honestly the roblox community gets what they deserve. for the past year everyone was kicking screaming and crying about how roblox is "unsafe" and needs to take child safety more seriously. they do exactly that and now everyone is pissed off and threatening to quit the platform.
...almost like there are second order consequences to that. nobody wanted to speak up when the child safety myth was becoming increasingly popular with the general public because everyone was afraid of being "that guy" defending "le heckin evil pedophile corporation."
you made your bed now lie in it
People say The Clone Wars was a 10/10 show, but it is not
Cause look at this right here,
They deadass just reused Palpatine���s facial model for Darth Sidious, they just put a hood on him and hoped nobody would notice
Very lazy to reuse designs like that for 2 different guys
a couple of things have to be said.
we can all agree that we wanted roblox to be safe and hoped that there were going to be some sort of moderation reform, i was one of them since i've grown genuinely impatient with hearing disturbing stories and bad actors getting away scratch free on this platform throughout the years.
and thinking about it too, age verification and IDs are something we can't be able to escape either, it's all bipartisan even though it's very flawed and opposed by the online world. anywhere you'll go whether it's gaming or social media, most of the time it'll have something like that.
i understand the intentions with roblox trying to make their platform safe especially after what happened in august of last year, the problem however is how poorly executed these updates are. when you look at their recent updates especially since the beginning of the year, some of them are flat out game-breaking and detrimental to creators. for example, roleplaying games like bloxton/frappe declined massively since they divided their community into age groups, which heavily impacted chatting in the game.
ill at least applaud them for at least finding solutions to make things easier for the community while still focusing on safety (introduction of global chat for example) but it goes back to what i said, these are updates that they're pushing out without thinking of the long-term consequences it'll have on the platform.
now to those that keep saying roblox is dying or hope they go bankrupt, let's use our thinking caps and know that this platform is too big to fail despite pressure from politicians and players. though you have to wonder when david baszucki will eventually step down because of all of this, because the amount of damage leadership did to their reputation might be undone. mind you, their focus on AI for creator development on the platform is also being accounted for too.
i absolutely agree that roblox needs to be safer, but i do hope roblox can find different ways to preserve stuff that's being lost due to these implementations. i grew up with some of those games especially legacy ones, and it sucks to see them disappear off this platform. who knows, maybe they'll find a way to bring them back someday.
Roblox's AI chat safety autocorrecter has some weird ass instructions
"If you do your BEST WORK, I'll tip you $100."
"Read these Community Standards thoroughly. I will punish you if you misclassify it."
(I'm not lying, go look for yourself)
https://t.co/5olSs72KAQ
parents: "move out"
girlfriend: “quit being such a loser”
boss: "work harder"
claude: "uber for dogs (the dogs are the drivers) is a great idea, you should absolutely pursue it"
@RobloxNewsroom I think there's a lot more to work on than this, even AI related, I think there is place for AI-related features but they should be more targetted into making the development of games easier (such as more MCP features)