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Younger brother asking how to get earn minecoins. You cant. Have to buy them. That dissapointment in his voice. The heart break i feel as the older brother.

Cant imagine on christmas, parenta go all in on the new system and popular game, then to realise that thier child cant have the max amount of fun* without paying extra.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember kids: bedrock sucks, play Java instead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Counterpoint : Java's shit performance . Bedrock performs better I heard . Still not gonna play tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Counter-counterpoint: mods like sodium and optifine exist, making the game run smoothly, even on older machines

Source: Once played mc 1.21 on 8yr old hp laptop at around 30fps (default settings)

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

[looks it up]

What the fuck

Minecoins are used to buy... skins?

For Minecraft?

A game where you can make a new skin with MS Paint?

Where there's already over a decade of community skins made for it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

On console you can't do that. Also worlds and addons. (most of them suck and are just cash grabs.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

*on the Java version

Microsoft created the bastar--bedrock edition to rip kids off by selling them stuff they could easily have for free.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

I'm reminded of a post from elsewhere: "You hate all the parts of capitalism separately, without realizing they're all the same thing"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait Minecoin is Minecraft bedrock currency for buying skins etc, My first thought when I read it was it's some kind of crypto shit. But yeah still sucks, especially for Minecraft a game that in Java version was literally open to community created skins, mods worlds etc for free.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Java version seems superior to bedrock in just about every way. But MS bought it to monetize it and here we are. I run a local server to play with my kids sometimes and it works great.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Java version forever. My username is apparently worth like $5k because I’ve had it since Minecraft was $12.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Apparently! It’s crazy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Retirement plan in 1980: 401K Retirement plan in 2025: Holding old Minecraft handles

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

Is that a real thing? I've also got an old ass $12 account and could sure use 5k right about now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It’s probably not an accurate number, but there’s an app that will give you an estimate of what your MC username is worth if sold. I recall mine being a lot because the name is 5 characters, nothing random, and contains no numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Duh? Ignorance moves 99% of micro transactions business. It's either whales, or children, almost every time.