Good grief. It's a game for kids. Nobody needs updates. They could even take the weekend off.
There are companies that rely on Roblox for hosting their games so they can make money. This is the equivalent of cloud hosting going down.
My heart goes out to the Devs in this category, but hopefully this is further impetus not to stake too much on tech services.
I think to be working at the top of the Hierarchy of needs (in game development, for instance), people should demonstrably master the lower levels of the pyramid. We really can live in a way, where this is possible. We just have to collectively want it.
How much revenue would they have missed out on during this time? And how much will it affect their longer term growth?
If I were a Roblox shareholder, I would be pretty annoyed by the silence.
As a shareholder, you own the company including its problems. You don't get to complain like a customer, you did not buy any product or service from them, it's the other way around.
Huh? So shareholders who literally own a piece of the company don't have the right to complain about poor management, operational incompetence, company strategy, etc.?
That's not how it works. Shareholders actually have greater legal rights than customers even though both, in practice, are usually fairly limited when it comes to situations like this.
It's also a $50bn company, with thousands of shareholders and businesses that rely on their platform.