Recommend me games for my dad plz

He is recently divorced, extremely lonely, extremely boomery, and has a gambling problem, so preferably something with online play and no micro transactions. Does that even exist?

Since Covid he’s gone from married and occasionally doing a poker night with friends to divorced with his own apartment. He sits alone all day chatting with virtual poker folks and he is in desperate need of something to replace his addiction, preferably in a way that’s less isolating than text chats with strangers online.

Basically, I’ve effectively cut him out of my life, but him asking me to set up a new game on his computer is the closest he’s come to wanting to change in about a year. Any recommendations? Is Minecraft still free of micro transactions?

  • gvngndz [none/use name,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Minecraft only has paid skins for bedrock edition (which also contains several other microtransactions), Java doesn't have any microtransactions as far as I know.

    • HornyAlt [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      So Java’s the way to go? Isn’s that the version you use to play on most hosted servers anyway?

      • gvngndz [none/use name,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yes, Java has more servers and also has mods. The only reason not to go java is that it is not as well as optimized as the bedrock version from what I've heard, but it's still just Minecraft, so pretty much any crappy business laptop can do a fine job running it.