My much more resonable goal is to never play Roblox.
I decided to try guilded.gg as an alternative to discord finally, only to find out they now require a Roblox account to log in. So much for that idea.
Matrix.org is a good alternative, teamspeak’s new client also uses the matrix protocol
I used to run a Mumble server at home on an RPi, the sound was way better than Discord, but I didn’t like how it made my IP appear on shodan, I also didn’t like needing to keep it updated.
I work in IT, I don’t want to work at home.
So I moved to using Steam, but due to network issues on my end that didn’t work, so we moved to Discord.
Not true, you’re pumping their numbers up, which increases their valuation.
You are costing them money to provide servers and bandwidth for free. They don’t (as of yet) have 3rd party ads giving them any revenue from users that don’t buy anything. More freeloading users doesn’t help IPO because they already IPO’d.
The idea that more freeloading users is a good thing is an absurd idea from the 2000 dotcom crash. I once had a potential customer call me and tried to negotiate for free web hosting under the premise that they would increase hits to my website. I laughed at them saying, “You don’t understand how any of this works. I have to buy servers for thousands of dollars. I have to pay tens of thousands a month for upstream bandwidth because I wasn’t a Tier 1 ISP. Driving traffic to my site costs me more money.”
By playing you are contributing to other players enjoyment and engagement in the game passively encouraging them to buy hats
Active players can be much more important than people who spend money, since spenders aren’t going to drop money on a game they think is going to die. Whales themselves don’t hold up a game if the player base is low, since it’s many little guppies dropping their spare change that support the games as a service economy as a collective.
and absolutely no linux. fuck those kids.
PeopleMakeGames has a great video about how Roblox makes money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ
And the followup when they got heat from roblox in response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
Holy smokes I had a bad gut feeling from the little I had seen of the game and some comments others have made but I had no idea the extent of the company’s depravity. Thank you so much for posting the videos these were very helpful.
10% of all global gaming revenue? Does that include mobile games?
How close are they to that now? It doesn’t seem like they’re even as big as Minecraft.
Dude that’s not even close to the most insane part. They expect one in every 8 humans on the whole earth to play EVERY DAY.
