It's a boring, and overused model.
If you're a member of the "Sandbox Community (SBC)," you're probably aware that it's toxic, repetitive, and insecure. Today, I'll discuss the drawbacks of the Sandbox Model.
Sandboxes are seen as "Roblox Clones" for a reason: they imitate the blocky avatars, the concept of user generated content and the way the games are made in general.
Roblox clones require six things.
- A website
- A renderer that renders 3D blocky avatars from items
- A shop
- A forum
- A client
- And a workshop
Of course, only four of these are frequently filled. Website, renderer, shop, and a discussion forum. Which is ridiculous because you're just running a forum with 3D avatars.
The community isn't any better either; it's toxic, egocentric, and, of course, will prioritize their own websites. Even if their website isn't up yet and it's just a concept. Even the Sandbox Community makes fun of it, yet they still go along with it.
And it doesn't stop there: security breaches are common on websites ran by owners that don't value user data security, resulting in not one, but several data leaks, as well as site security breaches. Let's suppose a website is able to hire a skilled web developer; in this situation, the web developer will be working under the commands of a fool. Because the owners are often unaware of programming, they simply toss their ideas like crazy, expecting development to happen overnight. Some people are insane enough to stage a friend's suicide in order to get more time to work on their never-released website. We haven't even discussed shutdowns and rebrandings.
But let's hypothetically say that in the end you release a fully functional website, a fully functional client, and a fully functional workshop. So, what's next? Will you copy the Roblox market and sell memberships and currency? You will, since it is the best option, which is why Roblox (A billionaire company with professional market assistants) does it.
So, in the end, your website will be similar to Roblox, although possibly worse in terms of development availability for game developers, and a waste of money, unless your website is incredibly famous, you won't be able to pay for the servers and it's maintenance cost. Unless you're a website that was fortunate enough to have several popular Roblox YouTubers create videos for you...
After a while, you'll notice the inactivity on your website over time, and you'll realize that you can't truly move out of the Sandbox Model because it's so doomed. Since most of the sandboxes really are just social networking apps, some sandbox developers simply transform themselves into one.
To summarize, the model is repetitive, insecure, dull, and a waste of money. Instead of making a sandbox, create new models and concepts to work on. Ones that are truly worthwhile and from which you may be certain you will benefit from.
tldr u are cynical and have no solutions
why pretend to care?