(2020-05-02) Roblox Believes Usergenerated Content Will Bring Us The Metaverse

Roblox believes user-generated content will bring us the Metaverse.

Roblox vice president of developer relations Matt Curtis

Curtis said in his talk that this explosion of UGC lead us to the Metaverse

It’s the same goal that Epic Games, maker of Fortnite, is reportedly chasing after as well, as are numerous other companies who spoke at our event

At its core, Roblox is a social network. But it also has unique content in the form of user-created goods that are for sale in a marketplace. Creators can take that and create things that the rest of users can play

Roblox is now more than 40% female. Sixty-eight percent is overseas

Fifty-nine percent of the players are under 13.

The top games on Roblox have more than 10 million monthly active users

Curtis believes it is heading toward the metaverse

Roblox believes the metaverse has eight requirements. First, it has to be a persistent world, or a place where you can visit it over and over and it’s the same world. You need a sense of identity. You need an underlying social fabric. It has to be vast and diverse. The experiences have to be immersive, and they have to be frictionless. The economy has to be integrated, and the places have to run on rules and order.