There seems to be nothing Minecraft players can’t or won’t build in the game. Case in point, Microsoft has now constructed its own corporate headquarters inside the game it bought for $2.5 billion in 2014.
CNBC reports that Microsoft hired Blockworks, a UK design studio that works in Minecraft, to give employees an advance look at a planned refresh of Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington campus. The 500-acre campus’ overhaul is scheduled to be finished in 2022.
Microsoft’s decision to preview the project in Minecraft came about when an employee saw his son playing the game. He realized Minecraft could be used to show employees the planned campus changes well ahead of their completion, and in a more immersive way than traditional building renders can.