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Coming from Spanish it took me a while to learn/grok "mandatory"/"compulsory" (in Spanish we use the way simpler "hay que"/"tienes que", which would be like jus

• Macha 5y ago
  As a native English speaker, I don't see anything objectionable either. The only thing I can guess at is OP thinking that mandatory means you have to do it, even if you have no interest in playing Minecraft again, but you could read the same into required if you wanted. Or maybe they think this page is being read by kids, and not their parents, and that kids won't know what mandatory means? But you're supposed to be 13 to have an account, and I'm sure 13 year olds know the word mandatory.
• chippiewill 5y ago
  "mandatory" comes across as a bit more condescending. It's really unusual phrasing for public messaging. Nothing linguistically wrong with it though.
• Jon_Lowtek 5y ago
  "mandatory" from Latin mandātor (“someone who orders”), compare: "commandant" "required" from Latin requīrō (“i seek, ask for”), compare: "request" and "aquire" Today the words are mostly interchangeable, but mandatory is more often used in context of laws and government while "required" is seen mostly in tech and engineering.