When they first asked me for it I said no way, because I just assumed it would be full of nazis. They’ve somehow managed to keep the platform relatively tame, while maintaining a some sort of meme culture that kids are into.
My daughter started playing all these horror games on Roblox (she is a good egg), and was telling me all about SCPs. I had no idea what they were. SCPs are apparently this digital larp… kind of like Control I guess? People make up monsters or entities, give them a backstory, an SCP number, and write about how this fake agency is managing them. Now there are SCPs that live inside Roblox.
This thread bump reminds me - recently someone tried to hack into my Roblox account, something I forgot I had (my daughter got me to play with her for a weekend years ago). Thankfully it must have been set up with two factor because my email gave me a code, which I ignored and promptly changed my password. Must have been the same password I used to use years ago for everything that was obtained via some sort of massive hack you read about.
I only catch up to this thread sporadically, but this comment made me smile. Back in 2008-2009, my twins were heavily into Roblox, like their younger siblings have been after them. And I was very much aware of it too because that year is the first time (and thankfully one of the very few times) one of the twins got banned from an official forum for getting into a flame wars with other players. He was all of 10-11 back then. Led to a good parenting talk. :)
NMPA president/CEO David Israelite announced the lawsuit against Roblox at the trade group’s 2021 annual meeting. He cited Roblox’s massive user base of more than 42 million active daily players and alleged that Roblox has gone to great lengths to avoid paying music creators.
Roblox has earned “hundreds of millions of dollars by requiring users to pay every time they upload music onto the platform — taking advantage of young people’s lack of understanding about copyright — and then they take virtually no action to prevent repeat infringement or alert users to the risks they are taking,” Israelite said in his comments at the meeting.
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I’d laugh, but since all the major internet companies are located in America and thus subjected to Labels blackmailing, fair use has been destroyed worldwide for the aural world, and I hear the next target is to destroy it for the rest of the mediums, the visual ones.
Tue, but Roblox in general is a hive of IP infringement, for almost universally terrible games (especially anime - plots, names of characters/powers/places/whatever, character designs, sound effects and on and on). Of the things my kids have coaxed me into playing with them, the few that I actually enjoyed were 100% original (near as I could tell).
I wrote a little roblox game last christmas just for giggles where teams of grandmothers fight against a high speed reindeer. It’s janky as all heck but kinda fun for about 5 minutes. Wasn’t easy to get things working well in their framework cause I was trying to do things outside what they anticipate - like using a custom avatar for the reindeer - had to learn the whole animation system, not just the easy peasy add-ons that are typically used.
But if you are sticking to what it does well, you can get a game up and running pretty fast if you already have some idea how to code. Making it look good and become popular is a different story, which is why so many of the games fall into about 5 catagories that are easy to put together.
How does Roblox get away with having direct ip clones? I’m no Pokémon expert, but the Pokémon clone looks very accurate. Some people put a great many hours into developing that.
Probably just hasn’t been squashed yet. Ther are tons of Pokémon and Minecraft clones, games with Marvel and DC superheroes, games with lots of (no doubt) unlicensed music. My son often use to fire up a game to find it’s gone, sometimes it just takes a while.
