Why is Roblox talked about so little relative to popularity?

[rusty_shackleford]

Even with regards to things that should be covered by news outlets(e.g., widespread child labor, very frequent grooming scandals, etc.,)


I know relatively nothing about roblox but am still aware of a lot of this just through peripheral knowledge. But it's always secondhand knowledge

Does roblox just send c&d or something when articles are written perhaps?

[Valter]

Not an easy target I guess. They gotta **** off someone big for anything of note to happen

[Oyster Sauce]

30 pages of Roblox news articles in the last week on Google

[WrenchWring]

It is mostly played by literal children who don't write articles or blogposts on the internet, and literal pedophiles who aren't going to write about what they're doing.

[TKVNC]

It is mostly played by literal children who don't write articles or blogposts on the internet, and literal pedophiles who aren't going to write about what they're doing.

Basically this. Children barely use the internet outside of specifically curated channels.

[Norfleet]

The only thing I know about Roblex is that it's played entirely by children and the story of the stolen Oof sound.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

To me it seems that there is little interest in discussion about these huge mainstream gamey games like Minecraft or Fortnite. On the MMO-C forums, I only recall seeing Minecraft get a thread with maybe 10 posts, and that was during the height of that website's member activity and when very young people were still joining. That would have been the best time for that game to get talked about. You have to go to dedicated Minecraft forums to find discussion about it outside of reddit. Meanwhile, there were still threads about KotOR. I have never seen a thread for Fortnite or DayZ on any other videogame forum either, and not Roblox. On a Christian forum there was a thread from a mom asking if Minecraft was safe since her children were talking about it. So my guess is that this just is not on the radar for most people over a certain age.

[J1M]

Maybe the people playing those games are satisfied and thus don't need to find likeminded souls online to collectively complain about them.

[rusty_shackleford]

Maybe the people playing those games are satisfied and thus don't need to find likeminded souls online to collectively complain about them.

It's more popular than Fortnite. If even 0.01% of the playerbase complained it would be noticeable.

[Oyster Sauce]

Maybe the people playing those games are satisfied and thus don't need to find likeminded souls online to collectively complain about them.

It's more popular than Fortnite. If even 0.01% of the playerbase complained it would be noticeable.

Roblox isn't a game, it's a platform for making all sorts of user-created games. You might as well say "the Unity playerbase".

[rusty_shackleford]

Maybe the people playing those games are satisfied and thus don't need to find likeminded souls online to collectively complain about them.

It's more popular than Fortnite. If even 0.01% of the playerbase complained it would be noticeable.

Roblox isn't a game, it's a platform for making all sorts of user-created games. You might as well say "the Unity playerbase".

Unity isn't a platform in the same way. And nobody ever actually talks about individual roblox games

[Oyster Sauce]

It's more popular than Fortnite. If even 0.01% of the playerbase complained it would be noticeable.

Roblox isn't a game, it's a platform for making all sorts of user-created games. You might as well say "the Unity playerbase".

Unity isn't a platform in the same way. And nobody ever actually talks about individual roblox games

BYOND then. They talk about individual Roblox games during recess.

[J1M]

Maybe the people playing those games are satisfied and thus don't need to find likeminded souls online to collectively complain about them.

It's more popular than Fortnite. If even 0.01% of the playerbase complained it would be noticeable.

Maybe it's all ephemeral in the form of Discord posts.

[WhiteShark]

Maybe the people playing those games are satisfied and thus don't need to find likeminded souls online to collectively complain about them.

Other potential causes: not knowing about discussion spaces, not caring enough to discuss (even if dissatisfied). I know when I was younger I had little impetus to go online and talk about the games I was playing. If I enjoyed the game, I would keep playing it, and if I didn't, I would move on to something else. I think younger people are easier to please and aren't yet experienced enough to 'see the Matrix', so to speak, of game design, so the desire to discuss games doesn't arise.

[aimlesshealer]

I think younger people are easier to please and aren't yet experienced enough to 'see the Matrix', so to speak, of game design, so the desire to discuss games doesn't arise.

Yes, they are painfully easy to please. Young children, including the age that probably plays Roblox, can scarcely comprehend that reality could be different or better than what's in front of them: they're just getting a grip on what reality is in the first place. Which is why kids will sit there and play/watch the most awful garbage imaginable, even if they're not enjoying it at all. For example, my family bought me Rugrats in Paris and Toy Story 2 for the N64, and I played them. It was not fun, but I played anyway. I would also watch awful TV shows just because it didn't occur to me to do something else. I could tell that the game/show was bad, so it wasn't just stupidity, but I hadn't yet grown the organ which lets you say, "I've got better things to do."

Kids also barely understand that other people exist, let alone that they can seek out the opinions of like-minded strangers on the internet. But maybe the smartphone-raised are different? Do they get jacked directly in to Discord, never to be seen by the wider web?

[Vergil]

It's only played by kids and child molesters both of which stay sequestered in discord servers.

[methoxetamine]

Imagine not instilling better taste in your children than this ****

[UltraFan123]

Imagine not instilling better taste in your children than this ****

Yep. Out of curiosity I tried Roblox once, browsed a lot of games, tried a few, and uninstalled it the same day.

I'm aware that Roblox is compared with Minecraft a lot, but that can't be farther from the truth.

Minecraft today is mostly associated with YouTubers, streamers, noisy Let's Plays, and the like, but it's actually a game that encourages creativity and exploration, and the modding scene takes the creativity to even higher levels too, something that is good for games of all ages.

Meanwhile, most of Roblox consists of playing pre-generated slop that just copy-pastes preexisting mainstream games like Call of Duty, Fall Guys, Fortnite, etc.

Roblox is basically "brainrot the game".

[Orvas Dren]

Even with regards to things that should be covered by news outlets(e.g., widespread child labor, very frequent grooming scandals, etc.,)


I know relatively nothing about roblox but am still aware of a lot of this just through peripheral knowledge. But it's always secondhand knowledge

Does roblox just send c&d or something when articles are written perhaps?

When you realize that Roblox is the tiktok of gaming, it'll all start to make more sense. Nothing there is made to last, so most games die off before anything substantial can be done with them or communities can coalesce, and any memory of it will be buried under the constantly growing mountain of content. Everyone moves on to the next trend and the recent trend (in this case the game) is forgotten beyond maybe some niche discord community built around a dev's parlor

[Norfleet]

Imagine not instilling better taste in your children than this ****

Tell me about it. My kids aren't even that into Minecraft because I let them do actual mining. More evidence for "the children yearn for the mines".

[Jason Bright]

[stormvermin]

Does roblox just send c&d or something when articles are written perhaps?

I think this is accurate in the sense that because discussion will inevitably lead to the proliferation of unpleasant truths, people who aren't Ruben Sim get cold feet at the prospect of dealing with an army of lawyers. Also roblox outside of the constant wave of scandals is pretty gay and uninteresting but that's just my opinion.

[Jordy]

A predator hunter who got 6 people on Roblox arrested has been banned from the platform.

Roblox Corporation has sent a cease and desist letter to a creator known as Schlep, who was recognised for confronting alleged predators on the platform. In the letter, Roblox accuses Schelp of engaging in multiple violations of its Terms of Use and Community Standards, including “simulated child endangerment conversations”, “soliciting or sharing personally identifiable information”, and “encouraging users to move conversations off-platform”. Roblox stated that such conduct bypassed their safety systems and “increased risks to users”.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/crime/general ... r-AA1KfCi9

I don't even know what this game is. I always thought it was just a minecraft clone.

[Oyster Sauce]

A predator hunter who got 6 people on Roblox arrested has been banned from the platform.

Roblox Corporation has sent a cease and desist letter to a creator known as Schlep, who was recognised for confronting alleged predators on the platform. In the letter, Roblox accuses Schelp of engaging in multiple violations of its Terms of Use and Community Standards, including “simulated child endangerment conversations”, “soliciting or sharing personally identifiable information”, and “encouraging users to move conversations off-platform”. Roblox stated that such conduct bypassed their safety systems and “increased risks to users”.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/crime/general ... r-AA1KfCi9

I don't even know what this game is. I always thought it was just a minecraft clone.

I wouldn't let people do child sex ERP on my platform either tbh

[Rand]

Only of interest to children and pedos

[rusty_shackleford]

A predator hunter

Working theory that a lot of these are really bad people who use this as a shield so you can't attack them

[Tangerine]

A predator hunter

Working theory that a lot of these are really bad people who use this as a shield so you can't attack them

Did anything turn up on Chris Hansen?

[Oyster Sauce]

Speaking of boning kids in Roblox...

[Oyster Sauce]

[methoxetamine]

Wtf I love Roblox now. Installing it for my kid