Roblox is what Meta vr aspired to be. It’s kids socializing, creating things, selling them, playing with each other, playing against each other. The user created content can be quite good, my 13 year old always goes back to Roblox like he used to with Minecraft.
I am having a really hard time being supportive of my daughter’s use of Roblox.
We supervise reasonably closely so I’m not overly concerned about it from a child safety point of view even though the platform has a long history of not being a particularly safe online space.
The part that I’m worried about is that 99% of the content seems totally and utterly pointless. Most games have zero objectives and just centre on some stupid novelty game mechanic: oh, your neck gets longer, or you can be a wolf. What do we do now? Oh, we just walk around. We’re a wolf.
There’s nothing to achieve, there’s no skill involved, no mastery of a game mechanic. It just seems completely without value to me. I’m stuck questioning if I’m just out of touch or if I should try and guide her towards taking on something a little more challenging.
The only part I like is that she plays with her school friends on the platform - they use external voice comms and just kind of hang out…I just wish they would do the same thing on a game that would challenge them in some way.
I think there’s good content if you look, my son plays some rpg and tower defense games, and there’s a game where you can create art and then sell it in a market. Mostly it’s a hangout for his group… he also plays rocket league, lol, overwatch, etc… and he has soccer practice three days a week so he gets plenty of exercise…The concern I have is more general, it’s tough to get him to focus on school work with all these distractions.
Perhaps it should clean up its child exploitation and grooming issues first.
Has anyone ever played this? I have seen coverage of it in online news and it doesn’t even look like an interesting game.
roblox is literally one of the most popular multiplayer games currently on the market and probably has like 95% brand recognition among people under 13 so yes, a lot of people play roblox.
