• teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    the idea of Roblox was very great, if it just wasn’t marketed towards kids, and the moderation wasn’t as bad, it would’ve been much better.

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      The idea of letting kids make video games for other kids was great IMO. The idea that it had be financialized with micro transactions that resulted in a mass child labor scheme was that problem.

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        6 days ago

        the Roblox studio editor is a little too complicated for kids to make interesting games. scratch is way better at doing that. (scratch is also better because there’s no way to spend any money) Roblox with a block editor instead of Lua and if you could only spend money on cosmetics would be perfect

        or, if kids could choose to use a block editor so that more experienced programmers could still make complex games

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    7 days ago

    in case anyone else was wondering after looking at this meme, I don’t think roblox has actually died, their website is the same as always

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      6 days ago

      What actually happened? I know nothing about it except the name. Why it is considered dead by others?

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        They’re currently in litigation one child labor exploitation for profiting off of child made content and for terrible child safety standards for basically ignoring that it was a pedophile feeding ground. It’s not dead though, probably going to be profitable forever.