The Manipulative Design of Roblox

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  @yakkocmn · 3 years ago · pinned

  Use code YAKKOCMN50 to get 50% off your first Factor box at <a href="https://bit.ly/43EqYBm">https://bit.ly/43EqYBm</a>!<br>thank you for watching. i promise i will talk about zelda eventually… (i still gotta beat it)

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  @invalid_user_handle · 3 years ago

  Roblox suffers from the cronic issue of &quot;I could make a good game with passion, or I can get rich&quot;, and 99% of developers choose door #2.<br>It&apos;s a shame not all of these actually good passion projects become popular like Doors did... in fact hardly any of them do, because they end up overshadowed by generic mind-numbing simulator <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/91855">#91855</a> (Now with pets!).

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• DI

  @diegoencarnacion8377 · 3 years ago

  As someone who somehow completely dodged this fad growing up, Roblox legitimately scares me at this point. Just...as a gamer looking at it from the outside, it seems like it has the potential to illustrate some sort of social apocalypse in youth. Like a Black Mirror episode or something...

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• FA

  @faimynth6030 · 3 years ago

  I remember that copyright actually did come after Roblox once<br>Pokemon brick bronze was shut down by the pokemon company

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• HE

  @HeisenbergFam · 3 years ago

  Its nice of Yakko to casually return after a month to talk about unknown games like Roblox

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• _R

  @_rando_d · 3 years ago

  &quot;Robloxing it up&quot; is possible the best thing you&apos;ve ever said in a video ever.

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• KA

  @kachipopo1852 · 3 years ago

  “Roblox son or gacha game daughter” slapped me across the face as the gacha game daughter in question with a Roblox brother

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• AX

  @axelschakramkh2481 · 3 years ago

  Roblox is what the gaming landscape would have been if companies never faced backlash.

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  @765craven4 · 3 years ago

  One thing not mentioned here that I find interesting. There have been cases, past and present, where a creator on Roblox gets fed up with Roblox and goes on to remake their idea on a different platform. The Dead Zone is I think the most famous case of this, where their game was copied and reproduced several times and Roblox did nothing about it. The creator of The Dead Zone went on to make Unturned, which is a moderately successful game on Steam.

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• KZ

  @KZFKreation · 3 years ago

  I think the biggest thing is that back when tix was a thing, transactions felt less forced because there was only the dream of money being viable. You&apos;d have a VIP shirt here or there, but no money really left the platform, it was just used for other people to buy VIP or convert to Robux (which did cost money but didn&apos;t pay it out yet) which was used for the roblox cosmetics. It was an independent market, much like TF2&apos;s economy but even more removed from the dollar. We did see baited games back then but they were much more innocent and less professional, because it was not corporate.

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• MP

  @MP4Noble · 3 years ago

  As a developer on Roblox, being reminded every time that anything creative I could make will only sink to the bottom and be beaten by giant games with the most mind-numbing gameplay is just painful. I actively oppose most of the games on the front page, because its all microtransactions, copyright, and just horrid game design. There are some games that I actively wished were never made, and seeing their primary design first hand has influenced me personally for all of my personal ideas and projects, mostly to stray away from P2W mechanics and moving all sorts of microtransactions to cheap cosmetics and relying on premium payouts to generate revenue. This video is honestly really accurate, and it just hurts to watch one video after another that expose the whole truth about the platform, especially after the videos PMG made.

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• LA

  @Laughability · 3 years ago

  Incredible video. you gave Roblox credit where it’s due, but also touched on a lot of the problems that really bog down the site. <br><br>YouTubers like me and a lot of my friends try to be very critical of roblox in our vids to motivate them to change stuff. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Pet Sim X is one that many of us have made videos on, and discussed the horrible manipulative practices of. You didn’t even touch on the worst parts: how they hide loot box chances to trick kids, and even released NFTs and $300 plushies to give out exclusive super powerful items in game. <br><br>There’s truly nothing like roblox out there. The level of freedom it gives people is insane, and there have been some genuinely impressive and well made games that have come from the site. I hope that one day we have nothing negative to say about it, but right now there’s still a lot that Roblox needs to change and fix. <br><br>If you ever wanna talk to someone with a lot of experience in the community about its lesser known issues more in depth, feel free to reach out 😏👍

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