Why are kids playing only Roblox and nothing else?They don't even know what a console game is. I don't think they know what a Mario is. What is fuck is happening to gaming?
>>719312041I remember thinking back in 2009-2010? that I probably shouldn't tell any of my middle school friends that I play roblox, or they might think I'm playing a baby game. Now quite literally everyone (including my past middle school friends) plays it.
>>719312041games cost money and kids don't have money
Blame retarded parents who just plop a tablet/phone into their hands and fuck off. Roblox is "free", so of course they play that.
>>719312041try it and find out, you may like what you discover
>>719312041Because roblox is a platform for endless creations of custom servers and games within it, retard.same reason some people played nothing but gmod for many years.
>>719312517>games cost moneykids don't know shit about emulation
>>719312517I used get games on holidays and birthday. I pirated a lot of games on PC and console. I knew what quality feels like.How do kids not know about it? Actual gaming will decline at this rate.
>>719312791It's not like gmod kids didn't play anything else. They would've played CS or HL.Roblox seems like a black hole, they know nothing else.
>>719312856>Actual gaming will decline at this rate.Yup, between shit like Roblox and gacha, a lot of kids only know free-to-play garbage and equate that will all forms of vidya
>>719312856>How do kids not know about it? Actual gaming will decline at this rate.Tech illiterates
there is no wonder kids only play fartnite and robluxwhen they are free with near infinite replayabilityinstead of spending all your birthday monthly one one single latest cawadootyeven minecraft is a better choice there I bought my nephew one of those chink android gameboy with every SNES/PS1 games in it and he still play it every now and thenbut he like roblox more lately cause his friends play those
>>719312486Not shaming anyone, just baffled.My neighbors kids, kids from extended family, never heard of anything else except maybe Mario or GTA. They probably don't know what a PlayStation is.I worry for the future of actual traditional games.
>>719312802You're a literal retarded subhuman who has no understanding of the world. The average child in this world is born into a household where there isn't a computer at all, the entire family uses only smartphones.Fuck! Why are you retardeds so sheltered and clueless yet speak with such authority?
>>719312920gmod was inherently made from other games and populated by people who played other things a lot, leading people who started there to play other things.roblox was always just copying those other games and rebuilding them within itself, even as far back as 2010.Its an entirely different approach, and far more insular as a result.It was always offering you a roblox server version of whatever game you might hear about.
>>719312920CS and HL are the same thing tho. Essentially, imagine if you launched one game on Steam that had every source game ever made in it, thats what roblox is. They could be playing CS or HL or L4D or whatever someone came up with because it would have everything, but its all under the same title because its all wrapped into one. Roblox is not just "roblox", its the combination of thousands of user created custom games ranging from farming sims to FPS games to spelling bees and WW2 plane sims, it has everything. I could even compare Roblox to Steam, its just the name of the launcher that you play other things inside of.
>>719312994>but he like roblox more lately cause his friends play thoseI've mostly played alone (dabbled in multiplayer after college), so I will never understand social game.I am happy there is value in socializing.I am just fucking worried about actual console/PC games.
>>719313058>implying phones can't run emulatorsThe kids have access to every retro game in existence, they just don't know it
>>719313064>roblox was always just copying those other games and rebuilding them within itself, even as far back as 2010.>Its an entirely different approach, and far more insular as a result.>It was always offering you a roblox server version of whatever game you might hear about.This is a good insight. I think I get it why those kids love it. It has the game design bones that everyone enjoys, just in their own little universe.I still wish I could get those kids to try actual game games, not ripoff games.
>>719313076>Roblox is not just "roblox", its the combination of thousands of user created custom games ranging from farming sims to FPS games to spelling bees and WW2 plane sims, it has everything. I could even compare Roblox to Steam, its just the name of the launcher that you play other things inside of.I need to look into it once. I have seen gmod, Halo forge, some of Minecraft (you can guess my age), but I've never seen something grow this huge. I hope it does not have kernel level shit like Riot games.
>>719313225Its why I knew they were gonna surpass gmod back in 2010.that stuff was being made by creatives on roblox at a pace that outstripped anything of the sort in gmod, back in the heyday of TTT's original rise alongside darkRP taking over so much shit.it was a sneaky thing to encourage because it kept kids within the sandbox.
>>719313308its full of remnants of elsagate tier creepy shit pedos put in to fuck with kids.as well as monetization traps for kids to spend parents money.
>>719313316>it was a sneaky thing to encourage because it kept kids within the sandbox.can you tell me more? I knew TTT and RP servers were like 80% of all gmod games.
>>719313445>as well as monetization traps for kids to spend parents money.excuse me, what?!
>>719313308definitely look into, /v/ is absolutely sleeping on its potential and what its already become. Something with like zero gameplay that I thought was incredible was the mode "Library of Aletheia", essentially its a mode where everyone can write books and have them sit on shelves for everyone else to browse and read. It sounds simple but it really impressed me
>>719313182>implying phones can't run emulatorsThe kind of phones they have likely can't, yes. They play roblox at like sub 25 fps on the shitty cheap phones their subhuman parents give them.
>>719313445>its full of remnants of elsagate tier creepy shit pedos put in to fuck with kids.Well aware of the pedo shit. Most screenshot I've seen felt like a creepypasta tier
>>719312041roblox game are genuinely more enjoyable than the AAA slop available today. it looks way better than unreal too.
>>719313447Its a simple thing.You want to keep people playing your game, and your game relies on people making up their OWN games within your game.Encouraging that in various ways, by giving them tools to make it easier, perhaps holding events, allowing ways for those server makers to make money off of their servers more easily, etc...it all feeds back into your game's pockets one way or another.Player counts rising means increased stock market value.>>719313508Oh are you new to that sort of thing lol? No offense intended.Minecraft is full of shit like that as well.You think Star Citizen preys on rich idiots?Minecraft servers and Roblox have been doing that shit for at least a decade longer.Habbo Hotel had that shit as well in its own form.Its all about putting kids to work doing something that produces money for the owner in the end, or by making them run through microtransaction hoops for goodies in a pay-2-win scheme.
>>719313517>definitely look into, /v/ is absolutely sleeping on its potential and what its already becomeI'm reading the IGN article, and yeah it overshadows everything in existence.
>>7193136864chan itself, for all the traffic that flows into it, is ultimately a niche website that specifically tries to avoid associating with kids./v/ was always going to remain largely ignorant of such things until the kids grew old enough to migrate here and not get rejected.
I still remember when the Shaggy costed 50 tix and everyone wore it. If I told anyone back then that the Shaggy would be worth hundreds of robux today, they'd be laughing at me.
>>719313634>Oh are you new to that sort of thing lol? No offense intended.>Minecraft is full of shit like that as well.>You think Star Citizen preys on rich idiots?>Minecraft servers and Roblox have been doing that shit for at least a decade longer.>Habbo Hotel had that shit as well in its own form.>>Its all about putting kids to work doing something that produces money for the owner in the end, or by making them run through microtransaction hoops for goodies in a pay-2-win scheme.My brain is melting reading this.I know about server ownership and moneymaking in Minecraft to some extent. I know Star Citizen relies on whales to keep themselves afloat. But never thought it would be to this extent.This doesn't feel right, man...
>>719313860Anon.This stuff was being done MAINSTREAM with lootboxes during the last decade in games like the shit EA was pulling with their reboot of starwars battlefront.Getting kids addicted to lootbox gambling with a pay2win scheme nestled at the end.Everyone with a lack of morals can and will target kids for exploitation as a way to get at their parents for something, especially money.Before the lootboxes, among other things, it was the tobacco companies deliberately trying to market to kids and get them hooked younger when it was harder to quit.Be it politics or money, kids are vulnerable and always targeted.
>>719313816Yeah /v/ from 2016 (when I started using) is different from /v/ from 2020, which is different from /v/ of now.I think my kind of PC/console gaming is slowly fading from mainstream to enthusiast tier. This sandbox type social games are what's making the money. And from my limited experience with businesses, people chase where the money is.You are right, same is with /v/. I like this place a lot because it remained core to its enthusiast grassroots. Even if it is less humorous than it was years ago.
>>719313860>>719313993lets do a quick and shitty AI shitsearch.all of this is common stuff minecraft does as well.if you want to look for youtube videos there are plenty from people documenting these servers and raiding them in various ways.
>>719313860>>719313993>>719314117and this is all just in the PC realm, anon.we aint even TOUCHING the gargantuan monolith of MOBILE games and THEIR monetization aimed at kids.
>>719312856It's easier and simpler for kids to fit into an expansive game's ecosystem than it is for them to explore different games. Games like Fortnite and Roblox offer tons of different gamemodes as well so there's less chance of a kid getting bored than there was with CoD 4 or Halo 2 Multiplayer.It's also really weird to think about, but Roblox and Minecraft have been in the public perception for decades now, and Fortnite for just under a decade. There are 8 year old children who have had access to those 3 games for their ENTIRE life and they're still going and they will likely grow up with them by their side for another decade or even longer and it's not only socially acceptable, but the majority of younger friendgroups will play these games constantly.Pokemon is the only real equivalent I can think of from my youth, where it was around basically as long as I was, but it was always a kid's game and anyone over the age of 12 playing it was seen as immature and even then, pokemon games weren't something you could just continue playing every day without getting bored. Just a very strange and weird consequence of live service.
>>719313993>Be it politics or money, kids are vulnerable and always targeted.More I read politics of past (and corporations), more this rings true. Like the fairy tales where some characters would lure children to kill them.Lootbox stuff felt like it was targeted at whales with wallets, not exactly children. I could be wrong of course. Overwatch and Battlefront players seem like they would be in late teens, young adult.>>719314117>>719314195Yeah, kids I knew were playing on PC. I don't know how much worse it will be on mobile. I just remember watching an ipad kid on a train handling ad pop ups in some shitty game like a pro.
>>719313531Even obamaphone can run PS1 and below emulators just fine.
>>719314505>Lootbox stuff felt like it was targeted at whales with wallets, not exactly childrenIt's gambling without the regulation. There is a reason kids aren't allowed to gamble, especially with money, it's an addictive and habit forming activity that can completely fuck up how your brain works.The main purpose of loot boxes is to make money, but as it's inherently a gambling activity, it's secondary purpose is to normalise it's existence, normalise a scenario where the only way to access certain things is through gambling and get the younger potential playerbase to think it's normal and spend their money there eventually.If governments weren't fucking retarded they'd have branded Gachas and lootbox games as gambling and need to adhere to the same laws including those around underage gambling. Instead they're now chomping at the bit to make everyone scan their fucking IDs or give up anonyminity to "protect children"
>>719314505Those fairy tales exist for a reason, anon.Myths and religious stories like that exist to preserve knowledge that is difficult to explain, in a way that is catchy and can be passed on even by people who do not fully understand the implications within.Getting access to influence children is ultimately the most powerful tool possible to hold over a person, period. At least in terms of potential.You get to help CHOOSE what kind of adult they will become, and use them to influence those who indulge them, aka their family.>>719314727this anon gets it.Beware anyone that seeks to do anything involving children, and scrutinize what they want to do with care.Its the easiest thing to fuck up, and the easiest way to exploit people in both the short and long term, via the things I said above.
>>719312041It's dyingBe happy you lived through the best years gaming had.
>>719312041>Why aren't kids buying expensive consoles just to play expensive games in an era where children games are almost non-existentGee, i wonder why.
>All the kids at school play roblox>The kids who don't have no friends and are excluded from being social.>Roblox is actually a engine, so people make whole games inside the game.>Also free and not hard on hardware.
Attention spans.Millennial are awful parents because millennial culture decries everything as trauma so they think the complete opposite is perfect.Kids develop awful attention spans and then they get on Roblox where they can play shitty games with different colours, colourful buttons and constant popups. And when that bores them, they can move onto the next game and they can do this endlessly.I'm related to some and it's sad to see. I've tried playing Gears of War, Fable and Halo with them and they get distracted and quit.You can't even play Minecraft with them, they get bored of playing and want to play on different worlds or servers. Playing survival? Well they're bored now, they're using cheats to go on creative, do something retarded and then want to play a new world.
I always figured it was like wc3 custom games. I played wc3 custom games for like 5 years as a kid, and then dota for another decade.
>>719312041Like some anons have already said, Roblox pretty much has endless amount of content for just about every genre of game out there. Platformers, Horror, Shooters, RPG, Racers, etc.It's obviously not for everyone over a certain age, but it's understandable why most kids usually log in, also add on the fact that it's free unless you want to buy a costume for your avatar
>>719314884>in an era where children games are almost non-existentNintendo still exists and nearly everything they've ever made is targeted at children, anon
>>719312041roblox is just versatile. its a GIANT social network where zoomies can sext each other while using really retarded anime avatars, play AURA games (with their LE HECKING EPIC SATORU GOJO).tho ironically how many of them fighting LE PEDOPHILES are the same people who put on most sultry accessories
>>719315012>childrenManchildren
>b-but it's f2pso was runescape who cares just play whatever else later>noo why people aren't playing my 230GB fotm FFXVIIIII+ and counting AAslop
>>719314946i spent so much time in custom games in halo 3 it was ridiculous
>>719314935>Millennial are awful parents because millennial culture decries everything as trauma so they think the complete opposite is perfect.No.The problem is deeper and more complex.Gen X and previous were basically fooled by the rapid rise in technology to trust it to help raise their kids.Your child is being fussy? Shove a gameboy in their hands, have them watch the boobtube, etc.It shut kids up and that made parenting easier.And with shows like Mr Roger and OG sesame street, it was easy to trust.Technology became an excuse to avoid parenting, and this was passed down to the succeeding generations in one way or another as it became more and more convenient.Phones were a key part because as parents stopped feeling safe about letting kids roam free outside with no communication, phones let them keep in touch.And subsequently, phones became the gateway into shutting the kids up as well.
Is anyone else playing oobby/parkour games only? They're a perfect way to chill out while listening to music and getting lost in thought.
>>719312041Roblox > Bing Bing Wahoo
>>719312856>How do kids not know about it? Actual gaming will decline at this rate.Says the guy who played CoD and Gears religiously.
>>719315125They're manchildren because they play games targeted at children, yes
>>719314484>There are 8 year old children who have had access to those 3 games for their ENTIRE life and they're still going and they will likely grow up with them by their side for another decade or even longer and it's not only socially acceptable, but the majority of younger friendgroups will play these games constantly.I never had gaming friend groups (except one or two guys from college), so I will never get this. I've always gamed alone, and discussed them on forums and /v/.I think this same as Facebook and Instagram (and even LinkedIn). You have to use to stay in touch with friends and connections. Downside - you have to deal with everything shitty on those platforms.
>>719315339All videogames are for children though?
>>719314935>Gears of War, Fable and HaloSo kids are naturally repulsed by garbage? Good.
>>719312041Because it is a highly social game which appeals to the social media brain. It also has no structure or point to it, like social media.
>>719315552Even porn games?
>>719312994they don't even play fortnite nowadays, just roblox
>>719314727>If governments weren't fucking retarded they'd have branded Gachas and lootbox games as gambling and need to adhere to the same laws including those around underage gambling. Instead they're now chomping at the bit to make everyone scan their fucking IDs or give up anonyminity to "protect children"I have the imagine most ministers would be more clueless than me making this thread lmao.>>719314809>Myths and religious stories like that exist to preserve knowledge that is difficult to explainDamn, you just put the best argument about religion ever.>Beware anyone that seeks to do anything involving children, and scrutinize what they want to do with care.>Its the easiest thing to fuck up, and the easiest way to exploit people in both the short and long term, via the things I said above.Main takeaway for me. Some things need to be controlled or removed until certain age is achieved.
>>719315701SPECIALLY porn games
>>719314884>where children games are almost non-existentI did grew up on edutainment games, that led me to playing actual real games. Yeah I do wonder if they don't exist anymore.Now I see the appeal of Roblox.
>>719315012Reread my post, ESL
>>719315228It's not because getting them off Roblox is more hassle than not. You can get a kid to stop playing beach twerking on Roblox but that means parenting. It means watching what they're playing and taking it off them when they're playing up or if it's in their best interest.It takes parenting to take it off them and not give it them back when they're kicking off for being told no for the 3rd time in their life.It's not hard. My nephews respect me more than they do my brother and his girlfriend because I put attention and mean no when I tell them. They don't argue or talk back, they get teary eyed but they listen and I do something else with them.It takes caring about them as people and wanting them to do well.>>719315593Can't blame you but at 8 I was playing through all of them with my dad and loved it. I remember being invested and enjoying them when I was young, not needing to see rainbows and different buttons to have fun.
>>719312517>kids don't have moneyTheir parents have money.
>>719315727>Damn, you just put the best argument about religion ever.took me a few years to figure it out but yeah.Religion has always had a purpose, and you can find that purpose by looking specifically at what it tells people to do, and what beneficial practices are encoded within.>God says don't have sex with family membersTry explaining genetics to primitives>God says try have a stable relationship with two parentsTry explaining the long term effects of complex environmental factors on children>Goddess of Harvest says do this funny ritual involving sprinkling this specific thing over the fields to ensure a good croptry explaining the chemistry of fertilizers lol>God says don't eat these specific animalspigs are super prone to all kinds of disease and parasites and need to be prepared carefully to avoid them... but try explaining all of that when some arent visible to the eye.
>>719314935I agree with other anon. >>719315228 all parents have to get rid of kids to live their own lives. It is just the tools got changes.Though I think youtube/shorts are doing equally a harm in this case.
>>719315947They don't have money either
>>719312517They have money. Their parents give them near carte blanche with their credit cards just to keep them quiet and compliant. You'd have a point if Tickets existed and the old UGC economy that let you translate Tickets into Robux still existed, but every single popular game on the platform is slammed with a billion microtransactions you have no choice but to pay real money for. Kids love Roblox because there are a million rip off games all on the same platform that carry over shit from one to the other and all their friends are on there, and every single one of them is incentivized to keep dripping money into the ecosystem because they already spent money on it and they aren't aware of the sunk cost fallacy. To them, it seems like a waste to spend $70 on one game when they could spend $140 in two months, $2 at a time, feeling like it's basically free.It's pure exploitation of children enabled by the fact that parents don't police jack shit their kids do on the internet anymore.
>>719315939It takes parenting to take it off them and not give it them back when they're kicking off for being told no for the 3rd time in their life.Anon, I am trying to say that the ease of technology has seduced parents into becoming worse at parenting in general over time.It is a very slow slide I have observed for 20 years now, since I was just old enough to start noticing.It started with babyboomers, and it gets worse each year.You only see millennials because of how these things get categorized and grouped.It was happening with everything, anon.Parents got lax and leaned on all sorts of support structures that were around them.Youth groups, school, and technology in particular.Youth groups and schools did a a lot to take up the slack, and they became slowly overloaded and falling apart.Worse, the youth groups ONLY existed for the middle class and up because that shit requires money donations and free time from parents who DONT have to work two jobs and arent single.The poor don't even get that.They got a combo of technology and gangs.
>>719315992>to live their own livesAnd that's selfish.You shouldn't be having children and then throwing whatever you can to get them out of your way. If you're not going to give them the attention they need put them up for adoption or abort them, it's selfish to bring someone into the world and treat them like an obstacle on your life.Like I said to the anon, my nephews respect me as an authority in their lives. It's not hard to build that kind of relationship, it takes care and love. I have other nephews who listen to their parents when they say "I'll tell Mrs X" (their teacher) more than it they say no themselves. So many kids don't feel authority from their parents and don't feel shame for disappointing them.
>>719312041>Why are kids playing only Roblox and nothing else?All the ERP.
this thread is so old and millenialroblox is popular because you can play it on anything even on pleb tablets and every server is basically its own free game. you can play a shooter, hide seek, scp, squid game, every thing you can think of
>>719314989>>719315052Pretty much signs of me getting older. Stuff like this feels like a waste of time (no offense) >>719315247. I know I've done second screen when grinding RPGs, but exclusively second screen games are seem awful to me.And I don't think it is zoomies. They are just Gen Alpha. I am scrolling through these games, and they seem either low effort flash games, low effort mobile games or braindead youtube thumbnails
>>719316251we already covered that lol.Roblox was a thing for millennials as well.
>>719315302Nah man, its been ages I played those. That too only singleplayer and horde mode.
>>719316347play ink gameyou will get filtered on hide and seek
>>719316204>seduced parents into becoming worse at parentingThat I'll agree with but it's still a choice. There's thousands of ways we can have our lives ruined by the environment we're in but we still have a choice over it.Technology isn't all evil, it can be a tool if you put the effort into the child using the technology to make it easier. You don't need to take your child to the beach all the time, you can take them to some fantasy world and share it together in your living room. Roblox being popular is an example of that.How many parents are actually taking part in Roblox to get to know their kid? Figuring out what they like, asking questions and engaging with them? Kids just want to feel community and if it's not with their parents it'll be strangers online.
I thought Gary's Mod was fucking stupid and I think Roblox is fucking stupid too.
>>719315939>My nephews respect me more than they do my brother and his girlfriend because I put attention and mean no when I tell them. They don't argue or talk back, they get teary eyed but they listen and I do something else with them.>It takes caring about them as people and wanting them to do well.Anon, you have to share me this kek. I am not a parent, but I do want people like kids and work subordinates to respect me to get stuff done. How do you do that? I was never good at people handling, but I need to learn now.
>>719312041Its addictive and with a low barrier of entry, just like youtube and social media, just open the website and click on the shiny thumbnail and you're in game 10 seconds later.We played flash games for the same reason back in the day, although you still can argue that they we're better since there wasn't as much of a culture around microtransactions, so flash games were made mostly for the sake of it and roblox ones are a business.
>>719316470>That I'll agree with but it's still a choice.It was a choice that literally everything around them was telling them was the RIGHT choice, anon.The government, the doctors, the scientists, EVERYONE was telling them it was fine, bit by bit.Same shit as when during the millennial childhood, they were telling everyone that it was harmless to give preteens powerful stimulants and anti-depressants because their boys were having trouble sitting still in class.The only people saying anything at the time were crazy retards like the "satanic panic" bunch that thought DnD was teaching kids to summon demons.
>>719316592Be someone they'd want to be or want to impress.No one wants to listen to someone who says "do as I say not as I do" but someone who doesn't tell you what to do, unless you're fucking up, and instead shows you through their own competence is someone you want to listen to.There's more to actual leadership but the gist of it is being the leader you'd voluntarily follow, who is that? That's who you need to be.Kids are easy it's just saying no and not letting them get away with shit. We've all been kids and know what they get up to, it's a balancing act of letting them figure shit out themselves and stepping in when it's too much. There's a bunch of shit I let them get away with because I know despite being harmless, it'll teach them something more than hearing me say just trust me, sometimes I'll warn them and raise an eyebrow with a silly smile and then when what I warned happens eventually, they realise I'm someone who at least knows what I'm talking about.I also treat them like people. Instead of using baby speak and whatever, I bring them up to my level a little and go to theirs. I heard about that stupid meme video before you was born but I'll walk into that trap because it brings you joy.
>>719316470>How many parents are actually taking part in Roblox to get to know their kid? Figuring out what they like, asking questions and engaging with them? Kids just want to feel community and if it's not with their parents it'll be strangers online.Damn, anon, this hits hard. Lucky about my parents. I just wish the technology used to connect with kids also wasn't predatory.
>>719312041Why do kids do anything anon?
>>719317012>it's a balancing act of letting them figure shit out themselves and stepping in when it's too muchnta but that right there is the core of raising kids and its the biggest pain for some people to figure out lol.safest way is to keep tabs on them, prepare a few safety nets for the bigger falls, and step in when they are about to try something a net wont suffice for.
>>719312936I once showed a little girl crash bandicoot and she was all like>it has no ads? You don't have to wait hours to play again when you lose?
>>719316660So basically what Stadia promised with cloud gaming, but its free.>pic relatedseems Meet N Fuck games got replaced with whatever this is lmao
>>719316685I'm sorry but if someone tells you that giving a child unrestricted access to technology, that's you being an idiot.Would you give a 5 year old the lawn mower if scientists said 5 year olds can mow grass?It's a choice to give them something you don't understand, don't understand the possible dangers of. You could spend a while looking into the thing you're giving them, taking the time to learn it but you choose to give them something you're ignorant about.Most people are getting devices for kids for Christmas. Before Christmas you have plenty of time to figure out how to keep them safe using it, create guidelines for how they have to use them with rules to follow. You don't need to know the technology to put some child lock on. You need to choose to think about them and how you'll help them as people despite your limited knowledge of computers.
>>719317219THIS. This is exactly what's fucking me up about gen alpha kids. F2P and YouTube have shorted their brains.That's why I made this thread because it took me a second to come in grips with this reality.
>>719317329>if someone tells you that giving a child unrestricted access to technology,thats not how it went, anon.they didn't understand that it was unrestricted back when phones were new.hell just giving kids unrestricted access to TV now is such a gamblethis was the slippery slope "fallacy" proven, anon.Again, this stuff started with the BABY BOOMER generation.people who had gone 30+ years without casual civilian access to computers being a thing.people who had gone 40-50 years without the INTERNET being a thing.I cannot begin to detail just how much of a blind spot all of this was to them.
>>719317012I am still processing all this. But I will keep in mind.I never thought highly of myself, have a lot of self esteem issues. I would not follow myself lmao.But I think need to buckle up to improve myself.
>>719318817You dont need to think highly of yourself anon, think highly of who you want your future children to be. You are going to be their role model and the person they want to be so be the best person you can be.Imagine that your children could watch through your eyes and your thoughts, here you are with self esteem issues (which admitting is huge), what next do they get to see, what next do they get to be inspired by and feel stronger for seeing?Honestly anon just asking, even on 4chan of all places is a great place to be. Parenting and leading isn't an inherent skill and challenging your own beliefs on how you'd parent is far better than the common "I know how to raise my own child" to any help.
>>719319210Forgot to mention,I'm wishing you the best of luck in everything you do anon.
>normie mass hysteria because a child playing a videogame and...this is /v/ you don't like videogames...what what if a game kills them...from a screen?? You don't get it they are playing... too much videogames...what if games cause violence...bros... I thought /v/ was better than this just kidding I didn't
>>719312041It's as basic as roblox works on everything and has simple graphics that kids like. You can't just go to a garage sale and find an old console with a stack of games for lile $30 to lob at them anymore, the secondary market is for self proclaimed collectors now. Nintendo's always been a walled garden, but now more than ever has it been priced out of reach for most. Flash shit like Cool Math Games is fucking dead. All that's free, runs on most things, and is easily accessible is Roblox, with its close relative Minecraft still pretty damn high due to being cheap.
>>719312041Their parents don't have money for a 700 dollar consoles and 90 dollar games
Roblox is a platform not a game. Asking why kids all play on roblox today is like asking why they all played Playstation 4 a decade ago.
>>719312802It's insane because when I was like 10 25 years ago FUCK I found out about zsnes, and I ended up playing a fuckton of games. I think kids nowadays don't want to play a lot of games, they want to play just one game for the rest of their lives.
>can play on basically any device instead of paying $400+ for a console that gets obsolete in 3-4 years>free>some of the games are pretty fun>free>if you are truly into it you can even make your own stuff in there>free>popular among both kids and teenagers>free>trendy stuff gets copied into roblox>freeI wonder why.
>>719312041Gaming with the purpose being enjoying the game itself a Gen X/Millennial hobby. Later generations use it as a social experience. Roblox is their third space.
>>719313076>Roblox is not just "roblox", its the combination of thousands of user created custom games ranging from farming sims to FPS games to spelling bees and WW2 plane sims, it has everything.and all of them suck ass, isn't that crazy
>>719320714>fat mexican tranny defending roblox slopwhy am i not surprised
>>719315947Parents are poor too, they are not going to waste money in 80 dollars games
there is an active oldfag scene in roblox where people from the 2000s and early 2010s are still playing and all they do is just bitch about how the state of the site sucks now. That or they password guessed but I have met so many turbo autists clinging onto this shit when it is clear they dont want them anymore.
>>719320868I watched my kid play blox fruit some one piece ripoff and he pvp'd another player and it looked like it played how a dragon ball z game should. Sparring with another guy zipping around like maniacs before doing a knock away, teleports behind you, nothing personal kid downsmash kill.My nephew who plays lots of games, not just roblox will always fire up roblox for its storm chaser tornado game. The steam equivalents have worse graphics and gameplay.A lot of the games are not bad, the problem is low effort trash that pushes kids to spend robux is what the platform tries to push.
It's custom maps for the modern era.Games don't offer that anymore after RTS died off, so kids go to the free engine that does.Having spent over a decade on on SC and WC3 ums, I get it completely
>>719312041It's quite simple>Completely F2P aside from cosmetics, whereas "real" vidya is expensive as fuck and still charges for cosmetics>Easy to run, can run on tablets/mobile>Contains thousands of different games in different genres, some of which are even clones of big titles like RDR>Social aspect tied into everything all throughoutIf you look at it this way, it's perfect for kids with no access to a console or money, and I don't think there's anything else that has all those qualities I just listed.
>>719312041Previous generations had people who'd play 1 to 3 games but otherwise wouldn't call themselves gamers, they were incidental to gaming, famously people pointed to bejeweled, candy crush, and tetris as the big 3 "Non gamer games"It's still like that, gen Alpha has a large demographic that aren't "Gamers" they just play a handful of games like Roblox, they don't self identify as gamers either, but rather as a player of one or two games. A lot just use it as a chatroom more than engaging with gameplay.
>>719312041they're poor
>>719321203>>I watched my kid play blox fruit some one piece ripoff and he pvp'd another player and it looked like it played how a dragon ball z game should. Sparring with another guy zipping around like maniacs before doing a knock away, teleports behind you, nothing personal kid downsmash kill.and then along comes some guy who paid 50$ (actual price) for the strongest power, spams a bunch of screen-wide attacks and just kills youeven that aside, you know what happens before you can do that? you mindlessly grind NPC's for 200 hours... or buy an account from one of the countless botters for the price of a ham sandwichI don't know about those other games I wish I didn't know about that game, I'm sure there's some fun stuff on there, I can see why kids get caught up in it (social + infinite "content")but the entire platform stinks, it basically created an ecosystem full of trash designed to prey on children and I won't shed a single tear if it gets taken down
>>719319210>>719319308your answers showcase your experience. Honestly I was not expecting some amazing thoughts in this thread. Currently struggling with job search and post here just to cope.Thank you and best wishes to you too (and kids that know you).
>>719321942Yeah its funny how out of touch /v/ is. My niece grew up on roblox and has probably spent $thousands on it at this point. She's very much a normie high school girl and not a "gamer" or whatever. Its basically a social platform with mini games. Probably better to compare it to Facebook back in the farmville days.
>>719319913Yeah, Nintendo is non-existent here. 2nd hand consoles are still easy to come by, but I don't think kids know about it. Mobile rules everything here.I just hope kids get to play actual games too.
>>719315947Not that much on average. Most are debt slaves barely above water before they start popping out kids.
>>719320842>Gaming with the purpose being enjoying the game itself a Gen X/Millennial hobbyIM NOT OLD YET!I really hope kids go through authored experiences. Not just single player games, but also books and movies. Time alone with yourself and the experience.
>>719321335I still want try SC2 Customs. Only ever played the campaign.
>>719321456Really want to know if they have any parental controls. I love that kids still explore the internet (different than how we did, but its ok), but I also don't want Sonichu types to interact with them.>>719321942Yeah gamer word has started to vanish. I wonder what Roblox players call themselves to separate themselves from Fortnite and Minecraft crowd.
>>719312041Roblox is free, playable on pretty much everything that has a screen, and is also secretly a hundred games in one
have you ever played littlebigplanet?
well they are going to be forced to play other shit when Robloxs gets sued out of business by the feds for being a pedophile den, Thank fuck.
>>719312041Will be sad to see what an even newer generation more highly addicted to routine dopamine abuse will be like.Roblox games have more psychological tricks applied to them than the US media.
>>719312041Maybe it's because not everyone has money to buy a console
