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      6 months ago

      And Roblox. Aren’t they just using kids as free ways to create content while enabling grooming.

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            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?

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              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 😔

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    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 🤔

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      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

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        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…

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    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.

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    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…

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      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.

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        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!

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

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

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                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.

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

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        ll kids play Roblox and most games in Roblox require kids to spend money to partake in the activities of the server.

        You also need to “can” buy “special” unlockables inside various games to basically win easier/have more customization options. Its obvious why the kiddos might be addictive to purchase more bux.

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      So far I’m enjoying U-Boat. Seems to be the spiritual successor to Silent Hunter 3…which I refuse to uninstall.