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

  • jackpot@lemmy.ml
    383·
    11 months ago

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

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • DarkenLM@kbin.social
        102·
        11 months ago

        I never understood the “Minecraft Bedrock was made so it could run everywhere” argument. Like, wasn’t Java’s moto “Write once, run everywhere”? Why settle for a garbage version of the original, when the original can run on every computational device made within the last decade?

        • ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.orgEnglish
          13·
          11 months ago

          When Java was made, nobody guessed that a phone or console would ever be as powerful as a PC. “Everywhere” really meant “Everywhere powerful enough (just PCs).”

          Could MC Java be ported to a phone? Yes, but C++ is just so much more efficient for a small device.

          • DarkenLM@kbin.social
            52·
            11 months ago

            Well, considering most android apps are written in Java (mostly Kotlin, but it uses the JVM still), I guess it could.

            However, Bedrock is vastly inferior in terms of quality, and performance is not an excuse for it.

      • realitista@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        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.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

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