Roblox was a platform based around two core principles: funny block explosions, and anyone can make their own little game. This is what a lot of Roblox’s fans got attached to, myself included.
Roblox, in the eyes of David Baszucki, was never ever about being that custom block game maker, it was about making the most profitable thing he could make, which, at the time seems to have been the whimsical platform we loved.
It’s not that Roblox is lost, but that it has a new direction: the dreaded metaverse
More accurately, it wants to become evil Steam. Instead of allowing any game equally, it encourages moneymaking multiplayer games. Instead of letting games have their own identity, it encourages them all to look similar in a few ways so that the familiarity of the company is with players in every game they play.
The numbers don’t lie. Even if investors seem to be losing priority, our platform
has already been deemed lesser.
More people are playing Roblox than ever, and it’s not us who’s playing. It’s people who aren’t “gamers” and have the poor standards to play mobile games. It’s not a reliable audience, but it’s a much more vast one.
So no, they’re not stupid, they’re not self-sabotaging, they just found their ideal for now; their “grift”.
It’s like they always say. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
All we can do now is move somewhere that we still belong.
I know Vetex doesn’t want to make Arcane Odyssey become another game that he can’t even halfway finish, but we should want that. Roblox is carefree and indifferent to the cause. If they’re going to bring another Vetex game to an untimely end, then we should stop trusting them.
I implore not just the AO team, but every self-respecting dev to move, far far away from Roblox.
He may be a good programmer but there is no way bro has enough motivation to relearn programming in a different language and style just so he can remake AO
Thats not how that works, davids salary from roblox is a grand total of zero dollars, he makes his money by owning a fuck ton of roblox stock and raising its price via his decisions as ceo. (Also dividends n shit but roblox already makes massive profits) He is actively devaluing himself by doing this
You dont seem to understand, hes stupid and incompetent to a truly profound degree to the point the community and him are actively playing against each other, the past quarter has so utterly ruined robloxes pr its seen as essentially an inevitability that hell be replaced at some point. There isnt a game plan the mans just wildly flailing fake statistics and shoving “the future” down peoples throats because he thinks thats how you make the stock price go up, it is not
I fully agree.
From my slight godot experience, it is not only better in terms of workflow, but also possibilities, especially with shaders.
Move onto Itch if you can’t cash up the money for a steam game (Even though they grant it back to you after some requirements.)
Some bums are saying Roblox isn’t dying - which may be true - but it’s certainly not good right now, it’s literally better to quit than to keep working.
They aren’t even able to make their 6 month trail website function properly, that should for sure say something about how little they care;
Yeah but Roblox not only relies on users who are willing to play games, but more importantly devs willing to make them
The more Roblox takes a cut of dev money, the less cash grabs or quality games are going to be made. The less games are made, the less people play anyway
If I was someone with no principles and wanted to scam children I wouldn’t go on the platform that takes 70% cut for my children scamming
think about it this way
yes you lose a MAJORITY of your ‘income’
but the sheer number of spoiled, stupid kids is far enough to outweigh the cons, remember we’re talking millions of kids every day spread across a lot of scam games
(I’m not a gacha addict dw)
