My much more resonable goal is to never play Roblox.
I decided to try guilded.gg as an alternative to discord finally, only to find out they now require a Roblox account to log in. So much for that idea.
Matrix.org is a good alternative, teamspeak’s new client also uses the matrix protocol
I used to run a Mumble server at home on an RPi, the sound was way better than Discord, but I didn’t like how it made my IP appear on shodan, I also didn’t like needing to keep it updated.
I work in IT, I don’t want to work at home.
So I moved to using Steam, but due to network issues on my end that didn’t work, so we moved to Discord.
I want the chat aspect of discord. I use it for my business (local game shop) to keep customers updated on preorders, new releases, and events at the shop, and to just chat with everyone. It has a much better reach than Facebook or Instagram.
It’s free. If you never buy a hat, you are actively hurting them.
Not true, you’re pumping their numbers up, which increases their valuation.
You are costing them money to provide servers and bandwidth for free. They don’t (as of yet) have 3rd party ads giving them any revenue from users that don’t buy anything. More freeloading users doesn’t help IPO because they already IPO’d.
The idea that more freeloading users is a good thing is an absurd idea from the 2000 dotcom crash. I once had a potential customer call me and tried to negotiate for free web hosting under the premise that they would increase hits to my website. I laughed at them saying, “You don’t understand how any of this works. I have to buy servers for thousands of dollars. I have to pay tens of thousands a month for upstream bandwidth because I wasn’t a Tier 1 ISP. Driving traffic to my site costs me more money.”
A lot of valuation for these companies is not based on profitability, but rather on growth. So as long as you can show investors that you’re growing, they will buy in.
Also, what are the chances they don’t have a cheaper option of using GCP/AWD/Azure/etc?
Valuation is only useful for an exit strategy. They’ve already IPO’d. If they don’t show profit, the stock will collapse.
Nitro makes plenty
I’m unfamiliar with their games. They have no ads? Or are you talking about Discord?
By playing you are contributing to other players enjoyment and engagement in the game passively encouraging them to buy hats
What if my only contribution is spamming “haha look at your stupid hat!!”? I don’t know if that’s a thing. I’ve never played.
Active players can be much more important than people who spend money, since spenders aren’t going to drop money on a game they think is going to die. Whales themselves don’t hold up a game if the player base is low, since it’s many little guppies dropping their spare change that support the games as a service economy as a collective.
and absolutely no linux. fuck those kids.
Inoculate your kids against Roblox, today!
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10% of all global gaming revenue? Does that include mobile games?
How close are they to that now? It doesn’t seem like they’re even as big as Minecraft.
Dude that’s not even close to the most insane part. They expect one in every 8 humans on the whole earth to play EVERY DAY.
I didn’t count, is that how many there are? WOW, that’s a big ask. I think I’ll do my part and die someday to make room for another whatever this game is we’re talking about player
How fucking delusional do you have to be to earnestly suggest that this is your goal
He’s the ceo of a kids drug, ofc he’s delusional. I just ran into another roblox addicted kid a few weeks ago. Good luck getting that shit out of their brains!
Not just a drug, also the largest child labour force!
How so? I only tried it a little
Kids make the games.
It’s child labor in the same way Super Mario Maker is, except Roblox actually pays the account.
PeopleMakeGames has a great video about how Roblox makes money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ
And the followup when they got heat from roblox in response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
Spoiler: it’s child exploitation
The best kid of exploitation.
Should definitely still watch the videos. The full extent of the exploitation is sickening.
No you misunderstand, they want to fix the shrinking birthrates and help developing nations get wealthy enough to have internet access and disposable income! And also fix global overpopulation symptoms! They’re not delusional about having 1/8 of the planet’s population as a user base, they’re philanthropists!
what stage of capitalism is it when Roblox tries to make you have more babies so they can get them into their child labor game
This just in, Roblox is reportedly in talks with Kaminoans to pump out 100 million new Roblox users ever month, starting April 2027
Kids will realize some day what garbage Roblox actually is. And then the ride will be over.
What’s more likely is adulthood + next generation enthralled at a different game
No. Roblox sucks.
That would certainly explaim suddenly forcing Guilded users to have Roblox accounts to use a chat app. Get fucked, Roblox.
Business man does business. Lemmites find a way to get pissed off at this.
It really is the theme.
