Like many parents, I know well the pain of my Roblox-addicted child asking me to trade my real money for fake money he can use to buy pretend items in a digital video game. So when Roblox announced the April 30 launch of Roblox Plus, a monthly subscription service with perks that could net us a 20% discount on all the digital items, my interest was piqued.
But is Roblox Plus actually worth it? Let’s do some math.
What do you get with Roblox Plus?
As noted in today’s announcement on the Roblox website, once it launches at the end of this month, the primary benefit of Roblox Plus will be a discount on items purchased with Robux, the platform’s in-game currency. Your monthly subscription won’t actually come with any Robux (yet, anyway—more on that in a bit), but it does come with the promise that you’ll spend less real cash on
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