Just when these their way through the system, another issue arose. It turns out that some countries were taking this even more seriously than we had initially considered. Merely changing the default was not sufficient - they didn't even want to have the *option* to switch to mines! This is really a large ask so late in the project. We would basically have to rewrite the game as well as the deployment logic. It was really too late for such a change, so we suggested that if mines were completely unacceptable than those countries should probably just remove minesweeper all together. So the various legal and geopolitics and localization people went off to discuss that one - whether it would be acceptabled, and if so which countries should pull it.
I am actually not sure how it ended up being resolved... But this blog seems to have an international audience, so maybe people can chime in and tell us what the program formerly known as minesweeper looks like in their country.