https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/roblox-ceo-delivers-imperial-announcement-that-the-goal-is-1-billion-daily-active-users-and-10-of-all-global-gaming-revenue-thanks/
I mean why not, sure.
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.
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.
I want the chat aspect of discord. I use it for my business (local game shop) to keep customers updated on preorders, new releases, and events at the shop, and to just chat with everyone. It has a much better reach than Facebook or Instagram.
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."
A lot of valuation for these companies is not based on profitability, but rather on growth. So as long as you can show investors that you’re growing, they will buy in.
Also, what are the chances they don’t have a cheaper option of using GCP/AWD/Azure/etc?
Valuation is only useful for an exit strategy. They've already IPO'd. If they don't show profit, the stock will collapse.
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.
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.
A lead Roblox dev went to prison recently for locking up children in his basement. It's actually crazy how far you have to dig to find this news. But he got two life sentences
Anyone remember Shedletsky? Yeah that's him
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.
I didn't count, is that how many there are? WOW, that's a big ask. I think I'll do my part and die someday to make room for another whatever this game is we're talking about player
That would certainly explain suddenly forcing Guilded users to have Roblox accounts to use a chat app. Get fucked, Roblox.
No you misunderstand, they want to fix the shrinking birthrates and help developing nations get wealthy enough to have internet access and disposable income! And also fix global overpopulation symptoms! They're not delusional about having 1/8 of the planet's population as a user base, they're philanthropists!
This just in, Roblox is reportedly in talks with Kaminoans to pump out 100 million new Roblox users ever month, starting April 2027
Roblox is evil? That sucks, just picked up the game like a week ago cus an old friend of mine plays it frequently and I wanted to tag along sigh