Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers 

I have no quid to chuck, but I can throw you a few bucks :p

Do you have some way of reaching out to Amil? I'd love to see if he'd accept a licence for something like Game Maker Studio, to get those games releasable on other platforms...

Great eye opening video! Everything you say is spot on. And if you need another video idea then maybe look into how some roblox games treat the actual players. Need somewhere to start then check out Adopt Me (Top 2 game). They ask for a purchase before you even play the game and then every time you log in. (The catch is those items they are trying to sell don't even improve your game experience, because nobody plays that type of game anymore, it's all about collecting and trading) Of course, not all game are like this, but this is a great place to jump into the rabbit hole.

Thanks for this video, this is slavery, rob-lox malpractices should be stopped.

Hi!!! Can you open the video for creating subtitles for other languages?? I want to show this video to my 11yo daughter who's into making games and have been asking me to download Roblox for her, but she doesn't peak English.

U are hundred percent ✅

the gaming world desperately needs to be taken to court. these virtual scrips needs to be abolished

NFT's for example

@@gayjebus4079 what?

@@gayjebus4079 no they aren’t illegal or bad, they’re just kinda dumb. *screenshots your NFT*

more than the industry, capitalism sucks for everyone but the rich

Just imagine the level of jadedness he'll have once he's actually old like me...

@@danaking8959 gonna like this comment before the hate mob arrives

@@danaking8959 Capitalism has brought more people out of poverty than any other system. Try again.

@@childofnewlight straight up not true, for all it's faults, maoism has

tax the poor!!

Hey it’s clonemace I found you

@@CosmicStar3 Yo!

For example, if you earned 10 robux from a kind donation, roblox would take 7 of those, plus taxes, and then you would have only 2 robux left. Not even worth splitting.

@@mattmerced1148 No, that's not dev exchange, that's a developer product sale, which would only tax 30% and would maek it 7.

Mhm

Lol

stupid lie roblox doesnt do that you also need 18 to create a game

@@elpanacheems1863 r/ihadastroke

@@universenerdd go to reddit and shut up this is youtube

Missed opportunity to say "hold my Bloxy Cola"

apple juice

@@fenn_fren yes

More like “Hold my ######## non ######### ####”

@@slashuu_ right

hello bozo here is a simple fix do not work there or you could take Roblox as a side job and work somewhere else

@@d0m0arigatomrr0boto frr

@@d0m0arigatomrr0boto White ppl when someone try to support someone's roghts:

@@aaronlowe3156 Thank you very much for the kind response 🙏 I hope you earn more ☺️

@@YamamotoGenryusaiShigekuni Very likely.

As a game dev i can say games like this only do it because of the cuts. Roblox devs need someway to bypass these horrible cuts and make money its not their fault its roblox fault.

COUGH COUGH pet simulator x COUGH

there's also ton of mobile cash grab games that are targeted to kids, its not just roblox and people have to understand that.

@@jcclips3354it’s not the company’s fault

pov horizon switched from calling out minecraft servers to calling out roblox

Do a crashing roblox P2W games LMAO

When will you upload again?

Ay if you need anyone to crash p2w roblox games hit me up-

oh look its that one person

Ditto. We need more videos like these that do a deep dive into Roblox and uncover rightful criticism. Maybe a follow up investigation on this channel is in order, some areas of research could be platform integrity (how well are core systems like the servers or moderation handled), child safety, etc. Investors need to be made aware of this information; most people only see Roblox for what it is on the surface.

Glad you saw this Ruben!

@@fluffmiceter1846 didn't expect to see you and Ruben here Roblox definitely needs to make a change to pay amounts and change DevEx requirements plus improve discovery, it's incredibly hard to build up a game (as you know)

They make money, so why would they care? Literally, that's how capitalistic exploitation works. As long as the revenue is safe, don't change.

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It would be illegal if it wasn’t online

@@Miwwensgotta love the lack of labor regulations for the internet

And the TOS that they have basically says, "we own you and there is nothing you can do about it"

That’s because it is

I agree the government needs to help. But what makes Roblox different from any other platform? Unreal Engine is taking away players from their things, and competing with their devs.

@@MsShaza123 Unreal Engine doesn't promise you money.

How were you exploited?

How you can be exploited on Stardoll ?

@@bucheronlvl.1004 I've responded to my original comment 2-3 times now attempting to explain, but each time it gets flagged so it looks like the moderation won't allow me to go into detail. Sorry about that. All I can say is that safety for children is a concern on any site where users can direct message others. And Stardoll has a 'children making content' economy of its own, although at much lesser scale than Roblox. Stardoll is often overlooked because it was a "girly game", but it could get pretty depraved on there.

Really? When did they remove this?

@@rosebud6116 like 2 3 years ago

THIS

It's literally coming back, they removed it temporarily so they can re-do it, they are also adding back recommended games.

@@DrShockz How did u find that out? In curious

Well reason being is that they get money from youtube

@@animelegacy6437 true

The fact that Roblox gets paid so much is sad. The devs are the ones who get content onto roblox so that people pay money for games and stuff like that, and yet Roblox gives them not enough credit.

@@Alex-gv3fn well really we can't blame youtube for the fact that they pay their youtubers good and roblox doesn't.

the whole thing is a pyramid scam

Finally someone who realizes kids aren't just mindless idiots, they can create and learn themselves

I’m 13 and working on a shrunken recreation of Georgia but like the fallout game series. 1/4 of the map is done.

@@classicminecraftambience747it’s good that you’re creating, just don’t get any expectations for profiting off of anything at all, just keep it purely for fun so if your game gets no traction you’re not disappointed. It sounds rude but being a successful roblox dev is like being a popular RU-vidr, it can be a fun hobby but don’t get your hopes up at the shot of being a big creator

Yeah you really should try unity now

@@andy-gamer unity is in a… situation right now, probably try something else

@@cantthinkofaname5046 its a joke

That's rather sad when you think about it. Though perhaps more of this younglings should go do both, ESPECIALLY as a way to advertise their own game/s.

@@TheAyanamiRei yeah, it's the best way to get money, same thing with devlogs for steam devs, it increases revenue even if No one pays it

true roblox treats star creators better than normal robloxians and devs

True. Though to be fair, this is very often true for game RU-vidrs vs other game developers as well

This is true

It's even worse than is said in the video. 100k Robux is valued at $1247.50, not a thousand dollars.

this video convinced me more that roblox is bad than yours, like this video is about how kids believe they can make games, but they can't, yours is just about the revenue cut

Honestly I don’t get that part they havnt really lied from what I’ve seen they say you could make good money from it wich is true you just gotta make good games and either get lucky or advertise well

@@maxwell_edison it’s not bad in every fundamental way one of if not the most fundamental having fun it is great at

love you poly

Shills & their 'subtle' marketing really need to be replaced with these

Gamer gate be like:

I recommend Jim Sterling. Their style of comedy is somewhat niche, so maybe that will keep you from enjoying, but if it doesn't bother you, Jim focuses almost entirely on exploitation in the games industry, mostly with regular news updates, but from time to time with well-researched essays much like this one with interviews and everything. Just recently they made a video about a university that teaches crunch culture.

@@fidly4 this video alone beats the pants off of Jimbo's whole catalogue for the last year at least. Since going full on leftover and coming out as trans, Jim has become utterly insufferable, in and out of character assumed for the show.

@@fillosof66689 i mean theyve always done their stuff in character lol, not much has changed since they came out

Ehhh, I mean 200,000,000+ users and millions of monthly players, I'd say their server is probs super expensive to be kept on, they only have 1,4-1,6K admins/moderator, but still the rate of exchange is pretty much a scam

Oh and advertisement, if you develop an experience for a roblox that doesn't advertise shit, your game will be a waste

Buying robux should be 1$ = 100 robux. Reality 1$ = 80 Lets say you spend 7 robux on a donation or a t-shirt in roblox, The dev wont get 7 = 7 But 7 = 5 And then if they wanna EXCHANGE the robux for money, HOOOOOO BOI THATS ANOTHER CUT BUCKAROO.

Also yes, i do love constantly having data store issues in games and having progress reset, thats fun.

@@Jawsomest datastore problems are on you handling them poorly 😉

Agreed. Same reason why there aren't many popular games, you got Blox Fruits, a bunch of RP games and so on and so forth. It's never a good idea to develop for Roblox hoping you'd get good money out of it.

This is why A game you made for fun > A game you made for money Even if it gets popular cuz of microtransactions it will never have anything creative

Gaming and gambling addiction stand in for black lung. We've got the whole dark history of capitalism here.

@@AbbeyNeverOverthinking My 12-year old brother is absolutely glued to his screen, mainly because of Roblox. My other little brothers will eventually get bored and go play outside, but he seems to have no ability to regulate himself. Its scary.

@@dragonofepics7324 Chemically dependence forming in a portion of the population. I know that feeling. It took me almost 8 years of my development to deglue myself. Freemium Isn't Free - South Park episode (season 18, episode 6) That episode made me feel pretty good.

i feel like if this happened in china more people would react, but since its happening in front of our eyes people are slower to say something

I'm honestly in awe of the sheer predatory and depraved greed here. The Roblox CEO would probably eagerly sell his own mother, wife, and daughter as sex slaves for a few bucks.

Yeah i used to love playing heroes but then i lost it from my favourites

The recommend for you also does not work one bit, its mainly games that i have no interest in or games with 10k+ players in it

When I used to play lots of SCP games the because you liked tab showed me more SCP games. But now it just shows games I have played mixed in with popular games.

man you dont even know. there used to be a search by genre function. *games still have genres, but you cant search for them.* how stupid is that? why even remove it!?

@@fomalhaut_the_great EXACTLY! Why get rid of genres and even if you do get rid of the genre section, they still appear under the game?!?!

The gaming industry is everything that's wrong with capitalism in a nutshell.

Unionize Roblux

tf2 video when

@@monkviolence5055 Except, there's nothing wrong with capitalism.

yoo maxbox here

both are good business plans

Atleast EA’s development company has the decency to pay their developers a non slave wage

At the very least, like the other guy said, EA treats their employees well

Wtf? Most children wont even know how to make a gamepass and roblox would get no benefit from them lmao

They are not forced to make games and you have to be 13+ to make money people below make free model games with no effort

No. First off, its "Robux". Second, advertisements often fail and are not the best way to advertise your game, and it is totally not needed for a game to succeed.....

@@whatdaytdoin There is no other fiscal way to advertise your game on Roblox other than through the paid advertisements on the website. Advertisements for games on Roblox are only effective on the platform due to the target demographic of said advertisements, word of mouth or sheer dumb luck is the only other option for the effective success of your game.

Exactly i wanna legit punch the stupid greedy roblox owners.. So damn greedy.

@@Sieztt as long as the creator has atleast a few braincells, he can work around that by advertising with content creators, streamers, description tags, discord, twitter and other social sites

@@ohnoi-3760 like every second company...

What's wrong with this system? It combats ingame currency inflation and prevents Roblox from going bankrupt, they're already at a huge deficit.

if there was something illegal that roblox was doing it they would’ve already been sued and forced to change or they just wouldn’t do it at all

@@no8592 did you even watch this video lol

@@chickenbokernot2598 The whole point of this video is that online gaming is NOT regulated by the law. Laws that apply in real life do not apply to virtual platforms. And they should.

@@flashpone7910 that’s the point of my comment..?

The way that they say top developers in a way to generalize all devs is just like such a huge scam to get money out of people that don’t pay that much attention to details, and inexperienced children

it's like lonely single hot chick in your area ads

top develepors that actually do something earn 2 million dollars while the ceo gets earns billions, even that sounds like too little tbh

Yeah FUCK that pay2win system... and this is why I quit such a *GARBAGE ENVIRONMENT* of a game... not mentioning the toxic players

It's not a pyramid per se but they use a lot of MLM lingo to prey on the naive

Where have I heard that before?

Rick and Morty

Not "not being paid enough", just "not being paid".

and what sucks is the kids are making games FOR them

I make games in roblox cuz i like to, i really want to make whats on my mind time to time

It's closer to taking away two-thirds of its value. Scummy shit.

It comes out to the developer receiving 8.75% of the cut.

You gotta count the free features they do like: *Free Servers *Free data saving *Roblox studio thats already fixed for making games, etc.

@@noobmanasdad865 1) the servers and data saving are far more than made up for by the amount of kids who are tricked into wasting money on robux 2) of course roblox studio is free, all the popular game engines are

@@anchovy5325 Other game platforms like steam requires you to pay for data saving and servers. They also require you to pay a $100 for uploading a game

exactly, same reason why the mobile markets don't have a "new" section and steam removed it's "we show your game to 100k people"-rule and limited the new listings to places you actively need to search for a few years back.

Good point but I do think there could be some sort of middle ground - for example TikTok always shows new videos to people

@@BenJaded Except that doesn't really work and plays into the problem game platforms face, which is a large amount of manipulative and low quality content. And with how game development works that would translate to a "meta" for the people that make such low quality content to make more of it while high quality content amount stays the same. The big difference between places like Tiktok and gaming platforms is that a half decent tiktok video takes about 5 to 10 minutes to make alone. A game? Alone that would take on average a year or longer.

Yeah, but roblox said that there are 20 million games, not the quality of them

I don't see the problem with this. Poorly constructed content is still content and the fact it has no way of finding an audience is a travesty.

i also dont really get why some developers say that moving from roblox to unity is hard i;ve been a roblox developer for 5 years and i'm trying to move from lua to c# and its not that hard

@@jyto87yo987 different people adapt differently

@@jyto87yo987 codes

@@jyto87yo987 Not that it's hard to adapt to a new engine or learning a new programing language. It's just less work on Roblox, and a lot easier to advertise your game.

A lot of modellers on roblox use blender and just import them cause roblox’s modelling tools aren’t that good

Pain

Communist revolution (in Roblox) when?

Sadly, I'm pretty sure most kids won't understand what exactly is wrong with the system. And won't make the connection with similar situations IRL.

Teaching kids all about exploitation and class warfare

And scams! My 2 kids have learned about several techniques other players use to screw over each other. A small stakes, highly obvious introduction to the world on online deception. It is great.

The main appeal of ROBLOX is that Unreal and Unity are very spec-heavy, meaning a craptop will most likely be reduced to ashes if it ran Unreal, while Studio runs pretty well and Studio not being as complex as Unity, Unreal or Blender, who all have very high skill slopes while it takes about a day or week for to get used to ROBLOX Studio on average.

​@@auliamate you've got a good point. ROBLOX is like the Mc Donalds of the dev industry

same i quit roblox for a long time and made better money on itch and steam

@@auliamate then start with godot or even game maker studio or something.

@@zwenkwiel816 Pygame is good lol

Brrrr

Just out of curiosity, what game is it about?

copying it how. you aren't going into detail. also, there are specific departments you can go to for this sort of thing you just have to dig because if they were public they would be virtually useless due to 100k+ kids sending useless spam mail

@@Daniel-do2mh A shop-like game that lets people get free items without needing to browse the catalog, and helps with events

@@MUGEN666 Thanks I am already in contact with them

Wish you the best of luck!

Hope you can get your game’s on the popular page one day

Yes, I agree and have been vocal about the %s since I’ve ever been able to de ex.

but like they give u a platform, easy way to publish, everything u need. server hosting and all. don't be mad they keep some of money

@@DamiemBlorp we arent mad, we just want a better cut, sure they give us the tools, but we make the platform what it is today,, they could at least give us 60% of what we earn.

ikr, like few people play Adventure Forward 2: Restored, and that game is amazing, but since it flew under the radar and didn't have the fancy Blender-made buildings of other games, it was left in the dark.

i have a friend that is a very good roblox game creator and his game is suprisingly very underrated >:(

@@punchthecake82 can you link it or say the name? I wanna try it out

@@punchthecake82 cool, thanks

The good games are hard to find and have barely anyone sometimes which is sad

considering the whole Activision vs. the State of California thing, i'd say they're not missing out on much

The market is oversaturated anyway. If you go AAA you get crunched to death and told to f off if you want to unionise. If you go indie then you often times lack funding and visibility. And it's not like you make the next Stardew Valley. Then on top of that still hold the rights to your IP. Few people make the bucks that allows them to stay afloat. Many indies I know off make games in their free-time, while they hold a full-time job. To be reliant on game developing money is pretty frustrating and unstable.

The game industry is notorious for working people to death in shitty conditions. Hang out on some game dev forums and ask them what their job is really like.

I mean. They aren't that wrong. About 5 of my good friends in high school became game developers. By the time we were 30 none of them were game developers anymore. The working conditions are poor. The pay is bad. But there's always someone younger ready to take the abuse you're tired of taking, so it doesn't get any better.

It won’t unless you make shovelware mobile games, which is ironic considering most games on Roblox are just that.

Aye; I have found a couple of communities that last longer, but those have all been for mods for other games, like Anbennar (a fantasy mod for Europa Universalis 4) and Wars of Liberty (an overhaul mod for Age of Empires 3), and there's definitely a fair amount of turnover among the creators. I think it really helps to have an already-established community who are already fans, especially in a game with many existing assets and mechanics that modders can build off of.

well, that might just be game development itself. A lot of people go into it with starry eyes thinking about all the amazing things they will do. Then you slowly realise that it's a very slow grind to get even simple and basic functionalities right. Without real passion and a supportive community, it's hard to stay motivated. I started developing indie games and it's actually rather painful when you realise just how much time you need for things that you originally took for granted. It's not 100 hours to make a game, it's 10 000. Not sure how different Roblox is from a normal game engine, but I don't imagine it will be any easier to make something original.

In some cases, the game is successfully released, yet it's servers are empty and nobody ever plays it. If you're target audience is 9. Then it's going to have trouble when games better suited for teens who are around 14-17 start playing. I wonder if they could make another site.

@@Wyzai Roblox's engine is kind of a mixed bag. For comparison, Unity and Unreal both can be limiting when you want to do something technically advanced that's outside of the scope of what they were designed for. I've personally run into these types of issues with both. You're also on your own if you want to make scaling hosted game servers with player account authentication, or anything similar. However, the tools are designed to be pretty powerful in general, targeted to make common use cases a lot easier and aim to fill the gaps of what's missing with third party assets. The tools aren't designed to be overly simplified, so the barrier to entry is certainly higher if you want to make any meaningful lasting content, but you can accomplish quite a lot with them. Roblox's are a lot more simplified and many features are catered to the lowest common denominator so it's relatively easy to get into compared to the other two. You also get free server hosting with effectively unlimited scaling, player account authentication systems, player save data hosting, and quite a few other goodies that make launching online games stupidly easy. However, because of the simplified presentation and limited scope of many of the other tools it can be very hard to make anything that isn't easily recognizable as being Roblox. It's a lot harder to push the boundaries of the engine because the features are so heavily sandboxed. It isn't all bad because the sandboxing means it is very, very hard to intentionally damage someone's system by playing a bad or straight up malicious game, but you also have to accept that your freedom is significantly more restricted. They have been slowly expanding the features available on the engine, allowing for more ambitious titles, but this also raises the barrier to entry for making titles competitive on that level. They're also very heavily limited by backwards compatibility, more so than with Unity and Unreal. In the latter two you can choose to stick on an old version to keep the features you need that your project depends on. With Roblox using the latest version is mandatory, so they need to be a lot more careful with which changes they make, when, and how they design them.

ikr. I was genuinely disappointed when he didn't say "don't make your game on roblox."

Same bro and im also from philly lmao

*starts playing flex your account age*

if you feel alright answering this, how much money ahve you made over the 2 years on the platform

@@ayo123 I'm a pretty small dev on roblox and I made more robux from shirts then with games..

@@SuperWizardGamerXi only ever got around 5 robux from someone buying my $5 clothing twice. that pay cut sucks

@@ARCHIVED9610 5$ like 400 robux or 5 robux?

@@ayo123 as a 13 year old i have made 350 dollars in a year so it isnt a lot

Tell me more?

@@WonderfulBoness yh me too

Ummm ... we don't. Care to elaborate more?

Ummm what? Please tell us more

RU-vid COPPA

Its literally just Child Labor with extra steps. not even a lot of extra steps either. literally one extra step and since they don't actually pay all the children who make games its also literally child slavery.

@@kazmark4611 I wouldn't really call it slavery, children aren't forced into making the games. They do it because that's what interests them. I agree pushing the 'how to make money' is wrong but growing the passion should be what parents should be informing their children on . Ready for the life of a games developer with excessive crunch, long hours with unpaid overtime, the constant risk of redundancy and if you're female sexual assault.

@@chrisbailey2098 It's child labor via deception. The only difference from slavery is that they're tricked into it instead of forced. The video literally says this practice is illegal in real life, so excusing it away like this is just stupid.

@@Persun_McPersonson @Persun McPersonson @Persun McPersonson I literally said the 'how to make money on roblox' was deceptive. 9-13 year olds shouldn't be left to their own devices on the internet anyway, especially when money is involved. My son asks for robux, and as a parent I ask him to explain why he would like them and will he get the most value out of them. If he said he need to advertise his game he works on with his school friend I would refuse and explain why. It's not stupid to say that. He also didn't interview a single person who does it for fun, meaning his argument was stacked towards a child who was disappointed and three developers who have made money in the way he was arguing against.

@@chrisbailey2098 “9-13 year olds shouldn’t be left to their own devices on the internet anyway.” Does this change the fact that Roblox is marketed towards children, makes them work by deception, and that doing this is illegal? This is like saying “kids shouldn’t be left to their own devices anyway” when discussing child predators

I still play at 20 but they used to have tix a free currency you get everyday so you can still buy stuff without paying real money and they removed that

@@beanzy1891 they removed it due to people exploiting it with bots

Yeah they should add that back young debs are the back bone of their company

It still at the home page you know

@@eddydiaz2609 I never understood that choice. Why remove the category page but leave the filter in? It's such a bizarre choice

I was thinking this as well. I'd be very interested to see a full video about that side of things

Seconded.

+1 for this, I would be interested as well

I'm subscribing in case he makes that video

Especially those ANIME SIMULATOR RPG skinnerboxes And "tycoons"

Less than that taking in the exchange rate. I think he showed it to be USD$350.... I used to be big into roblox when I was younger and this honestly infuriates me.

Funny when the exchange rate is about 700$ less than what its really valued at

@@maxwinter2265 And then Roblox says they can't afford to pay them any more.

Are you kidding me? I don't even earn a single dime or any visitors more than 50!

10 dollars = 800 robux, not even 1k, then when they SPEND robux, roblox takes ANOTHER cut, Then you need to pay devs, pay ads, (if your a dev) and THEN FINNALLY, after the moneys been hacked and cut, YOU FINNAL EXCHANGE IT, AND IT GETS CUT DOWN DURING THAT TOO.

Don't be sorry for calling them games, THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE.

bro i remember where there used to be a ingame currency on roblox called TIX and you get TIX for free if someone plays your games, you can buy shirt hats and stuffs before, and roblox was a free game before and sadly they deleted TIX. And thats sucks.

@@gloows3397 The removal of the TIX is probably the point in time where Roblox became the greedy exploitative company we see today. You could just wait to buy things in the market, but now you need to spend real money just to not look like a generic avatar.

Even the word "ok" is censored sometimes for me (my acc is 13>) (Sorry if i have bad english)

Too much text this is a information thingy

You have my sympathy. It seems like the ecosystem(and I don't mean the people) is pretty toxic and hard to get out of. If you're able to devote six years of time into a skill, you can definitely make it anywhere else. We need people like you to speak out more. Please take your talents elsewhere and push back against your exploiter.

I wouldn’t blame you. This topic seems to hit home for you so to hear that could be really hard hitting.

YEAH ME TOO I HAVE LIKE 4 YEARS OF EXP

If I were you I would move to an actual game engine (Unity, Unreal, etc.) and start making games there. Me personally I would recommend Unreal or Unity as you will find the most help with those as they are the largest. Just read up and mess around with both to see which one you like.

Breaks my heart more

Even without the predatory aspect, how does this not trip child labor laws??

Putting up job postings for child workers in your factory would also allow for labor entirely by choice, but that still exploits children and is super illegal in most countries. How is this meaningfully different?

your neighbours kid mowing your lawn is doing child labour by choice for you. It doesn't mean shit, it just sounds bad because it could be REALLY bad, but it depends on the context.

tbh atleast its fun to make the games

@@Toxodos That's not even quite a valid analogy. It's more like a kid volunteering to cut your lawn without even asking you, knowing that if he does a good job he'll get paid for it.

Can you describe Roblox of 2013?

@@ka-md8ue I started playing in 2014. honestly 2014-2016 roblox was really chill, not nearly as many players, much simpler avatar designs and the like. it was far more charming than modern day roblox, I definitely hold a lot of nostalgia to it despite modern day roblox improving the client over time. games were a lot simpler before 2017 with jailbreak and all of that too, game discovery used to exist in a proper way and it was way easier to find what you wanted to play. to answer your question, pre-2017 roblox is a nostalgia trip to say the least, and it's why I hold simulations of that era of roblox so dearly.

@@ka-md8ue As someone who started in 2008 and stumbled across this video, (I don't play anymore, I do log in sometimes but hardly ever) as "@Trodgy" said games wasn't really created purely for profit and there wasn't much micro transactions. The only micro transactions most popular games had back then was mainly VIP t-shirts I would say even though games was not as sophisticated as today - I believe they was more enjoyable. Aside from games people say there was no toxic people or od'ers back then but those people are wrong and are most likely lying about being around on Roblox back then. The avatar trends in that era of Roblox which I would say is 2011-2013 was more simple but looked better, I definitely prefer the paper hats, sk8r boi hats mixed with beautiful hair and etc. over "Ro gangster" oufits and "slenders".

started playing in 2011, loved the game so much even though it was simple thats what made it great, you also didn’t have so many cosmetics shoved in your face which was really nice at the time. its a shame that companies are companies and they work on increasing profits every year, unfortunately thats capitalism for you. nowadays the game doesn’t have the same charm atleast for me anyway but maybe im just becoming older who knows

My meep died of starvation. what happens now he has a cute dinosaur hat and is dead

Yeah my friend’s a beamer and still make more than young game devs.

@@clvsidy your friend is a bmw?????

@@clvsidy You mean your friends a skid ☠

@@clvsidy Your friend is a gay monkey

​@@clvsidy Report your friend immediately

Do you take funding in the form of iTunes giftcards?

Most people don't get taught about labor history.

This is one of the reasons I’m skeptical of crypto-currencies. Allowing a proliferation of different currencies sounds like a great way to bring back scrip.

@@aidanwarren4980 Crypto is 100% gonna become scrip one day, you are gonna go into work and your manager is going to say "hey you guys can get payed in the new KingCoins if you want, its burgerking's new crypto-currency" and they will talk up all the benefits like you will get paid more if you switch and your Kingcoins will be able to get you better food on your lunch break because they are "worth more" than money at BK and of course you can swap your king coins for real money. then one day it wont be optional and new hires will only get paid in kingcoins unless they fill out 50 extra forums that somehow mean its not legally a scrip, and congress will do fuck all because BK and Apple and everyone else who is doing crypto scrip will bribe the Republicans and Democrats to ignore it, and anyone who wants to maybe update the script regulation is gonna get accused of being a "socialist" who wants to hinder the free market.

@@kazmark4611 6000 languages in the world and my man chose to speak facts 👌

Scrolled down to this at 4:11, talk about luck lol.

Idk he sounds he use free model in his game , just my opinion

@@KlutchMeister there are stupidly popular games made with free models so

@@Ilovetoes6996 what game ?

@@KlutchMeister dunno if someone using free models really discredits the rest of the work they did to make what ever game it was they built no mater how simple. My point is more in his demeanor towards the roblox alagothrim makes him talk in a similar way to fellow dev friends I have lol. Either way he's a kid, give him credit where it's due. He spent time at his age to try and make a game and even spent time to learn how to do so. That impressive non the less.

Imperialism

"Powering children exploitation"

powering greedier mode

@@Fractalure powering tainted keeper

@@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079 powering tainted keeper + swallowed penny + piggy bank

Theyre talking about actual games that have been touched. Things that start in a persons profile is a different kind.

@@graye3633 yeah. otherwise there'd be billions of games due to billions of accounts

tbh some of these games could be bot games and shit ,I do think the number is much lower but definitely it's in the millions compared to only 1000s of popular games in the recommended tab.

Nah, I'd say 20M is a good number. The actual number of accounts to my knowledge exceeds 100M by far, so 20M games with actual effort and intent to be played seems legit.

And most of those are the popular ones..

ah yes Microsoft paint so intelligent

@@d0k0night The kids a young developer, give him a bit more credit will ya?

you are witnessing a business

Wellcomme to roblox spend robux and earn nothing

Roblox wasn't what it used to be.

Their listing on the New York Stock Exchange was not good for optics either

FYI I have several ties with big roblox group owners who got mysteriously *terminated* when they got close to the 100k mark...

That's the truth of marketing.

So he can be even more exploited by capitalists!

@@gay.mer9328 Or practically every other system. The only way to not get exploited is to actively fight against it, and even then you'll often end up losing that.

i mean we dont know what game he made, it might have just been a quick dumb simulator

@@immigrantgaming420epic I like to give kids the benefit of the doubt, (within reason, ofc) and save my “press x to doubt” for adults :)

Here is the problem, lua is not used that much outside of certain games, so he will prolly have to learn other languages, but yeah he would have skills from roblox I wish him luck.

Are you a developer?

i hope they make filter options for games, or maybe make a underrated games or new games section, where they choose actaul good games that have no players

@@JackAss-xo3gp Yes, though I left Roblox earlier this year to pursue mobile/multiplayer game projects

@@eliasmarbina2279 Exactly, but this is not in the nature of Roblox as of now. You can simply tell where their focus is by the comment section of games. Highly spammed, even the likelihood of exploits happening amongst one's game is up there too.

You say exploitation, but have you ever seen the price of a server. The fact that you do not pay anything to host a Roblox game is beyond amazing

Roblox is like an encapsulated place, separating itself from the "others"

Are you seriously going to make the argument that a COMPANY wants PROFIT?? Please rewatch this video when you get older and learn about the real world around you. When and where have they ever said it is easy to gain money? To my knowledge "Earn serious cash" doesn't equal free money.

I joined Roblox in 2006, and developed games up until 2013 when I decided enough was enough and just threw in the towel and went to other game creation outlets.

@@Pxhyre What's wrong with that argument tho?

@@vuklind_9301 a company is not a non profit organization I do not see a reason why a company would do thinks that would make them earn less money.