• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    27 days ago

    Stupid child developers… why aren’t they coming up with new good ideas!

    Also totally nothing to do with people getting terrified of letting their kids on there as, they do more to get in the way of police stings arresting child predators, and do nothing to combat them themselves.

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    27 days ago

    A company losing a fuck load of money because its users aren’t making interesting games with their product, sounds like a massively stupid product right out of the gate lmao.

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      26 days ago

      It’s not that the company is losing money, it’s just what investors think their company is worth is now less

      The company also reported that ‘bookings’, a key measure of player spending, grew by just 8% year over year after previously posting much stronger growth

      This is the most relevant thing the article mentions; they’re still making money, more money than they did last year

      Financial news is weird, it all just seems like random guesswork and made up numbers

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      26 days ago

      This is a really interesting topic because apparently all of the hit games produced on Roblox were just clones of hit games on steam in general.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
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    You mean the company that profits off of ignoring groomers and pedos while also having a CEO that insists dating os a necessary edition has lost profit after being exposed for being evil? Parents are worried their kids may be being groomed so they refuse to let their kids on the platform and you are blaming the creators instead of yourselves?

    Nope, no surprise there.

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    26 days ago

    This implies one of three things:

    1. Roblox doesn’t have the same level of attraction of young children anymore.

    2. The share value was being heavily inflated by one or more entities and the time has come to dump.

    3. The bad economy is finally hitting Mom’s Credit Card.

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      You are forgetting number 4 which is already impacting the industry: people preferring to watch TikTok instead of playing games

  • Matt@lemmy.ml
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    26 days ago

    The pedo hub busting predator catchers doesn’t have any good games? Who would’ve thought.