The future for Roblox Corporation certainly looks bright, metaverse or not. The example given was learning about Rome by 'going' to ancient Rome.
That seems, just on the face of it, somewhat exploitative.ĬEO David Baszucki's ultimate vision is to turn Roblox into a 'metaverse.' In a presentation pitch to investors (opens in new tab) earlier this year, Baszuck said that he wants to turn the gaming space into a virtual world, enabling users to build whatever they want that could be seen via virtual reality headsets.
#Fortnite daily active users plus#
Creators on the platform can expect to receive 25% of whatever their work makes, plus extra financial rewards for high engagement. The most controversial element of these financials, however, has to be that Roblox is a creation platform that has an audience which is almost entirely children, and it takes the lion's share of the profits from these creations. "We know there is an extremely small subset of users who deliberately try to break the rules," a Roblox spokesperson told the BBC (opens in new tab), adding that "We conduct a safety review of every single image, video, and audio file uploaded to Roblox, using a combination of human and machine detection." Roblox Corporation is at least active in pursuing bad actors where it can: Recently suing a longtime thorn in its side (opens in new tab) and having him banned from Roblox by court order. Roblox Corporation in advance of that report published a new blogpost called 'Supporting and Protecting the Roblox Developer and User Community' (opens in new tab) outlining what it intends to do. This has been followed by additional reporting on "beamers," (opens in new tab) as they're called in the Roblox community, who hack into Roblox accounts, strip them of valuable items, and then sell them on black markets.įraudsters are one thing but other allegations are much more serious: This BBC report (opens in new tab), published earlier this week, says that the platform has problems with sex games called 'condos'. In December 2021 the YouTube channel People Make Games shared new allegations claiming that the game and game-creation platform is unsafe for kids (opens in new tab)-And for anyone not tuned into the Roblox scene, it was eye-opening: Literal children being swindled out of sometimes large amounts of money and work, a situation that Roblox appeared either unwilling or unable to address. Roblox has a simply massive player base, and one thing that numbers like these throw into sharp relief are the issues it faces with that player base skewing so young. "Our 2021 results demonstrate that the investments we were able to make in our technology and developer community are generating strong returns, and we will continue leaning into the business as we focus on the large, long-term growth opportunity ahead of us." "The foundation we put in place that allows us to invest in our business while continuing to generate strong cash flow is one of the most unique aspects of our business," said Michael Guthrie, CFO of Roblox. "As we look ahead to 2022, we will continue to develop our technology to enable deeper forms of communication, immersion and expression on our platform." "With nearly 55 million daily active users, Roblox is increasingly an integral part of people’s lives," said David Baszucki, CEO of Roblox. Other comparisons would be Steam's estimated monthly user count of 120 million, and Riot's big October 2021 statistic that League of Legends games boast 180 million monthly users. Even if you multiplied its all-time record by the 24 hours in the day, it still wouldn't be near Roblox.
This is an apples-to-oranges comparison, because it is concurrent players and not DAUs, but Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the most popular game on Steam: Its current 24-hour peak is 866,853, and its all-time record of concurrent players is 1,308,963. For more of a gaming perspective, Minecraft cites 140 million monthly users, and Fortnite's numbers peak at 10-15 million whenever the game hosts one of its big live events. If Roblox's 54.7 million daily players were a country, it would be bigger than Spain, Australia, Colombia and Canada.
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