I am surprised to read such positive review of Roblox, because so far all information I got was negative. People basically describe it as a system optimized to extract money from children through various dark patterns.
There is the virtual currency “robux” that various games try to extract from you at almost every step; for example you have a sequence of trivial puzzles and there is always an option to pay 1 robux to skip a puzzle—I think 1 robux is less than a cent, so it feels like nothing, but the point is that when there is an opportunity to pay 1 robux almost everywhere you look at, the numbers will quickly add up. (And generally, I think that in-app purchases aimed at children are an evil invention.)
Recently my daughter started playing under strong social pressure from her classmates. I should ask her about the details now that she has some experience, but from outside, my impression is that she spends a lot of time in the system but not at any particular game, not because any game is especially good, but because another game in the system is always only a click away. (Kinda like she used to spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos, again not because any video was particularly good, but because at every moment there were ten more potentially interesting videos advertised on the sidebar.)
Yes, it is very convenient that once you install the Roblox itself, you don’t need to install anything more to get more games, and all the games have the same controls, the same chat to talk to your friends, etc.
I am surprised to read such positive review of Roblox, because so far all information I got was negative. People basically describe it as a system optimized to extract money from children through various dark patterns.
There is the virtual currency “robux” that various games try to extract from you at almost every step; for example you have a sequence of trivial puzzles and there is always an option to pay 1 robux to skip a puzzle—I think 1 robux is less than a cent, so it feels like nothing, but the point is that when there is an opportunity to pay 1 robux almost everywhere you look at, the numbers will quickly add up. (And generally, I think that in-app purchases aimed at children are an evil invention.)
Recently my daughter started playing under strong social pressure from her classmates. I should ask her about the details now that she has some experience, but from outside, my impression is that she spends a lot of time in the system but not at any particular game, not because any game is especially good, but because another game in the system is always only a click away. (Kinda like she used to spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos, again not because any video was particularly good, but because at every moment there were ten more potentially interesting videos advertised on the sidebar.)
Yes, it is very convenient that once you install the Roblox itself, you don’t need to install anything more to get more games, and all the games have the same controls, the same chat to talk to your friends, etc.