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Minecraft is really great - I would stop ignoring it and play it with your kid. My two "non-gamer" daughters play it several times a week together. They have do

Minecraft is really great - I would stop ignoring it and play it with your kid. My two "non-gamer" daughters play it several times a week together. They have done so for nearly 10 years.

Aeolun 2y ago
My son was ruined after we started using mods. The ones he sees on Youtube are all paid things on the MS store, but now he believes I can just magic them out of my hat. On the plus side, we have a great deal of fun playing hide and seek with the morph modpack. His friends all play minecraft on the Switch, but they don’t have mods so he thinks it boring.
- theGnuMe 2y ago
  Don’t show him Roblox
  - evanmoran 2y ago
    Just curious if other people feel the same way? My kid is right on the edge of the Minecraft-Roblox divide and I don’t have a strong opinion either way (he’s almost 7)
    - theGnuMe 2y ago
      Mixed bag. Lots of scammers as well. Also lots of tears.
    - chrisldgk 2y ago
      Thinking about your kids „safety“ (that’s a strong word, but consider gambling, violent content, scammers, etc.), Minecraft is definitely a better choice for a child. Get him into Java Edition rather than Bedrock edition and most of the mods are free, there’s a lot of tinkering he can do with it and practically all of the games content single- and multiplayer is absolutely child-safe. Roblox is a lot more open-ended with what it lets it’s users create, which leads to a lot of violent and not safe for children content, mixed with some pretty aggressive monetization. I don’t have a child, but if I did I’d rather let them play Call of Duty (one of the older ones without microtransactions) than leave them alone with Roblox.
      - throw-the-towel 2y ago
        Call of Duty has microtransactions now? Welp.
        Novosell 2y ago
        Only for a decade or so.
  - Aeolun 2y ago
    Too late. Some of the games on there are actually kind of fun though. Now that he’s accepted that I’m not going to buy any Robux it’s ok.

Minecraft is really great - I would stop ignoring it and play it with your kid. My two "non-gamer" daughters play it several times a week together. They have done so for nearly 10 years.

Aeolun 2y ago

My son was ruined after we started using mods. The ones he sees on Youtube are all paid things on the MS store, but now he believes I can just magic them out of my hat. On the plus side, we have a great deal of fun playing hide and seek with the morph modpack. His friends all play minecraft on the Switch, but they don’t have mods so he thinks it boring.

theGnuMe 2y ago
Don’t show him Roblox
- evanmoran 2y ago
  Just curious if other people feel the same way? My kid is right on the edge of the Minecraft-Roblox divide and I don’t have a strong opinion either way (he’s almost 7)
  - theGnuMe 2y ago
    Mixed bag. Lots of scammers as well. Also lots of tears.
  - chrisldgk 2y ago
    Thinking about your kids „safety“ (that’s a strong word, but consider gambling, violent content, scammers, etc.), Minecraft is definitely a better choice for a child. Get him into Java Edition rather than Bedrock edition and most of the mods are free, there’s a lot of tinkering he can do with it and practically all of the games content single- and multiplayer is absolutely child-safe. Roblox is a lot more open-ended with what it lets it’s users create, which leads to a lot of violent and not safe for children content, mixed with some pretty aggressive monetization. I don’t have a child, but if I did I’d rather let them play Call of Duty (one of the older ones without microtransactions) than leave them alone with Roblox.
    - throw-the-towel 2y ago
      Call of Duty has microtransactions now? Welp.
      - Novosell 2y ago
        Only for a decade or so.
- Aeolun 2y ago
  Too late. Some of the games on there are actually kind of fun though. Now that he’s accepted that I’m not going to buy any Robux it’s ok.