Fortnite and the Good Life

Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by saluki on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:03PM (#19609510)

y, has anyone seen kids playing Roblox? It actually has a slot machine looking mechanic? I'm a fan of Minecraft, Fortnite and PUBG but Roblox just looks like gambling for kids. Any thoughts?

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by piptastic on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:06PM (#19609535)

I've played Roblox with my kid. It's actually a bunch of different games, some of which are entertaining and complex.

Try experiencing what your kids experience and judge for yourself.

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by sk0g on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:00PM (#19609968)

My girlfriend's sister (was ~10 at the time) is now banned from Roblox because she kept getting sucked into ERP with people in game. Safe to say, the mother wasn't happy when she saw some of those chat logs...

Minecraft is the replacement - no IAPs (as far as I know), online community is pretty varied but pretty decent for the most part, and the game is lots of fun even completely offline.

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by twic on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:35AM (#19612319)

> My girlfriend's sister (was ~10 at the time) is now banned from Roblox because she kept getting sucked into ERP with people in game.

You don't mean Enterprise Resource Planning, do you?

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by sk0g on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:35AM (#19613566)

Stupid sexy Tally talk...

Unfortunately, no. ERP as in erotic role play.

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by secabeen on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:27AM (#19612043)

Roblox has a nice parental control system, and is totally playable with chat disabled (and the preference password-locked with a special parent-held password).

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by CardenB on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:45PM (#19610284)

Modded servers actually have a lot of IAPs and they can be pretty bad. These are really popular with kids.

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by daniel-cussen on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:06PM (#19609538)

Yeah I've seen kids at the local library playing Roblox nonstop for hours. I think the library made a special table of computers for them. Didn't know it was addictive, but it would not come as a surprise.

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by Vinnl on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:15AM (#19612482)

I'm not quite sure how different that is from before. I used to have this Pokemon-themed Tamagotchi ripoff [1] which featured a literal slot machine. I don't think I turned out any worse for it. (Disclaimer: I've never heard of Roblox.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Pikachu

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by Buge on Monday April 08, 2019 @11:17PM (#19611468)

I don't think there's any core slot machine functionality in Roblox.

But Roblox is essentially a game development platform. Anyone can build a game on top of Roblox, and that player-created game could have slot machines in it.

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by dalore on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:52PM (#19610326)

Yeah it can be fun. I play it with my daughter, she loves it. And we've started building in it.

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by newsoul2019 on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:55PM (#19609933)

Yes, my son keeps asking me Lua programming questions. I don't know Lua, yet.

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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by DanBC on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:36PM (#19609777)

Roblox is hot garbage and it's stuffed full of really weird IAPs.

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