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[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 91 points 1 year ago

Just want to take a second and say thank God I had Warcraft 3 instead of Roblox growing up.

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Thank god I had nintendo ds and minecraft. No child scamming micro transactions there

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

There was a period in Minecraft where predatory mtx were going as hard as they do in Roblox

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Wait, how does minecraft have mtx?

[-] greenskye@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

People set up private servers and then sell use of admin commands or mods for real money. Stuff like 100 diamonds spawned in for $5. If course mods make it more seamless by implementing currency systems directly into the game, but the basic premise is selling in game power for real money. It's extremely popular to do this in other games like Rust and Ark as well

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

The individual servers used to be able to have their own mtx

My kids still have a Nintendo DS and Minecraft. It was the last handheld to not be designed from the ground up for internet connectivity.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago
[-] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Work is da poop, NO MORE!

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Off I go then!

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

One of the best things my parents did was not let me play video games.

[-] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I like video games myself but honestly think I probably won’t let my kids play them (and won’t myself then either of course) or at least until they would be like 10. I don’t see any good coming out of that. Same thing with television to be honest

[-] sawne128@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kids can have a little video games as a treat.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I think if I have kids I'm gonna break out the old consoles in order, so that they have an appreciation for the history and because it'll probably be a self-limiting hobby due to looking like shit compared to anything on a phone

[-] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I think that the console issue might be that if you aren’t used to the newer stuff then it still seems great. Even with the 2600, you can play for a very long time and enjoy it. Definitely not as addictive for people as the modern gambling games played by a lot of kids

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Up until the early-mid 90s there were the lingering effects of arcade-oriented design where shit was super hard to get your quarters, but yeah even that's not so bad compared to the newer shit that takes your quarters digitally.

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