Mojang CANCELLED The Last Minecraft Convention

Minecraft just made some very controversial decisions regarding in-person conventions you might recall they used to run a show called Minecon which was so incredibly popular the tickets would sell out in minutes this ran from 2011 until 2016 when they decided to move Minecon into an online format which didn’t really work so well

And so they decided to launch something called official Minecraft Community event this was going to be properly sanctioned by Mojang however these could be smaller and more frequent because they’d be run by third-party companies in this case the three officially sanctions ones were mine fair blockfest and mindvention you might have heard of

That last one because they were just about to start a US tour in North Carolina this weekend however they have decided to seize trading immediately because of these four new guidelines from Mojang and it’s kind of crazy to dive into basically Mojang decided to cancel the community events that they

Themselves launched only five years ago and so today I wanted to talk about the history of Minecraft events and where they’re going to go in the future because a lot of people are very excited for any Minecraft convention question whether that’s a Minecon a mine festival

Or a mine fair and so let’s talk about all of that today first things first though something really good I think my invention as a company did is they’ve clarified they’ll be issuing full refunds for anyone who purchased at Raleigh North Carolina which is a pretty decent deal game that they probably

Aren’t getting a refund on the event itself they probably are making a huge loss because of this change from Mojang uh the change itself being of course that they can’t have a live in-person event uh with Mojang’s blessing if it has more than 150 participants has sponsorships for the purpose of a profit

Rents a venue and charges for admission and having vendors selling Minecraft themed products that last scroll is a really understandable one like yes Minecraft doesn’t want someone using the Minecraft branding to sell Minecraft and related products if they’re not official products they don’t want them to sell

That that makes a lot of sense but if you read rule 3 again it says you can’t rent a venue and charge admission what do you mean that’s literally what a convention is that’s literally what any in-person Gathering would be the only way that you can have an event without

Out renting a venue is if you hold it in something you already own which is a weird technicality but like I can hold a Minecraft event in my house but I can’t have it in a big Festival Hall that seems like a bad rule but also not

Charging for admission I have to absorb all the costs of having a Minecraft Community Gathering which is no doubt good for Minecraft itself and I can’t even have sponsorships to cover the cost they’re literally saying yeah pay for it all yourself and then if you are going

To pay for it make sure there’s not more than 150 people by saying that any Minecraft in-person event cannot charge permission and has a cap of 150 people they’re basically saying yeah I guess you could have a few Minecraft fans in your game store for like 20 minutes at a

Time maybe that would be a good event I reckon yeah that’s great wonderful but don’t sell any Minecraft products if you’re gonna do that or will come after you and I just I don’t understand this is effectively Mojang saying we don’t want any Minecraft events because no

Company can run under those rules if this is my invention telling the truth and the only reason to think they’re not as if maybe the events doing really poorly and they need to You Know cover their asses and make it look like it’s Mojang’s fault instead of theirs however

The reason I think that’s not necessarily likely is because with my invention no longer uh doing this exact same thing obviously you might have heard of them before but also what about mine Fair that’s an event it’s actually funnily enough it’s an event I’ve been to uh meinfair invited me to Minneapolis

Saint Paul on the March the 17th of 2018 that was my first time in the great state of Minnesota I also got some white cars for the first time they sell it by the crate seriously you know I’ve got to show you a picture of this it’s a crate

Of burgers they sell you that is a crazy American thing anyway I went to America to go to this event and that was for mine Fair uh which you can you can visit more and learn about more about their website by going to minefair.com and if

You do it takes you to this GoDaddy pit oh it takes you to nothing right now and if you go to their Twitter it’s been deleted as well but oh yeah well there’s mine fair and there’s my invention what about blockfest blockfest claimed to be a show brought to you by the

Co-producers of Minecon Paris Orlando London and la and so you know this is going to be a really good One X except if you try to find out more about blockfest you find the largest hip-hop Festival in Finland and the Las Vegas Latin culture block Fest which is the

Celebration of the city’s growing community’s diversity and you know I do have to admit I don’t think either of those are necessarily the block Fest they’re referring to in other words every single one of the Minecraft official events they launched to replace Minecon has now been canceled probably

Because of these super strict rules I remember Minecon did used to have some very weird rules about it even this superficial map they’re using to show off where the events were it only showed the US and the UK but all of those have now failed however we have some hope

Right Minecraft did say at the Minecraft live 2019 whatever it was called at the time they did say wow okay we see there’s a lot of demand for an in-person event and although we’re still doing our Minecraft yearly show this way we would like to do a festival you know a big

Event where we can meet in person and they’ve arranged it in Orlando for 2020 and if you know what happened in 2020 to have this event be canceled you’ve got gotta let me know I mean was there any big events that did anything happen that would cause an in-person event to be

Canceled I can’t I I really can’t think about why but anyway they they canceled the event for 2020 they had a vague idea of delaying it to 2021 but you know something something still not responsible and then in 2022 when it finally looked like we might be seeing

It we had uh at the time in Mojang employee saying there would be no Minecraft Festival happening this year however that was only valid for last year it’s now 2023 which means we’ve officially heard precisely nothing the best we hear from Minecraft is them canceling uh these are community events

And honestly that’s a real shame Minecraft can’t have this attitude if we don’t want to run our own conventions or festivals or whatever they feel like calling them but we also don’t feel like anyone should run them with anything mind related in the name that is bizarre

And I think honestly they need to pick Elaine on this one they can say we don’t want any Minecraft community events if they’re going to run their own one and that would be entirely fine or they can say we have no interest in running a Minecraft convention we’re looking for

Any excuse to put it off or not do it and so let’s allow other people to do so and I don’t think they’ve done a really good balance so far because my invention if we’re being totally honest the Mind fairs the my inventions the block vests

Of the world all do have the issue of not being anywhere near as cool as a Minecon I mean the numbers I could all say that like yeah having 1 000 people in a room Convention Center somewhere in uh North Carolina isn’t going to be as fun as having 10 000 people in

California or 15 000 people in London and having like developer support and all of these great things uh makes the bigger events the better one selfishly I would much prefer the Minecraft events but you know because on a business level I think it’s really messed up to say

Yeah you can run your entire business around being a Minecraft Community event and then literally cut them off at the last minute because I really think there’s a you know the dick move is not just towards my invention here saying aha you rented a space and you had a

Whole convention ready and you’ve spent all your time marketing it and all these salaries but you can’t make any money you know that’s that’s messed up to say that last minute five days before it was going to go live but even worse is what it’s done for all the Minecraft fans who

Trusted Minecraft when they said this was a Minecraft official convention bought tickets for an event which no doubt for some people aren’t just down the street if you live in uh Raleigh already which you don’t let’s be honest if you’re watching this video you don’t live in Raleigh North Carolina you live

Somewhere else in the country you might have had to fly there you might have had to even if it’s within driving distance get a hotel there and so those things are likely to be non-refundable Mojang has taken their Community given them the trust that these events will be a small

Version of the Minecon which they really crave and then just absolutely pulling the rug from under them and as always when I make these videos it has to be said even though there is Mojang the business entity making bad decisions here developers are not making those same bad decisions in fact those

Developers probably didn’t even know this was happening because as we can see King B dogs and Lady Agnes two of the most famous ones were following my invention probably had plans at some point to go to one and are maybe just as surprised as the rest of us someone who

Is running the brand of Mojang who is trying to make Minecraft the most PR friendly brand it can be by making whatever guidelines they’re trying to make has had a ridiculous rule of idealism perhaps saying yeah we just want people to like have free Minecraft events man and not too many people man

So they can really enjoy it and instead accidentally canceled the entire concept whoever was trying to make Minecraft Festival who decided to delay it a year for covid and then delay another year for covert because I mean it wasn’t really over in 2021 and then to let

Another year for covert because I mean still you could catch it even in that year um they’re going to end up by trying to look after the players or the fan base or whatever but what they’re actually doing is removing the very concept from existence there are no third-party events anymore there might

Be some but not Minecraft related and there are not going to be any Minecraft first party festivals because they canceled the inaugural event and they’re not able to make another one for some reason it’s just all so confusing I think Minecraft as a brand maybe grew

Too fast maybe has a know goals of being this huge corporate persona but also needs to realize that there is a really important trade-off in the world which I think we can all learn from which is you can have the aspiration to make something perfect you can have the

Aspiration of making the absolute best thing in the world which will be so much better than anything else however if you keep having this aspiration you’ll end up getting in your own way and not producing anything in the end people would prefer to have a good Minecraft

Convention than to have a perfect one which never ends up coming probably people would have preferred Minecon stayed physical even though there were issues with the event in 2016 I’m sure people would prefer a flawed Minecon the no Minecon perfect is sometimes the enemy of good if striving for Perfection

Means you don’t even do anything then you can honestly say the biggest problem is not with the good thing it is with the Perfection itself this is where the phrase perfect is the enemy of good comes from and it is something that is so prevalent in the world once you see

It in our political Ambitions in how companies try to run things in how all sorts of products try to launch the best way to make lots of things is to make something that is objectively bad with a bit of good and then to try and grow the

Good and try and shrink the bad funnily enough this seems to be Minecraft strategy with Minecraft Legends funnily enough this is how Minecraft the base game seem to work have you ever seen how Cave Game launch it looks terrible it’s awful but they launched updates every

Single day for so long to make it great and I think Minecraft could just do the same with any Minecraft event they want so uh you can have something that is pretty good and that is better than not having anything at all for a lot of people I think it’s not perfect honestly

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