You could show them the free version and how it lets you create. Explain how the gameplay teaches you problem solving, long-range planning, and how to budget resources. Then hit them with the ridiculously low price. That's a pretty good sales pitch.
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It's a game that exercises creativity and educates on such broad themes as time and resources management, planning and building, deadlines, or defining project workflows (all broadly categorized into strategic thinking). It also contributes to exercising spacial-temporal reasoning, which is an essential skill of architects, many types of arts, decoration, and essential on one form or another in everyday life.
Those are some of the reasons I got my daughters into playing it. Another is that, while being fun, it's a game that doesn't fall prey to the "sex, drugs and violence" environment that surrounds most games. It's an innocuous game which doesn't try to mimic any social behavior, or impact on the social behavior of whoever plays it.
It's however, also a very addictive game. So parents should take a certain care in monitoring the time their kids spend playing it.
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Tell them it's not your problem if they don't like video games, and they don't deserve to be called "parents" if they won't buy you ONE video game, wich is, in fact CHEAP and not BLOODY GORE like others games.
i know...but try telling them that...its so annoying every1 at my school has it now almost...im a laughing stock and being called poor when its not that it is just that i can find a way to persuade them...i've explained its cheap, not gory, safe and even slightly educational...
Your parents are afraid that they'll lose their bank account right? Tell us true, please :tongue.gif: Seriously.
my parents don't favour video games in general they think that they are all bad for me when some of them aren't actually like minecraft so i started this thread to find a way to word it and persuade them to get the game for me as i dont have paypal or whatever it is that is needed to buy it
Why not show them that fanmade trailer?
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It's a game that exercises creativity and educates on such broad themes as time and resources management, planning and building, deadlines, or defining project workflows (all broadly categorized into strategic thinking). It also contributes to exercising spacial-temporal reasoning, which is an essential skill of architects, many types of arts, decoration, and essential on one form or another in everyday life.
Those are some of the reasons I got my daughters into playing it. Another is that, while being fun, it's a game that doesn't fall prey to the "sex, drugs and violence" environment that surrounds most games. It's an innocuous game which doesn't try to mimic any social behavior, or impact on the social behavior of whoever plays it.
It's however, also a very addictive game. So parents should take a certain care in monitoring the time their kids spend playing it.
cool story bro
Looks like your effective explanation is making people uncomfortable. This is the internet. Act stupider!
there is no hope of my parents buying it for me as they just keep saying over and over video games are bad for me and stuff like that ive showed them the trailer, showed them this forum and even told them its making me unpopular at school nothing will make them buy a copy for me i even promised id pay them back with my pocket money so i guess the thread is closed guys thanks for all ur help :sad.gif:
Get a school friend to buy it for u and then u'll pay them. :tongue.gif:
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Minecraft is like LEGOs while avoiding lava, exploding dicks, and fireball-shooting bloopers while collecting minerals and saddling pigs while buildings things and shaping a world of blocks to your will while finding dungeons and falling off cliffs and avoiding herobrine while farming wheat and punching threes and did I mention saddling pigs?
Minecraft is a game that features a randomly generated game world that has a surface area eight times that of Earth. It also features an alternate dimension in game. Creative possibilities in the game are nearly endless,and encourage planning in most of the game's aspects.
If you give that explanation to the 'rents,I'm sure they'd see your point.
I'm sorry about your parents. There are still plenty of parents who's opinion of video games are still strongly rooted in the media coverage of Mortal Kombat from the 90s. And even though he was laughed out of town, people like Jack Thompson and their appearances on television as video game "experts" still sits in the mind of some of the more less informed people out there.
My advice? You aren't going to change your parents mind about video games. Sorry. But since they already think games are going to steal your soul and turn you into a delinquent, you should counter that with other things.
How are your grades? You should make sure your grades are good before you make such demands. Parents aren't going to spring for something they think will have a negative effect on school if you already need to improve your math grade.
What have you done for THEM lately? Go rake some leaves, or clean out the garage, or scrub the toilets. Prove you deserve to have them break out the credit card. I know it's unfair, but you're a kid. And as much as you hate it, parents are the boss... for now anyway.
Sit them in front of classic mode, and let them take it for a spin themselves. I remember my own mom never played video games. One day I handed her a game boy with Final Fantasy Adventure on it. (Must have been 7th or 8th grade.) I didn't see my game boy again for days. After she completed the game, she handed back my game boy and said "This is why I don't play video games. They're too addictive! I get sucked in."
If none of this works. I don't know what else to tell you. Maybe you can trade your parents for more liberal ones?
"Minecraft, hard to explain. But it's truly the most productive game out this year! About 500 000 people have bought it already and was just developed from one guy! I've played their "free" mode for a while and have already built structures that would've took me years to build! It was the most addictive experience I have EVER lived with! That was great, but I just WOULD love if you'd let me buy Minecraft! The game let's artistic talent into my life and keeps me well amused, I swear, some aspects are to die for, for instance, the creativity, the fun to be had, the communtiy, RANGONER, and of course the cave adventuring! Surprisingly the game is so freaky! People have been mining obsidian (which is a solid material formed by volcanic flows), have been approached from behind and been scared out of their pants! There's also the many other aspects like crafting and such, but I should leave it here, there's so much to explain! So please! Please buy me Minecraft! I know you guys hate me playing games, but... I would kill for this game... literally..."
Or the above post could help.
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i'm back from the dead. and i'm ready to minecraft.
and i brought crumpets.
It appears your parents are total moronic idiots.
I feel sorry for you having to deal with them.
my parents are strict and dont want me having any fun
weekdays-healthy breakfast, early morning revision, school, homework, bed
saturday-healthy breakfast, early morning french class, healthy lunch, helping grandparents, revison and homework, bed
sunday-healthy breakfast, look after baby cousin, healthy lunch, chores, homework, healthy dinner, bed
i never get time to do anything...fun and now my friends parents' wont let me see them...my life sucks :sad.gif:
Bro if I were you I would want to kill everything.
It makes me mad just thinking about it.
...You'd better not be trollin >_>
If this is true, you must live in the most retarded place in the world.
Waitasecond.
If you don't ever have free time, then how are you here now?
...Yes, now that I think of it, how could you be here or on Classic mode?
i sneak downstairs on saturday at night to have some freetime as my parents go a bed early to get up early for church sunday (they make me worship a god i dont even believe in)
Two things:
Excuse my ignorance, but is it even night where you are?
And if anything, religion should be the thing you go to for help if you do in fact wish to die.
That's a real selling point!
If that doesn't work...
Errr... Say something about Imagination and Creativity and that kind of thing.
But it WILL work.
Those are some of the reasons I got my daughters into playing it. Another is that, while being fun, it's a game that doesn't fall prey to the "sex, drugs and violence" environment that surrounds most games. It's an innocuous game which doesn't try to mimic any social behavior, or impact on the social behavior of whoever plays it.
It's however, also a very addictive game. So parents should take a certain care in monitoring the time their kids spend playing it.
go buy a visa gift card at target
Disagreed.
Why not show them that fanmade trailer?
Looks like your effective explanation is making people uncomfortable. This is the internet. Act stupider!
Get a school friend to buy it for u and then u'll pay them. :tongue.gif:
If you give that explanation to the 'rents,I'm sure they'd see your point.
My advice? You aren't going to change your parents mind about video games. Sorry. But since they already think games are going to steal your soul and turn you into a delinquent, you should counter that with other things.
How are your grades? You should make sure your grades are good before you make such demands. Parents aren't going to spring for something they think will have a negative effect on school if you already need to improve your math grade.
What have you done for THEM lately? Go rake some leaves, or clean out the garage, or scrub the toilets. Prove you deserve to have them break out the credit card. I know it's unfair, but you're a kid. And as much as you hate it, parents are the boss... for now anyway.
Sit them in front of classic mode, and let them take it for a spin themselves. I remember my own mom never played video games. One day I handed her a game boy with Final Fantasy Adventure on it. (Must have been 7th or 8th grade.) I didn't see my game boy again for days. After she completed the game, she handed back my game boy and said "This is why I don't play video games. They're too addictive! I get sucked in."
If none of this works. I don't know what else to tell you. Maybe you can trade your parents for more liberal ones?
"Minecraft, hard to explain. But it's truly the most productive game out this year! About 500 000 people have bought it already and was just developed from one guy! I've played their "free" mode for a while and have already built structures that would've took me years to build! It was the most addictive experience I have EVER lived with! That was great, but I just WOULD love if you'd let me buy Minecraft! The game let's artistic talent into my life and keeps me well amused, I swear, some aspects are to die for, for instance, the creativity, the fun to be had, the communtiy, RANGONER, and of course the cave adventuring! Surprisingly the game is so freaky! People have been mining obsidian (which is a solid material formed by volcanic flows), have been approached from behind and been scared out of their pants! There's also the many other aspects like crafting and such, but I should leave it here, there's so much to explain! So please! Please buy me Minecraft! I know you guys hate me playing games, but... I would kill for this game... literally..."
Or the above post could help.
and i brought crumpets.
I feel sorry for you having to deal with them.
You can not deny my logic.
Bro if I were you I would want to kill everything.
It makes me mad just thinking about it.
...You'd better not be trollin >_>
If this is true, you must live in the most retarded place in the world.
You can not deny my logic.
You can not deny my logic.
Reeeaaaally? >_>
You can not deny my logic.
If you don't ever have free time, then how are you here now?
You can not deny my logic.
...Yes, now that I think of it, how could you be here or on Classic mode?
Something about blocks.
Two things:
Excuse my ignorance, but is it even night where you are?
And if anything, religion should be the thing you go to for help if you do in fact wish to die.
Something about blocks.
http://www.theobsidianblock.com/