Mojang responds to Minecon 2013 ticket petition, says the issue "was that too many people wanted to buy, not that anything broke."

The debacle that is the Minecon 2013 ticket sales has become even bigger. Earlier today we wrote about a petition to refund existing tickets and resell them on a different site. We asked you to retweet and share the post on Twitter and Google Plus respectively, so Mojang would see it. Today Marc Watson from Mojang tweeted, "Getting tweets and emails asking for Minecon tickets. Sorry everyone, but I don't have any part in that process." One of our readers, Jonatan Korgaard, tweeted the link to our article to him shortly afterward. Marc replied to Jonatan, saying:

"This will never happen. The "issue" was that too many people wanted to buy, not that anything broke."

Jonatan replied with, "It's just unfair to the people that didn't get to go." Marc in return said, "I can understand that. But if everyone who wanted to go did, we'd sell 100,000 tickets." A little while later, Marc replied to another tweet from Jonatan by saying:

"I'm not aware of any crashes. Thousands of tickets sold in seconds. The system held up pretty well. But we're not interested in making money, we're interested in running a good show. Minecon is not E3."

In other words, Mojang has appeared not to make any plans to resell the tickets. But, as co-author Timothy said, it might not be a good idea. Timothy had this to say:

"They need to figure out a solution. Taking back the tickets and reselling I don't think is a good idea. But for the people that intended on resale they should be able to turn the ticket back in. And there could be another set of ticket purchases, after the resale tickets are taken down that is. Whatever happens simply nothing is not a good idea."

Honestly, at this point I do have some sympathy for Mojang. They could keep the tickets and the thousands that couldn't get in would still not get in, they could return the tickets and make the thousands who waited angry. In this situation, I don't think there is any possibility to make both parties happy. Additionally, dozens of Minecon 2013 tickets are arriving on sites such as eBay. These tickets have a bidding price of well over $500 USD, and according to Marc from Mojang, "Don't know the legality of the situation, but I hope we can get then taken down."

As a sum-up, Mojang likely will not be refunding or reselling Minecon 2013 tickets (despite the petition now having over 100 signatures). If you still want one (and extremely bad), you should go hunting on places like eBay before they get taken down. Other than that, you are just plain out of luck.

Source: Twitter (thanks to Jonatan in the comments for sending us the link!)