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When I worked in games in the late 2000s the rumour* about why Minecraft was able to come in and do what everyone knew that Lego should have been doing (a multi
by sambeau 3y ago
When I worked in games in the late 2000s the rumour* about why Minecraft was able to come in and do what everyone knew that Lego should have been doing (a multi-player online block-building game), was that they spent so long trying to create a Lego penis detector that they missed their opportunity.
* - I cannot verify this, so take it with a pinch of small white cubes
- sambeau 3y agoTurns out a simple Google search would have confirmed it rolleyes https://mcvuk.com/business-news/publishing/former-lego-dev-penis-detection-in-online-kids-games-is-utterly-impossible/#:~:text=“We%20were%20asked%20to%20make,make%20multi%2Dpart%20penis%20sculptures https://mcvuk.com/business-news/publishing/former-lego-dev-p.... > “It was all automated, but the human moderators were, if I remember correctly, the single biggest cost center for Lego Universe’s operational costs,” said Fox.