No Minecon 2013 for Us (except virtually)

The master plan of 5 people and 8 devices aimed at securing Minecon tickets failed. We did get into the que for over 1 hour and then was booted like all the other times. Extremely disappointing!

I’m still upset (maybe even angry) over the distribution plan for the tickets. The ticket site stated ticket sales were pending 5 seconds after the batch was issued. I’m not exaggerating. And Mojang was tweeting excited statements saying the 2500 tickets sold in 3 seconds.

I think “sold” is not quite the correct term. I’ve never been able to input my credit card number/billing address/email & contact info in 3 to 5 seconds. Neither has anyone I know.

Now I finally understand why sites use the CAPTCHA system — to make sure humans are making the purchase or filling the form; not a computer program. You would think a game developer of one of the hottest games out there would have better researched the ticket distribution partner and their process.

Looks like we’ve got a free weekend now on Nov 2nd & 3rd — kind of.  We won’t be traveling to Florida. However we may attend Minecon virtually . . . . Mojang will be running live video streams. Looks like we have a Plan C.

Minecon 2013 — Will we get there?

Well, I admit I was caught up in Minecraft euphoria when I told Jaxluca and ObsidianOfDoom that I would take them to Minecon 2013 if it was on the East Coast of the USA. It’s in Orlando on November 2nd & 3rd. They are doing various chores to pay for the $150 tickets (for both days) and I said I’d pay airfare & hotel.

Now I’m wondering, “what have I done?” Mojang is releasing 3 batches of 2500 tickets to help everyone have a chance to get them. The first batch was released yesterday at 7:00 p.m EST via https://minecon.mojang.com/. I was on the computer at 7:00:05 and ALL tickets were pending sales!

Meaning: tickets were gone. I only have 2 more chances to snag some tickets and honor my commitment.

My August 2nd game plan: to have 2 computers, 2 iphones, 2 itouches, and 1 ipad all set to hit “buy” for the next batch release. This reminds me of dialing in to the radio station in the hopes of winning concert tickets — we’d redial as fast as possible trying to be caller 100.

Hope it works!