Minecraft language update inadvertently contained racial slur (but it's fixed now)

@KuztomX

Hey, battlefield 3 must use Mojang's QA team!

@Liquidfingers The world is full of people who are too busy adjusting the stick up their ass to sit properly than to take a joke and laugh and realize that the words aren't the problem, it's the people who abuse their use and just say them for the sake of saying it.

@Churrotastic

Yeah, we should all laugh at hateful racism. In fact, there is nothing funnier than thinking of all the people who have been put down and literally beat down in the past over racism. In fact, I can't think of anything funnier!

/sarcasm

@Churrotastic So you're saying this was some sort of social commentary about oh god my nose just started bleeding

Agreed. My girlfriend and I recently watched a couple of his stand up and he's hilarious!

@drhitts you do realize that south Africa is pro dominantly white right? Hell a PERFECT example of his comment is the luddy the editor of this site. He lived in Africa up until a month or so ago and he's white so...

@Xero Theory

Maybe I dont get it because the first comment got deleted but... what do you mean by "pro dominantly white"?. At first I thought it meant that the majority of the population was white, but that seems not to be true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Africa

South Africa demographics
79.4% black african
9.2% white

@drhitts
Where have you been since the apartheid? I mean even though that was ended at least 15 years ago, just like official segregation in America, once that ended, there's still an enormous amount of social and political segregation which leads in favor of the white people, such as the British or Afrikaners.

@pluupy

Kind of both actually, was a guy that had admin access that was supposed to be banned but slipped through the cracks.

Takes all kinds I guess..., 10 minutes of net-fame achieved I suppose.

@thechaos
Mojang has a huge following of 13-15 year olds that somehow think these kinds of things are funny. It's pretty disgusting, really. Mojang is an irresponsible company that continues to put itself in bad situations.

@thechaos you don't really need someone to explain the difference between a publicly-traded corporation that can staff whole teams for localization and a small collective of self-made programmers learning as they go, do you?

@thechaos

Because EA and Activision are large publishing houses that likely have more money in their QA departments than Mojang has in its entirety. Not to mention either one should have in theory more people working in said QA department than the whole of Mojangs 14 employees.

And lastly because Mojang still has a soul.

When they are a massive multibillion dollar company with a track record of being fairly anti consumer .... they won't be getting the same slack cut them as they are now.

@(Unverified) I am talking about fans and people who comment on forums and articles like this. You don't need me to explain to you the difference between Shareholders and Immature jackasses who let this get swept under the rug because of a biased double standard, do you?

@Scuffles Let's call it what it is, people hate Large publishers and people are biased with Mojang.

@thechaos

I certainly wouldn't say hate large publishers but you did start by naming two of the biggest jerks in the industry so you really biased your own question there.

There are several publishers I have no problem with, I might even go as far as saying I like.

Simply put No I don't necessarily hold smaller indie developers to the same standards I would hold a large publisher. Because by in large they do not have the same scope of resources.

This was caused by one bad egg in a community driven effort to provide localized translations of the game for as many languages as possible (which right there is more than most publishers attempt) and caught by the community before it ever made a live update.

We aren't exactly talking "hot coffee" here where the content was intentionally added to the game then blocked, found, denied and then initially blamed on the person who found it... before finally admitted to.

And even after all that I forgave Rockstar.

@(Unverified)
when said team of self-made programmers has millions of dollars at their disposal, yeah, they can pony up a couple thousand to properly do localization. No excuse.

@antv Let me know when you find a team of localization experts who know every language and can work for two grand.

@(Unverified)

There's not very many strings in the game. You could probably get it done professionally for $100 per language.

@Gate Stormer

It didn't say naggers.

@ilikesanta
wha? tell me that's shopped?!?