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Gamescom communicates on COVID19, not cancelled but prepared to any situation
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Makes sense, August is relatively far away and a lot of countries expect things to improve (improve, not vanish) by May-June. They certainly have more time than most to decide.
lol, not gonna happen. European countries are currently preparing for a scenario where the virus spreads through society and they try to slow down the spread to a point where the healthcare infrastructure is able to keep up with it.
This won't be over by August. Not even close to over.
This won't be over by August. Not even close to over.
Eeeer, nah.
If the situation won't improve, they will cancel in June or May, to give devs some time to cancel their plans I guess. No reason to cancel in April or March.
I have to agree. It's likely the worst will be gone by August, but still having that many people in such a closed area with everybody touching the same input devices, handles and whatot seems like a bad idea. At the same time, August is still 5 months away, so they are probably correct in taking some time before taking drastic decisions. Keep in mind many other organizations/companies/institutions are looking at May-June at potential "comebacks" too, as some estimates have that timeframe already show improvements. Let's hope they'll be right, because I have no doubt all these cancelations and delays are gonna be the death of certain companies and events.
Fucking cancel that shit. I was at Gamescom for 3 years straight and it got worse every year and felt like chicken in a chicken coop.
This is a photo I took.
Have fun with that.
This is a photo I took.
Have fun with that.
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Cancel it now, this virus started with just one person all it would take is one person to spread it and start this mess back up again.
The event is not more important than public safety. Shut it down.
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The event is not more important than public safety. Shut it down.
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Yeah fuck that shut it down, that's a new wave across the world all over again.This is a photo I took.
Have fun with that.
Yeah, it will be cancelled. Even if the situation gets better by summer, there still will be too much of a risk.
They are hoping people are immune enough by that time. If 90% is immune by that time, one person having it won't matter.
Fucking cancel that shit. I was at Gamescom for 3 years straight and it got worse every year and felt like chicken in a chicken coop.
This is a photo I took.
Have fun with that.
Why do they even allow it to get like that? That's not fun for anyone.
Also, that dude in the red checkered shirt near the front - I had that shirt about three years ago too!
No major gaming event will take place this year whatsoever. Including Gamescom.
Even if things do improve, the optics are so bad that it's not worth running them.
Even if things do improve, the optics are so bad that it's not worth running them.
This is a photo I took.
Have fun with that.
No, shut it down... we have to stop this nonsense video games are not more important than human lives. We have to make sacrifices and so does the industry
Because Koelnmesse likes to brag about record visitor numbers increasing each year.
You do realize you basically expect that in five months we still have no progress and we should still shut down half the public life? If that is the case, humanity is screwed. But it won't be. All the current containment measures are just to make sure people get sick slower so we get herd immunity without crashing the healthcare systems... It is not meant to prevent people getting sick.
Well July/August are the hottest months of the year there so we'll see how the situation evolves until then. That said considering the huge number of people that are usually present at the event it doesn't seem like a good idea even if things calm down considerably.
It wouldn't be nearly as bad as it currently is since immune systems will have had time to build up a resistance to it.
It's 5 months down the road. If two months later and we're still in the same position or worse then of course they'll cancel it. They just don't have to rush it because they know they have time and they do.
Honest question; what does someone think "the situation looking better" in august would even look like? There won't be a vaccine by then, so one person infected in a crowd of 200,000 is still a walking bomb.
Nothing substantial will change in the next few months. It will be cancelled.
Nothing substantial will change in the next few months. It will be cancelled.
End of May is estimated to be the peak by some.
If the UK actually did nothing it'd rip through the country at an incredible rate and be gone as quickly as possible - with the maximum amount of death and suffering in its wake.
This situation absolutely will last until next year because that's the strategy to elongate the process as much as possible to allow care infrastructure to best cope.
I honestly think it should be canceled unless by then the situation is completely, and I really mean completely 100% under control by then.
This plan might not work out as they think, as of this morning there are reports that even patients with light to almost no symptoms might get some forms of semi-permanent lung damage by it.
This plan might not work out as they think, as of this morning there are reports that even patients with light to almost no symptoms might get some forms of semi-permanent lung damage by it.
Hopefully the number of new infected people dropping very significantly, I assume summer might help. Temperatures have been rising every year so I wouldn't be surprised if we saw new records again... not looking forward to it tbh, but if it helps in this case it's something I guess.
Most expect a peak in May or June, meaning it's at its worst then.
Even if they *did* hold it - which again, will never happen - which companies would be the ones brazen enough to disregard employee safety and have a presence / reveal there?
None
Gamers just...nerd culture in general just need to realize all your cons are canceled this year for public safety. Comic cons? Done, Gamescom? Done. Tokyogame show won't happen. It's not a simple cold that's going around.
In our booths we clean the hardware between every session, but there is only so much you can do when so many people are around.
Well the hosts at the Nintendo booths also have had sanitizing wipes with them so far, but you just can't clean the controllers like you should in less than a minute. It's not possible with so many people waiting.
I'll support their notion, though it leaves the controllers more yucky than before imo. ^^
That would honestly be the best and safest course of action. In the grand scheme of things 1-2 years of cons is nothing, people can still go to cons over the next 20+ years after this.
Even though it's 5 months later, no guarantee it's actually clear of Covid19...
Especially when like this.
Especially when like this.
This is a photo I took.
Obviously public safety is a/the big concern but cancelling all public events for a year or more means thousands of people will be out of the job. It's not just about nerds wanting video game news, or people wanting to see bands or whatever.
There's major economic ramifications behind these decisions, people's livelihoods are going to be taken away.
There's major economic ramifications behind these decisions, people's livelihoods are going to be taken away.
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Sports events will not be cancelled for the next year and a half. This is lunacy.
No European countries want to be the next Italy (or Spain) so.....