A company losing a fuck load of money because its users aren’t making interesting games with their product, sounds like a massively stupid product right out of the gate lmao.
Roblox loses $70 billion in value as company blames lack of viral games
Submitted 2 months ago by remington@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org
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orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 months ago
smeg@feddit.uk 2 months ago
[deleted]LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 months ago
That’s exactly what it is.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 months ago
This is a really interesting topic because apparently all of the hit games produced on Roblox were just clones of hit games on steam in general.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 months ago
The game is such an anomaly to me. Like the concept is neat, but everything else is shady and hokey.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You mean the company that profits off of ignoring groomers and pedos while also having a CEO that insists dating os a necessary edition has lost profit after being exposed for being evil? Parents are worried their kids may be being groomed so they refuse to let their kids on the platform and you are blaming the creators instead of yourselves?
Nope, no surprise there.
germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Oh no won’t anybody think about the poor Roblox corporation, their child labor sweatshop isn’t sweating enough…
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Call me crazy, but I don’t think a single piece of media should be valued at $70b in the first place. It’s a video game.
brainwashed@feddit.org 2 months ago
I thought it was like tinder for Predators?
DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The pedo hub doesn’t have any good games? Who would’ve thought.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 months ago
This implies one of two things:
Roblox doesn’t have the same level of attraction to young children anymore.
The share value was being heavily inflated by one or more entities and the time has come to dump.
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 2 months ago
You are forgetting number 4 which is already impacting the industry: people preferring to watch TikTok instead of playing games
TheFogan@programming.dev 2 months ago
Stupid child developers… why aren’t they coming up with new good ideas!
Also totally nothing to do with people getting terrified of letting their kids on there as, they do more to get in the way of police stings arresting child predators, and do nothing to combat them themselves.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
We need to make roblox but good. Kids deserve better than being groomed by Republican state representitives when they’re just trying to play a game
RiQuY@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
People will hate me for saying this but “Roblox but good” already exists, it’s called Fortnite Creative.