PlayAdoptMe is a YouTube channel based around playing the Roblox game Adopt Me! The channel is run by a group of a team called DreamCraft on Roblox.
About
The YouTube channel make videos about designing players' home, pets, memes, news and more. Adopt Me was created in 2017, but the YouTube channel was created in early 2020, three years after the original foundation.
The game features two roles: baby and parent, which cares for the baby. Other features include obbies, pets, a trading system, and customizable houses. The game was featured in the 7th Annual Bloxy Awards and Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G. events.
The game was created by NewFissy, who took charge of scripting and leading the development team, and Bethink, who took charge of building and being the creative vision for the game.
The game can be considered a spiritual successor to various "Adopt and Raise" games that have appeared on the site, such as Adopt and Raise a Baby! by KingAndrewK.
Since its inception, the game has been considered to be the most popular game on Roblox due to how long it has stayed at the top spot on the front page, reaching over 450,000 concurrent players every day. It is also one of the most played games on Roblox, amassing over seven billion place visits. On April 4, 2020, Adopt Me! became the most visited game on Roblox surpassing MeepCity.
On April 11, 2020, the game amassed 1,615,085 concurrent Roblox players, making it the first and only game as of now to cross the one million concurrent players mark.
Game Milestones
- On May 4, 2019, the game reached one billion place visits, making it the seventh game to surpass the milestone.
- It broke two previous records with over 440,000 concurrent players on June 15, 2019, with over 517,000 concurrent players on October 18, 2019, and with over 640,000 concurrent players on December 14, 2019.
- Additionally, it broke the record three times in one week, which had over 707,000 concurrent players at its peak on April 7, 2020.
- On April 11, 2020, the game became the first to reach over one million concurrent players. At its peak, it reached over 1.6 million concurrent players. This caused Roblox's servers and website to slow down, and many users experienced severe lag and found it difficult to play any games.
- On May 28, 2020, the game reached the 1 million concurrent player mark again.
- Totaling up the records, it has broken the player record seven times.
- On May 28, 2020, the game reached the 1 million concurrent player mark again.
- On April 11, 2020, the game became the first to reach over one million concurrent players. At its peak, it reached over 1.6 million concurrent players. This caused Roblox's servers and website to slow down, and many users experienced severe lag and found it difficult to play any games.
- Additionally, it broke the record three times in one week, which had over 707,000 concurrent players at its peak on April 7, 2020.
Criticism & Controversy
Some people have criticized the game for being too similar to games such as Life in Paradise and Adopt and Raise a Cute Kid. It is also perceived to be a hub for online daters due to the family theme. At one point, the game featured a controversial thumbnail depicting an adult avatar supposedly about to eat a child, though it has long since been taken down. The thumbnail was created into a t-shirt by a user and can be found here.
Due to the limited capacity of Roblox's servers, Adopt Me's 1.6M concurrent player milestone caused Roblox's servers and website to slow down. It was the first game in Roblox history to break the platform and apparently had more concurrent players than any Steam game. This led to the anger of many Roblox users, including causing a petition to be made on change.org, which accumulated over 17,000 supporters as of April 25, 2020.
It also receives criticism for looking similar to MeepCity and being another Adopt and Raise a Cute Baby game. The game also received criticism due to the game's abundant micro-transactions and shifted focus on caring for pets instead of babies.
Many developers and players on the Roblox platform criticize the game for the lack of uniqueness when developers who have worked harder for better games get overshadowed by this game with low production value.
Trivia
- NewFissy stated that the game was created due to the death of one of the senior developers of TreeLands, the game he worked on, but quit to make Adopt Me!.[1]
- A potential reason why it became so popular is because it combines the simulator genre (with pets) and the building genre (which Welcome to Bloxburg uses with some forms of roleplay, but it did not get as popular due to the game being paid access) into a role-playing experience.
- On June 14, 2019, pets were added to the game.
- The game has a like-to-dislike ratio of 1M–290K, giving it an 86% rating.
- The game has been favorited over 10M times.
- Each game server holds 48 players.
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