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Comment by bemmu | Hacker News Reader

I'm curious where the traffic is now going that isn't going to Roblox? Steam player count doesn't seem to be jumping much. Maybe just mobile games?

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The kids are getting sleep they need?

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/children-lack-of-slee...

Parent advice: Get your kids to sleep, it gives them a huge unfair advantage in school :)

https://news.mit.edu/2019/better-sleep-better-grades-1001

How is it an “unfair” advantage? It’s just an advantage. It’s not like getting a good nights sleep is something that requires an exorbitant amount of money.

Kind of tongue in cheek; parents know the struggle of getting kids to sleep, it takes dedication and effort to not just wait until they decide themselves to go to sleep.

This dedication and effort requires time and patience, and with more kids raised without multiple adults (time is zero sum), that time is missing, and those kids ‘naturally’ decide on much less sleep than they need (because as we all know, the distractions available are amazingly fun).

Probably. Roblox's original value proposition of 'kids making games for kids' has devolved into 'adults making dopamine slot-machines for kids' which is pretty sad :(

For free!

Steam is usually targeted 13+, since most users are under 13 I doubt most are on steam. Probably mobile games (as you said), Minecraft, YouTube, etc.

Can confirm. They are still picture-in-picture on YouTube, but playing Minecraft instead of Roblox.

Youtube kids videos.

My kids play roblox and don't have any access to steam. Which is probably very common.

Also, a lot of roblox playing is with tablets and phones. Those kids can't move to steam even if parents allowed it.

Minecraft

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