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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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minecraft Java. Minecraft bedrock is full of microtransactions, and we both dislike those.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Minecraft Java isn't available on Xbox, is it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk, on Android you can run Pojav Launcher, but I don't really know much about x boxes. Probably a mistake to buy such a closed ecosystem in the first place, from the little I have heard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are ten. They're not going to use third party launchers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why would being ten have any relation to using Pojav Launcher?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At ten I was coding basic stuff and figuring out lan networks to play multiplayer games in the early 90's. An average 10 year old is very capable of figuring out tech stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure they are. But they are not going to in order to play Minecraft with their friends.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Eh... Like I said, I was doing a bit more just to play with friends. I guess these days it would depend. If you did the install and introduced it as the method for launching the game I don't think they'd even question it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No but pc is now available on tv. The more people use it, the faster these monetization machines called this decades consoles can wither and die.