Kids Relief: The $100M Charity Teaching Kids To Gamble In Roblox (www.youtube.com)
from umbraroze@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 28 Jan 00:12
https://lemmy.world/post/24818061

[1:07:28, channel: mrixrt]

Quick video summary:

  1. There’s a few charities, Comic Relief and Kids Relief. They’ve done a few questionable things over years.
  2. Such as commissioning a few educational games aimed at children, and then put the net profit gained from them to good use. …The games are AFK brainrot with gacha mechanics and zero educational value.
  3. Also the games are on Roblox! We were talking about net profit here. Roblox eats a huge part of the pie.
  4. And the development house themselves? It was started by a few YouTubers and it all goes downhill from there.

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_sideffect@lemmy.world on 28 Jan 14:17 next collapse

That whole “game” needs to be shut down, but it won’t because it’s making people money

nothingcorporate@lemmy.today on 30 Jan 17:16 collapse

Lootbox gambling is a cancer…extra cancer points for aiming it at kids…and wow, that revenue split is insane, no wonder Roblox is such a rich, publicly traded company. Sigh.