In a document to investors from 2022, PlayStation president Jim Ryan voiced worries that Roblox had the potential to be a danger to young gamers, yet it sounded like Sony was open to being convinced otherwise.
In 2021, YouTube channel People Make Games revealed that Roblox allegedly skims over 75 percent of the profits from user-generated games made by its predominantly younger player base, and alleged that child developers were at risk of exploitation from third-party platforms encouraging children to use unofficial trading sites to obtain valuable in-game items.
Furthermore, even the strictest parental settings were said to still let players discover and play games that had inappropriate themes like “bathroom voyeur games and suicidal idealisation”.
Now, Axios has divulged details surrounding Sony’s reluctance to put Roblox on its platforms, drawn from a piece of evidence used in the case between the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft regarding its £54billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
