trans-femme moist fur-beast.
i like drawing creatures! looking at them is fun too!
me: i will install roblox because I'm curious how much resemblance it bears to the flash heyday of old
(several hours later)
emerging shaking and weak-legged Oh god. They... they made phone gambling for children. I was encouraged to hatch an egg faster by buying a time-limited currency pack that cost over 100 real world dollars. A copyright-infringing Luffy tried to sell me the ability to turn into a saiyan if I subscribed to a battle pass. what have we wrought
roblox of 2012 and roblox of now are miles apart from all i've observed. roblox of 2012 was absolutely closer to the flash heyday, to my memory
Yeah... It's all the kids want to play at the library. Some of the older middle schoolers skip school for it.
imagine going as far as skipping school and u spend that time playing roblox. i’d genuinely be so embarrassed
Me, ten years ago: Roblox looks like knock-off Minecraft, I will not let my kids play this nonsense.
Me, now: Holy shit I dodged a bullet there.
Right? Mine's been asking to play for almost that long and I am so glad that we never allowed it. Won't necessarily tell other people how to parent, but...hell no.
you hear those stories about kids running up roblix charges but you don't Get It until you step in there
before around 2015 Roblox games were more like fun little experiences or hangouts or games closer to what you would’ve been thinking about but around then Roblox introduced a feature called devex where you could exchange an obscenely high amount of robux for real money. so every game there became a microtransaction simulator afterwards so developers could milk robux from children to get a measly paycheck
Oh it gets weirder every year. Having been there since 2007 I was able to witness nearly every era the site went through. Most of its life was just kids having fun making games with their little digital legos, myself very much included, forming friendships and groups, getting into mock wars and what not. By the late 2010s, things gad begun to change, with the removal of the free currency, tickets, which you used to get just for logging in, and for getting visitors to your games, nothing more. With that gone, nobody had a way to get anything except through the microtransaction currency, robux (commonly referred to as Rs). Combined with the “developer exchange”, it suddenly became a huge incentive to get every last R out of your visitors. After that point, the old normal games slowly gave way to ones that had the odd purchase or two, usually for something good, but as things went on they added more and more for less and less too you reached what we have now. Nearly every popular game is chock full of popup ads for this or that upgrade, and the old ones, while they still exist, are few and far between. There are still good games on there if you know where to look, but good luck with that starting from the outside.
god do you remember how insecure they were banning the word "minecraft" in chat as "survival simulators" flooded the frontpage and they jammed out a janky, feature-poor "procedural/voxel terrain" update to be like "we're better than that other game we can't name, our voxels have slopes"
i have never fucking forgotten that lmao
i miss Ride A Rocket to the Space Station And Moon
and obbies. and Build A Raft And Survive To The End, and Can You Survive A Train Ride Into A Black Hole
i know a lot of people compared the two at the time but i always found their terrain systems to be entirely different beasts. i used them extensively in building. i found the old marching cube voxels quite charming, and even found ways to build maps utilizing them and cars capable of handling them. sadly said maps were destroyed with the changeover to the newer terrain system. though i have since made extensive use of that too, even going so far as to make some of my own real-time procgen with them. its unbelievably hard to get running fast enough...
i used to love those sorts of rocket ride games, though my favourites were those 'build and explore space' type games. i played so many of those.
i dont really recall them banning the word minecraft, though i was mostly sticking to my own little star trek groups at that point so it could have just passed me by.
