Roblox, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Roblox comes up
No Soup for You! Regulating tech M&A
- ▶ 17:35 Benedict Evans And so there's this whole question, is there a space in the middle, which is Roblox, and Minecraft, and maybe Fortnite, although that seems to have disappeared now, or mostly faded away.
How many metaverses?
- ▶ 1:40 Benedict Evans They might be talking about Roblox. 2 times in the scene
The Meta reality
- ▶ 11:28 Benedict Evans And so Fortnite and Roblox are part of this.
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 4:41 Benedict Evans Roblox, and popular culture, and creativity, and people making their own games, and these becoming long-term franchises, and that will be merged with VR and AR, and you know, things like Pokemon Go are very, very, very early indicators of…
- ▶ 12:37 Benedict Evans Whatever that is, or whatever that might be, the cool cultural stuff you do, and that is some of what Fortnite is, and it's some of what Instagram and TikTok are, and some of what Snapchat is, and some of what Roblox is, is that cool…
- ▶ 24:11 Toni Cowan-Brown And we've spoken here about Roblox and Fortnite, both of which, you know, we've gone into detail, some amount of detail, but they're both kind of trying to create that bridge between the online space and the real world economy and actually… 2 times in the scene
Games and Roblox
- ▶ 0:04 Toni Cowan-Brown Today, we wanted to talk about Roblox, games, and maybe are we going to mention the word metaverse? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:53 Toni Cowan-Brown The low barrier to entry there, I think is, is really interesting in that piece of just, you don't need to know and understand a lot, especially if you're a kid to get, to be interested into Roblox. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 Toni Cowan-Brown You're talking about Roblox? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:36 Benedict Evans Which is, you know, instead of, you know, we mentioned Stadia briefly, you know, I buy the game for 70 bucks, and that's it, as opposed to the game is free, and I buy 10 outfits, and now I've spent a hundred bucks, and I'm sure my son has… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:52 Toni Cowan-Brown I remember, what was it, only three or four years ago when I was selling campaigning software, we were constantly thinking about ways of gamifying political organizing or campaigning, and there's something interesting with, I think, with… 6 times in the scene
Why do we care about games?
- ▶ 28:02 Benedict Evans And my, and my son, I mean, you mentioned low-fi graphics, obviously Minecraft, both Minecraft and Roblox would feature heavily in that. 4 times in the scene