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I play Roblox with my son using Linux. The program is called Sober and it’s more than fine, it’s free, and updated regularly when Roblox security/program updates.
As an old curmudgeon, I refuse to learn what the Roblox is
It’s child exploitation for profit:
investigation: How Roblox is Exploiting Young Game Developers
In this house we’re a Minecraft family
As a similarly old curmudgeon, my understanding is that it’s like Second Life, but with the ability for users to create whole-ass games. And (hopefully) less cybersex considering the primary audience is underage
It’s not second life at all. It’s a game platform like Steam. But they made it super easy so kids starting coding their own games.
Back in the 80’s there were computer magazines that would post BASIC code you could type in and play a simple game. Kids would mail in their code and it would be published. Same exploitation of child labor.
To get items in Roblox for a relative, I used to pretend to be a child and find users who would groom me. They were entirely unaware that I was quite probably older than they were. I saved hundreds of dollars on gifts, and it didn’t cost me all that much time. Roblox is not safe for kids
I play online with my son and have never ever seen that. It’s almost all tower defense games which would be a different crowd.
What games were you playing that had that kind of chat going on?
Ninja something, muscle something, and a game that looked a bit like prototype. All incremental games. As you can tell, I wasn’t particularly invested in them. I don’t imagine you or your son begged in global chat for several minutes at a time with intentional spelling errors.
If you’re not using Hannah Montana Linux you should just go eat poison and save the Linux community from your existence.
I thought for a sec this was calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world, anyone knows what happened to it? It’s been a week since the bot posted something there
Is there no way to play roblox currently? I thought there was a launcher that did weird stuff to the android version like we have for minecraft bedrock
Yes, it’s called Sober. It is not official, and may lose functionality at any time due to updates to client-side anti-cheat.
My kids use it almost daily. Really only breaks for special events. Otherwise an update fixes all other issues.
No one should patronize Roblox. They exploit child labor for profit:
investigation: How Roblox is Exploiting Young Game Developers
Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
When you hear “Roblox” you should think “child exploitation”.
I don’t see how Roblox is any worse than every other platform. If a child makes an app and puts it on Steam, Steam takes 30%. If a kid makes a YouTube channel, YouTube takes their cut of ad revenue.
Roblox made it easy enough to code that it got kids excited to write their own games. If any other game platform made it as easy, they’d have the same “child exploitation” problem.
A lot of it deals with the fact that Roblox doesn’t pay you out until you accrue some critical mass of value. If a kid makes an app and puts it on Steam and it sells 2 copies, they’re getting paid for those 2 copies. Not so for Roblox. You require 30,000 Robux to cash out - which seems to be quite a lot, actually, considering the documentation I’m reading on their own webpage advertises this with photos that show 97,493 total Robux earnings from this presumably rock-star developer that you want to be like, and buyable items costing between 80-600 Robux.
It should also be noted that I cannot locate any mention of a dollars-to-Robux ratio without an account, which I do not have and am not making, so God only knows what rate they actually pay you out at once you do manage to acquire your 30,000 Robux. The primary use case of earned Robux is to then invest them back into the in-game shop to purchase content that other users have made. Robux actively doesn’t want you cashing out and makes it as difficult as possible to do so.
I’m personally not too upset about a game primarily made from user created content, I think it’s kind of cool, but the way they’ve tied real money into the process feels very icky and scumbaggish to me. My particular issue with Roblox is the rampant pedophilia and sexual grooming that the devs are either unwilling to alienate (since, presumably, this population makes up a not-insignificant percentage of their user base) or else actively in cahoots with, because this has been a known problem for many years but approximately zero steps have been taken to address it.
This post is crazy misinformed besides the 30k robux thing. Here’s a calculator for robux conversions:
https://romonitorstats.com/devex-calculator/. The DevEx program is whack but I think it pays better than Spotify.You can make quite a lot. Look at Creatures of Sonoria. The real issue with Roblox is the zero age controls. Putting pedophiles right next to children since like 2003.
