I just came across this video today and it is wild.
Roblox Corporation offers a platform to play, create and host games for free. So they have to make money somewhere which is perfectly fine but walk with me and ask yourself if any of this is ok.
Their theoretical minimum take for content you make and sell is 75%. (in their own corporate filings it is usually higher than that)
Their platform has very little tools in discovery. In fact the preferred method to get discovered is that you as a developer pay them for an advertising slot.
An advertising slot that you must bid on in an auction house.
Your bid is a direct payment because what you are bidding on is how frequently your ad is displayed compared to other bids for the same slot.
To convert the in game currency you get paid with for real world money you need to be paying for monthly subscription and you need a minimum of 1000 usd in your account to withdraw.
If all of that sounds ok to you. Then fine you have very different priorities than myself. But speaking for myself, if I had a kid and I knew they were making games on Roblox I would be pissed.
For starters it is just teaching them to undervalue their effort. At the bare minimum a split should be 50/50 IMO.
Secondly I see this as extremely exploitative. Over 56% of Roblox users are under the age of 13. And you can bet those older aren't that much older. If I had a kid who told me they wanted to get a part time job just to have something to bolster their allowance money I would totally discourage them from trying to make that money through Roblox and you should too regardless of how you felt about the company.
But be careful of one thing if you are going to intervene on a child over this. Find out from them their motivation to make games on Roblox. If they are doing it spend time with friends you or their parents know about then I think it is a bad idea to discourage children from developing a skill set that will pay off as they get older.
But if they are doing it reach a wider audience or to make money then you better walk them through what they (and most likely their parent's wallets) will be going through trying to utilize Roblox in such a manner.
Roblox Corporation offers a platform to play, create and host games for free. So they have to make money somewhere which is perfectly fine but walk with me and ask yourself if any of this is ok.
Their theoretical minimum take for content you make and sell is 75%. (in their own corporate filings it is usually higher than that)
Their platform has very little tools in discovery. In fact the preferred method to get discovered is that you as a developer pay them for an advertising slot.
An advertising slot that you must bid on in an auction house.
Your bid is a direct payment because what you are bidding on is how frequently your ad is displayed compared to other bids for the same slot.
To convert the in game currency you get paid with for real world money you need to be paying for monthly subscription and you need a minimum of 1000 usd in your account to withdraw.
If all of that sounds ok to you. Then fine you have very different priorities than myself. But speaking for myself, if I had a kid and I knew they were making games on Roblox I would be pissed.
For starters it is just teaching them to undervalue their effort. At the bare minimum a split should be 50/50 IMO.
Secondly I see this as extremely exploitative. Over 56% of Roblox users are under the age of 13. And you can bet those older aren't that much older. If I had a kid who told me they wanted to get a part time job just to have something to bolster their allowance money I would totally discourage them from trying to make that money through Roblox and you should too regardless of how you felt about the company.
But be careful of one thing if you are going to intervene on a child over this. Find out from them their motivation to make games on Roblox. If they are doing it spend time with friends you or their parents know about then I think it is a bad idea to discourage children from developing a skill set that will pay off as they get older.
But if they are doing it reach a wider audience or to make money then you better walk them through what they (and most likely their parent's wallets) will be going through trying to utilize Roblox in such a manner.
