Genuinely wondering how these things get greenlit at this point. There are so many other things that could’ve been done with the time and money spent here, but you went and added calling to the platform. Calling. Something that only like a dozen people have probably ever asked for. Ever.
Okay, crazy concept: I don’t think anyone wanted ROBLOX, the thing most known as a GAMES PLATFORM, to have this. While obviously most Roblox users probably wouldn’t use this, I feel like Roblox investors wouldn’t care for this either - really, what investor looked at Roblox as it is currently and said “That company’s platform is great, but I sure wish I could call people on it. Then I’d invest into it for sure!”
If I wanted to call someone I knew on Roblox, you know what I’d do? I’d use Discord. So riddle me this: Why did you implement this on Roblox when you already own a Discord competitor in the form of Guilded? This is something that belongs on there, not on Roblox.
This brings me to another, much larger point: Many things that are being added lately just do not belong on Roblox at all. You want Roblox to be seen as more than just a games platform. But the way you’ve been going about it just isn’t working at all, and I’m SHOCKED you’re still doing it.
You can try to change what people view your site as all you want, but as long as you don’t actually try to change the reason why people use your platform, then you’re stuck with the label the Internet has given you: as a kids games platform. You’ve kinda managed this with 17+ games, but that’s about it.
Adding new features like this to Roblox as it is currently, while useful to a small handful, isn’t something a majority of people want or will use. And doing this over and over and over again like you have just causes unnecessary feature creep and massive infighting with the community about what should and shouldn’t be on the platform.
Instead of sticking to your core values or actually trying to do something new, you instead insist on these compromises, these half steps that only complicates things and further divides you and the people that use your products. So either start actually acting like Roblox and move these wacky experiments to different platforms, or go all-in and actually rebrand your platform and image. You can’t do both, as all that does is alienate people on all sides.
And one last thing: Features like these require you to pump more money into things that might not (or in this case will not) earn you the money invested back. This has made me think of something: are you guys really about to lose one billion dollars in a year because of stuff like this? Your earnings reports show that this might genuinely happen. Seriously, imagine THAT headline.
