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Roblox Corporation's a Victim of Their Own Success
A lot of the features of Roblox that we mentioned in our journalism on people make games are not obviously bad but then become bad if the platform is worth a lot of money. The thing about rules in game design is that people will butt up against them and they'll optimize the fun out of a system. When those rules also define economic conditions of actual transactions between each person, it almost feels like you're teaching people how to butt up against economic laws. It's naturally developed large communities within so naturally large communities within Roblox have developed of kids who have ways to exploit games or just take over other people's account.