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Turkey just straight-up banned Roblox for 'child exploitation'
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What exactly is Roblox? I see the name but I have no idea what it is. Can anyone give me a quick explanation? From what I've seen it looks like animated block dudes ala Lego or Minecraft
Pretty much, but a lot of the content (servers, skins, etc) are player made. A lot of things can be purchased with their monetized currency.
Kids make content->Roblox sells in game currency->Currency is spent on content made by said kids
Edit: I guess this didn’t actually answer your question.
Players program and design games in like a server builder. People have made Call of Duty, mobile-ish clicker games, pirate battles, Starfield-esque servers. There are limitations but there’s been some pretty high quality servers made. Pretty sure they are almost all player made.
That helps a lot. It sounded pretty great until you mentioned the monetization.
"Kids making games for other kids? How wholesome!"
"In-game currency."
As near as I can tell it's a very adaptable, easy to use framework for making video games. Speaking completely from ignorance it's kids making games for kids so the games appeal very strongly to kids. While this is very cool in a democratization of art kind of way Roblox is 100% explotative bullshit.
This is true, but also the top games tend to be created by teams of young adults and include (or just are) gacha for small children