People Make Games: Report on exploitation Young game developer at Roblox

Many know Roblox probably mainly because of the edgy figures that clearly echoes the forms of Lego characters and smile at the online multiplayer game as kid stuff. And yes, children are the main target of Roblox but right there puts the problem.

Roblox is primarily one thing: A platform for young game developers, who produce titles and can market, so that they are played by other users. The work appears on paper to be worthwhile, because the emerging developers generate not only reach, but also get a percentage of profits distributed. Achieved at the numbers Roblox is a gold mine in theory.

The dream of beautiful money

But the reality looks different. For while Roblox young developers animated and motivated to create popular games, the profit ends up almost exclusively at the company behind Roblox. Users and thus get the actual developers and only a fraction of how a user on Reddit described, is by no means all.

Because developers can have only a minimum amount $1,000, in the currency of the platform Roux 100,000 to pay off. Who generates less revenue, so get a cent. Another problem is the structure of Roblox at which unite developers or can hire existing teams other developers. This can result in the isolation function of Roblox unintended profit distribution and may lead to the exploitation of individual developers internal company structures.

The background story about the research of People Make Games on Roblox

The analytical YouTube channel People Make Games has reported three months ago about the exploitation and the many deep-rooted problems in Roblox. The video reached a lot of attention with over 900,000 calls and many Roblox users spoke positively about research from.

People Make Games had turned in front of the video also the company behind Roblox, a Interview hold, but received no response to the request. Following the success of the first videos we tried it again this year and this time was successful — though not as planned.

The Roblox Company defends itself and Dodge

Because yesterday published a People Make Games New Video by talking not only about the reaction to the first part, but also on the Roblox Company. The wide attention, which had reached the first video, the Roblox Corporation was ready to talk to People Make Games, but chalked first research of journalists.

The first video contained a number of errors, it was said by the company and asked if they could correct it or remember to delete from YouTube. Also, on multiple demand did you not tell People Make Games to which the error and finally pointed to an external blog, who had disassembled the video. However, as emphasized in the new People Make Games Video, the criticism was unfounded and ill interpretive statements of the first video.

Below then, you could indeed finally ask some questions of Roblox Corporation, but contained only evasive answers that had hardly anything to do with the origin issues. The new video shows why: It seems to have at Roblox any responsibility.

Roblox hosts numerous problems

Besides the aforementioned unfair distribution of profits and exploitation of young developers who clear once again in more detail in the video for all interested parties and on the basis of experience and examples will be explained, there were namely other incidents. Children are not only the main target of Roblox, but also make a lot of the platform and poses risks.

Lack of moderation and consequences make Roblox namely apparently to no safe place for those very children. So it happened, for example, an incident in which an adult Roblox developers with a 12-year-old developer working on a game and you sexually explicit messages sent.

Although the developers have grown now banned, he earned money continues with its developed in Roblox games. Users can still play these games because they have not been removed from the platform and thus still generate for those same developers sales. More serious problems in Roblox include a created by users share and black market whose existence denied the company simply behind Roblox.