I am having a really hard time being supportive of my daughter’s use of Roblox.
We supervise reasonably closely so I’m not overly concerned about it from a child safety point of view even though the platform has a long history of not being a particularly safe online space.
The part that I’m worried about is that 99% of the content seems totally and utterly pointless. Most games have zero objectives and just centre on some stupid novelty game mechanic: oh, your neck gets longer, or you can be a wolf. What do we do now? Oh, we just walk around. We’re a wolf.
There’s nothing to achieve, there’s no skill involved, no mastery of a game mechanic. It just seems completely without value to me. I’m stuck questioning if I’m just out of touch or if I should try and guide her towards taking on something a little more challenging.
The only part I like is that she plays with her school friends on the platform - they use external voice comms and just kind of hang out…I just wish they would do the same thing on a game that would challenge them in some way.
I think there’s good content if you look, my son plays some rpg and tower defense games, and there’s a game where you can create art and then sell it in a market. Mostly it’s a hangout for his group… he also plays rocket league, lol, overwatch, etc… and he has soccer practice three days a week so he gets plenty of exercise…The concern I have is more general, it’s tough to get him to focus on school work with all these distractions.
I am having a really hard time being supportive of my daughter’s use of Roblox.
We supervise reasonably closely so I’m not overly concerned about it from a child safety point of view even though the platform has a long history of not being a particularly safe online space.
The part that I’m worried about is that 99% of the content seems totally and utterly pointless. Most games have zero objectives and just centre on some stupid novelty game mechanic: oh, your neck gets longer, or you can be a wolf. What do we do now? Oh, we just walk around. We’re a wolf.
There’s nothing to achieve, there’s no skill involved, no mastery of a game mechanic. It just seems completely without value to me. I’m stuck questioning if I’m just out of touch or if I should try and guide her towards taking on something a little more challenging.
The only part I like is that she plays with her school friends on the platform - they use external voice comms and just kind of hang out…I just wish they would do the same thing on a game that would challenge them in some way.
I think there’s good content if you look, my son plays some rpg and tower defense games, and there’s a game where you can create art and then sell it in a market. Mostly it’s a hangout for his group… he also plays rocket league, lol, overwatch, etc… and he has soccer practice three days a week so he gets plenty of exercise…The concern I have is more general, it’s tough to get him to focus on school work with all these distractions.