Despite speculations of a class action lawsuit, plaintiffs voluntarily drop cases against major video game companies like Activision and Roblox.

The first of more than a dozen similar video game addiction suits was voluntarily dismissed last week, though its (rather ignominious) end didn’t test the litigation’s central theories.

While I might be more in-tune than the average adult with the metaverse conceptually, our kids are the ones building it. Here’s what my kids’ Roblox addiction taught me about the metaverse.