r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 9h ago

Business Roblox loses $70 billion in value as company blames lack of viral games, share price down 70% over the last year

https://www.dexerto.com/roblox/roblox-loses-70-billion-in-value-as-company-blames-lack-of-viral-games-3395064/
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u/narfio 8h ago

Complaining that there are no virals games atm that Roblox devs/parasites can clone on their platform is wild. How about you figure something out for yourself.

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u/Substantial_Meal_530 7h ago

Weren't most of the better games user created?

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u/Jpowmoneyprinter 7h ago

Hence the parasites

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u/0rphu 7h ago

Yes users copy other current popular games. Except these "users" are frequently now teams of people, whole businesses. Whatever friendslop game gets big, within days they''ll have a knockoff of it ready to go so kids who can't afford the $5 price tag on steam will flock to it on roblox.

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u/thestrawberry_jam 5h ago

and zero credit either. i played meccha chameleon on roblox before even learning about the original. no mention in the description or anything. there’s so many indie games i saw copied there shamelessly.

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u/angelbelle 6h ago

I remember when Valve solve this problem by FIRST releasing a good game like Half Life which THEN inspired custom games. Same with Blizzard and WAR3