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by kkukshtel 1470 days ago
Someone else mentioned this on Twitter, but in my experience with Roblox, its easy-to-use creation tools lend themselves more to making copycat, free versions of top games rather than introducing new genres. Aka a kid wants to play a battle royale but can't buy PUBG / Apex / Cod (and ESRB rating stuff), they will instead channel that desire to something the Roblox dev community will happily leverage.

What made things like the WC3 editor generative of new ideas was that there were clear limitations. And anyone who is "creative" by any stretch of the word can recgonize that creativity is most generative when prompted with limits.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/best-roblox-games

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It's definitely a bit of a copy cat wild west with respect to copyright, but even there there's interesting things. Something I noticed is that almost ever big well known game title has a "tycoon" version of it created in Roblox. Ala "Among Us Tycoon", partially this is just for monetization but often times it's a fundamental change to the gameplay.