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I'm not willing to call the Lego company incompetent for not wanting to attempt something that many companies would fail at horribly. If we had a truly creative Lego game release when Minecraft was first starting out, I would not expect it to be very good, let alone as great as Minecraft is.

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I remember reading somewhere that they did release some online Lego game that allowed building once, but they shut it down because they couldn't delete all the dicks in time.

To be snarky, if you want an environment without dicks you should play on an adults only server. When we play, we're too busy building huge elaborate buildings and terraforming large portions of the landscape to build measly dicks.

The thing Minecraft did alright was to not actually try and host their own servers, thus not being responsible for what people did in-game online.

But also, MC is simple enough that "a dick" is five blocks in a particular organization... and it quickly becomes boring, not to mention uncreative. Building dicks isn't as fun as Everything Else in the game.

This is not how "responsible" works for companies like Lego and Disney. They consider everything around their brand to be 'theirs'. An interesting story in that area [1] is the one time that Disney did try to build something resembling chat into a game of theirs (spoiler: it didn't go well).

[1] http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...

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