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MineCraftCon happening in Las Vegas only if you want it to
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Into Minecraft? What about conventions? Well, what if I told you that Markus Persson, the game’s creator, was thinking of having a con specially dedicated to the indie title in Las Vegas later this year? Apparently, not a lot of people have given this idea a positive response, with 44% answering “No” to a survey Persson posted on his blog about the possible event.
The blog posted by “Notch” reads:
“We’re thinking about how to celebrate reaching the release on 2011/11/11. There’s also a significant lack of a MinecraftCon this year. Perhaps we can combine them?
So we’re thinking of perhaps setting up a MinecraftCon in Las Vegas on 2011/11/11, with all of Mojang going there, and us pushing out the final release live on stage or something. There’d be contests (costume, speed building, whatever else), Q&A sessions, parties and awesome food and such. This would be a great opportunity to both celebrate the release, and to meet the fans up close again.
It’d probably cost about 90 dollars per person, excluding hotel room and travel costs, although it’s possible we might be able to set up bulk deals with some hotel.
It’s a bit hard to guess how many people would be interested in something like this, so here’s a poll.”
By the look of the results, taken at 10am this morning, there doesn’t seem to be too many people who’d be willing to take vacation time from work to hit Sin City for some Minecraft discussion and cosplay. Though, seeing some pixelated zombies and having people yell out “Nope!” might just make the whole trip worth it.
