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Totally ignorant perspective with perhaps no basis: Seems like Roblox must be successful despite its games, not because. I'm sure there are gems as there are with any user-generated platform, but surely most of the 18 million games are about what you used to get on Xbox Live Indie Games: sloppy little experiments made by, well, kids.

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When I watched my kids play Roblox, I realized it is a social media platform that happens to use games as the medium. Roblox shouldn't be compared to Games Platforms any more so than early YouTube should be compared to Television.

Roblox (and Minecraft) have fulfilled the dream of products like Second Life.

A colleague's kids use Fortnite this way. It's a place to hang out where you can also do stuff.

> little experiments made by, well, kids

I think that's spectacular.

Not only can a kid go from download to having a playable game created from a template in probably less than 30 minutes, but that game has world class multiplayer support and is available on the Roblox platform for anyone to join and explore. And there is no fragmentation like with Minecraft Bedrock/JE.

And Myspace was often hideous but that didn't matter.

It seems like a solid platform for young creators. They never played the classics anyway, so the million clones is probably not an issue.

> Totally ignorant perspective with perhaps no basis: Seems like Roblox must be successful despite its games, not because.

As a parent with two kids who play Roblox a lot (and have played some myself), the quality varies widely but there are many good games. Part of the fun is talking with friends and watching YouTube to find the best ones.

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