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by phone8675309 1763 days ago
These allegations, if true, are terrible, and Roblox should address them.

That said, maybe if these young developers learn first hand why digital sharecropping is bad at an early age they can avoid being chewed up and spit out by the "AAA" game development machine and instead focus on creating and promoting games on a platform they have control over.

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I think it is a terrible waste if even one kid with a bright future developing (for example) indie games is traumatized by this stuff and ends up pushing spreadsheets or designing webpages at an ad firm instead.
On the other hand it may turn a child onto development when they would have normally defaulted into some kind of boring pencil pushing position. Or it may encourage the kids to go into open source if they're not getting paid anyway.