Roblox Brookhaven RP Money Roblox the child-friendly gaming company filed to go public today.Its listing comes one day after the lending company Affirm initiated its own public offering and a mere two days after Airbnb’s filing.Roblox filed confidentially to go public in mid-October but its numbers were unreleased until today when it published its S-1 document.The company is not the first gaming platform company to go public this year with gaming engine Unity debuting earlier this year. After its IPO Unity shares have rocketed perhaps preparing the public markets for Roblox’s own debut.

Brookhaven RP Money Roblox has been around for more than a decade but the game’s popularity has soared since the beginning of the pandemic. It now has 31.1 million daily users up 82 percent year over year and the company has filed to go public. As it’s grown more and more mainstream names have carved out a space inside Roblox to meet its huge audience. Lil Nas X performed a virtual concert there in November and the game hosted a treasure hunt to tie in with the release of Ready Player Two earlier this week.

Airbnb shares more than doubled in price on their first day of trading and DoorDash did nearly as well rising 86%. If you're an investor that probably sounds like a good thing and has you excited at the prospect of enjoying a huge Roblox IPO this month -- but Roblox had a different reaction.After seeing the huge difference between the prices Airbnb and DoorDash got for their shares and the value received by the investors who owned them at the end of the day Roblox management seems to have concluded it would leave too much money on the table if it IPO'ed at the anticipated $8 billion valuation.