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Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
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People Make Games investigates how Roblox relies on young, often child, developers to build its content while paying them very little. It covers Roblox's monetization model, the revenue split, and the harms to kids who make games on the platform.
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HN commenters cite it as the go-to evidence that Roblox exploits child developers, and parents are pointed to it before letting kids build games there.
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To add, there is a nice documentary here[1] which also has a followup[2] that show even more of the issue at hand. Kids making games and only getting 24.5% of the profit is one thing, but everything else that Roblox does is much worse. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Some interesting related investigation (I think they mention this girl in the second video) related to roblox is anyone is interested. I had never used it, but after seeing these I don't think I would ever use it or encourage anyone to use it. [VIDEO] [LINK]
Read original comment ↗People Make Games is one of the YouTube channels that I respect in this domain... Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers - [VIDEO] Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper. - [LINK]
Read original comment ↗The YouTube channel "People Make Games" has a couple of reports that I'd suggest parents consider watching first before going down that road: * "Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers": [VIDEO] * "Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.": [LINK]
Read original comment ↗The one being exploited is the developer. From the article: > I spent $100 on advertising after publishing the game More information: < [VIDEO] >
Read original comment ↗The video this article is reporting on is [VIDEO] . Normally we'd change the URL to the original source but I think most HN readers probably prefer to read a summary even if the article is cribbed.
Read original comment ↗I was just getting at the illusion of choice. At the end of the day it's all owned by the same handful of small groups. Found out yesterday that Blizzard apparently owns King. Tencent owns a cut of Activision Blizzard, as well as a slice of basically every gaming company. [LINK] Note that I'm not even criticizing or otherwise knocking these business practices, I'm simply making some observations. My use of the term bullshit was particularly to describe the illusion of choice. Not that it's anything new. [LINK] I think the world would be just fine without fortnite, but I will say unreal engine is pretty nice to have. Probably just a matter of time until Microsoft owns unreal engine as well. Tangentially relevant due to Tencent involvement: [VIDEO] [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers [VIDEO] Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper. [LINK]
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