritual successor to Silent Hunter 3...which I refuse to uninstall.