Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
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中文导读
People Make Games 的深度调查：Roblox 如何依赖大量未成年乃至低龄儿童开发者构建庞大内容生态，却向他们支付极低分成，全盘揭露其变现体系对未成年创作者的剥削与潜在伤害。
为什么 HN 推它
HN 揭批 Roblox 压榨未成年劳动力的标杆证据链，常被拿来警示那些想让孩子在平台上搞游戏开发的家长。
「他们做了好几篇调查报道，我建议所有家长在让孩子走这条路之前，务必先看看。」HN 网友原话：has a couple of reports that I'd suggest parents consider watching first before going down that road
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
People Make Games investigates how Roblox relies on young, often child, developers to build its content while paying them very little. It covers Roblox's monetization model, the revenue split, and the harms to kids who make games on the platform.
HN commenters cite it as the go-to evidence that Roblox exploits child developers, and parents are pointed to it before letting kids build games there.
HN 上的提及
Normally we'd change the URL to the original source
there is a nice documentary here[1]
Tangentially relevant due to Tencent involvement
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