Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem
by adgjlsfhk1 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:24PM
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The problem is that robolox essentially lies to kids (by omission) in an attempt to get free labor out of them.
Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem
by RussianCow on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:27PM
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Yes, I agree that the deception is a problem, although I admit I'm not well versed in the issue. (I'm watching the documentary linked elsewhere now.) But the original claim was that they were exploiting young developers by taking a big cut of revenues, which I disagree with.
In any case, what's the alternative? To teach your son how to build the game from scratch in Unity, spin up a server infrastructure that won't crumble with more than a few concurrent players (not to mention the cash required for this), figure out distribution, and then actually get people to find and play the game? That seems quite unreasonable for most children/parents.
If this were easy, a competitor would have come in and offered the same service with significantly lower fees.