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Minecraft Fixes Racist Update

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by Ben Reeves on January 28, 2012 at 02:56 PM

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Minecraft has benefited greatly from its community, but sometimes terrible crowd-sourced additions slip through the cracks. A recent update to the game contains some racist language. Fortunately, the problem has been fixed.

A recorded on Minecraft’s forums, a recent Minecraft update made it so that when players changing the game language to Afrikaans – spoken in South Africa and Namibia – the title screen displayed the racially offensive phrase "You are a N*****."

Mojang's Jens Bergensten apologized for the offensive language and encouraged fans to check the new translation. The new Afrikaans title screen now reads "enkelspeler," which means "single player.” Let’s all try to be nice to each other day. Go buy someone a coke.

[Source: Joystiq]

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Filed under: News, minecraft, notch, mojang

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by Glasses Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 02:58 PM

Oh wow! At least they fixed it promptly.
by j grizzly14 Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 02:59 PM

the few rotten people in a community always find a way to ruin things for everyone else.
by Ace Delos Santos Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:00 PM

man, why can't people just have fun... -_-
by Shammara Blanchard Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:01 PM

Ah, I see low IQ's strike again....
by Soldierx0fxGod Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:06 PM

That's horrib *giggle*... Sorry. That's horrib *giggle*... I'm sorry, I can't keep a straight face. XD
by DarkeonWarlord Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:07 PM

WOW
by Adrian Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:08 PM

Holy crap, that's messed up. Glad they fixed it.
by hiromu656 Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:12 PM

I don't get it. Does Mojang not have control over what's displayed in the Startup screen?
by D. L. Williams Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:12 PM

Go buy someone coke huh? I see how the minecraft people get down. (yes yes i know there's a word missing)
by Joseph Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:18 PM

That's pretty funny.
by Milo Minderbender Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:19 PM

Wow. Who sent out that update?
by Aaron Quixote Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:22 PM

Isn't Afrikaans some form of Dutch spoken in South Africa? I only know this because I went to SA for my honeymoon, but I'm pretty sure Afrikaans is a "white language", if you'll excuse my labeling as such. It is spoken by black people in SA as well, but I believe it was developed by the Dutch settlers.
by Walter Mellin Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:23 PM

oh those Afrikaners. apartheid maybe over but god bless their continued resentment of the people whose land they took over.
by thehunt396 Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:24 PM

I will, Mr. Reeves! I will go buy some one a coke!
by Boyzby Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:24 PM

Wow, I don't even know what to say about that even being there to begin with.
by SolaireSunbro Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:26 PM

As if they didn't put that in there on purpose. We all know Notch has said racist things before. This doesn't surprise me at all to be honest.
by luciablee Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:27 PM

I wonder how something like this was able to slip through the cracks. It's kind of concerning...
by Harvester of Sorrow Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:31 PM

Das racist. God but the human race is pathetic. I'll never understand what's wrong with that sort.
by Hendawg_of_middlelands Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:34 PM

bloody hell thats a pretty big problem and you just got to love how increasingly horrible we can be to each other, I would like to kick the people in the nuts whom put this into the game.
by fixofinsanity Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 03:40 PM

Lol, this actually not that offensive considering the majority of us Afrikaans speakers are actually white. If I saw that on my screen I'd have simply burst into laughter XD