Yeah, a lack of viral games. Riiiiiight!

It has nothing to do with the long-standing grooming/pedophile scandal on the platform, and their ham-fisted legal reaction to it. Or the overly draconian and poorly-implemented age verification checks. Or their push to turn Roblox into a dating platform. Or any number of other stupid strategic decisions they've been making.

ETA: Interesting insight from my kid. Fewer new games are making it on to Roblox because of the stupid age restrictions (you have to be she verified to use Studio), and the fact you now have to pay 1,000 Robux to publish a game, and you have to get a certain number of 16+ users to sign in to our like your game. So naturally fewer viral games are appearing, because they've narrowed the wider new games spigot.

Basically: Roblox hurt itself in its confusion.

How is Roblox possibly worth enough money that it can lose $70B in value and not be worth -$69.98B?

The other day a friend asked me for games recommendation for her young kids, "anything to get them off the roblox". Having grown up with Monkey Island and Incredible Machine, I really feel sorry for this gen kids and their always-online and ever-screaming lobbies.

The children gaming market is huge and roblox has it all pretty much to itself. The "problem" for their leadership is that the machine must grow. Being on top with no competition, that's not good enough. Sustainable long term business with clean nose is somehow considered to be a failed business model. Both stupid and greedy, the worst combination to have as stewards of biggest online communities for children.

You mean the games that they depend on children making? Are they really mad that their free unpaid child labor isn't doing enough?

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It's a little sad to see what happened to it. It used to be a fantastic way to get kids into programming. There's still Scratch or easy-to- get-into game engines I suppose, which is how I learned myself. Still, I have fond memories of creating stuff in Roblox.

It’s because they changed how you can publish games, you have to pay them to be a developer on their platform now.

Or it's the pedophiles

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.

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.

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.

Oh no won’t anybody think about the poor Roblox corporation, their child labor sweatshop isn’t sweating enough…

Call me crazy, but I don't think a single piece of media should be valued at $70b in the first place. It's a video game.

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.

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

Oh, are the free child laborers who develop Roblox games not performing well enough to meet your expectations? That must be really frustrating for you

Yep, totally a lack of breakout games and not the fact that Tim Sweeney David Baszucki is hosting a pedophile playground.

(They implemented age verification recently.)

Imploding would destroy the tool side of things, and thats the only part I care about. Great.