Zelkova's MineCon Trip

Hiya! My videos finally are rendered and are currently uploading!

[video=youtube;Bo0eWkBZn7s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo0eWkBZn7s[/video]

I'll get day 2 up soon! (Don't mind the shaking, my hand isn't as steady as I thought it was."

One minute more and I'll be done with it. FELT LIKE I WAS THERE.

Glad I wasn't, though... I heard it was a huge clusterfuck.

wait wtp? you watched the video almost immediately after I finished publishing it? @_@

Yeah, it was at the top of my subs lol.

Yeah, it was at the top of my subs lol.

Awwwww! Jon subscribed to meeeeee!

Since you went to Minecon, do you know what happened with Notch vs Yogscast?
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/...ast_fbomb/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/8043...n-forever/

Also, I rather enjoyed the video, and I'm not even a minecraft player.

Notch pretty much laid it out on Twitter.




I was there when The Yogscast gave their presentation, I saw how demanding their PR guy was, and I was there when people were told to leave the line for autographs.

A Redditor who was a MineCon Agent (Volunteer guy) said this

Warning: Long Post!So, with this pomegranatestorm of Notch vs. Yogscast, I thought I would weigh in my own opinion on it, such that it is.
I'm not sure that an "f-bomb" is the sole reason for Notch wanting to not work with them anymore.
Yogscast was invited as a special guest to MineCon and was even given their own panel. What I assumed, and what I believed that Mojang assumed when they invited them to a panel, was that they would speak for an hour (hour and a half?) about their Youtube videos, podcasts and the like. They would talk about their experiences, making videos, how they got so popular, etc. Instead, what we seemed to get was an hour of them showing videos of popular builds done using Minecraft. A whole team was up on stage and it seemed only Simon/Lewis spoke.
In addition, the entire team acted like a group of self-entitled pricks the entire weekend. I worked as one of the volunteer staff that weekend and they demanded to be let in to the Scrolls/Cobalt play test area before the rest of the crowd was. We allowed them to enter for 5 minutes, as we were trying to keep to a schedule, but they created a big stink when they were asked to leave so the people who paid good money to come to MineCon could play the games too. They acted like they were the Kings of Minecraft simply because they are minor celebrities in the Youtube world.
Adding on to that, they offered to sign things for fans, in the same vein as Mojang did on Friday night. Mojang was highly classy. They talked to fans, signed whatever they wanted, and all of them, despite being exhausted, were always friendly to whatever fan wanted a word with them, even if it was just to send them away. They even signed more for the ones that were cut off in line Friday night on Saturday. Yogscast, on the other hand, passed out tickets to people who wanted an autograph during their own panel! When fans complained that they couldn't get an autograph, their response was along the lines of, "True fans would have skipped the panel to get the autograph."
Finally, on a more personal experience. My friends and I entered the main hall right after the Yogscast panel to get good seats for the closing ceremony. The Styrofoam sign that said "Yogscast" that was slapped over the "Activate Minecraft" sign on the lever on stage during their panel was being removed by the stage manager after their panel, presumably to be thrown away. My friend wanted the sign as a keepsake from MineCon, and the sign was given to her. After the closing ceremony, one of their members hunted us down to get back this sign. She used to be a huge Yogscast fan, but this experience has soured her.
In Short: The Yogscast team didn't appreciate the gesture that was given to them to be invited as a special panel to MineCon and they treated it with almost indifference. They acted like it was Mojang that should be appreciative of them gracing MineCon with their presence.
Notch may have blamed the fallout between Mojang and Yogscast on an "f-bomb" in front of kids, but I think it was more than just that. I think that Yogscast wasn't what they were hoping they would be. Mojang should probably have reviewed what Yogscast was going to be like more than they did, but MineCon had many issues like that. It wasn't perfect, and it was a bit sloppy, but I don't think Mojang should suffer all the blame for issues with Yogscast.
Just my two cents.
EDIT: For those of you who want proof, the only proof I have is my staff shirt. I can take a photo of it when I get home.

I've never been impressed by the community of Minecraft. Lots of clever people yes, but far too much potential for griefing and trolls and just general dicks.

So i don't think i would have liked to go to Minecon anyway, i'm surprised a big fat nerd fight didn't start up.

I honestly don't understand why Yogscast was there to begin with when I was watching the stream. They were basically just advertising their stuff and showing off buildings they thought were cool. After reading the reddit post Keith showed, I'm thinking, ''Man, they actually COULD'VE done more than they did, but instead just scared everyone with their hideousness and provided nothing but self-promotion.'' That desert custom map clip they showed was incredibly boring and lasted far too long, and it's obvious they needed something to fill in their panel-time.

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So did I.
Where's my love?
Jerk. </3

Yea, I heard this was a big mess.
The whole Yogscast thing and what not. Though, YogsCast is SLIGHTLY defended by me because, from what I heard from their staff, they were given no outlines of what to do and what not to do. Nonetheless, I lost respect for them, if any.
Also heard most of it consisting of waiting in line.

Yea, didn't really miss much.

Lack of jens boobs.

Thats all i have to say.

I didn't mind Yogscast, as they've done a few things with TB, but I lost respect for them long ago when they started comparing games to each other with biased bullshit.

Where's Ace of Spades? Ha ha.

what's the deal with the yogscast and notch thing? I heard Notch got upset or something?

edit - nvm I completely didn't even read the thread

oh damn Super Earth was a minecon sponsor? I used to play on that server lol

Needs moar Jen's boobs as Josh has already said.

Yogscast reply to the Notch situation

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/commen...itterings/

CaptainSparklez post on reddit -
"From a purely objective standpoint, I'd just like to say that I saw nothing but kindness from you guys while I was there. The whole thing really seems like a huge, unfortunately misunderstanding that came as a result of the telephone game effect."

"From a purely objective standpoint, I'd just like to say that I saw nothing but kindness from you guys while I was there. The whole thing really seems like a huge, unfortunately misunderstanding that came as a result of the telephone game effect."

That's it? They bought time by saying they needed to get to the UK first just for that response?

Get out.

that's captainsparklez response, not their post o.O

that's captainsparklez response, not their post o.O

Rusty.

Get out.