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Minecraft or Roblox?
Which one is better? Story by Luke Olson
Minecraft and Roblox may seem like big competitors, but in reality, they’re both completely different from each other. Roblox is more of a game engine than an actual game, meaning that people can make their own games using Roblox, while Minecraft is an open world/sandbox survival game where you’re able to build almost anything in creative mode or you can explore and gather
resources in survival mode.
there is only a
limited amount of stuff
to do in the game it starts to get
repetitive, which eventually will cause you to
lose interest in it. That’s where the mods come in to add extra content. But this will also happen with Roblox if the
Roblox has a lot more variety
than Minecraft, as there are millionsofdifferentgames,ranging
from party games, role playing
games, fighting games, and more.
While Minecraft still does have
minigames, they are more limited
with the assets they can use. What
Minecraft has that Roblox does not
is the capability of mod use: there
are tens of thousands of mods
(modifications) for Minecraft, which
add plenty of new things to the
game. Cars, planes, new environments, new animals, and just basic game overhauls can all increase the fun of your experience.
One of the biggest cons about Minecraft is that because
During 2018, Minecraft earned around $110 million alone just from their mobile version, while Roblox made about $70 million total on all their platforms.
creators of a particular game you like stop updating it. Another big con of Roblox compared to Minecraft is that you have to pay money in order to change your character unlike Minecraft where it’s free.
Now let’s talk money, availability, and age demographics. Roblox and Minecraft are available on practically every device: phones, tablets, consoles, and computers. That’s a huge pro with both games. The age demographics for each game are surprisingly different than most people think. A lot of people think
that Roblox and Minecraft are both full of just little kids, which isn’t the case anymore. The majority of the people that play Minecraft are people who have played Minecraft in the past when it first came out and are getting back into the
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