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

  • ferralcat@monyet.cc
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    11 months ago

    This guy's argument would literally be that Mario maker is encouraging child labor because it doesn't pay kids who make levels in it.

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      Roblox sells the idea that you can actually make money with it, it has its own economy with job hunting and salaries. Mario Maker is just a community game.

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      11 months ago

      it would be if the word literally meant figuratively or mario maker psychologically tortured children into spending cash for the privilege

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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      11 months ago

      Intent makes a big difference. The value of Roblox as a platform and as a business is based on the work done by children to develop for it, and it was set up that way on purpose. They created an incentive model to encourage it.

      Nintendo's value as a company is not based on kids creating Mario Maker levels, nor does Nintendo push kids to do so with the promise of earning money.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      Considering the newest Mario game got a shitload of ideas from Mario maker levels, anyone who was good at mario making enough to be creative with the formula had their labor stolen as RnD for Wonder