Ugh, dont get me started on kids. I wore my full body steve costume for +90% of the event and it was incredibly stressful at times.
So you have my full respect for that, I saw you on both days multiple times and your outfit was awesome, have 10,000 Internet points. I heard a few people debating if you where an 'offical' steve or not, great work on the quality of your costume
Sounds like you had quite the hard time of it, my friend who is really into Cos-playing in ridiculous outfits allways takes her boyfriend with to as 'security', maybe you need to do the same (I don't mean get a boyfriend, but recruit one of your (trusted) friends to come with )
Sadly, some attendees walked off with it, along with a ton of stuff they shouldn't have been walking out with.
I saw lots of people walking off with stuff, but after Minemon 2012 they where actually giving parts of the set away, and encouraging people to take it, so i assumed it was going to be the same
They sold too many tickets. And there were too many children. It lacked structure in the activities.
Yeah thats all about right.
I was at Minecon 2012 last year, and the big difference for me was that I kept bumping into the B-Team.. The mindcrack guys where actually there as attendees, I saw them sitting in the audience for a lot of other panels... and rather than being mobbed by an endless stream of kids at every turn. I even had a nice friendly conversation with GenerikB in the hotel bar...
This year opening was delayed mostly because a whole bunch of kids had decided they wanted Caveman films and some other guys autographs and could not be talked into getting out of the way sitting the hell down. When that cupquake girl and the guy she was with appeared at the opening there was loads of kids milling around trying to stop them leaving the stage to sign autographs.. despite the fact they where in the middle of going back stage, fortunately security was with them.
In the 'how to run a server' panel there was a whole bunch of kids who clearly had no interest in what was being said and started talking and moving around once they realized there was not going to be any YouTube stars to pester. Most of them left after about 20 minutes I'd say there was less than 1,000 people there in the end.. hard to tell with it being a huge hall tho.
There where people walking out of the opening ceremony to go next door and get in line to buy stuff, I spoke with a few parents during the whole thing who where really only there to escort their kids, and had no real interest in the game or the surroundings... One mother was telling me all about her plan to buy multiple things from Target and then get it signed by as many people as she could with the express purpose of selling them on ebay..
If you thought the ebay ticketing was bad wait until you see all the junk that shows up now it's over...
And really thats part of the reason the tickets sold out so quick, the number of 'families' there, when only 1 of them played the game.. I over heard a huge argument going on back in my hotel with one family, about how much time they had 'wasted' at the convention and why could not they goto Disney..
I have no idea who that girl was at the Closing ceremony, or why having her on to promote her itunes account was really connected to anything.. and as to that hugely original Miley Cirrus parody with more blackscreen than talent... well I guess it's better than last years endless repetition of that gad awful Gandam style monstrosity..
In summary, I did enjoy myself, I met some nice people had a good enough time... but I'm on the fence about if I'd goto next years, It depends on where it is really.. and if its going to be such a such a 'family' event again..
I've seen the argument here and elsewhere that there bulk of the games player base are under 14... and I guess I should of expected what I got.. but that does not stop me wishing there was a more 'adults only' options for minecon, for people who are actually interested in the game and dont just want autographs and to ask Notch 'whats your favourite block?'
So far I've had a couple of conversions with people who have bought tickets (mostly for their kids) on ebay, so it definitely happend.
and while I've been too polite to ask, two of the people I spoke with told me that they managed to pick them up for 'not much more' than the original price.. one lady today me she bought hers on Thursday for LESS than the original price.
If you think about it, even forgetting the scalpers there was bound to be last minute delays/problems that stopped people going..
Unfortunately we live in a consumerist society and like it or not the quick or the rich win eveytime....
... If you want to hear more about how we should smash up the system and replace it with a much nicer, I'm having a meeting down at the docks at midnight... bring your own pitchfork/torch
are you playing on a server or using a local area conenction?
If your on a sever get the admin to change the port to something that's not blocked... tho they might just be putting everything through a proxy in which case your out of luck..
I booked into the Hilton using the regular Hilton booking website, and got a standard room for a lot less than the 'cheap rate' they where quoting on mojang's website, by about $60 a night.
And since I'm a Hilton Diamond card holder I got bumped upto the Executive floor..
It's of course personal choice and all, but I have to say I'm kinda disapointed with whats on, if it was not for the Mindcrack panel on the Sunday afternoon I'd be tempted to not bother with the Sunday at all...
There seems to be very little on that interests me.. despite the fact I managed to find something to watch/do both days last year...
MINECON SCHEDULE
Please remember Panels and Meet and Greets are first come first serve. But don't worry, all of the panels will be amazing, so head into another one if your first choice is full. Paper schedules will be included in attendee bags. Our incredible exhibit hall will be open from 11-6pm on Saturday and 10-5pm on Sunday.
Time Title
10:00 AM OPENING CEREMONIES
11:40 AM Live Streaming
11:40 AM Creating your Big Project with Bebopvox
12:00 PM Developing Mods
12:20 PM Pocket Edition Future
12:20 PM Minecraft 101 for Parents
12:40 PM Meet & Greet: Sky Does Minecraft
1:00 PM Running a Server
1:00 PM Autism and Minecraft
1:20 PM Video Making 101
1:20 PM Theme Park Servers with mcMagic
1:20 PM Cobalt
1:40 PM The Weird Science of qCraft
1:40 PM Block by Block
2:00 PM SparkleSlamaroo Extravaganza: Animators of Minecraft
2:20 PM Meet & Greet: ChimneySwift11 / ihasCupquake
2:40 PM Building your YouTube Channel
2:40 PM Entering Building Contests
2:40 PM Writing the Minecraft Book
3:00 PM The Future of Minecraft
3:00 PM Life as an Indie Developer
3:20 PM Custom Map Making
4:00 PM The Creatures
4:20 PM Building
4:20 PM Minecrafting Families
5:00 PM Costume Contest
6:30 PM Islands of Adventure Shuttles Begin Loading
7:30 PM Islands of Adventure Opens
9:00 PM Last shuttles to Islands of Adventure Depart
11:00 PM Islands of Adventure Closes
11:45 PM Last shuttles return from Islands of Adventure
SUNDAY NOV 3
Time Title
10:20 AM Getting Started with Game Development by Jeb
10:20 AM Podcasting
10:40 AM Redstone
11:00 AM Musical Parodies
11:00 AM Minecraft Wiki
11:20 AM Meet & Greet: Bajan Canadian / AntVenom
11:40 AM Growing a Server Community
11:40 AM Using the Minecraft IP
12:00 PM FyreUK Builds
12:00 PM Kids Learning Code
12:00 PM Practical Advice to Start Making Games
12:20 PM Crafting Stories for Videos
12:20 PM Scrolls
12:40 PM Life on YouTube with SkyDoesMinecraft, Captainsparklez, ihasCupquake, and AntVenom
1:00 PM Meet & Greet: The Creatures
1:20 PM How to Win with YouTube
1:20 PM Minecraft in Education
1:40 PM Mindcrack
1:40 PM Interactive Gaming with Minecraft
2:00 PM Bringing Minecraft to Life with Greg Aronowitz
2:00 PM Fun Home Uses for Minecraft
2:40 PM Interview with Notch
2:40 PM Meet & Greet: CaptainSparklez
3:20 PM Animating Minecraft
3:40 PM Bringing Modding to the Masses
5:00 PM CLOSING CEREMONIES
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So you have my full respect for that, I saw you on both days multiple times and your outfit was awesome, have 10,000 Internet points. I heard a few people debating if you where an 'offical' steve or not, great work on the quality of your costume
Sounds like you had quite the hard time of it, my friend who is really into Cos-playing in ridiculous outfits allways takes her boyfriend with to as 'security', maybe you need to do the same (I don't mean get a boyfriend, but recruit one of your (trusted) friends to come with
dont tell your boss-to-be that you plan on quitting in a years time
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Yeah I agree also, last years was kinda ok.. but this years... ick..
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I saw lots of people walking off with stuff, but after Minemon 2012 they where actually giving parts of the set away, and encouraging people to take it, so i assumed it was going to be the same
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Yeah thats all about right.
I was at Minecon 2012 last year, and the big difference for me was that I kept bumping into the B-Team.. The mindcrack guys where actually there as attendees, I saw them sitting in the audience for a lot of other panels... and rather than being mobbed by an endless stream of kids at every turn. I even had a nice friendly conversation with GenerikB in the hotel bar...
This year opening was delayed mostly because a whole bunch of kids had decided they wanted Caveman films and some other guys autographs and could not be talked into getting out of the way sitting the hell down. When that cupquake girl and the guy she was with appeared at the opening there was loads of kids milling around trying to stop them leaving the stage to sign autographs.. despite the fact they where in the middle of going back stage, fortunately security was with them.
In the 'how to run a server' panel there was a whole bunch of kids who clearly had no interest in what was being said and started talking and moving around once they realized there was not going to be any YouTube stars to pester. Most of them left after about 20 minutes I'd say there was less than 1,000 people there in the end.. hard to tell with it being a huge hall tho.
There where people walking out of the opening ceremony to go next door and get in line to buy stuff, I spoke with a few parents during the whole thing who where really only there to escort their kids, and had no real interest in the game or the surroundings... One mother was telling me all about her plan to buy multiple things from Target and then get it signed by as many people as she could with the express purpose of selling them on ebay..
If you thought the ebay ticketing was bad wait until you see all the junk that shows up now it's over...
And really thats part of the reason the tickets sold out so quick, the number of 'families' there, when only 1 of them played the game.. I over heard a huge argument going on back in my hotel with one family, about how much time they had 'wasted' at the convention and why could not they goto Disney..
I have no idea who that girl was at the Closing ceremony, or why having her on to promote her itunes account was really connected to anything.. and as to that hugely original Miley Cirrus parody with more blackscreen than talent... well I guess it's better than last years endless repetition of that gad awful Gandam style monstrosity..
In summary, I did enjoy myself, I met some nice people had a good enough time... but I'm on the fence about if I'd goto next years, It depends on where it is really.. and if its going to be such a such a 'family' event again..
I've seen the argument here and elsewhere that there bulk of the games player base are under 14... and I guess I should of expected what I got.. but that does not stop me wishing there was a more 'adults only' options for minecon, for people who are actually interested in the game and dont just want autographs and to ask Notch 'whats your favourite block?'
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and while I've been too polite to ask, two of the people I spoke with told me that they managed to pick them up for 'not much more' than the original price.. one lady today me she bought hers on Thursday for LESS than the original price.
If you think about it, even forgetting the scalpers there was bound to be last minute delays/problems that stopped people going..
Unfortunately we live in a consumerist society and like it or not the quick or the rich win eveytime....
... If you want to hear more about how we should smash up the system and replace it with a much nicer, I'm having a meeting down at the docks at midnight... bring your own pitchfork/torch
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/me dons thick Glasses and cockney accent..
Just remember this - in this country they drive on the WRONG side of the road.
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If your on a sever get the admin to change the port to something that's not blocked... tho they might just be putting everything through a proxy in which case your out of luck..
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You want to keep any eye out anyone trying to steal your rods for fuel
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And since I'm a Hilton Diamond card holder I got bumped upto the Executive floor..
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if anyone else needs it, I've updated the first post
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There seems to be very little on that interests me.. despite the fact I managed to find something to watch/do both days last year...
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Dont forget to bring it with you in sleep mode for Street Pass hits