Data breach exposes personal information of 4k Roblox developers
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Garbage corpospeech. Who chose the 3rd party provider? Who gave the provider personal data of Roblox "creator community"? Also - who was hiding the incident for 2 years?
Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ
Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
This is the same person that was sued by Roblox in 2021[3] but that doesn't nullify the content he has been showing about all the shady shit that Roblox does.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STS1horM6JY
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLF6YUdt8aE
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bUWnxP_YAw
[3] SomeOrdinaryGamers deep dive into the lawsuit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dlxp-X7O54
If these developers think its easier to release a game on a mobile app store and gain an audience nothing is realistically stopping them.
There are 100s of ways to be creative in game development outside of roblox that are approachable these days. Itch.io is a simple/open publishing platform. There are plenty of free/cheap game engines. Tons of tutorials on youtube for those platforms.
Those other systems aren't by default setup to lie that you will be the next rockstar developer, just as long as you pump more money into our closed ecosystem for more prominent placement on this front page, while skimming significant rev shares off the top that is opaque.
If roblox is your spark that gets you to think about what is possible, awesome, but those videos describe a corporate structure that uses fake currency, a closed ecosystem, and predatory tactics, to take your talent and make it their content.
And not everyone uses everything. As long as a tool is not terrible it will have some amount of market share. I am not denying there are alternatives, but there is going to be a percentage of people who want what Roblox is offering compared to itch.io.
>Those other systems aren't by default setup to lie that you will be the next rockstar developer
That sounds like marketing talk. Most businesses will try and oversell what their tools will let you do. As shown in the video people are realistic that there is a small number of people who will become successful.
>just as long as you pump more money into our closed ecosystem for more prominent placement on this front page
Adevertising campaigns for games are not Roblox specific at all.
>while skimming significant rev shares off the top that is opaque.
Most platforms have rev share. Again if you make an iphone app you will similarly be rev sharing with apple.
>to take your talent and make it their content.
It's beneficial for both parties. If it's not developers would not invest time and money into making things for the platform. It just business like everywhere else.
Edit: Seriously though, this seems like a bigger deal because it seems as if Roblox kind of just has a big ol bucket of data. Purchasing from the Roblox store is no different than being a Roblox developer from the standpoint of the data.