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I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

We're already firmly invested in minecraft. I have the java edition on my computers - and he has bedrock on the xbox. It sucks that they arent compatible, but he's too young for a pc.

[-] arlaerion@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

Too young for a PC? My daughter got my old components with 8 years. Now with 10 years, playing Veloren, Minetest, Terraria and LotRO with me at her side on it...

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

That’s adorable

[-] Tippon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

If you create a Java server, there are mods that let Bedrock players join. One is called Geyser, and I think the other is called Floodgate, but I'd need to double check.

You can set up a free server online through Oracle too, and using the whitelist, you can make it private too. The article I used is here if you want to have a look

https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/how-to-set-up-and-run-a-really-powerful-free-minecraft-server-in-the-cloud

[-] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

If you/the kids are playing vanilla look into Geyser as it allows Bedrock and Java players to play on the same server.

[-] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I had no idea that was possible. I'm looking into it now. Is it any good?

[-] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

I haven't used it since the 1.16.5 days but it worked perfectly fine for vanilla back then and I'm sure it probably does now too.

If you have more questions after you read a bit more about it feel free to drop them here.

this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023

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