“I don’t know, you can say this for a lot of things, right?” said Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza at GDC, when the allegation was put to him by Eurogamer. "Like, you can say, ‘Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labour,’ right? Or, you can say: we are offering people anywhere in the world the capability to get a job, and even like an income. So, I can be like 15 years old, in Indonesia, living in a slum, and then now, with just a laptop, I can create something, make money and then sustain my life.

Of all the ways you could’ve framed this you went with actual child labor.

I have heard that different video game related income jobs are some of the most profitable available in a lot of lower income countries. Things like levelling up new accounts for players can make them more money than most of their other available options.

So I’m not surprised to hear that Roblox can be a big money maker for those people. And it has been a decent gateway into game development for people, I know that the Lethal Company dev got his start making Roblox games for example.

I do feel like the payout for Roblox should be higher though, being able to cash out for only 25% of the buy in value seems steep.