San Francisco, May 16 (Ians) Taking a cue from the ongoing legal battle between Epic Games and Apple over the App Store policies, popular virtual gaming platform Roblox has replaced the word ‘game with ‘experience on its website.
The move is because Apple maintains consistent and user-friendly policies distinguishing "apps" from "games", amid the debate over the definition of a video game.
Roblox has changed "Games" tab with "Discover" on the web, although it still points to an address of "roblox.com/games."
Developers can create and manage "experiences," and experiences have "max people" allowed, reports The Verge.
The word "game" has been replaced by "experience" across nearly the entire Roblox website.
"The term ‘experiences' is consistent with how we've evolved our terminology to reflect our realisation of the metaverse," a Roblox spokesperson told The Verge.
"Roblox is an online community where people do things together in virtual worlds, and over the years,...
The move is because Apple maintains consistent and user-friendly policies distinguishing "apps" from "games", amid the debate over the definition of a video game.
Roblox has changed "Games" tab with "Discover" on the web, although it still points to an address of "roblox.com/games."
Developers can create and manage "experiences," and experiences have "max people" allowed, reports The Verge.
The word "game" has been replaced by "experience" across nearly the entire Roblox website.
"The term ‘experiences' is consistent with how we've evolved our terminology to reflect our realisation of the metaverse," a Roblox spokesperson told The Verge.
"Roblox is an online community where people do things together in virtual worlds, and over the years,...
- 5/16/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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