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Is anyone making money off Roblox? Tried to make some gear so my son could make money and stop asking me for Robux. Failed miserably. Anyway, I'll be buying stock.

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My son's best friend is pulling down $1K/year doing Lua scripting and object modelling for people on a subcontracting basis.

He's 15. He acknowledges he could be pulling in a lot more money if he spent 2x or 4x the time on it. Or dropped out of high school, perhaps.

Any pointers to where they find the paying work?

Networking, just like a real-world side gig.

Roblox is.

This is just a near-NCAA tier play by the company to make money off child labor. Change my mind.

No doubt about that. You have to have a premium account just to make and list items for sale.

This is different than Apple, how? Platforms take cuts.

At least the money is out in the open and explicit, unlike TikTok's questionably-declared influencer payments.

I'm just agreeing that Roblox is making money.

I think a negligible fraction of Roblox games are child created. The focus is either Roblox-created games like Bloxburg or indie adult-created games. Children (with their parent's credit card info) are the target consumers, not target creators.

Yes. Both Roblox and developers (the game creators) do make money from Roblox. This is no small thing either, it is not abnormal for developers to buy expensive products from their earnings, some do create companies to hire employees to work on games.

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