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Minecraft vs Roblox - How Do They Compare? - Video Game Comparison - Duration: 6:45.
For a number of years now, chat forums have been awash with the debate on which game is
better, Minecraft or Roblox.
Both games are similar in some ways, being open-world games aimed at a younger audience,
in which players not only explore virtual environments but create their own.
Although the games are quite different, there are some fundamental similarities, one of
which is that players hone their creative skills by changing the landscape of the virtual
world; the player becomes the creator, a young, virtual industrialist.
Both games have been wildly successful, accruing millions of fans worldwide and to some extent
transforming our idea of what a videogame is.
We thought it would be fun to take a closer look at some head-to-head statistics in this
episode of The Infographics Show, Minecraft vs. Roblox.
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Minecraft is a game that has become an institution in itself, at home and in the classroom.
Created by Swedish designer Markus Persson, the inspiration behind Minecraft was Persson's
fondness for the construction and management simulation game, Dwarf Fortress.
He spent a few years figuring out how to turn the basic graphics and somewhat confusing
gameplay of Dwarf Fortress into a more immersive and enjoyable experience.
It wasn't until 2009 that Persson had put up an early alpha version of Minecraft on
YouTube, costing only 13 dollars.
Soon after the beta version was released for 26 dollars, and within 24 hours, to Persson's
surprise, he'd sold 15 copies and had over 150 dollars in his PayPal account – a large
amount for him at the time.
Just 8 years later, and his current net worth is 1.4 billion dollars.
Roblox history is perhaps not quite as romantic.
Unlike Minecraft, it's a web-based game, and it was created in 2004 by David Baszucki
and Erik Cassel.
It took a number of years to develop, with the first blueprints being made in the mid-90s.
A prototype of Roblox was developed in 1997 under the name, DynaBlocks, and it wasn't
until 2004 that Roblox – then still Dynablox – had its first user, named Admin.
In 2006, Roblox was finally made available to the public, and by the end of that year,
it had 1,000 members.
A month later, that grew to 10,000 users, and a year after that 100,000 users.
These days, more than 30 million people play Roblox monthly, logging around 300 million
hours of gameplay.
In terms of dollars and cents, Minecraft put Persson on the Forbes list of the world's
billionaires when his video game company, Mojang, was acquired by tech giant Microsoft
for $2.5 billion dollars in 2014.
Prior to the deal, Microsoft was, no doubt, watching in awe as Minecraft sales were nothing
short of astronomical.
In 2011, the game had sold more than 1 million copies, hitting a revenue high of around $33
million.
By 2014, it had sold around 60 million copies for PC, console and pocket addition, and by
2017 it had become the best-selling game for PC ever, and the second best-selling game
of all time.
Tetris is still number one.
In 2016, it's said Microsoft was selling around 53,000 copies of Minecraft per day,
with around 40 million people playing the game every month.
The most recent reports on Minecraft sales show that it has now sold a massive 122 million
copies, and has over 55 million players monthly.
Minecraft for PC currently costs $26.95.
As we've seen, Roblox has around thirty million monthly active users, with around
900,000 playing concurrently.
Unlike Minecraft, Roblox players can earn money by creating their games inside the game.
Available for PC, smartphone and game console, the players can join a free market, earning
some of its users as much as $50,000 a month.
There are as many as 1.7 million (?) developers making games in Roblox, with media reports
illustrating how teens have been earning enough to take their parents on vacations.
In March of this year, the maximum payout for developers went up from $50,000 - $100,000,
making it possible for a young and talented developer to become a millionaire in a year.
It should be said that developers don't earn money for creating games.
Instead, virtual items are bought within their games with a virtual currency called Robux,
which can be exchanged for real money.
But how does Roblox make its money?
Well, it takes a piece of what the developers earn, while users can also pay $5.95 per month
to pay for a membership to the Builders Club where they will receive certain privileges
– it's free to play otherwise.
CEO of Roblox, David Baszucki, who had worked in educational software before his new venture,
believes the company will soon be worth billions.
Its revenue per year is still small compared to Minecraft, at around $50 million in 2015.
In the same year, Microsoft reported its revenue from video games had increased by $367 million
from the previous year, mainly due to its clever acquisition.
Nonetheless, once called the "Quiet Giant" by tech pundits, Roblox told Forbes that in
2016 its revenue was up again, though the company wouldn't state the amount.
Baszucki believes the incentive for its players to learn coding and earn money is a win-win
for everyone, with the company betting that at some point Roblox will rule the sandbox
gaming world.
One of the benefits of Roblox is that coders can design complex games using its coding
language, Lua, while Minecraft players can only design simple looking things using a
less sophisticated code: the Minecraft-adapted Java programming language.
At the same time, while Roblox may offer the chance to invent something wonderful, you
also need the Internet to play it, whereas in Minecraft, offline play is possible.
This is a deal-breaker for some gamers.
Another major difference, and one which separates both games' aficionados when it comes to
saying which game is best, is the social aspect.
Minecraft is a much more solitary game, perhaps perfect for virtual adventurers who are on
a kind of personal quest.
While Minecraft does have multiplayer options, Roblox was created as a social game.
This kind of social environment could be seen as a personality building exercise for players,
although some critics have stated concerns about young children – Roblox has many pre-teen
players – coming into contact with shady characters or bad language.
In the end both games require a creative, thoughtful, frontier-type attitude.
Players, unlike in many games, can be creators and not merely destroyers.
This is why schools are now picking up the games, with Minecraft having its own education
edition and Roblox also making its way into the classroom.
Kids learn survival techniques, problem solving, mathematics, design, and of course, coding.
Minecraft is undoubtedly the winner in terms of what it has achieved regarding the number
of users and how much its earned for its creators and present owners, but Roblox gets the kudos
for giving young people the chance to code and be financially prosperous.
As the company pointed out in an interview with Business Insider in 2017, playing Roblox
might just be a way to give disenfranchised kids a way into coding and a ticket to an
easier life.
What seems certain is that the games will keep powering on, and in their wake, many
more games will no doubt combine education, creativity, and fun.
So, which game do you like the most?
Have you managed to make a few dollars from Roblox, yet?
Let us know in the comments.
And if you like these type of comparison videos, be sure to check out our video Xbox vs Playstation.
Thanks for watching, and, as always, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe.
Also, please consider heading over to our Patreon; we are currently raising money to
hire more writers so that we can continue bringing you this bi-weekly show!
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Announcing Entrepreneur Video Series - Duration: 1:00.
At Region Nine Development Commission being a partner for progress means that we support
opportunities for the nine county area to grow and prosper.
One way we accomplish this is by assisting our local entrepreneurs to create or expand
their businesses.
Region Nine provides two programs to assist local entrepreneurs.
Through gap financing and donations management, Region Nine is able to be a flexible and reliable
solution for local residents to achieve their businesses goals.
Region Nine is proud to highlight these success stories in our upcoming entrepreneurial video series.
These stories feature local businesses whose owners may be your family member, friend,
or neighbor.
We hope you enjoy and share these real community success stories.
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Increase Video Upload Speed - Duration: 7:50.
In this video I'm going to show you how you can make your videos easier to watch online.
Making your video file sizes smaller can help your audience with a
smoother viewing experience, especially if they're watching your videos on a mobile device.
Hi Mark from Pocket Video School and if this is your first time
here why don't you subscribe to my YouTube channel to make sure that you
don't miss out on any tips, tricks, techniques and strategies that I use to
make video and especially using my smartphone.
Now we've all experienced
that frustrating video issue where you wait for ages and ages for a video to
play without stuttering on your computer, tablet or mobile phone.
As more and more
videos are now in HD we expect the viewing experience to match the actual
quality, but if it doesn't play smoothly we get fed up and we move on to
something else, which is the last thing we want as business owners who are using
video to educate and entertain their viewers.
By reducing the size of the
video files that we upload to our websites and video sharing platforms,
we can speed up the time it actually takes to get the file uploaded and make it a
much smoother experience for our viewers.
And if you do it correctly there will be
very little noticeable difference in the actual quality of the video.
So using a free tool I'm going to walk you through the process that I use to compress my
video files, to speed up my workflow and make my videos play more efficiently for
my viewers.
So the first thing you need to do is go across to a website called
handbrake.fr
and just click the download button if you're using it for Windows, it's also
available for Mac and Linux as well.
Now once you've installed it and you've
opened up the application and the first thing you need to do is decide which
file it is the actually want to compress, so the one I'm going to use is this
action movie FX and as you can see if I just go to properties file size was 295mb,
so I'm going to open that in Handbrake.
Now across on the right hand
side you'll see you've got a whole load of presets here which in the current
version there's a tremendous amount of different ones, so what I would recommend
doing is scrolling down to the bottom and using the normal
legacy setting.
Then you have to choose the destination and the file name of where you want to save it,
so I'm going to put action movie FX,
underscore compressed
and save it in the same folder so we can make a
comparison between the two
and making sure that file extension is mp4 save that.
The next thing we need to do is click this check box that says web optimized, now what
that means is without getting into too many technical details but, an mp4 when
you upload that natively to your website for instance and you weren't using
something like YouTube, what happens is mp4 the header information to tell the
video to play, is actually at the end just the way that this particular
file extension mp4 works.
So what would happen is if you were just uploading it
to your website and it would have to download the whole of the file before it
actually started playing and what you want to do is obviously is move that
header information to the front of the file, so that when it starts to
download then it tells the video to start playing as it's progressively
downloading, so yeah I know that's quite technical but that's the
basic interpretation of it is just it web optimized it makes it what they call
fast start enabled, so it moves the header information to the beginning,
so it will start playing before it's completed downloading which is exactly
what you need when you're doing anything online.
The next thing you need to do is
just make sure that the video file size is correct, now this was a 720p so HD video,
you click now click into the video file this is where you would make sure
that H.264 was the correct codec, now why H.264?
Well that's the best compression codec to use especially for playing on the web
now there is a new H.265 which reduces the file sizes and even more,
but unfortunately the likes of YouTube don't support that codec yet
and because it's so new I think it probably will come in the future but at
the moment just stick to H.264 which is the best compression for the best quality.
Leave everything, variable frame rate just leave that as it is.
Quality constant quality leave that at 20,
now if you look at this it does tell
you the suggested values of between 18 and 20, now what actually what I would
say is just change this to 18,
because what happens is when you upload to
YouTube, it does compress it slightly is using their own codec, so the higher
quality that you can send it the better.
Audio, I would leave the audio as it is AAC and in stereo,
subtitles not necessary
and chapters not necessary so the next thing to do is just press Start
and then the software itself has a progress bar down on the bottom left-hand corner
and it will run through the compression process so rather than keep your hanging here
I'm going to speed this process up so you can see what the file size looks like.
Okay so handbrakes finish doing this thing now
so I'm going to open up the folder where I saved it and here's the original,
which was 295mb and this is the compressed version that handbrakes
done for me and this is 44.1mb, now that's quite a substantial
difference that's about a fifth of the size of the original, if not more.
So that
would obviously upload a hell of a lot quicker if I was using YouTube or if I
was uploading it to my website.
That also means that on playback it's going
to play a hell of a lot quicker because there isn't as much information to
actually download.
So what I'll do is I'll put the two videos side by side and
you can see if there's any degradation in the actual quality.
Hi everyone Mark from Pocket Video School.com here
and a few people have asked me recently and who've seen the intro video
I did for my website, how I managed to create the, the little animation of the
boulder crushing Chris.
Well hope you found that really useful?
So go and download handbrake now and start compressing those videos and speeding up
your upload times and your workflow and the experience for your viewers as well.
If you haven't already don't forget, subscribe to my YouTube channel,
the link is at the bottom there and I've also linked up here to another one my video tutorials.
See you again next week
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