Roblox employees criticise lack of diversity in workforce
Roblox employees criticise lack of diversity in workforce
Staff at Roblox have reported a climate of marginalisation of minorities and a lack of diversity efforts, according to …
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I remain dumbfounded as to how Roblox got so big and is now publicly traded.
14 0 ReplyReally? It runs everywhere (browser, mobile), it targets young children (a huge and passionate group), it is absolutely full of content (made for free/cheap by other children).
It is the most obviously successful formula I could imagine.
24 0 ReplyDon't forget all the predatory money incentives to trick kids into doing more free labor for them
9 0 ReplyNowadays I don't think the games are made by fellow children as much. There's whole teams of adults making money off of Roblox games
4 0 ReplyThere’s whole teams of adults
making moneyscraping peanuts off of Roblox gamesftfy
Unless you meant the gray/black markets, those give off more real money than Roblox does to its content creators
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Good points. I guess I was thinking about it from the stereotypical "adult gamer with disposable income" perspective. Not those gamer's kids.
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It's essentially Unreal Engine for kids, Roblox and Minecraft were both huge in how much freedom they provided the player.
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