Looking at this video now, i feel like this is a joke, the description says it's for entertainment purposes, he says for people to not go to these games' websites to hate on them and that they're not that bad, he also jokes that Blockland hasn't been updated in 10 years after acknowledging that it's been out for 10 years
That's all well and good. No hate the video creator. The problem is the people in the comments section who adamantly hold that Blockland ripped off Roblox. They obviously didn't grasp this nuance.
Roblox was released in 2006, Blockland didn't go retail until 2007, i doubt people outside of Blockland's community would know, or even care that the alpha existed as far back as 2004, and Google and the Wikipedia say that Blockland's "initial" release date was in 2007, and most people won't look any further than that
So technically Roblox did come before Blockland
Practically > technically. Even so, Blockland was
public (as freeware) before Roblox was
public. So
technically Blockland came before Roblox. You can't just form an argument based only on the facts that people (supposedly) care about. But that's not even relevant, since the argument is whether one
ripped off the other.
There is so little evidence that Blockland has pulled from Roblox, or vice versa. They had likely never even heard of each other when they were first released, given the small size of their communities at the time. We shouldn't be hurling vitriol at children for thinking the contrary (as you said, it makes us look even worse). But there's nothing wrong with correcting a misconception, especially if doing so could mean the difference between someone picking up Blockland or disregarding it.
Brain damage
Ow. The false equivalency hurts.
