I think SOME of it has to do with AAA being dogshit, but I think a lot of it is actually that they just play roblox. I have been told “why would I buy peak when roblox has this mountain climbing game for free?”
What kind of game is it? Is it like Minecraft/roblox as the screenshot suggests?
I don’t know about defending Roblox, but Hansen is really not a good guy either. There is no hero in this story.
Did you read any of the articles? Its not about too entertaining, young girls were being solicited for sex, and the ads targeting them are vicious. The platform allows others to prey on young people, and facebook allowed it for profit. This is more similar to the roblox case, it has nothing to do with how entertaining something is.
If I’m whoever is in charge of Roblox, I’d have shut down Roblox’s ability to grant users access without being 18+, or having parents permission. I’d have done that years ago, when the first reports were coming out about how Roblox is a nesting ground for pedophiles. That was like 10+ years ago. The fact that it’s STILL an issue would suggest either they haven’t taken proper restrictions, or that they haven’t shifted responsibility to the parents to monitor their childrens activity. My 13 year old niece LOVES minecraft. My sister and brother in law will check in from time to time, and make sure everything’s safe. When she was 6 years old, she couldn’t even play minecraft online. Not even with me. With the logic being that if she can play with me, there’s a chance others could hack their way into the game. I’m 40, they’re 50, and to me it doesn’t seem like that’s possible. But they don’t understand video games at all. I’d rather they lay on the side of caution for things they don’t understand. For example, I don’t understand Roblox. The game was already known as a pedophile playground before my niece was even allowed to play video games. So I’ve never played it, and neither has she. I’d rather that be true, than her getting the wrong kind of attention online. She’s a smart 13 year old, but she is still…ya know…a teenager. And therefore a dumbass. I’d never say that to her, as I don’t mean anything insulting by it, but all teenagers are going to be dumbasses. There’s some things you should let them be dumbasses about, fail, and learn, and then there’s other things that they need to be protected from as legitimate dangers. Such as sexual preditors. The fact that Roblox is still dealing with problems they had in 2012, tells me they don’t care. So maybe they should be killed off.
The details of the case are a bit more complicated, but essentially the TL;DR is that the kid was autistic and the parents were under the impression (based on Roblox’s advertising) that his account was locked down to only be able to talk to kids his own age. The adult perpetrator was pretending to be another boy the victim’s age. The part which seems kind of weird legally is that the actual abuse occurred on Discord, after they moved to that platform from Roblox. Personally IDK how much responsibility we should say Roblox has. I think our culture has a major problem with no longer fearing the Internet. When I was a kid it was taken for granted that if you let your kid use the Internet unsupervised there were pedophiles waiting around every corner. That hasn’t changed, but both parents and companies have seemingly just forgotten about it. I think it’s kind of insane that Roblox is allowed to act like they can prevent your kids from talking to adults when that is obviously false. I also think it’s kind of insane to believe them. The situation is tragic. I read a longer article about it and just felt bad for the parents and the victim. They really were trying to do the right thing, and they tried to cut their kid off from online games when they found out about all this but again he was autistic and it was one of the only things that could calm him down. It has got to be tough being a parent these days.
Sober lets you play Roblox on Linux
I play with my niece on Roblox. Her grandmas both play with her on Roblox as well. How’s that going to work?
The thing with Roblox isn’t even that it’s not Linux-compatible (WINE runs it fine, AFAIK), but that its anti-cheat (Hyperion) isn’t compatible.
Roskomnadzor said in its notice that Roblox contains “inappropriate content that can negatively impact the spiritual and moral development of children.” I say in my notice that Roskomnadzor can negatively impact the spiritual and moral development of children.