Yeah he’s been going on about this for years, they’re super determined to make Roblox into an “All Ages” platform with things like public voice chat and 17+ “experiences” but they completely neglect that the vast majority of their user base is barely even old enough to speak.
To make matters worse, as far as I’m aware there’s no actual age verification other than just inputting your date of birth so most of those kids barely old enough to speak frequently access features like public voice chat
That’s ridiculous. If you happen to own a platform that’s insanely popular among kids, why not just work to make it the best goddamned platform for kids there is, put in sensible high quality parental and safety controls for them, and keep raking in that money?
That sounds like a far better business plan than trying to turn it into something it’s not, and that nobody actually wants in the first place.
What an idiot.
I mean the whole platform is designed to take advantage of kids by “allowing them” the freedom to do whatever…
I think this is perfectly keeping with their business model of using kids for profit. And I doubt they really care all that much about consequences. Locking down the platform doesn’t net them more money after all; kids are broke.
If I had to guess they want to impress investors by increasing their user count, and since it seems that almost every child with access to Roblox already has an account they might think they can get more users by expanding the target demographic.
Isn’t Roblox basically just a roundabout gambling platform that exploits unpaid child labor?
Epstein would have loved this 100%
Roblox, a game for pedos and unpaid child labor.
Why haven’t governments outside of US restricted access to Roblox?
It sucks to be a kid whose favorite game is Roblox. At the same time though…maybe other alternatives like Minecraft and VoxeLibre is better as they’re decentralized and more likely to be better moderated (in comparison to Roblox anyways as Roblox is infamous for their numerous poorly made decisions).
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- revised second sentence to remove double negatives and be clearer
That’s not concerning at all… fucking hell, wasn’t there a report saying there was predators in that game?
Why would adults use a kids game ( my understanding of roblox) as a dating site?
Yet another CEO out of touch with the user base of his platform. Mr. Baszucki, 30 year old uncles have been using Roblox for… “age-gap fantasies” since day one.
Oh good, now Roblox porn will become a thing. Start laying by that bricc dicc.
Unfortunately, roblox porn is a thing already. Just like minecraft porn.
I guess everything went down the same path Second Life did.
Roblox exploits child labor for profit:
Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
Howsabout Roblox CEO uses platform to go fuck himself!!!
My local radio has been spamming this ad about some ongoing suit against Roblox because the platform apparently made it too easy for molesters and such to get to kids. So wtf
……no
Good luck competing with VRChat
Through movie screenings, concerts, and mixers, all hosted in the virtual space, adults can get to know one another on a more intimate level. To Baszucki, it’s a solution to a modern problem, a “loneliness epidemic” as he called it.
No. It is NOT a solution, it’s another monetization of loneliness
“When you can’t stop online daters, Join them” - Roblox Probably
