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Roblox’s CEO predicts “thousands” of adults will meet in Roblox dating experiences
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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Roblox really wants to move beyond being an app for kids, and that includes making it a place where adults actually meet and date.
As he closed out Friday’s Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) 2023 keynote, CEO David Baszucki predicted that “thousands” of adults will meet and form “real-life relationships” in dating experiences on the platform over the next five years.
It’s a wild idea, but Roblox is now in a place where this prediction could feasibly come true.
The forecast was one of 10 five-year predictions Baszucki made onstage to cap off a jam-packed show.
Here are the rest of the predictions, one of which hints at a future update that will let creators sell physical merchandise on the platform:
“The difficult thing about doing this live with all of you: these are etched in stone,” Baszucki said onstage.
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