Varsity Rebel

been in a weird headspace recently. coding is and has always been something i'm passionate about. but making games on roblox hasn't been as fulfilling as it once was lately kreek sums it up pretty much perfectly. the overly corporate direction that roblox has turned in where making games has become more about acquisitions and the algorithm has put a lot of people off making cool games. that combined with their stupid decisions on community features such as avatars and events, and the lack of incentive to make high quality games, has led to a lot of long-time roblox players losing their passion for the thing they loved as much as i've given the corporate acquisition giants on roblox like dobig a lot of hate because I do feel they contribute negatively to the platform, I still feel that roblox is mostly to blame for the change in culture on the platform. especially because they have instilled a mindset in devs where we have to care about stats and algorithms for our games to become successful. what happened to the platform that was "powering imagination"? for the past few years, every year going into RDC it makes me wonder if i can even see roblox as a long-term career. i've been fortunate to make a lot of money off the platform but it still doesn't bring me the joy that it once did the fact that it feels impossible to compete with the giant studios and the algorithm makes it hard to imagine a world where games that have the level of passion, creativity and innovation of Jailbreak, Piggy and DOORS will continue to be released going forward. those were the games that excited me as a developer because there were new standards and challenges to face. now the challenge is how to make a brainrot keyboard clicker game - that's not interesting to me 😭 i appreciate the people who have discussed this with me personally or on their own accounts. this is really my take on it all 🤷‍♂️