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Besides how Roblox now a den of pedophiles now, that I think is more an effect than a cause, it does strike me as a game that would have, ideally, have a high-ass age rating due to
A good game for teens, from the parents' standpoint, is where they have a predictable experience with as less addiction-inducing mechanics as possible.
GTA: SA, the controversy queen at the time, was more safe for children because even with it's sandbox gameplay, you couldn't encounter or do anything more than cartoonish violence or, like, boring sex minigame in Hot Coffee. Most games are like this or even more sterile, with all toys screwed down to the floor, where player can not deviate from a range of experiences baked into it. CoD, of all games, presented a space where the chat was the worst offender as it was put in stone in our massmedia, but other than that you just shoot people and watch propaganda, that's what you can tell by it's cover.
There we see not a built-and-released game where we can estimate anything, but a platform that hosts an uncontrollable space of minigames, a risk factor 1, where you encounter random individuals, rf2, and that encourages you to spend money, rf3.
If we are to take age ratings seriously, these three should put Roblox deep into M territory.
I remember some games started with the disclaimer 'ESRB doesn't rate your online communication experience', and oh, well, it fucking should start doing that. If you don't limit your chat capabilities to the likes of point-and-call wheel seen in Valve games, you get a more mature rating. Not to say that community-created minigames themselves could be even worse offenders, like, someone can create a challenge to draw a palestinian flag! Where's the admin?!
And fucking mtxs, man, why the fuck we still not considering them a red flag and a reason to ban the fucking thing? Roblox, Fortnite, gachas and others got billions on that, they grew because of that, and game developers/publishers started to pursue that model because no one cared about it. All while having just a cosmetics shop should've led them well into adult market where all their lucrative technics couldn't work as well as with children.
Even without all the pedos on said platform, it's still not a game for children.