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| Developer(s) | DreamCraft |
| Director(s) | Bethink |
| Programmer(s) | NewFissy |
| Engine | Roblox Studio |
| Platform(s) | PC, Xbox One, iOS, Android |
| Release | July 14, 2017 |
| Genre(s) | MMORPG, Digital pet |
| Mode(s) | Multi-player |
Adopt Me! is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game on the gaming platform Roblox. The nominal focus of the game is a role-play wherein players pretend to be either parents adopting a child, or children getting adopted, but in reality, the game’s focus is around adopting and caring for a variety of different virtual pets, who can be traded with other players. As of July 2020, the game had been played upwards of ten billion times. DreamCraft, the independent studio behind the game employs roughly 30 people, and has accumulated a total of $16 million dollars in revenue, mostly from microtransactions.
Players
The highest number of concurrent players Adopt Me! has achieved is 1.6 million. The game was averaging 600,000 concurrent players as of June 2020, (But a big amount of those 600.000 players are bots made to make the game look more active then it is, adopt me is also known in the roblox community as the game that slows down servers because of the bots, therefore haven't adop me been qualified for any roblox awards) making it the most popular game on Roblox. Around a third of Roblox players on the Xbox One play Adopt Me!. Due to the presence of microtransactions in the game and the target demographic being young children, there have been instances of children spending large amounts of money on Adopt Me!, including one particular incident where a child from Australia spent $8,000 AUD on the game.
Scams
Due to the high cost of pets within the game, with some rare pets selling for up to US$100, a large subculture of scammers has risen up within Adopt Me!. As the primary user base of Adopt Me! is on average younger than the rest of Roblox, they are especially susceptible to falling for scams. One of the most common ways in which scammers carry out their operation is through "trust trades", in which the scammer convinces a user to trust them and trade a pet in return for nothing, with the promise of getting a better deal back.
Reception
Adopt Me! has received generally positive reviews from critics. PCGamesN, in an overview of what they considered the best games on Roblox, described it as "cute", and compared it positively to the Petz series.
References
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- Stevens, Barry (May 26, 2020). "Some of the worst scams in Adopt Me on Roblox". Entertainment Focus. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- Will (June 4, 2020). "Roblox Adopt Me Scams: What are They, and How to Avoid Them". The Android Soul. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- Misbahuddin, Sameena (June 3, 2020). "Roblox: How to spot and avoid scammers in Adopt Me!". BBC Newsround. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
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