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Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation, it's a gift (www.eurogamer.net)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

People Make Games released a decent overview of the child labor exploitation a few years ago

Unsurprisingly, people aren’t okay with that behavior. It don’t help that Roblox tried to pressure them into removing the video

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I do find it weird how much of a fuss the second video makes about the pseudo-NFT marketplace in Roblox considering Steam has had every single one of those features in place for a while.

These are good videos, as usual for PMG, and they do highlight relevant issues, but I'm sometimes frustrated by these things in that they mix genuine, dealbreaking concerns with things they flag for this example but not when they surface elsewhere and with things that are legitimately either standard practice, long term gaming-wide concerns or... just fine, actually.

Which is not me defending Roblox, to be clear. Roblox is a mess and it's crazy how successful they are at keeping a low profile about some of the stuff they do compared to other successful games and platforms and relative to their size. For an American company it's insane how little they are on the spotlight for some of this stuff. But "some" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. These videos run the gamut.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

So is the issue about Roblox taking too much cut? Or that they shouldn't be allowing children to cash out at all because that's child labor?