How do I end my little brother's Minecraft addiction?

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I hope that you have enough time to read this, because I WILL need all the time you have.

     The situation here is that I basically have Minecraft installed on my computer, a good 26$ spent. I was watching FarFromSubtle play on Mincraft servers. That's when my little brother walked into the room. (Now, this is when I never knew he will get addicted.) I told him that it is a game where you can basically do anything you want, or even play on multiplayer with other people. But, I regret this decision.

     I let him play on my Minecraft account for a little bit, on creative mode. I taught him how to walk around, move, build, etc. He started to play the game more and more frequently. But this time, things started to get worse. My little brother received an iPad for Christmas and I received and iPod. The first thing he does on his iPad is download Minecraft Pocket Edition, which in my opinion, is the worst version of Minecraft out there. Anyways, that's basically the only app he has on his iPad. Minecraft: PE. I told him that he needs to stop playing that game, because Minecraft: PE is not the only game on the app store. He doesn't care at all, though. He's been using Safari to look up Minecraft videos and he came across SkyDoesMinecraft. This guy IMO is really annoying, but can be funny at times. He's been saying words that he got from SkyDoesMinecraft and using them. This is getting really annoying. 

    He's been begging me to play Minecraft on my laptop, but I say no. He then starts to cry because he wants to play multiplayer servers on my laptop. But I can't trust any of these people on these servers because they harass him and such. He goes on any server that he finds on the internet. 

     I don't want to delete Minecraft on my laptop because my parents tell me to let him play it and they spent 26$ on it. All he does is watch Minecraft videos and play Minecraft. Even some of his grades in school is falling because the teacher left notes on his report card asking what Minecraft even is. His class participation is really low, his behavior is low, and his chatting is relaly high. I need to know how to tend his addiction.

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My brother is exactly the same. However, over the last few weeks we have improved this.

He used to come home from school, go straight to his room and sit on the computer playing minecraft.

My mum got fed up of this: here's what she did.

When he gets home from school she says he can not go on His Xbox or PC for the whole evening. He then is faced with a whole night being bored soo... He meets up with friends!

He is now into skateboarding more and doesn't play it as much.

However, it s a very good game and its gets their imagination and creativity flowing!

Good luck! Its most likely a phase anyway

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Meg · Answer

I've read all the answers on this page and none of them seemed to help you much- I myself have a little bit of a minecraft addiction. I know I'm coming into this late and all, but i hope this will at least help a little. My younger brother who is currently younger than the minecraft age restrictions ( minecraft xbox and minecraft pc are rated for 10 and up) plays minecraft pc for the whole day. I never get to talk to him, or have some brother sister time unless we are somewhere away from our computer. I think you have done the right choice to not let him on your laptop. Currently i am on summer break, and my brother hasnt stopped playing minecraft, and im afraid he will lose all of his friends from not hanging out with them. Hopefully these answers will help.

1) Tell him he has no life or challange him to see who can play the least minecraft. (Lol, this is my approach because my brother is a brat)
2) Ask him if he wants to play outside

3) Ask your parents to get in on a plan or something to take away his ipad

4) Let him play it if he wants, maybe someday he will get tired of it, and grow out of it

5) Create something like real life minecraft when you build using legos and little lego people, it should take him away from the screen a while

6) Experiment what he enjoys in real life so you can do it more often (ex. Sports, minigolf, bowling, swimming, taking drives, hanging out with friends, etc.)

7) Reason with him, tell him things like "dont you remember life without minecraft, and all the fun you used to have?" This actually worked on my brother for a couple days

8) Play minecraft with him. Let him tell you what he enjoys so much in the game so you can recreate those traits in an in real life game

9) Get him intrested in different games, apps, movies or shows

10) leave him alone and let him do what he wants, because one day it will come back and bite him in the butt. Hey, at least you get to say I told you so.

Hope this helped, i understand how it feels to hate your brother having a life of his own on some game. However, there is more severe options like psychology or counseling that I doubt you want to look into. I dont know you or your brother, so this is the best i can do.

Traian · Answer

To catch a monster you have to become one.

The only way to find a solution to your brother's addiction is to find a solution to your own. Feed into his psychosis, enter his mind. Become a Minecraft player. Play every day, and every night. Don't stop for anything because you know that you are the only one who can get this through. And then, when you feel like you have enough of Minecraft, keep mining. And then try to figure out what makes you go on. Use it as a weapon against your brother's addiction. Free him. And then beg him to put you out of your own misery.

Never forget where you started.

Owen · Answer

Don't worry about him being harassed over minecraft! Like c'mon it's minecraft the game for kids ages 7-12...

Anonymous · Answer

What I did to end mine, was I got of the computer for like a month and didn't touch it. I still go on for about 1 hour at the most every now and then (usually weekend) but id much rather do crafts

Jay · Answer

I suggest you tell your parents that maybe he should play less frequency either, or if he wants to play he has to do good in school aka do better grades. Plus Sky does have a lot of bad stuff that is not good for his age either is him sitting on a sofa all day watching people yelling at ether. So i recommend your parents to put limit on his time for playing mine craft and maybe your parents to watch the videos.

Anonymous · Answer

since its affecting his school work I would suggest deleting his account anonymously and not say anything because school is very important, that should not make him not want to play anymore because he has to start all over again or change his password and everything so he cant get on anymore and not say anything as well or just talk to your parents and have your parents tell him that until his grades go up no minecraft!

Faith · Answer

What's wrong with it? He likes a video game so what.

John · Answer

Everytime my little brother wants to play my PC games, I put them in a hidden folder and say that it's down, somebody hacked it, or there's a big update going on.. That kind of stuff, always works for me..

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