But wants to “mindfully change that” for creating with Lego.
Corazza said in response, citing teenagers who’d built up millions of followers on the platform.
“They didn’t feel like they were exploited!
“We are 18-plus,” he emphasised.
But what does Epic think about monetising under-18s' creations, and paying out to creators?
“Well, in regions where it is permissible, yes we should lower that age.
But we started at something that is like, unilaterally: this is professional labour.
People have signed up for professional payments.
It’s a goal of ours, obviously.
But right now we’re 18-plus.”
It’s something Eurogamer previously discussed with Roblox, too.
The most difficult thing that we do, I think, is real time chat moderation.
We have a whole division that is dedicated basically to that.”
And when they report it then we can take action.
“It’s all handled on the back-end, basically,” he said.
“Because we do the moderation, and every island in Fortnite is pre-moderated.
It’s not post-moderated.”
That is the worst way you could humanly do that for players and for brands.
And for creators for that matter, that didn’t even know that they infringed on something.
You kind of want something upfront."
“We have systems that help moderators,” he added, “but these are humans.
Lots and lots of humans.”
