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If you need more proof that you’re an out-of-touch geezer, Roblox is set to go public with a potential valuation of $8b
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Someone mentioned it in the Peter Parker thread. Didn't know what it was. Googled it.
Looks kind of neat. Looks friendly and colourful.
Edit: what? it started in 2004 and was released in 2006?!
Looks kind of neat. Looks friendly and colourful.
Edit: what? it started in 2004 and was released in 2006?!
I have played it. My niece loves it and always wants to play it with me. I hate it though. If you think gacha games are bad with monetization you haven't played Roblox yet lol. But yeah it's huge. I think because there's always new games for the kids to try is one of the reasons it got so big. Most games are trash but a few are competently made.
I'm 35 and I play this game, but so does my 6 year old daughter. It's funny as hell when you are drunk.
I've played it here and there but didn't realize it was still so huge, for some reason I assumed it had started to taper off over the last few years.
I met my best friends on roblox back in 2008 and still play it with them on occasion. Some of my friends from roblox started their game dev career making games on there and now work at actual studios lmao (Hell one of them actually works at roblox now).
ROBLOX is wild, Really great platform that gives kids a chance to learn the basics of gamedev. Too bad they made it so the only way you can actually make money from your games on roblox is to add gamepasses (microtransactions). You used to get money every time someone visited your game.
ROBLOX is wild, Really great platform that gives kids a chance to learn the basics of gamedev. Too bad they made it so the only way you can actually make money from your games on roblox is to add gamepasses (microtransactions). You used to get money every time someone visited your game.
Never played. Never even seen it but I can say without a shadow of a doubt that it's objectively the lamest game I or anyone has ever played.
Roblox has been one of the top grossing mobile games for the last couple of years, especially on iOS.
The US is by far its biggest market, which accounts for 1/3 of all downloads and 2/3 of overall revenue. Its audience mostly consists of teens and preteens.
Valuation shouldn't come as a surprise when you look at the numbers. It's massive and still growing.
The US is by far its biggest market, which accounts for 1/3 of all downloads and 2/3 of overall revenue. Its audience mostly consists of teens and preteens.
Valuation shouldn't come as a surprise when you look at the numbers. It's massive and still growing.
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I watched my nephew play it for a while.
I have no idea why he did. It was basically walking into random rooms and being told to pay up to do anything interesting.
All he did was walk around and blow bubblegum bubbles on a trampoline.
Then I noticed a $10 charge to my bank account the next week.
Roblox has been big for a long time. I often wondered why no console had a roblox themed limited edition. My nieces are always playing it. It's actually more advanced than a lot of console games. Sometimes one will play on the xbox and the other playing on a phone and they can join each others game. And then one might switch to playing on a tablet.
Is amusing (but not surprising) that many on this forum go crazy for Dreams and every (mostly tech demo) game releasing on it; but prefer to just be clueless around Roblox and put it as a child game while proceed to post the generic characters of it.
I showed my 6 and 8 year old the Minecraft Steve for Smash trailer this morning and the 6 year old said
"Roblox!"
When Steve appeared. lol
"Roblox!"
When Steve appeared. lol
And to think that if you went by what ERA says, you'd think that Souls games are the most popular thing in the world...
But, yeah. Roblox is fcking huge. Every kid I know plays it on their or their parents phones and watch YT videos of it. That price tag doesn't surprise me.
But, yeah. Roblox is fcking huge. Every kid I know plays it on their or their parents phones and watch YT videos of it. That price tag doesn't surprise me.
I know Roblox very well.
Unlike every other popular game for kids, Roblox is the one I've played the most of that's total fucking garbage. It's straight up trash. It's cool that you can make whatever kind of game you want in it, but they're all shit. The majority of it is bootleg games, bad platforming shit, or grindy pointless nonsense.
It's a super cool creation tool for kids to learn about game design though, so it has value and it's cool it exists. It's absolute torture to play if you have any standards though.
Unlike every other popular game for kids, Roblox is the one I've played the most of that's total fucking garbage. It's straight up trash. It's cool that you can make whatever kind of game you want in it, but they're all shit. The majority of it is bootleg games, bad platforming shit, or grindy pointless nonsense.
It's a super cool creation tool for kids to learn about game design though, so it has value and it's cool it exists. It's absolute torture to play if you have any standards though.
I stopped my kid from playing after a week of playing it (he was 6 then about to go 8 yrs old now), I stopped him because I saw videos in youtube that some players are harassing other players and doing sexual stuff in game. My son can read very well and I don't want to explain to him at 6 years old what words like sex,fuck and rape means.
It's free to play is it not? I don't think it would be "on" Game Pass would it.
Why do I vaguely remember Roblox as that thing Lego wouldn't clear because it would devalue their brand or didn't seem to fit their brand?
My kids play Roblox, and I've tried it. I guess I am an old geezer, because it controls like the worlds worst N64 game. Guess I just don't get the appea, but I think it's the ability to easily ply with friends and access to tons of games instantly.
I'm the same age and played it at about the same time, though maybe a little later? Cause even then I was pretty surprised by what people were doing in it; it was all janky as hell but pretty impressive regardless.
It's still very weird to realize it's quietly become such a ridiculously huge thing, but for me it's weird because I do know what it is, and it somehow still being around is part of that feeling.
My daughter loves it. She plays with her friends and has a blast.
I spend more money on my little girls Roblox account than I do on my games. It's more a platform than a game.
I am not surprised at all, this game has almost been going toe to toe with minecraft for a while now, it's huge.
From a visual standpoint it doesn't look like much, it lacks minecrafts visual appeal but people have done some really crazy cool stuff in it so far.
From a visual standpoint it doesn't look like much, it lacks minecrafts visual appeal but people have done some really crazy cool stuff in it so far.
If you were upset about today's Smash news and require more proof that you're an out of touch geezer, insanely popular gaming creation platform Roblox is set to go public. The company is currently valued at $4b but expects that could double, according to the CNBC piece. Remember that Microsoft dropped $7.5b for all of Bethesda.
How many of you have played it, or even heard of it before?
U.S. gaming platform Roblox prepares to go public
The Roblox listing could happen early next year and double its valuation from $4 billion, sources told Reuters.www.cnbc.com
Smash news as in the Minecraft main character? I legitimately don't get people who get upset about the Smash roster.
I haven't played it but I'm aware of Roblox. Honestly though, what is the point of this thread? Just to shame people for being older and not caring about some popular games that are primarily played by and targeted toward kids? So what? Good for the target audience. Being popular doesn't automatically afford something reverence.
My son loves it. They do an extremely awful job of maintaining standards though, so many of the servers are hot garbage and/or inappropriate for kids. Still, I knew it was a big moneymaker. Just didn't know it was 8 billion big