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Why is Roblox Special? 

The most popular game/platform in the world shows us how some of the darkest chapters of labor history can easily repeat themselves in virtual reality. British YouTuber blew the lid off of a long-simmering controversy surrounding Roblox, creator of one of the world’s most popular video games — or “platforms,” or “universes,” or whatever else it may be dubbed for the sake of legal expediencies. In 2021, Smith posted on his channel that attracted nearly two million views. This was followed by an attempt by at the beginning of this year to silence him. Rather than remove the first video, Smith and his team continued their investigation, uncovering even more lurid details about Roblox’s operations. The has since been viewed 7 million times. Quintin Smith an investigation People Make Games Roblox follow-up effort So, why all the fuss? According to Smith, Roblox is working to turn back the clock on child and labor protections as well as to undercut antitrust laws. Worse, this strategy is symptomatic of the behavior of the tech sector as a whole. If he’s right, then Roblox may well be the harbinger of the kind of venal exploitation that will fester on the newly heralded “metaverse.” The two videos, which each deserve to be viewed themselves, paint a rapacious vision of Roblox. To begin with, the multiplayer platform draws on a core base of players aged 9 to 15: the premise is that children are coming together to make games for other children to play. To this end, Roblox offers free development tools and hosting. But Roblox’s games are not called “games” — they are “experiences.” This word game is used in order to avoid legal problems that would arise by placing Roblox (itself nominally a game) in other game stores. The reclassification maneuver has proven to be so successful that Roblox has grown into the most popular game in the US and Europe: there are 200 million monthly players and over 20 million hosted “experiences.” Compare these numbers to those of the video game distribution service Steam, which had 134 million monthly active users in 2021 and only 55,000 hosted games. However, while Steam takes a 30 percent commission from developers’ earnings, Roblox takes a staggering 75.5 percent, although that number is only the tip of the moneymaking juggernaut. In reality, Roblox is profiting at every turn. Their intuitive development tools do not require advanced development skills, but they don’t foster the development of any transferable skills either. Through a combination of marketing, summer camps, internships, and the ambiance of the game itself, players are immersed immediately in the virtual capitalism of the platform. The in-game currency is called Robux, and it is traded between players for in-game assets. For each transaction on the platform, Roblox takes an additional 30 percent commission. This is a closed economic system. It is impossible to promote your own product because Robox doesn’t allow for browsing games outside of a list of the most popular. Developers are left to either seek outside promotion or pay the platform itself for advertising by bidding in an auction (with Robux, no less). Aspiring developers are given an opportunity to form a development team with other players, paying them in Robux for their labor. Keep in mind, all of this has been set up for minors. When it comes to sucking up real bucks, Roblox is remarkably efficient: it reports that only 17 cents out of the dollar escapes its clutches. Aside from the strong incentive to reinvest in in-platform marketing, Roblox also disincentivizes withdrawals in other ways. To begin with, one needs a $5 monthly “premium” subscription to be able to withdraw funds, and then to do that you need to have a minimum balance of 100,000 Robux. And get this: Roblox sells 100,000 Robux for US $1,000, but buys them for only $350. When Roblox is challenged about these practices, its defense is that the company is not profitable. But, when Roblox went public on the stock market in 2021, it was valued at $41 billion, putting it just below and ahead of Electronic Arts, which means the company is worth seven times more than the game-developing giant Ubisoft. Nintendo Meanwhile, Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki’s net worth has been estimated at around $8.3 billion. As Smith points out, looking like it is losing money is the way that Roblox has rocketed to its current niche. A form of , Roblox fulfills its legal obligation to its investors by maintaining a monopoly; the payout comes with the amount of the market that Roblox exclusively controls. platform capitalism So Roblox’s business model is a throwback to the days of monopoly capitalism, child labor, and . Smith also points out that Roblox’s brand of platform capitalism trades on encouraging lucrative predatory behaviors. For example, the company has created black markets for players seeking to bypass its high commissions and unfavorable exchange rates. company scrip The irony is that these back alleys pale alongside Roblox’s crowning achievement: the creation of an in-game virtual stock market of NFT-like “collectibles,” complete with charts and graphs that encourage speculative trading via price fluctuations. Being listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021 may have marked the company’s arrival in the gaming market, but Roblox had already set up shop in the “metaverse” via its very own stock exchange of in-game assets bought and sold for in-game currency. This has led to some speculation that Robux may eventually make the leap to cryptocurrency. Last February (2022), the reported in that Roblox has a leg up on competitors in the race to monetize the metaverse. Citing a successful partnership with skateboarding lifestyle brand Vans, the article observes that “it’s easy to see how other brands will recognize the value in having a presence in the metaverse, and Roblox should be able to show it has the experience and success in hosting those brands.” Motley Fool Does Roblox Have a Plan to Win the Metaverse? Meanwhile, our understanding of this so-called “metaverse” is evolving rapidly. In a recent , Eric Ravenscraft noted that “the term doesn’t really refer to any one specific type of technology, but rather a broad (and often speculative) shift in how we interact with technology.” Maybe it isn’t a matter of Roblox “winning” the metaverse, then, but of helping to define it. Wired article When Facebook, Inc., changed its name last year to Platforms, Inc., it was to bring “the metaverse to life and help people connect.” The emerging metaverse, the company explained, “will feel like a hybrid of today’s online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world.” Last week, Meta’s president of Global Affairs, realizing that this didn’t sound reassuring, : “There won’t be a Meta-run metaverse, just as there isn’t a ‘Microsoft internet’ or ‘Google internet’ today…. It isn’t a single piece of cloth, but a patchwork quilt.” Just what the metaverse will be in terms of aesthetics and technology is still unknown. But what is certain is that it will place an immense concentration of power into a few hands. And that suggests that some of the darkest chapters in labor history may be making a comeback. Meta with the stated  goal clarified As posited by the 2021 Netflix documentary , Facebook has shown us the way that platform capitalism can turn users into the producers and products the company sells to advertisers. Of course, along the way, this arrangement assists powerful forces that want to manipulate democracy for their own ends. If platform capitalism is the economic term for these practices, then we can logically assume that the “metaverse” is going to serve as the candy-coating that will make such blatant inequity culturally and ethically palatable. The Social Dilemma Meanwhile, in April 2022, IT services consultant Accenture held with 150,000 new employees donning VR headsets. This is only the beginning. Perhaps, like Roblox, future corporations will pay their employees in company scrip worth 17 cents to the dollar. Or else children and other vulnerable populations, strapped into VR headsets, will be exploited for their cheap labor. Or, perhaps, like Facebook, our “metaverse” overlords will find a way to never pay them at all. its first all-metaverse workday Also published . here

Does Roblox Exploit Child Labor in the Metaverse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kro2A75aoDA&embedable=true How can developers successfully launch games on Roblox? In my recent conversation with Zach Letter, founder of Wonder Works, we discussed just that- the business and marketing of Roblox games. Wonder Works is an influencer studio that has created hits such as Overlook Bay and Traitor! Those two alone have had over 200 million plays alone. games Let’s jump in. Below is an edited transcript of the full interview. To start, I would to love to hear about how you got started with Wonder Works. I’ve had a very untraditional background when it comes to gaming. When I was a small child, I loved video games. My first gaming memory is playing Conan the Barbarian on the . But when I came to being an adult and having a career, I was fortunate enough to find YouTube really early. I started producing gaming videos and content in 2007 and turned that into a career for the better part of a decade. I amassed a few million subscribers and did over a billion views across all my channels. NES Then I met my wife, and in 2018, she wanted to start her influencer journey. She was doing a few things prior to 2018, but she started looking at Roblox and said, “Wow, this platform’s huge, and it seems really diverse, and I think I can build something with the IP that already exists there.” So she built a massive audience in just two short years. She has 10 million+ followers across all her social platforms. She’s done over a billion views as well. During her rise to success, I noticed she would have like 70k people watching a live stream. And I’m like, wow, you can command a lot of people to go do good, check things out. You can introduce them to new IPs and franchises. I’m like, maybe we should make our own game, and it’s something we could do in partnership with your audience, and they can be part of the process. And so, in 2019, we founded Wonder Works with that idea in mind, using social media to build a presence for a studio where the studio itself is an influencer in a way. I’ve never heard anyone describe a game studio as an influencer. Can you explain that? Wonder Works has a few unique approaches to user acquisition. I’ll start with how we acquired users on our first IP, Overlook Bay. I designed the experience from the ground up, and then a small team helped develop it. Just a team of two: one programmer and one environmental artist. We were kind of like guys in the garage trying to make our first product and see if people enjoyed it. When we were making it, we knew it was going to take us seven or eight months to produce. And we thought, okay, how are we going to market this game? Obviously, the low-hanging fruit was to use Megan’s brand and push as many people to it as we can. It’s about utilizing viral design, viral tactics to acquire users. But we were really new to making games. We love video games, but we didn’t know like what people really wanted on Roblox. We didn’t want to put Megan on the line, pushing millions of people to this game if it wasn’t ready. We decided to make a virtual influencer or a VTuber called Honey the Unicorn. And this was a character that existed in Megan’s universe and only appeared in Megan’s videos. Spoiler, I was Honey the Unicorn. We decided to make an animated face cam that we would put through Adobe, and we were going to give it a unique voice, a bedroom, a personality, and a webcam that it would then record gaming videos on. And our plan was that it would play games that were of the same genre as Overlook Bay on Roblox. Every audience member that they acquired would potentially be a player of Overlook Bay. And in just a few short months, they gained nearly three-quarters of a million subscribers, and we were doing millions of views every single month. And within two months of Overlook’s release, we gave Honey the Unicorn early access. He was doing demos and playthroughs, getting audience feedback, and he became part of our development team. Getting all these people watching all these videos and giving their feedback was so helpful to the design process. Because of this, we had over 1 million favorites on Overlook Bay before its release. There was so much attention across the entire Roblox community that we decided to release the game in paid access. And we sold 1.2 million copies at 25 cents each in two weeks. Within four weeks of release, we dropped it to free-to-play and had over 90k CCU and 26 million unique users. So that’s how we think of us as . It’s about utilizing viral design and viral tactics to acquire users. We never pay to acquire a user at Wonder Works. That’s something we really pride ourselves on. influencers We figure out how we can make content that’s organic enough to catch an influencer’s eye. How can our icon and our title speak to an influence when they’re scrolling through a page of hundreds of games? How else do you catch a YouTuber’s attention with your games? We have a network of hybrid casual experiences that have somewhat replayability. They’re not totally hypercasual, but we release one to two of those experiences every single week. To date, we have released six of them since late February. We’ve done nearly 100M visits on those, but over 100M views off-platform as well across those six titles. And one has nearly 50M on its own. And that’s not counting TikTok or YouTube Shorts. If we count those, it’s tens if not hundreds of millions more. It’s also about having an antagonist on the icon that’s a little bit disturbing, maybe not super appealing Let’s say we’re building a platformer. It needs to have a narrative and story to really appeal to YouTubers. You need to set them up with something. The dilemma of a YouTuber is having to produce daily content. They’ll say things like, “What am I doing today? I need something. I’ve been playing the same game for X months or X amount of years. Is there anything new that could help me out?” Our strategy with the HyperCatz network is we’re going to release two games a week for you. That should be a minimum of two videos out of your seven. And when we service LiveOps to these games as we have more in the network, we’re hoping that we can take up your full seven-day calendar. It’s also about having an antagonist on the icon that’s a little bit disturbing and maybe not super appealing. We’ve had some success with that, for example, Escape Your Evil Stepmom. We made her look a little bit ugly, a little bit robotic, and a little bit dead in the eyes. And kids were like, okay, I’m scared of her, but I wanna see what’s going on. We also really take a Mr. Beast approach to how we design these games. It’s about having a story that you can have a sense of completion in a session. And also, a lot of content nowadays doesn’t have you stay on one thing for too long. If you watch Mr. Beast’s videos, there’s a cut every three seconds, if not less. He’s never keeping your gaze on something for more than just a few seconds. And when we were designing our platformers, a lot of these 10-minute experiences have like 45 stages. It’s like the video basically make themselves. We’ve noticed YouTubers doing literally a playthrough of these experiences and then not editing them and then getting three million views on a video. What are your thoughts on the 29% developer cut on Roblox? One thing I always say to their defense with their take is that we never have to think about the backend. We never have to think about servers. Our game could have one player or one million CCUs, and our cost structure wouldn’t change a penny. So I think when it comes to developing games with broad appeal, it’s going to have a lot of users. We don’t have to think about things like: Are we going to have our servers crashing? Are we going to have to back up data? What are we doing with the players’ data? bears all of that responsibility for us. And I think that’s a decent trade. Roblox What’s the roadmap ahead for the Wonder Works team? Our goal this year is to have over 100 million monthly active users across our HyperCatz network and our flagship IPs. We’re moving towards that. We’re nearly 40 million monthly active right now. And we’re going to continue to expand to other platforms such as Fortnite. We’re actually releasing three Fortnite experiences this summer, along with probably 15-20 Roblox experiences as well. Our ultimate goal at Wonder Works is we want to create IP that could be the next , to create that forever game. Create something that can stand the test of time, go to franchise, go to direct-to-consumer retail, and series too on streaming platforms and services. Pokemon Wrap-Up We cover so much more, including the Roblox discovery algorithm and revenue numbers. If you want to hear more, check out my full conversation with Zach Letter. If you enjoyed this article, tweet at me and let me know your thoughts! @jackzliu First published . here

Finding Success on Roblox, Launching Games with Zach Letter of Wonder Works

Roblox is a popular online platform that allows users to create and play games with their friends. One feature that is available in Roblox is voice chat, which allows players to communicate with each other in real-time while playing a game. In this article, we will go over the steps you can take to get started with Roblox voice chat. : To use voice chat in Roblox, you will need to have a Roblox account. If you don't already have one, you can create one for free by visiting the Roblox website and following the prompts. 1. Create a Roblox account : Once you have created your account, you will need to download the Roblox player to your computer or device. This can be done by visiting the Roblox website and clicking on the "Download" button. 2. Download the Roblox player : Once the download is complete, follow the prompts to install the Roblox player on your computer or device. 3. Install the Roblox player : Once the installation is complete, launch the Roblox player and log in with your account. 4. Launch the Roblox player : Not all Roblox games support voice chat, so you will need to find one that does. You can do this by clicking on the "Games" tab in the Roblox player and searching for games that include the "Voice Chat" tag. 5. Find a game that supports voice chat : Once you have found a game that supports voice chat, click on the game and select "Play" to join the game. 6.  Join a game : To use voice chat in the game, you will need to enable it. This can usually be done by clicking on the microphone icon in the top right corner of the game screen. 7. Enable voice chat : If you are using a microphone to communicate with other players, you may need to adjust your microphone settings. This can usually be done by clicking on the microphone icon and selecting "Microphone Settings." 8. Adjust your microphone settings : Before you start using voice chat, it is a good idea to test your microphone to make sure it is working properly. This can usually be done by clicking on the microphone icon and selecting "Test Microphone." 9. Test your microphone : Once you have enabled voice chat and tested your microphone, you are ready to start chatting with other players in the game. Simply hold down the designated button on your keyboard or controller to speak, and release it to listen. 10. Start chatting By following these steps, you should be able to get started with voice chat in Roblox in no time. Remember to be respectful and use appropriate language when chatting with other players, as Roblox has strict rules against harassment and inappropriate behavior.

How to Get Voice Chat on Roblox

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Outside of the security breach, the internet was busy discussing Facebook's lofty attempts at bringing the metaverse to the masses. The company's metaverse app Horizon Worlds is so bad that even Facebook's own employees don’t like it, The Verge reports. What's worse is that the exec in charge of building and growing Horizon Worlds is forcing employees to plug into the app and "fall in love" with it. It's still far too early to tell what the metaverse will evolve into, and as this New York Times reporter correctly points out, explaining the metaverse through the lens of Horizon Worlds would be like describing the internet from the lens of AOL chatrooms (for the non-Boomers, AOL was an instant messenger that was eventually replaced by social media). Still, the reporter's overall impression of Horizon Worlds was positive (far more than Facebook's own employees) even though she met a lot more children than she had anticipated. 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AMD and its peers, Nvidia and Intel, benefited greatly from the lockdown when consumers bought or upgraded their machines for gaming or work, resulting in massive sales for the tech companies. Now, consumers aren't that inclined to splurge, raising fears of a tech downturn that could last a while. Nvidia was trending #57 this week while Intel was trending at the #64 spot. Roblox Gets Flak 👨‍⚖️ Roblox too benefitted greatly from COVID-19-related lockdowns but was in the news this week for a wholly different reason. A lawsuit filed in San Francisco accuses the youth-centered gaming platform of enabling the sexual and financial exploitation of an underage girl by adult men, causing the victim to attempt suicide. Now, if you've followed Roblox for any length of time, you know that its platform attracts all manners of pedophiles who try to groom a young audience. 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The metaverse as a concept is more popular than ever. Thanks to the push from huge companies such as Meta, more people are getting engrossed with the idea of living virtual lives in a virtual world. This push has brought with it massive platforms like The Sandbox, an online collection of games and setpieces built on blockchain technology. However, The Sandbox is far from the first platform to provide these features in the first place. Many people are probably much more familiar with , known for its thousands of user-created games and hangout spaces. The many comparisons that can be made between the two must surely lead to a battle of The Sandbox vs. Roblox in the minds of metaverse enthusiasts. Roblox Which one will serve as a prime example of the future of gaming? Comparing The Sandbox and The Roblox This comparison will focus solely on what is offered by each platform. Features like profitability won’t be considered due to the volatile nature of cryptocurrency, but monetization and community aspects of The Sandbox (Season 3) and Roblox will be considered. Ease of Access The Sandbox is a platform built around cryptocurrency and the blockchain. As a result, the process of creating an account is somewhat more involved than Roblox. , a virtual wallet must be linked to the account during creation. This is because many features found within are built around NFTs and cryptocurrency, both of which would become unavailable to players otherwise. This ties into its monetization aspects at the cost of its ease of access. Anyone without these wallets, from children to adults unable to sign up for them, will be unable to use The Sandbox without outside help. To enter The Sandbox On the other hand, Roblox is one of the most accessible platforms out there. It’s not even necessary to make an account to start playing. While additional verification methods are required to access more features on the platform, joining an experience can be done at will. There are very few limits on any content on the platform outside of cosmetics and user-created worlds. A few of those worlds require Robux, in-game currency that can be purchased with real money. One can see Roblox as a precursor to the metaverse, and while it’s not as deeply integrated with the concept as The Sandbox is, it’s undeniably much more accessible. Monetization and Community A prime point of contention in The Sandbox’s favor is how involved it is with monetization. While it’s a bit more difficult to enter than Roblox is, its play-to-earn model allows pretty much anyone to start earning genuine cash simply by visiting worlds and completing quests. This is reflected in its community of crypto enthusiasts. While smaller than Roblox’s community, The Sandbox has hundreds of fans looking to create and share robust experiences with others. The barriers to entry make for a group that’s more tightly-knit, making The Sandbox a very welcoming place for those creators unhappy with Roblox’s policies. Roblox’s greatest strengths — its ease-of-access and large community — are also its greatest weaknesses. Because it’s extremely easy for anyone to join, people from all ages are using Roblox to this day. This includes children, which means prior verifications are required for those wishing to start earning money. It’s also much more difficult to actually earn anything on Roblox, as many prizes are only usable within the game worlds themselves. This large community has also faced controversies in the past, from to . At worst. It’s extremely unlikely that these issues will appear in The Sandbox anytime soon, and it makes a strong case for why greater barriers to entry might be a good thing. the exploitation of young developers the exposure of sexual content to kids Overall Content Despite ease of access, monetization, and potential controversies, most players will look to these platforms based on the simple desires of entering new worlds and playing many different games. The Sandbox is still in its Alpha phase, and unfortunately that fact is made very apparent during gameplay. Many official worlds have only simple text-based quests, and the “combat” found within is nearly nonexistent. Every world also shares the same blocky style, from buildings and structures to characters and weapons. There isn’t much variety to be found in The Sandbox even when exploring some of the more obscure worlds within. There’s the very likely possibility that it will evolve over time, as even Roblox was stuck with a certain style at first, but it still has a long way to go before that happens. In terms of variety and content, Roblox once again takes the cake. Not only are there literally millions of different experiences on the platform, but the variety they boast is immense. Art styles, objectives, and even entire game genres are represented in hundreds of different ways. It makes sense that Roblox has such an incredible amount of content, having first released over 15 years ago, but it doesn’t change the fact that this content only continues to grow. Anyone is guaranteed to find something they’ll enjoy in Roblox whereas only a specific group of people will find themselves interested in The Sandbox. Final Thoughts on The Sandbox vs. Roblox Roblox is the clear winner here when purely considering gaming aspects. shares many features and qualities with Roblox, and in time it could very well become even more popular and beloved. But if metaverse games and experiences want to lay claim to the future of gaming, they’ll need to put heavier focus on making their experiences fun and varied rather than focusing wholly on monetization and crypto-based technology. In the end, these virtual experiences are still seen as video games, even when they try to be more. Should The Sandbox embrace that, it’s likely to surpass Roblox’s popularity within the decade. The Sandbox

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Roblox is one of the most popular games globally, with the online game estimated to have over active players. 100 million Roblox involves you creating games for others to enjoy, and although it has been around for a while, it is now starting to see significant growth not just in its player base but also financially. It is estimated that Roblox is worth around ….OOF. $45 billion As with all popular online franchises, meme culture has built around . Here are 25 of the funniest Roblox memes so far in 2021 that will make you laugh out loud. Roblox January’s Most Amusing Roblox Memes Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit February’s Funniest Roblox Memes Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit March’s Most Entertaining Roblox Memes Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit April's Most Hilarious Roblox Memes Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit Credit: Reddit I hope you enjoyed those laugh-out-loud memes. As Roblox continues to grow, the hilarious meme culture around the game will also continue to grow, and the memes are sure to go through the r-OOF in terms of their hilarity. Keep it locked on Hacker Noon in the coming months for more Roblox content as the game continues to evolve and grow and regular round-ups throughout the year of the funniest Roblox memes on the internet Also, check out, Top 10 Most Powerful Dinosaur Pokémon 5 of the Most Iconic Weapons in Gaming What are the Best Video Game Collectables? How to Get Free Robux

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Roblox is one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world. Millions of people use it, including children. The service gives access to thousands of user games and allows you to create your games with free tools and get income from them. The latter is often mentioned in advertisements for the service. Roblox Corporation promises teenagers quick and easy money, which many believe. Hundreds of children try to create a masterpiece on the platform, but only a few manage to earn money on their game. And even these lucky ones get pennies. Introduction to Roblox Roblox platform appeared in 2004, and for 18 years, it has become trendy. By April 2022, it had attracted more than 200 million people worldwide. For example, more than half of teenagers in the U.S. use Roblox. By installing Roblox, users get access to millions of games in different genres and free tools that are easy to learn. To find more about Roblox, you can read my article “ ”. The Multiverse of Madness: How Roblox Works The platform exists due to the author's games, so the platform managers are interested in users' creativity. And Roblox's target audience is children who want to create content for their peers. The vice-president of marketing confirms this. The strategy has paid off. Now, Roblox is more expensive than Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. Roblox attracts users not only with its free tools: the platform also does not charge for game hosting and moderation. However, all this does not bring money to the service, but rather the opposite. The platform earns money on a different basis: content monetization, for which the service has a lot of possibilities. It's impossible to play Roblox without making other gamers richer. The user will still want (or have to) buy something, whether game passes or cosmetic items. Many developers add aggressive monetization to their games to get rich. They hope for a high income for a reason. The authors of Roblox instill in the user the idea of easy earnings. For example, the opportunity to "get serious money" is one of the features of the free toolkit, along with the chance to create anything and interest millions of players. It also mentions that top developers make up to two million dollars a year through microtransactions. Moreover, Roblox's PR specialists tell the public success stories of young developers, and one of the lessons on the site reveals ways to monetize the created game. In Roblox, user creativity is called "experiences" rather than "games”. This makes it possible to bypass the rules of the Apple Store, where games with a built-in store are not allowed. The platform's authors make children feel like they are doing what they love and easily earn good money. Of course, they want to try to get rich and install Roblox. But after creating the first game, teenagers encounter unobvious obstacles. Trick economy Most underage developers do not get any income from their games. There are several reasons for this. First of all, Roblox does not help promote new games for free. The user sees only a few hundred popular titles in the Discovery tab, while their total number exceeds 20 million. The chance that your game will be noticed is almost zero. In addition, the app does not allow you to sort games by recent release or the names of new users, which would help newcomers in the promotion. Roblox has an Up-and-Coming section, but even there, the user sees games with several thousand users. The Learn and Explore section, where games with a few players are placed, helps a little, but there are no more than a couple of dozens of them. There is a way out of this situation. The user only needs to purchase advertising on the platform for in-game currency - Robux. It can be earned in games or purchased for real money. However, even this expenditure does not guarantee anything. The fact is that in Roblox, users participate in an auction for promotion. For example, if one user pays for advertising 100 Robux and the other - 300, the banner of the second player will flash on the website three times more often. Considering that 400 Robux costs $5, it's not hard to imagine how much revenue the service authors get from gamers' attempts to get the general audience. I can compare this process to trying to record a viral video on TikTok or create a popular meme. The user has to hit a specific target audience (usually children), come up with the proper gameplay, and don't miss a promotion. The chance of missing is very high, and hundreds of competitors do not sleep. But even if the lucky player manages to make an exciting game and attract the public with advertising, they can still end up with nothing. Roblox takes a commission on each transaction, and the user gets the rest in Robux. The minimum threshold for converting them into real currency is 100 000 Robux (about a thousand dollars). Of course, most users don't manage to earn that 100 000 Robux even after spending money on advertising and a $5 premium subscription, which is required for withdrawal. The threshold seems incredibly high when compared to other games. For example, the authors of MMORPG Entropia Universe and Second Life allow you to withdraw amounts starting from $100 and $10, respectively. But the user will remain a loser even if he accumulates the required amount. They buy and sell currency at different rates. If a player wants to buy 100 000 Robux, he will have to spend more than $1000. However, if he withdraws that amount, he will earn only $350. Roblox does everything to ensure that people spend Robux inside the platform and that the service authors constantly receive a commission from transactions. Roblox keeps 75.5% of all sales on the platform. However, content creators can get a share of much less than 24.5%, given all the withdrawal pitfalls. Even professional game developers for Roblox do not know what salary they will receive next month. The problems listed above occurred a long time ago. Developers have written forum posts asking them to reconsider revenue sharing, but they've been getting nothing in response. Roblox constantly said it was trying to do everything to make life better for content creators. But the situation has not changed. The reluctance of Roblox to solve the problem can be explained by the constant losses, which the company reports annually. But such excuses are not severe. I think the service leaders are trying to monopolize the market, investing income in the constant expansion of the platform, which is impossible to recoup. So they have an answer to why game authors are not paid enough. I know an 11-year-old Roblox user who tried to make a profitable game but failed. He had no money to promote it, so no one noticed his game. The competitors with cash, meanwhile, were making headway in the rankings. The kid summed it up: despite the assurances of the platform's representatives about easy earnings, the chances of success in this business are practically zero. Conclusion It turns out that almost all of the revenue from the games goes to the established developers that Roblox Corporation talks about in the ads. The platform supports these creators with constant bonuses. For example, for the time that gamers spend in their games. Young developers, meanwhile, can make as interesting a game as they want, but no one will see it without paid promotion. However, children do not see such explanations in Roblox ads and continue to create free content for the platform with little chance of finding its audience. In addition, an exciting idea can be intercepted by more experienced developers, and its author will not receive any compensation. Children can not post games on Steam, for example. Even the skills they learned at Roblox Studio are unlikely to be used anywhere else because the system is unique. Therefore, they are forced to stay on the platform for fear of losing their games. I advise young creators not to raise their expectations by registering at Roblox and not risk their health for an illusory chance to earn extra money. I also recommend you to read “ ” The Dark Side of Roblox: Child Exploitation and Sex Games

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is one of the biggest online video games on the planet. It is estimated that the game has around 23 million players. Everyone from adults to young children plays the game due to its easy to pick up nature. Roblox, much like TheSandbox and Fortnite, is one of the big enablers. Roblox has cultivated a huge following and community that is surprisingly cohesive. Roblox Metaverse The game’s central currency is called Robux, in which players can buy in-game items and cosmetics. Part of the fun of using Robux is using the money to build out your Roblox avatar. Your Roblox avatar can be customized to look; however, you want it to. This article will explain what a Roblox avatar is and how avatars will become increasingly important in games as the Metaverse becomes more mainstream. What is a Roblox Avatar? Traditionally, an avatar is an in-game digital representation of you, and it’s not new. For the last couple of decades, players have been creating in-game characters/ avatars that are customizable. Think of Skyrim; you can create an in-game character that looks scary enough to fight dragons but looks similar enough to you to make it realistic. In terms of Roblox, since the game’s conception nearly two decades ago, players have been creating in-game avatars that look like themselves, well near enough at least. In Roblox, players are automatically given an avatar to use. A character that looks like a human but can be customized to their heart’s content. Players can customize their body parts, clothes, animations, and other features in the game. As Roblox has developed and become more popular, the developers behind the game have implemented new features, including new cosmetics and avatar customization. Like other popular games, like Fortnite, the game offers endless customization options. But that is part of the appeal; customization appeals to adults who want their character to look less kid-like and for children who wish to use their imagination to customize their characters. There are two types of Roblox avatars R6 which looks like the classic blocky avatar, and R15, which takes a more traditional avatar theme. Players widely use both. R15 is far more customizable than its R6 counterpart due to having fifteen customizable body parts compared to the others six and thus is usually the more popular avatar type amongst players. Similarly, with R15 avatars, you can also change height width, etc. To customise your R15 and R6 avatars, you can do so through the Roblox studio. What is the Future of Avatars? We see the increased adoption of avatars representing us as characters in virtual worlds. We also see more realistic avatars. As we begin to realise the full potential of the Metaverse, we will see virtual avatars not only become more abundant but also more immersive, looking more like our physical selves in the real world. /experiences that want to move away from cartoon-like avatars will adopt more realistic avatars that look more like our everyday selves. Although scary for some, this “digital” reality is inevitable. It is all part of increased digital immersion and the transition towards the Metaverse. Avatars will be the digital representation of most of us. Games This article was first published on the Metaverse Insider and written by Jack Boreham

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Despite Roblox having many alternative uses, today, its mainstay is games. In the previous article, I have discussed . Next, we will look at trendy games, sex games, and child exploitation. how Roblox works For example, first-person shooters on the Roblox platform are not particularly popular. There are quite a few of them here, but there are usually no more than 10 000 people playing such games. Clones generally attract relatively little attention in Roblox - the original projects are much more popular. So, let`s look at popular games in the Roblox world. Brookhaven RP The most popular game in Roblox is Brookhaven RP, which usually has a little over half a million people. That said, it has been visited about 14.5 billion times. So, you find yourself in the town of Brookhaven. In contrast to the worlds of AAA games, there are no restrictions: all items, vehicles, and professions are available at the touch of a button. The occupations in the game range from a babysitter to an employee at an airport security checkpoint. The player also gets a house right away. There are no particular tasks in Brookhaven RP, so most of the players create a formidable madness, shooting right and left or just driving around the city. Adopt Me! Adopt Me! is one of the most famous games on the Roblox platform. But now, it has lost its former popularity. Nevertheless, its performance is still impressive. Almost 150,000 people are playing Adopt Me! simultaneously, which is more than the average online GTA V on Steam. The game is an advanced open-world Tamagotchi. You have to feed your pet, put it to bed and meet its other needs. At the same time, you have to decorate your house and find new clothes for your character. Pet Simulator X Similar to Adopt Me! and another hit of Roblox is Pet Simulator X. Its online ranges from 170 000 to 250 000 players. Despite the number X in the title, this is only the fourth part of the "series" from the same developer. The simulator is very similar to the conditional Clicker Heroes, where you must endlessly click on monsters to earn coins and get reinforcement. Only you don't have to fight here. In the beginning, each user gets one pet and goes with it to the field, where handfuls of diamonds or coins appear from time to time. By clicking on them, the ward goes into the attack, and the  currency falls out of the object. For it, you can buy eggs, from which more and more pets are hatched. And so on until you get bored or until all the eggs are unlocked. There are 32 of them, and each subsequent fall out of the stronger animals. Bee Swarm Simulator The popular game Bee Swarm Simulator works on approximately the same principle. Only the player, along with their bees, collect pollen and honey. For them, you can, for example, buy a giant backpack. Bee Swarm also has a quest system, which big bears give out. Anime Fighters Simulator Anime Fighters Simulator is another variation on this theme. Instead of abstract bees or beasts, you have to collect Japanese animation characters. Their names are unfamiliar, but their appearance is easily recognizable, such as Dragonball characters. At the same time, Anime Fighters has a boost with different bonuses like increasing the limit of fighters. You can also find vehicles with which you can move a little faster. And play daily roulette. The game is much deeper than Pet Simulator X, although you can't direct your fighters at different opponents in Anime Fighters Simulator. Blox Fruits Another famous Roblox game is Blox Fruits. It's almost a full-fledged MMORPG, clearly inspired by the manga and anime "Van Pees". It even includes the devil fruit, which gives you superpowers when you eat it. And the name of the game comes from the devil fruit. At the beginning of the game, you need to choose a faction (pirates or sailors), and then you can get busy doing quests. Combat missions are boring because of not very easy controls and too silly opponents. But Blox Fruits has a great open world where more and more islands are gradually added. Murder Mystery 2 The peak of popularity of Murder Mystery 2 has passed, but now the online rarely falls below 90 000. It is a game in the spirit of SpyParty and Among Us. A group of users finds themselves in a mansion. And one of the players is an assassin who has to finish off all the others. Except that in Murder Mystery 2, they often forget about role-playing and start just throwing knives at everyone left and right. So the game almost immediately turns into a kind of slasher. Piggy Piggy is a horror game. It is a clone of Dead by Daylight, the title & aesthetics of which refer to the popular indie horror Granny. In Piggy, a group of survivors must get out of a building that a killer pig walks through. A killer pig is controlled by a living person too. And after death, you can watch what happens as a ghost, like in Among Us. Typically, Piggy is played by 40 000-60 000 people. Tower of Hell A more original Tower of Hell enjoys approximately the same popularity. Here you need to get to the top of the tower in a limited amount of time. It requires precise acrobatic moves and does not forgive mistakes. After jumping past, you have to start from the beginning. Iron Man There are more niche games in Roblox. For example, various superhero simulators are played by only 1000 people. On the Roblox platform, you can find, for example, a game about Iron Man (its sequel is currently in beta). It is available to choose from about 30 costumes, and the armor depends on whether the player will fly into outer space. The developers even provided freezing with a transition to a first-person view, just like the movie. Child exploitation in Roblox There are problems in the Roblox micro-industry that the platform's creators can't or won't deal with. This is despite the platform's overall concern for young audiences. One of the problems concerns making money on games. Roblox actively promotes the tempting idea that everyone can get rich in the game. The company's blog constantly publishes success stories of young developers, which attracts a lot of new users. But the algorithms on the platform's main page are arranged in such a way that most players see only the most popular games. And here, Roblox offers help in promoting for Robux in the form of an auction. Only the highest bidder gets the advertising. That said, the result  may not recoup the costs. And even within the games, the kids sometimes have no control over their spending. It's gotten to the point that one U.S. parents association has asked platform developers not to incite kids to spend and compared Roblox itself to a casino. The daughter of one of the petitioners spent as much as $7,200 on purchases. The platform creators have not yet solved another problem - the blatant exploitation of young developers by older users. In January 2022, talked to a girl named Anna, who started making games in Roblox when she was 10. A few years later, her game attracted the attention of several people over 20 who were also making games. The Guardian They called Anna to participate in a larger project, and she started designing and programming without any contracts. They decided that she would get 10% of future profits during a Skype call. Within a couple of months, the game became one of the most popular. Anna estimated that by the end of the year, she should make about $300,000 and even changed her mind about going to college. Meanwhile, the game had already brought the creators about $2 000 000. The elders decided to sign contracts with the young helpers. But instead of 10%, they offered only 6%, and Roblox could not help in any way. “There is no HR to call. Roblox’s forums would have flagged any post I made about the situation as harassment. And, as I wanted to keep making games on Roblox, I was aware of the reputational risk associated with speaking out against people who were well regarded within the developer community.” - Anna A similar situation happened to Canadian Regan Green, who discovered Roblox when he was six years old. At 12, he fell in love with Sonic Eclipse Online, based on Sega games, and spent hours working with its creator, Jadon Shedlecki, who was 24. “It began to have a negative effect on my mental health. I was constantly trying to find ways to improve the project, but [Jadon] always wanted more out of me and I became incredibly burned out.” - Regan Green Regan Green, like Anna, didn't contact the Roblox platform creators directly because he knew how futile it was. Jaydon Shedletsky denied everything and later went public in another nasty story. He started chatting with a twelve-year-old playmate about Sonic, sending her information about future updates, but soon started making rape jokes. And this sort of thing is far from uncommon in Roblox. Sex games in Roblox (condo games) In the summer of 2020, the business publication into the Condo Games, the hidden pornographic games in Roblox. The Roblox platform prohibits foul language (it is recognized even in complex combinations of different alphabets) and sexual content. Still, some people create such games repeatedly. True, thanks to the moderation of Roblox, they live only a few hours. Fast Company published an investigation In Condo Games, users can choose a body type (usually female, male, and a couple of other options are available) or immediately activate one of the dozens of sexual poses or sex toy animations. Moreover, they often do not depend on their physique. Also, in such games, as a rule, private areas are available for a couple of players, for which you sometimes have to pay Robux. Moderation algorithms and 2 000 employees constantly monitor content in Roblox: the platform's security system is considered an industry standard. But you can't get rid of Condo completely: their creators regularly cooperate and create servers in Discord. One of them, for example, has as many as 60 000 users. The primary purpose of these communities is to find new Condo games. To facilitate it, they even create chatbots. Fast Company spoke to 17 users of such servers between the ages of 13 and 17. Fourteen proved to be community administrators. And 3 of them even confirmed their age with documents. The atmosphere on these servers varies. Somewhere they try to maintain polite communication, forbid the exchange of adult content, and block access to users under 13 - the same age limit is set on Roblox itself. Somewhere, on the contrary, chaos reigns. Dialogues are full of racism and other types of hate, and administrators don't particularly monitor participants' behaviors. The creators of some Condo games also do not strive to monitor user behavior. For example, the 15-year-old owner of a Condo game and a Discord server with 3,500 members admitted in a conversation with Fast Company that he begs girls for explicit photos and then sells them. Discord does not verify the age of users when they register, so it's effortless for such communities to hide from moderation. All they have to do is not allow violent or explicit content in their chats without a particular marker. Those who distribute it can be reported directly to Discord's developers, but this is not always true.

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