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.
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.
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?