Quote:Massively popular game creation tool Roblox is now a massively popular experience creation tool Roblox, possibly in response to the ongoing Epic v. Apple trial.

Roblox allows a variety of user-created projects on its platform, and until earlier this week, these were all grouped under a tab called “Games” on Roblox’s website. Roblox creators could create and manage “games” through an editor, and individual games had a user limit called “max players.”

That’s all changed now. The “Games” tab now reads “Discover” on the web, although it still points to an address of “roblox.com/games.” Developers can create and manage “experiences,” and experiences have “max people” allowed. The word “game” has been replaced by “experience” across nearly the entire Roblox website, and the iOS and Android apps now have a Discover tab instead of a Games tab — although both apps are currently classed as games in their respective stores.

“The term ‘experiences’ is consistent with how we’ve evolved our terminology to reflect our realization of the metaverse,” a Roblox spokesperson told The Verge. “Roblox is an online community where people do things together in virtual worlds, and over the years, we began referring to these worlds as experiences, as they better represent the wide range of 3D immersive places – from obbys to virtual concerts – that people can enjoy together with their friends.”

Quote:Roblox Bizarrely Claims it Isn't a Game

(05-18-2021, 05:04 AM)mothered Wrote:

Quote:Roblox Bizarrely Claims it Isn't a Game

Hilarious.
I think it works out kinda like youtube. When a certain website for example like youtube contains elements of creation,publishing, and discussing content while also being a paid movie service confining it into a genre can be quiet hard. Roblox does the same its a marketplace,creation tool, design software, multiplayer game, forum and many things i cant name right now.
Realistically speaking, If It's not a game, then what Is It?

(05-18-2021, 07:29 AM)roastedtv Wrote:

Quote:Roblox Bizarrely Claims it Isn't a Game

I think it works out kinda like youtube. When a certain website for example like youtube contains elements of creation,publishing, and discussing content while also being a paid movie service confining it into a genre can be quiet hard. Roblox does the same its a marketplace,creation tool, design software, multiplayer game, forum and many things i cant name right now.

(05-18-2021, 05:04 AM)mothered Wrote:

Quote:Roblox Bizarrely Claims it Isn't a Game

Hilarious.

Realistically speaking, If It's not a game, then what Is It?

(05-18-2021, 06:36 PM)Oni Wrote: All of these arguments are because Epic Games is suing Apple. Epic Games does not want to pay a 30% fee on in-app-purchases, which both Apple and Google charge developers. This is less of an issue for Android devices, which can sideload their games via .apk files. iPhones on the other hand, are not able to sideload applications.

I'd say Epic Games is well within their right, as 30% is a very high fee for companies that are already monopolistic in nature.

(05-18-2021, 06:21 PM)Jiggly Wrote: I would argue it is a game, but it has features that go beyond gaming. For example, if I were to go onto VR chat, it might technically be classified as a game and have arcade games in it but realistically it is a chat-room platform. I wonder if Roblox feels that they are developing away from that pure "game" classification, and morphing into something bigger than a singular game.

(05-18-2021, 06:21 PM)Jiggly Wrote:

(05-18-2021, 05:04 AM)mothered Wrote:

Quote:Roblox Bizarrely Claims it Isn't a Game

Hilarious.

Realistically speaking, If It's not a game, then what Is It?

I would argue it is a game, but it has features that go beyond gaming. For example, if I were to go onto VR chat, it might technically be classified as a game and have arcade games in it but realistically it is a chat-room platform. I wonder if Roblox feels that they are developing away from that pure "game" classification, and morphing into something bigger than a singular game.