Just wondering who else has a Minecraft addict in their family? I know it has come up before in other threads that there are some out there. While it is mostly children that I know, I have met a few adults who love it as well. My son (8) plays it as often as he can (honestly more than I should allow him), and then he talks about it when he is around friends. He also loves to Skype with friends as they play. A few times when I felt like he was playing too much, dh pointed out that he is reading and typing (the kid hates to read and write) as well as using logical thinking and practicing math skills (he definitely knew 8x8 before any other multiplication fact). Dh plays every now and then, but mostly to interact with ds or leave a surprise for him in a village. I personally have no interest in the game. So, let me hear about your Minecraft addicts.
All of my children were addicts of minecraft.....from 14 to 22. Two of them are now waining away from it. One even created their own server for it. I too think it's a very educational game.
I've herd of it but not played it that I know of yet it seams to familure to me.... I'm hooked on the face book game farm hero for the time being.
My oldest plays it a LOT and my youngest plays it some, too. And yep, skyping right along with it. LOL Wouldn't it be funny if our kids are playing together?!?
My 15 year old son is totally hooked. He even watches other peoples videos on You tube where they describe ways to make cool stuff. He has a couple of friends in TX that he plays exclusively with. I don't like him playing on peoples servers that he doesn't personally know. He uses Steam chat to talk with them which I think is cool. His typing has certainly improved. In fact, this year he had to take typing for school (9th grade) and 35 WPM was required. Well he tested out at 45 WPM. Got his 5 credits and didn't have to do the class. On a more personal note: Many times he talks about Minecraft and I have no idea what he's talking about. I just zone out...I am not a gamer!
Sigh.... Phillip says, "I'm not THAT bad!!!" Yeah, right!!! And yes, both he and his sister watches the videos. "Haven't you played enough for today?" "Oh, Mom, I'm not PLAYING now; I'm just watching this video!" And SKYPE!!! He has three other friends he plays with all the time on Skype! He says, "That's the easiest way to do it!" Faythe, too, but not as bad as Phillip.
Oh, yes, the videos. When he has been grounded from video games, he will push the limits and watch the videos because he was grounded from PLAYING the game, not WATCHING it. :roll: He can spend hours just watching others play. Then, one day I heard a Skype conversation where he and his buddies were so excited and star struck because someone from one of the videos was playing online. :lol: He does love to call me over to look at something cool he did and I honestly have a hard time even telling what it is sometimes. Then, he will start talking about something during a conversation and sometimes it takes me a minute to realize that he is no longer in the here and now. Glad to hear from others who share in this addiction.
We used to run a server that had half the kids in my city playing on our Minecraft server. But they grew out of it and play other games now.
Oh yeah the parody's are big here as well as following certain players. It's funny to see how excited my son gets over it.
OK, you'll never guess what Phillip did today! He plays Minecraft with his bf, Sean (whose parents are friends of mine from before I was married), Sean's cousin Zoe will play with them, too, and I think someone else. They usually play on Skype. Sean is a Christian kid (his parents and I use to attend church together). But his cousin and her mom are atheists. Well, I guess the other day, it got brought up, and Phillip told Zoe that if she ever had a question on the Bible or Christianity, to feel free and ask and he'd do his best to explain it. So I walk in today, and there's my 13yo killing zombies while explaining to this girl on Skype why he believed the Bible to be true. IMAGINE!!! I guess God can even use Minecraft!!!
Jackie that is AWESOME! Love it. My kids would be addicted to it but I haven't bought it for my kindle yet. Can it be purchased for the pc? I would MUCH rather put it on the pc than my kindle. They already find a million reasons to steal my kindle. lol
... and to think, when we were kids, all we had were trading card games. LOL! No, my kids don't play it. I don't even know what it is. Dh has gotten them hooked on Tapped Out (a Simpsons game) and Angry Birds, though. I don't play anything like that. I don't even know how to turn on an ipad.
Looking for help with Minecraft My husband and I are a bit stuck when it comes to Minecraft. My kids love love love it. And we have struggled with it since February. While it seems to be a great creative exercise (lego online?), it also seems to gobble up time like Cookie Monster gobbles up cookies. It can be all they want to do / think about. We limit the time they are allowed to spend on it and they always want more. They always want to know when they can play it (“if I finish this lesson can I play Minecraft?” “If I do extra chores can I earn more Minecraft time?”). My kids are 8 and 9 (and 4 but she really isn't into it much). I am at the point of wanting it out of my house. My kids are super creative, they love to build and imagine and create, and I feel like Minecraft gets all the best of them. Their real legos hardly get touched. I am thinking I need to either ban it, embrace it or create some kind of reason for using it (i.e. you can only use Minecraft for lessons...build the Egyptian Pyramids or??) I would love to hear from other families who struggle. Is this an issue in your house? Have you embraced Minecraft or banned it?
Phillip was off the computer this week for out-right lying about the amount of time being spent on it. One night he was seriously fudging on the time, and Carl asked him out-right if he was lying. He said yes. So the two of them had a very serious conversation about it, etc. THE NEXT NIGHT (!!!), he did it AGAIN!!! He came home from Bible School and was on for two hours (which is his limit). When I asked him how much time he had left, he told me he'd be finishing up at 2:00. When I left to go swimming with Faythe at 2:10, he had just got off. So when I came HOME from swimming, he was on again. When I realized it, I asked him how much time he had. He told me he still had a half-hour. When I questioned him how this could be when he had finished his two hours at 2:00, he was a bit belligerent with me and made it seem that I was mistaken. So I told Carl, and HE dealt with it (again!). He told Carl that yes, he WAS lying again. So then later, he came to realize that my inability to trust him in THAT area might also make me question his honesty in OTHER areas....
I have avoided this thread because I didn't want to admit how addicted my kids are to this game..lol. Reagan and Cameron could play Minecraft all day long, ok maybe not all day long because they are also very addicted to the Lego games. I can see a lot of value to it, but it still frustrates me that they could sit there all day and fuss a bit if I tell them to go play outside. Reagan is big on playing outside, Cameron, not so much. I have taken advantage of some of their addiction. The boys love Lego Harry Potter, but have never heard the books. They mastered the years 1-4 disk and I happened upon the years 5-7 or whatever it is at a yardsale for $5 (I only buy games when I find them that cheap unless it's special), they know I have it, but we have to get through the first 2 HP books (they hate listening to stories) before they may have it. I did buy Minecraft for the 360 when it came out on a disk. I don't like the kids to be online playing. I'm kind of clueless on who they can be playing with and that weirds me out.
Welcome Jen! We have decided to embrace it even though we sometimes are ready to throw it out the window (non-stop talking about it). We have used it as an incentive and allowed extra game time for additional chores. We also tried a period where ds could earn time by giving the same amount of time outside. His Legos had also become neglected. A week-long grounding from Minecraft (for bad behavior) reignited that passion. There was once where I felt guilty for letting ds play so long one day. I was trying to get him to choose something else to do and dh reminded me that ds is having to read, type, and think logically. That helped ease some of my guilt. Plus, he interacts via Skype and collaborates with friends.
My younger two play together on it, they are 8 and 9. It was the big talk of the boys in Cub Scouts so DH put it on our son's iTouch and then we put it on our daughters. They too can go an go on it. They stopped after we left Japan but just recently while on the phone with them they were back to playing it. DH thought about getting it for the Xbox because those iTouch screens are so small. I got the free version and dislike it and kids couldn't understand. My oldest has played it, she 13 but gaming is not her thing.
okay, Mineraft is amazine, my ds has followed it from the begining off and on, he has watched the "how it began" video on netflix even. That is when I accepted that this is an educational tool. IT is addicting yes, but they learn building skills, geology, math - cant even begin to tell you how much they can learn in that area-- creativity, I used it as an art class last year because he was creating. I have heard that some public schools are now allowing the game in class.
