Roblox is a place where you play games, right? It ticks all the boxes, it’s obvious, we all know it is. So why, I wonder, has one of the world’s most popular, uh, entertainment service platforms suddenly stopped using the word “game”?
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As The Verge reports, last week Roblox scrubbed almost all mentions of the word “game” from its descriptors, whether they be internal tabs (“games” now says “discover” in Roblox itself) or summaries of the game on the App Store and Google Play Store (where every mention of “game” has been replaced with “experience”).
A Roblox spokesperson has an explanation handy, which reads:
Which, OK, whatever, but the timing of the move is certainly interesting given it’s coming in the middle of the Apple v Epic court battle, where a big part of Epic’s case is an attempt to prove that Fortnite is more than just a game. By being classified as a game it has been subject to App Store restrictions like Epic not being allowed to operate its own in-game store.
