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Is Roblox Creating a Closed Economy?

As a designer, once you've got your successful game and you're being paid in Roblox, you are unfathomably wealthy on the platform. But if you actually want to get paid for this game that potentially you've spent years making, you're going to have to ask Roblox to turn your Roblox into actual cash. And at this point, the money gets substantially devalued. Only 3% of game developers in the games industry believe that is fair. The company behind Steam, which is Valve Corporation, has gotten some flack for only giving game developers 70% of the sales price of their game. For every dollar that goes into the Roblox ecosystem that

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