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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 3 points 11 months ago

Spiderheck, should be cheap!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe introduce him to Beyond All Reason? It's an RTS in the vein of Total Annihilation. Free and open source and very good looking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Beyond All Reason

That game looks awesome. I need to check it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed Collection

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sniper Elite Five is fun. It only has gore when you are shooting Nazis and it is always morally good to shoot Nazis.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Terraria

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I haven't seen the latest Roblox but when I was a kid 15 years ago it was great! Played lots of gamemodes with people. Has it really become that bad?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The method to it's madness is fairly underhanded to adults, much more so for its' intended audience.

I wish I could find the video that did a basic deep dive on all (negative) aspects of the roblox community, from the robux, to the game makers potential for being exploited, and the oddly nft/stock market of cosmetics which are a massive fomo money sink. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't aimed at children, but because it is, that only makes the handful of bad/fringe cases even more unsettling.

It's no big secret that kids are dumb enough to try and get robux for free from almost any link saying they can online. But the incentive is there for them to try.

Removing roblox from a kids library is a good thing for peace of mind. Plus there are plenty of other games out there to play with friends and depending on how they spent their time on roblox, it likely wouldn't be terribly hard to match to another game within whatever genre they were playing.

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