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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 165 points 2 months ago (22 children)

My much more resonable goal is to never play Roblox.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I decided to try guilded.gg as an alternative to discord finally, only to find out they now require a Roblox account to log in. So much for that idea.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Matrix.org is a good alternative, teamspeak's new client also uses the matrix protocol

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But how's the roblox integration?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

good point, i think you're right, guilded is better

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used to run a Mumble server at home on an RPi, the sound was way better than Discord, but I didn't like how it made my IP appear on shodan, I also didn't like needing to keep it updated.

I work in IT, I don't want to work at home.

So I moved to using Steam, but due to network issues on my end that didn't work, so we moved to Discord.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

I want the chat aspect of discord. I use it for my business (local game shop) to keep customers updated on preorders, new releases, and events at the shop, and to just chat with everyone. It has a much better reach than Facebook or Instagram.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Minecraft modpacks all the way baby. Just wish mojang never sold out

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Wdym??? Are you not excited for Corporate Soullessness: The Movie?????

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 74 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and absolutely no linux. fuck those kids.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 10 points 2 months ago

Inoculate your kids against Roblox, today!

[–] ech@lemm.ee 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

PeopleMakeGames has a great video about how Roblox makes money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

And the followup when they got heat from roblox in response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Spoiler: it's child exploitation

[–] ech@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Should definitely still watch the videos. The full extent of the exploitation is sickening.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The best kid of exploitation.

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holy smokes I had a bad gut feeling from the little I had seen of the game and some comments others have made but I had no idea the extent of the company’s depravity. Thank you so much for posting the videos these were very helpful.

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A lead Roblox dev went to prison recently for locking up children in his basement. It's actually crazy how far you have to dig to find this news. But he got two life sentences

Anyone remember Shedletsky? Yeah that's him

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

10% of all global gaming revenue? Does that include mobile games?

How close are they to that now? It doesn't seem like they're even as big as Minecraft.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dude that's not even close to the most insane part. They expect one in every 8 humans on the whole earth to play EVERY DAY.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

I didn't count, is that how many there are? WOW, that's a big ask. I think I'll do my part and die someday to make room for another whatever this game is we're talking about player

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How fucking delusional do you have to be to earnestly suggest that this is your goal

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's the ceo of a kids drug, ofc he's delusional. I just ran into another roblox addicted kid a few weeks ago. Good luck getting that shit out of their brains!

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not just a drug, also the largest child labour force!

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How so? I only tried it a little

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

Kids make the games.

It's child labor in the same way Super Mario Maker is, except Roblox actually pays the account.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That would certainly explain suddenly forcing Guilded users to have Roblox accounts to use a chat app. Get fucked, Roblox.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No you misunderstand, they want to fix the shrinking birthrates and help developing nations get wealthy enough to have internet access and disposable income! And also fix global overpopulation symptoms! They're not delusional about having 1/8 of the planet's population as a user base, they're philanthropists!

[–] match@pawb.social 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

what stage of capitalism is it when Roblox tries to make you have more babies so they can get them into their child labor game

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Sounds like roblox stage capitalism. Or slave owner mindset, I guess? Buy 2 slaves, force them to breed nonstop for extra slaves, profit

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 24 points 2 months ago

This just in, Roblox is reportedly in talks with Kaminoans to pump out 100 million new Roblox users ever month, starting April 2027

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

No. Roblox sucks.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Roblox plans to surpass NVIDIA in market cap

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kids will realize some day what garbage Roblox actually is. And then the ride will be over.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago

What’s more likely is adulthood + next generation enthralled at a different game

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Roblox is evil? That sucks, just picked up the game like a week ago cus an old friend of mine plays it frequently and I wanted to tag along sigh

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