Have you guys seen this festival lineup flyer making its rounds through the internet over the past couple of weeks or months maybe you’re even lucky enough to get a high enough resolution version of this flyer where you can actually get your your magnifying glass out And take a peek at some of the names on this thing it’s actually pretty crazy there’s some pretty big names on this flyer for something that i haven’t seen anybody talking about there’s been a couple of reddit threads and i’ve seen some posts on instagram about it but How how is this happening i i noticed that the original dates on this were june 25th through 28th but apparently they have been rescheduled to today the festival starts today so i thought what better way to spend my quarantine pandemic time with you guys than well let’s check out the festival and See what it’s all about because if there’s this much stuff going on in this many stages allegedly there’s like 70 stages this has to be either incredibly cool or incredibly lame and today we’re gonna find out so i had never heard of rave.family before but apparently they are the organizers Of uh block fest which is now july 9th through 13th so if you’re still if you’re watching this before july 13th uh 2020 maybe you can check it out yourself too but maybe i’ll maybe i’ll save you some effort here uh am i over 18 years old Yeah i’m over 18. get ready to get a little less distant with rave family blockfest the world’s largest virtual music festival it’s a tall order uh your favorite music and people come together in the most epic festival venue ever created okay venue’s highlighted here maps and stages Okay yeah i mean they’ve got some pretty big names here dirty bird campout dr p circus records uh dr fresh okay i just want to jump in uh let’s let’s head over to get started here and see what we gotta do okay step one download minecraft seems logical um let’s see here If i don’t have a copy of the game yet no worries follow the links or look in your app store to purchase purchase okay all right i got to purchase minecraft uh let’s let’s do pc all right placing order boom just like that we’re in all right download let’s get this thing installed What better way to utilize my new threadripper build than uh minecraft music festival right hopefully this isn’t going to be fire 2.0 or fire online festival as i’ve seen some people calling it but we shall see all right and we are in into java edition i guess i could just hit play But um let’s head back over and see what our what our promoters recommend for our next steps rave.family pretty cool url if you ask me go back to our get started page get on the guest get on the guest list to get in you got to be on the list but don’t worry You won’t have to bribe the bouncer just check rave family blockfest artists social media for special links and access codes it’ll get you in okay um oh jesus uh who should we uh this is a google doc who would ever use a google doc for something they post publicly I do that well let’s see who can we um dr fresh let’s put let’s let’s do that uh dr fresh oh there we go there we go eventbrite redirecting here we go tickets okay so i have to buy tickets as well uh world’s largest music festival in Minecraft yep we’ve done that okay okay okay um sorry the promotional code you entered is not valid uh okay i mean that’s probably that’s probably nothing let’s just try another one oh okay okay f words worked wait isn’t f wasn’t f word that sick Yeah oh it used to be a dat sick duo okay never mind i’m gonna back out back out back out oh come on uh let’s do did i see option four i did see option four okay okay option four boom in with the option for discount ten bucks Okay all for the video all for the youtube video right okay let’s do it gi coverage two twenty two dollars okay i mean ticketing places they charge money that’s they’re providing a service as well um okay donation fees no fast wait what bye-bye plastic what is this upgrade vip add-on Access to secret vip dj sets vip servers mini games and experiences custom block alu game skin what’s blockaloo i thought it was a blockfest i mean we gotta do we gotta do vip we we gotta go all the way okay uh requires g okay okay so we got one ga so another 30 Bucks so we’re all right we’re up to 60 bucks just i’ll just pay i’ll just pay with my card again order placed cool we’re in all right we’re getting there i i feel like the barriers to entry are just falling one after another like a big old series of Dominoes here oh so we gotta do discord too let’s pop open discord excited to use my vip package 94 attendees and 900 plus djs that sounds about right play this oh downloading okay just like modern modern warfare you know i mean i’m excited 60 bucks for 900 djs i don’t I don’t even know the math on that that’s i’m excited to see what these stages look like i know there’s a lot of people out there who who have spent half of their lives perfecting their minecraft building skills so you know this is this is gonna be good for sure Oh there we go they must have some sort of like white list right oh even in their even in their frequently asked questions we’ve heard this might be the new virtual fire festival is that true the ray family team is composed of extremely talented and dedicated individuals who are experts in their field Thank god for that we are committed to bringing you the best experience possible but we will also make sure we have cheese sandwiches in the bending tense that’s what i’m talking about uh the only thing i’m missing here is how do i actually how do i get to the stages how about that Oh i feel like i’m not getting very good performance out of this either oh what the family hello wait how do i get out of here i do this little steam vent mario whatever oh jesus oh oh really google doc above has been my reference for everything Wait what is this rave family blockfest missing instructions what is this wait are you serious how to listen to music click one of the stages below and look for the set they should be posted on or around the time they were scheduled to go live wait these are just mix cloud links Oh my god so you can’t even rewind you’re wait there’s got to be more to it there has to be more to it so really this is the this is the instructions that are supposed to be on their website but someone has just made what i’ve okay All right can’t it can’t be that bad let’s go back in let’s go direct connection i’m going to paste in that server name that was in the real instructions the secret real instructions okay join okay this way okay okay it’s like uh it’s like i’m a punter all over again How do i pop dead silence there we go dead silence yeah it’s literally like a ga entrance where’s my vip i need my wristband please rave family block faster here we go 360 no scope do i have to just keep referencing this google doc stage locations okay so it’s all on here okay We’re getting there we’re we’re getting it on lock and we’re gonna have a great time at this music festival the world’s largest online music festival all right let’s find the ship if we find the ship we save the cheerleader and we save the world okay there’s a bird is that the dirty bird Okay so that way this one’s live can i go listen wait wait Looks like red rocks wait is this some other they’re really head banging in minecraft right now they’re riding the rail and head banging is literally is someone going to make this into a real thing by live streaming it on their own and djing inside of this and then streaming Them playing minecraft while djing is that really going to be like what happens here maybe i should try that all right um let’s go let’s go find him how about that uh where so where is oh okay i see i see so that’s gotta be here but where did Where do i even start from where is like home base i don’t understand so i need to find the boat if i find the boat and then i go east of the boat then then we can we can oh wait okay so there’s the boat there’s the boat Pop daddy let’s go oh it’s right here it’s right here it’s smaller than i thought it’s just like climbing the stairs at red rocks hey look everybody’s here what’s up everybody okay so now i guess what i can turn on is is this gonna be like hijacked by Other people playing their own dj sets in minecraft and then streaming it like how it should have been like how are you supposed to do a live i don’t understand wait am i gonna be in this wait is that me over there yeah that’s me I’m the guy in the and the guy in the green on the rail what’s the delay like oh that’s what i look like oh sh jesus rip avichi i’m just curious where like all the cost for this stuff is coming from is there is there actually an expense to this Besides the coordination and and like a ar type stuff let’s all right i’m gonna i’m gonna pause this music just for my uh so i can hear myself think okay so i’m in register to vote they’re registering people to vote in the discord if anyone doesn’t want to Use their java account after this i’ll pay you five dollars for it i might take you up on that offer if i’m honest admins just said in support it would be fixed by this evening i just requested refunds from the rave family and for the copy of minecraft i bought to Experience the rave google play refunded the mc purchase no questions asked at least oh no that’s so sad i mean people are i like the way that this was sold look it’s one thing to have pre-recorded sets people have pre-recorded sets for live streams quite frequently but um It’s just when they call it like a festival and they have like all these artists on on the bill and people are expecting to like be able to listen to it in real time i think in the game i think there’s just a a big misconception they did a pretty Uh i don’t know i don’t want to say anything too too mean until this is all settled and everything but it seems like they should have done a little bit better job communicating that this is not in game like you can go and listen to these mixed cloud sets I’m guessing for free i mean anybody can have that mixed cloud link right like any anybody can go to this and listen and also watch i mean obviously because they’re doing it and here’s here’s the other thing like if you pay to get access to these sets like you’re you’re first of All you’re paying for minecraft whatever that’s that’s something totally separate like i understand if you wanted to if you wanted to go to a minecraft festival it probably makes sense that you have to buy minecraft but what i don’t understand is where exactly is like the ticket price coming from like where What is uh what is unique about having to type in this server url that once you have the ser the server url and the mix cloud links what it feels like it could have been integrated way better i mean there must be some way to get music into minecraft right I feel like this wouldn’t be that i don’t know i’m not i’m not a developer i’m not a game developer not that kind of program i program lights for a living okay um so maybe maybe it’s more difficult than i’m imagining but as as someone who is genuinely Interested in seeing if they were integrating any technology into this festival um i just wish that there was something a little more unique it’s a discord server and there’s no instructions and to do anything you have to go through a non-official non-official google doc that explains everything Okay oh and you can’t chat in the game either plus the the discord is just filled with people either memeing on this idea or complaining about getting their money back okay i think i want to try to take advantage of my vip ticket package Um what do they what do they say i even get in the vip package what does that come with vip add-on get started vip hello access to secret vip dj sets access to vip servers mini games and experiences okay well where did i have to go back to the google doc One of my tour managers eric just texted me asking what does vip get me uh so far nothing but they said that i get a custom like skin for in the game all right okay let’s let’s figure out this skin business uh i think i have to Get out of here right access to mini games and experience custom rave family block fest game skin how do i get the game skin all i’m saying is if i’m not getting a custom skin i better at least be getting a cheese and lettuce sandwich that’s all i want it’s not much To ask right okay yeah what uh what gudo says here the fact that they do not put a live broadcast on each set for time and do not create specific channels for each stage makes the experience terrible agreed 100 this i mean even at a base level if You’re not like doing any sort of tech integration with this at the very minimum you could just at the very minimum you could just create voice channels in discord for uh the different stages and people could join there and listen to it live there has to be another way to do this I’m dm’ing the ceo of minecraft proceed direct connect let’s go fingers crossed i’m not white listed on first of all you have to use an older version of minecraft you have to install minecraft twice and then go to the older version if you want to get to the vip server totally makes sense Honestly it’s better to just have the djs live stream themselves in minecraft and at least with this festival i can just exit out of the game and i’m out 60 bucks i’m i’m not in a different country and out 10 000 and starving on a deserted island i guess There’s that pro to all this i just want my vip skin so i can screenshot it say that i was a member of fire fest online and then go about the rest of my weekend you got to go back to the main server because i mean What uh i mean what else what else is there to do right now oh i’m right back where i started they’re using a state-of-the-art multi-browser tab technology integrated with the the vpn and and vlans to create a one-of-a-kind experience what’s crazy to me is like they had to push the date Back they had to push the whole weekend back by what three weeks or something to fix what wasn’t i mean this i feel like this didn’t require any sort of technical coordination this has got to be modeled after red rocks right that’s that’s what this is it has to be Oh wow they actually put it in spreadsheet form someone else went and put it in spreadsheet form in one page rather than having to go through pages and pages okay so today thursday whoever whoever made these google docs i vote for you for president officially i’m writing you in so that’s What over here so we go back to the left across the little kovid 19 tent hospital situation here so let’s find the covid tents coveted tents where yet we’re heading to the dim mac dojo uh oh there it is there’s the dojo i see it i wonder if they knew how many people Would be playing this or trying to get involved who have never played minecraft before it gets even better i just found out that the guy who we were watching stream isn’t even a part of the festival he’s just some dude who paid for a ticket and then started streaming on mixed clouds And like put put his put his minecraft uh screen capture with the waveforms overlaid of his dj set he wasn’t even he’s not even on the lineup he’s just some dude and there’s like 95 of the festival and watching him dj ah maybe i should try to do that on uh Like sunday or something if this thing is still alive in a couple of days there’s even there’s even artists who are on the lineup in the discord chat saying that they can’t find their mix cloud set link to share what is going on oh my god just delete it refund everybody And hire a team that knows what they’re doing i’m sorry it’s the only it’s the only way to fix this the only way to fix this and maintain any sort of reputation in my opinion at this point is stop it completely stop everything uh do a traditional like live stream on twitch With the sets that you have done already refund everybody and create some sort of statement about how things happened and why it happened that’s like that’s the only out here that i can see either that or magically i wake up tomorrow and all this stuff is Is fixed but that’s not gonna be that’s not gonna that’s not gonna happen okay now playing the dojo where’s the dojo dimac dojo it’s not even in here it’s not in here uh just go to this link guys all of the information is there except it’s not even if it’s just one Single stream like on twitch where everyone can tune in at the same time and like leave it on in the background that’s miles better than what’s going on here just like i mean when when your guests the people who are paying to come to your virtual world’s largest virtual festival Um when they have to take it in their own hands to make spreadsheets that are understandable with instruction instruction lists on uh google docs and they’re doing their own live streams so that people can all listen at the same time which is the whole point of a live festival How was this under development for what three four months it’s not like we got anything else to be doing right now you could so uh we’re back in the minecraft festival i took about an hour to try to figure out some more details about this and see if there’s something i’m missing because I must be missing something but i turns out i’m not this this is what it is and i swear i’m not i didn’t set out to to make this video to to to make fun of people who have put time and effort into this because um if if anything i mean it’s it’s Obvious that they wanted this to be something something really cool i’ve said this before on my live streams over on twitch we designed a couple of live stream stages with the 3d visualizer software that i use and the whole the whole point of having virtual stages Is that you can do things in a virtual stage that you can’t do in the real world things with physics that just wouldn’t work normally and that’s the kind of thing that you need to take advantage of and it just seems like these are just a bunch of like i said monuments That don’t really have any sort of like stage element um or ideas on on how to like add value to what you would think of when you think of virtual festival when i think virtual festival i’m thinking everybody being able to traverse different regions of a festival like Grounds and be able to visit different different stages and hear what is playing at those different stages it’s like an exploration type thing and it’s not like you can’t apply the same principles for throwing a show in the real world into something like this you have to boil it down to its basic Components you need to provide a value to the people who would want to attend something like this um and that value allows you to charge for it but they’ve kind of gone backwards on this they’ve over promised um i don’t want to say they deceived anybody exactly but If you read through all of the interviews and like the reddit ama they’re talking about how this is going to be so cool and you can be in like a virtual music festival with all your friends and meet new people and discover new music when in fact it’s just You know you sitting in a minecraft world uh pretty much empty by the way which that’s another thing entirely like we we all know that some shows even in the real world just don’t do well and that’s okay that’s that’s not a part of my complaint here The idea is sound but the execution here is what really falls flat unfortunately um because if you have to for example alt tab uh minimize your your game and then check the discord for links to okay so like here big gigantic someone someone uh found where uh the big gigantic Set is um you have to go to one of these 50 pages sorry uh i don’t know if you guys can see that it says sorry this show is not available in your country so like what is even what is even the point of all of this if I were to give an analogy for this it’s like if you went to a music festival but instead of actual stage production someone walks up to you uh who isn’t involved with the festival at all and says oh yeah yeah you need these these cds all of all of the audio From the artists is is on these cds you need that you need this right oh you don’t have you don’t have a cd play you didn’t bring a cd player to you didn’t bring a cd player to the music file well how do how did you expect to To listen listen to the cd come on it just it doesn’t make sense you’re not adding any value by just having a list of mix cloud urls that you’re supposed to like i guess everybody’s supposed to hit play at the same time around the world that’s the whole point Of of doing this as a live event we get that the recordings are not live nobody i mean there’s okay there’s a there’s a percentage of people who expect everything to be live as a live performance but i think we could all concede that maybe doing it actually live just Isn’t really going to be in the cards for a lot of these shows totally cool doesn’t bother me one bit but what does bother me is that you are completely taken out of the experience of being in the game with other people just to go and like tab through Some google docs spreadsheet that uh someone had to make because there wasn’t any information on the actual site it’s just oh my god even at the very least if you could somehow find a way to just have a couple of live stream channels for every stage where people could Tune in and you can play them back in real time that would be miles better than just sending out links to all of the mixes uh on day one that doesn’t make any sense if if it’s supposed to be a four-day festival and every set is supposed to have its assigned slot Why is there just a list of mixed cloud urls for a random selection of sets some of them haven’t even happened yet um some of them already happened some that were supposed to happen haven’t even been posted it’s just all over the place and even in their frequently asked questions on Their website which has a ton of questions by the way but they’re good questions um one of them one of the items in here how will i hear the music from the stages that’s a good question that was my first question and that’s when i was like going through Their original reddit ama and they basically had no information they’re like oh well we’ll post all the live sets and you’ll be able to listen to it live and it says audio will be streamed through an app or browser okay through an app or browse okay Choose the stage you want to listen to and groove while you explore the festival that would be totally chill if that was even what they ended up doing that’s not even what they ended up doing if there were like different channels that always just had a live stream of What is supposed to be going on during that time slot then this would maybe be acceptable because you’re only taken out of the experience Of playing the game by having to just exit and find a find a suitable stage to to play the music from and the discord is complete chaos it’s just every 10 minutes there’s a new cycle of people who are expecting to just be able to tune in Or download the game and go to the server and walk around through stages but if you load into the server there’s like nobody there and so you default to going to the discord to checking and seeing what’s actually going on and it just becomes this vicious cycle of People posting the link to the to the google drive people asking how to do this this this and i still don’t have uh what i was promised for my vip package i’m so disappointed look i don’t want to make this video seem like i’m purely making it to to make fun Of the effort and the vision that these people um obviously have they obviously wanted to to make this an awesome experience but i just don’t think they understood the scope of what they were working on and i get it it’s hard to find that balance between investing in um Either hiring the right people or developing the right tech to make this a valuable proposition to people and then also having enough money left over to market it so that enough people show up to cover those costs and then you know whatever is left over after that but This is just so imbalanced it’s insane to me the and the goal here truly is is admirable but it just totally went about it the wrong way i feel so bad for some of these artists because they obviously put a lot of time into these sets as well And it just wasn’t executed like for example this artist blossom was posting in the discord saying that like their set wasn’t posted on their time slot and they submitted it on time and it wasn’t available for live streaming so they ended up just posting it on their soundcloud like three hours Later and posting links in the discord so it’s it’s just a a big fail it just feels like a lot of effort has has gone to waste and that’s something that just always really bugs me uh okay i uh i can’t look at spreadsheets anymore i’m gonna Buckle down here and one more time try to see if i can get my special vip skin if i can just get that then not all of this will have been a loss okay i think we got my uh my vip skin applied i think everyone must still be at like red rocks I’ve gotten massively lost already and there’s like no there aren’t any people here so it makes it more difficult to like really kind of understand the flow of things and where people are going to and from is that a fire hydrant i think that’s a fire hydrant Water gang oh it’s a fire truck too okay that is pretty cool i like that i thought people were supposed to be here oh there are people here oh hello hello hello what’s up fellow head bangers all i’m saying is if i’m gonna spend sixty dollars For this i’m gonna get i’m gonna get my money oh shoot i’m on fire i’m literally on fire see if this was like in vr chat and you could talk to each other i mean then it would be more appealing to me like everybody’s just like In menus trying to find where to listen to things and with that i’m going to wrap up my day one coverage of fire block fest this has been really interesting to see it all unfold um there were there were a lot of signs there was writing on the wall that This might not have been all it was cracked up to be but i really didn’t know what to expect when i came in it looks like there are a couple of people who are genuinely uh enjoying it but it seems like there’s more people that are frustrated that there’s no real implementation of Of tech here it’s just people going into a minecraft server and then everybody independently listening to whatever mixes they want to listen to and those mixes aren’t even exclusive you can go to the mixcloud website and browse to them so there’s there’s no real value here in my opinion besides uh this World that you can log into but it’s it’s more like art installation type stuff than actual stages where people can go and explore new music because that’s like the whole point of going to a music festival is you’re just like saturated with uh all of your senses all Of the smells all the sights all the sounds and this i understand it’s virtual but there’s just a whole element that’s peeled away from that and it really takes you out of the experience so anyways i guess this is my first festival review virtual festival review um yeah i mean We’ve really we’ve really gone down the rabbit hole dear during the whole pandemic so this is what it’s come to anyways if uh you guys are interested at all in following me or checking out more videos like this well this is on my youtube channel make sure to hit the subscribe Like buttons down there maybe leave a comment tell me what you think am i being a little too harsh on this or were you guys expecting this to be a lot more than than what it turned out to be it’s doubly disappointing to me because i’ve personally been working on methods of integrating Live sets into live streams with like virtual stage production and you know none of that has really taken off i spent like a whole month and a half working on that and making it actually work so that djs can live stream from their homes with full green screen lighting kit And then i can put them onto a virtual stage and then push that out to all of their live stream accounts and they can interact with chat in relative real time they can mix in real time it’s like a real performance um so it’s disappointing to see that we have basically defaulted to The lowest common denominator when it comes to integrating tech on on shows like this there are some other minecraft shows that i’ve seen out there that aren’t doing what i’m talking about as far as like integrating tech and providing additional value rather than just here’s a server here’s some playlists because that’s really That’s really what we’re dealing with right now with uh with blockfest anyways if you want to check out blockfest on your own i’m going to put links down to everything in the description and down there you can also find links to my patreon if you want to support video content I don’t usually post stuff like this but if you want access to my lighting show files demo templates for production design things like that i have available on my patreon but yeah i mean all that stuff’s down there make sure to check it out uh and Maybe just maybe i’ll do a live stream where we can actually go through and try to experience one of these together so yeah if you got some time the rest of this weekend make sure to go check it out for yourself if you already have minecraft don’t don’t do what i did Don’t go through and you know buy a whole new video game and get the vip experience um unless you like burning money but uh yeah thanks guys so much for watching i’ll see you in the next video peace Video Information
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Today I am taking a break from working on virtual shows to attend Block Fest in Minecraft. With 900+ DJs and 80+ stages, how could I resist? Grab your cheese sandwiches and bottled water as we check out what the world’s largest virtual festival has to offer.
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