And it's one of the things that I'm.when looking back at my leadership impact and could I have done anything different? Should I have pushed through? Should I have insisted more in driving it through? But it was like little details that messed it up and, in the end, understandably, Mojang we just can’t waste our time on this, the opportunity cost of sitting and discussing these things.

Like strategically, they would not matter at all. 'Looking back and seeing the epic nature of what Minecraft has become and a driving force in kid's culture in itself, like listing out the hurdles that the LEGO Group put up for this would be ridiculous. 'So our legal team emphasized a lot of things that in the grand scheme of things wouldn't matter,' says Daniel Mathiasen, a former Lego employee and currently general manager at FRVR. This means working on a Lego project comes with a huge amount of back-and-forth as assets and ideas are scrutinised by the mothership. Lego has a reputation for being an especially demanding partner, hyper-protective of its family-friendly image and the nature of the blocks themselves. This prototype was greenlit, and Mojang hired two coders to begin working on it.

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