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The US parents association has asked Roblox platform developers not to incite kids to spend and compared Roblox itself to a casino.

For example, first-person shooters on the Roblox platform are not particularly popular. There are quite a few of them here, but there are usually no more than 10 000 people playing such games. Clones generally attract relatively little attention in Roblox - the original projects are much more popular.The most popular game in Roblox is Brookhaven RP, which usually has a little over half a million people. That said, it has been visited about 14.5 billion times.

At the beginning of the game, you need to choose a faction , and then you can get busy doing quests. Combat missions are boring because of not very easy controls and too silly opponents. But Blox Fruits has a great open world where more and more islands are gradually added.The peak of popularity of Murder Mystery 2 has passed, but now the online rarely falls below 90 000. It is a game in the spirit of SpyParty and Among Us. A group of users finds themselves in a mansion.

And even within the games, the kids sometimes have no control over their spending. It's gotten to the point that one U.S. parents association has asked platform developers not to incite kids to spend and compared Roblox itself to a casino. The daughter of one of the petitioners spent as much as $7,200 on purchases.

“There is no HR to call. Roblox’s forums would have flagged any post I made about the situation as harassment. And, as I wanted to keep making games on Roblox, I was aware of the reputational risk associated with speaking out against people who were well regarded within the developer community.” - Anna

Jaydon Shedletsky denied everything and later went public in another nasty story. He started chatting with a twelve-year-old playmate about Sonic, sending her information about future updates, but soon started making rape jokes. And this sort of thing is far from uncommon in Roblox.Fast Company published an investigation

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