Peak developers would rather you pirate its game than play Roblox "microtransaction-riddled ripoff slop"
https://www.eurogamer.net/peak-developers-would-rather-you-pirate-its-game-than-play-roblox-microtransaction-riddled-ripoff-slop
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nocturne@slrpnk.net · 36 pts · 1y
Steam link to Peak
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 23 pts · 1y
Even if i played peak I would buy it anyways Mr dev
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y
There are some legitimately impressive games made in Roblox, it's just a shame it's so ludicrously predatory, given the right tools the people making those could do some great things.
grue@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
It never ceases to amaze -- no, that's not the right word. It never ceases to dismay me how people so often work for free making mods for proprietary shit when they could be contributing to a Free Software game instead.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 8 pts · 1y
My nieces and nephews are obsessed with Roblox. Without them I never would have played. They pulled me in the other day, with one of my siblings, and I found myself in the most poorly crafted Sims game (after 4) that looked like it was drawn with crayola markers by a 6yo.
I get the appeal, they pull in family across states while FaceTiming and such. No one is paying for anything. I can’t imagine anyone playing Roblox solo or putting money into it. It’s pretty bad. What it is is a venue for online get-togethers, one you can laugh at because it’s so bad.
cryptiod137@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Roblox is making over a billion a quarter...
Zephorah@discuss.online · 4 pts · 1y
Now that’s sad.
cryptiod137@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah, actually incredibly so.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
No one in your family, hopefully. But kids will beg and annoy parents for robux, so they can buy skins and clothing items to use in the games.
Depends on the roblox game, there are some that have MMORPG style grinding, so you can find people playing solo there. As for money, besides the above, there are casino games where players spend robux, too.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y
Roblox sounds like AI but with child labor.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
Yeah it's literally 10 Canuck bucks... come on. Piracy would at least people try the real thing to decide whether they like it enough.
The other game is lazy copy work made to take your money and leave you miserable.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y
The people playing Roblox slop are children without credit cards btw. We can't have a discussion around piracy if we don't take into account the fact that a significant part of players are minors who will literally never be able to buy the game legally (in the timeframe it's relevant)
TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
I already bought Peak and have been loving it, so I'm not really interested but - how would pirated Peak work? The mountains are generated new every day (presumably server side) and the multiplayer is entirely through inviting steam friends.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Presumably the mountains are generatable offline. The steam friend thing is easily bypassed by the infamous Spacewar loophole
pennomi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y