The future of gaming
I recently attended Roblox’s Q4/FY 2023 earnings’ videoconference. While the numbers are all growing and, undoubtedly, massive, I still struggle with the huge bottom-line losses reported by Roblox year after year. I can’t stop to think this in my head: there is something wrong here. It made me think of Matthew Ball’s recent essay, “The Tremendous Yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024,” which highlights the key issues of the entire gaming industry: extremely high capital intensity for games’ production, underdevelopment of monetization through advertising, lackluster ‘real’ growth, no space for indies to break through, lack of true diversity of content.
