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

  • WetBeardHairs@lemmy.mlOP
    322·
    11 months ago

    Coincidentally they got banned from Roblox at the same time! One of them dumped $50 in an afternoon on the game then had the audacity to ask for more money. So his whole social circle got booted from that cesspit on the same day. Me and their parents are trying to find good substitutes.

    • can@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      11 months ago

      This is some good context. I’m not too familiar with roblox but I understand it’s more of a platform than a single game. How are they accessing microtransactions? If that can’t be prevented than that’s a bigger problem.

      • 520@kbin.social
        111·
        11 months ago

        Roblox is a money-grubbing cesspit filled with manipulation. Even if you do close off the MTX route, it opens the door for someone to send a virus and say it’ll get you free Robux (the Roblox in-game currency)

      • WetBeardHairs@lemmy.mlOP
        102·
        11 months ago

        From my understanding, that kid was given an apple giftcard so it didnt actually hit his parent’s credit cards. I monitor my kid’s microtransactions and I give him opportunities to earn money he can use for microtransactions of his choosings.

        • schmidtster@lemmy.world
          622·
          11 months ago

          Wait so you let them use the money how they wanted and now you’re mad at them for spending it how they wanted and how you told them…?

          That’s a fucked up lesson and a half, you clearly didn’t learn your lesson and are now teaching the kid they will be punished for following instructions.

          Well fucking done.

          • WetBeardHairs@lemmy.mlOP
            185·
            11 months ago

            My kid didn’t do the microtransaction fuckup. He just got addicted to a shitty game that me and his friends’ parents also hated. One of his friends burnt a pile of cash which instigated all of us saying that it is time to end it. I mentioned this several times now in the thread.

                • schmidtster@lemmy.world
                  414·
                  11 months ago

                  You started you post off just making fun of the game, we know your biased intent here.

                  You said a kid blew a gift card, and you let your kid spent money on microtransactions already. This is called a parallel, you don’t seem to comprehend you let your kid already do this as well…. What difference does the game make? You already let it happen, fornite, Roblox, Minecraft no difference. Yet you took offense to one single game.

                  The issue here is your parenting, it has nothing to do with the game, you said it yourself lmfao.

    • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠@lemmy.worldEnglish
      94·
      11 months ago

      That kid is now known as the kid who got Roblox banned among their group of friends, not a nice thing to known for. This will be seen as a punishment by them regardless of how you frame it especially once the other kids at their school become aware of it.

      Ouch. Good luck navigating this one as your kids get older.