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As we all know, Roblox is garbage tier gameplay structured around psychological cues to get children to fill an endless pit with fake money bought with real money.

So I banned my kid from it. He used it a little bit socially with a few friends of his. What online or local multiplayer games should I help him to replace it with? (He's 10, so please don't recommend Diablo 4 or anything else that has quite that much gore)

He and his friends have an Xbox Series X|S at home.

Edit: keep your judgemental shit out of here. His whole social group (5 kids he knows from school) got banned on the same day. Me and the other parents are trying to be nice and replace it with better quality games so it isn't just a punishment.

Edit2: Thanks guys. I got him Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge

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[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

yeah java minecraft (NOT BEDROCK) is great, you can mod the shit out of it too on a pc.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can get them both with the one license now, so you don't have to pick. I like having the 2 options available and I don't let my kids buy anything on the bedrock one where they have the Minecoin BS to buy stuff. They only have real money (paper) and no digital-compatible methods to pay for anything.

But the mods on Java edition are excellent, and the fact that it runs on any computer OS is a big plus. I can't recommend anything more than Minecraft for a kids' game.

[–] realitista@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How does this work? I have a Minecraft Bedrock license for my Playstation, can I somehow get a Minecraft Java license from this too?

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

You should be able to see the license in your Microsoft account. I think everyone got both licenses sometime earlier this year.