Despite tickets to enter EXCEL London costing £129 ($201), 10,000 people from 73 countries attended the annual event to show their love and support for their favourite sandbox block-building game, breaking a Guinness World Record over the fun-filled weekend.
Stephen Daultrey, the deputy editor of the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition, applauded the evolution of Minecon since its inception back in 2010:
After the award was presented to Mojang brand director, Lydia Winters, the record-breaking audience of Minecon were declared “officially amazing”.
In the eyes of those in attendance, what was “officially amazing” were arguably the announcements of all-new features to the core game, a new edition of Minecraft for Windows 10, and the debut trailer for Minecraft: Story Mode.
