Anti Roblox Association

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Roblox is more than just "cringe" now. its a place where predators get away with basically everything and the developers double back on their own rules. so much for "no linking to offsite platforms" right after linking your dev pages to [redacted] and twitter. good job roblox. being a roblox player is quite fine if you have proper safety regulations made. HOWEVER, anything that remotely involves robux is pretty bad. lets start with the developing system. -Young developers being exploited- Roblox constantly encourages creative engineering, you cant not see almost anywhere you go. "be anything you can imagine" is a false phrase, it is more like "be anything you can afford". but more on that later. No doubt people will be hyped to create a game after seeing that message for a while and seeing the epic *COUGH COUGH* "experiences" made by other people seems so easy. Eventually they try it themselves. I'd say around 90% of the player base quits upon opening the page up, just because everything confuses them and they have no idea what the heck their doing. the rest keep practicing and genuinely make kicker games worthy of attention. Unfortunately, they don't get attention, and that's when we look closer at the front page. Roblox's algorithm is based around them making money. you only see popular games, but not fresh games that should be given a chance IG. There is an "Up and coming" section but none of it is really up and coming, its already come up, because those games still get thousands of plays each day, sometimes millions. this leads to 2 ways you can get your game well deserved attention: Getting it inside a streamers video, which takes effort to do nonetheless,, because the only way to find one is to have some connection with one, and this doesn't even work as well as the second option: paying roblox to advertise your game, which costs money, which most people don't have, thus your game has gotten so much effort only for it to rot in the dungheep of roblox forever. and lets say your game DOES become successful. This is where things get dark, fast. assuming your one of the people who expected to do your family proud and make money on something you love so much, you added gamepasses to the game to help raise money. well fun fact: roblox takes over 70% of the revenue YOU earn on YOUR gamepasses, and can even take more from you. that's just the tip of the iceberg. you make the extra 30% if your even lucky (or maybe just 2% if you're not) only to find out they pay you in their own fake money, robux. This is not alarming to most people who have been around on the site a while. But for new developers who heard about the "great potential" of game developing on the site (which is a lie) then this is an outrage to them. but not all hope is lost (or is it? [foreshadowing]) because roblox has a system where you can convert robux into real money. and hey look, so many people have purchased your gamepasses that you have around $600 worth of revenue! lets cash it out! and the moment you do, the minimum outtake is actually $1000 worth in USD, so as soon as you convert 600 dollars worth, you actually get N O T H I N G. that paycheck is lookin' real big i bet! so next time we save up our money (assuming your game doesn't die beyond that point) and you finally get $1000 worth of robux after so much effort and work into your game! you finally convert it and.... Roblox: congrats! you earned $350! You: What??!! but i converted 1000 dollars if not MORE to your website, so where is my 1k? Roblox: sucks to be you roblox dev, just like your robux paycheck, we take your real 1 too m8. you: BRUH Roblox: deal with it noub B) Roblox: now imma go buy 3 ps5's with your money thanks trolololololololol You: ;-; K A S H and thats your pitch meeting with roblox. if the point hasn't been clearcut yet, roblox is turning you into their employee without you knowing it and giving you cheap labor. Whats worse is when you work for someone in a roblox group, they could harrass you, and not just physically, but mentally stress you by threatening that you are replaceable and that you need to work harder to earn money, while your making probably a dollar a month from them regardless. and who knows what else the heck goes on in roblox developing. the last thing i say is DO NOT get roblox premium, DO NOT purchase robux because you are force feeding corporate psychopaths the money they hardly need anymore (whilst world hunger is still a problem and you could help them instead). If you find any other information covering this topic, please tell me and they will be linked to and/or mentioned in the notes and credits unless the following goes against the guidelines of scratch.