Roblox Is Already Tangling with Call of Duty, Fortnite as the Most Played Game on PS5, PS4

I played it with my daughter last week. Really showed the potential of dreams if it was properly managed.

The top 3 most played games this week, I'd soon rather get diarrhea

What was the reason Sony never allowed it in the past?

I had a feeling it was gonna already gonna be big when they announced this and everyone said it probably gonna be that big.
Who's laughing now I guess

unbelievable. HOW.
this games looks so unattractive. its like a poor man lego style with tons of random stock 3d models patched together. its a visual mess!

The amount of Robux I have purchased over the years for my kids is enough to buy two PS5's. It is a microtransaction nightmare.

Made the news in Philly, as a predator successfully met an underaged kid via Roblox. He was arrested. Never tried it, had Lincoln logs as a kid.

@BeerIsAwesome ahh I see. Makes a lot of sense.

I don't get it. I downloaded it to try it but I feel like it's just a janky mess without direction. I feel like I'm missing the point of it.

This “game” is the bane of my existence. My 9 year old stepson has a nuclear breakdown at least once a week about losing money (chores allowance he “never spent”) on this game. It’s SUPER predatory, and it is everything that is wrong with the gaming landscape.

@Sarcasmatwork Exactly, it's the predatory nature of the games in Roblox that are so ridiculous. Mainly because it primarily targets kids and shapes them to crave meaningless nonsensical garbage cosmetics for egregious amounts of money.
It's essentially a training program to condition expectations toward the predatory ambitions of the larger gaming industry as a whole. Ala Fortnite and Call of Duty, lmfao

So, in essence, Roblox success is great for Fortnite, COD, Genshin garbage etc. Basically, any mobile originated app for kids uses the same predation model. It's frankly disgusting.

We shouldn't be celebrating garbage like this benefiting the balance sheet of Sony. The idea that as long as Sony is raking in money is good for all of us is just madness. Shareholders only want infinite growth. If they see revenue potential to be higher with predatory schemes, they will focus the majority of efforts toward these schemes to continue the greed-based model. The nonsensical view that these schemes will fund the dwindling and consolidated bloated budget and dev time, sequel factory that Sony's first party output has become is just not true. We see this right now, albeit Sony is way too late to the live service scheme party, we now have a post Spiderboy game future where all we know to be on the near horizon are live service schemes. Despite the fact that new ones are failing left and right. Sony shareholders would rather waste millions of dollars and years of production time to maybe land one successful scheme, rather than continue a pedigree and diversity of portfolio that ultimately garnered them the superiority in the console marketplace to begin with.

Games like Fortnite, Roblox, COD, Genshin, and those that allowed themselves to fall victim to that predation for a friggin character or weapon skin are ultimately to thank for this.

Downloaded it, had a quick look and then deleted it. Have no idea what the fuss is?

I'll wait for a PS5 native and a PSVR2 version. I will keep asking them to make a native version.

"played the title at least once"

What kind of garbage useless metric is that? A new free to try game comes out last week, people see it and download it, then delete it like a few people above did, then go back to playing other games.

Show me "hours spent playing" then we can discuss how popular it is. Or how may days per week people play it. "At least once" for a new title is useless. 🤷‍♂️

@Shepherd_Tallon if a saudi prince comes out of nowhere and buys them there wouldn't be any changes tho, SNK is doing pretty good lol. If tencent buys them there wouldn't be any problems either.

@Mauzuri because you don’t like those games doesn’t make them soulless. Those are still more creative than the average AAA game. People have been saying stuff like this since the days Call of Duty got big too.

@Mauzuri right now I'm thankful I grew up playing ratchet & clank and god of war and not spyro or crash gotta be honest 😂

@Mauzuri to be fair there was also things like club penguin, neopets, toontown

but they were all computer games

This game is pretty unique in that it appeals to the very young I think. Younger than even Minecraft. I think it's most kids first game nowadays.
No idea what the draw is to say a three year old, but it's definitely there.

There's some absolutely amazing stuff on Roblox, I don't really get the hate. My kids have played on it for years, have had a lot of enjoyment from it and co-operated with people all over the world in making content for games. Yes, there are issues with it and you need to keep an eye on it. They can ban accounts at the drop of a hat for very little reason.

Not spent much on it at all. It's not hard to lock it down, or better still, teach your kids how to spend money wisely.

@Grimwood It's easier to get into than Dreams, mouse and keyboard help! Saying that I wish Dreams was ported to PC, I'd have used it.

How do you check what the most played game is?

@Mauzuri I’m with you about kids these days not appreciating gaming like we did growing up with Crash, Spyro etc. Two of my sons mainly play just Fortnite, Roblox and R6 Siege. When it’s Christmas and their birthdays they spend all their Xbox gift cards on battle passes and cosmetics. I’d sooner rather buy a game in a sale or a new release like Alan Wake 2 which I’m buying at the end of this month.

On topic, I’ve heard over the years that there’s plenty of nonces on Roblox so it’s worth maybes keeping an eye on who your kids talk to and who they message when playing the game. I’ve put parental control on my youngest’s Series S.

Maybe the employees revolt and change the situation for the better?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/17/roblox-tells-employees-they-have-to-come-to-office-three-days-a-week.html

@MaccaMUFC @Papa_Godzilla

There's actually some great games on roblox which I'm actually playing, which have quite indepth mechanics. They are very management simulation games.

There is alot of awful attempts at games but you have to remember these are all made by the community and for kids really, forget the actually money transactions, aslong as you have security so the kids can't buy, all the games are full playable till the end.

But im playing retail tycoon 2, which is make a store and grow, grid base free building, indepth stock management, you can hire managers, cashiers, janitors, security, restorers, delivery drivers, there is a depot for the goods a car dealership.

There is actually indepth systems at play aswel, customer happiness, effect sales, customer come in and dont just buy, they decide, sometimes they don't, theives come into the store, it also is linked with who else is on the server and you compete for customers. Honestly in my head I'm like why is no one making a fully fledged game like this, at a high level (graphically) think two point games level.
This game if it wasn't in the roblox graphics would sell very well and reality is im playing it for free.

Also playing an addictive game Lumber Tycoon 2.

Basic idea, cut trees down, sell them to the shop.
There is a shop for tools and sawmills, a shop to buy land, you have to find the other shop for bigger trucks to carry the wood, which is in a different area, there is a shop to buy furniture.
Different trees give different amounts of money, the physics and cutting the tree down is pretty good.

You buy land and then free build complex wood cutting facilities, with sawmills conveyor belts and other wood cutting tools.
Build a house, the mechanics at work in this game are actually rivalling alot of mainstream 70 dollar games.

Of course there are so many games where your just waiting for money to go up and click a button but there are actual games in there.

I'm actually impressed with it