I'm confused by your pre edit stuff, the stuff before my edit was a mistake, disregard it.
For all we know American staff for Sony could be overseas.
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I'm confused by your pre edit stuff, the stuff before my edit was a mistake, disregard it.
For all we know American staff for Sony could be overseas.
Point to one person who has said you should be afraid, that everything should be cancelled, or that we should live underground. You can't because they aren't. Yours is a classic straw man argument because what you're trying to get upset about is actually quite mild and reasonable as a temporary precautionary measure.
why would their American staff well over a few thousand be oversees? That seems like a leap mate. They have a HQ within walking distance of GDC why not send some people most of their big studios are US based as well. It's a weird take to assume they're out of country.
Sony is averaging around one SoP per quarter. In 5 days, we'll enter the second biggest gap between events. End of April would mark the longest wait ever.
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American companies are pulling out of others events like AT&T and Cisco.
I never said all of them, and has it not occurred to you that the people they wanted to send to these events are overseas and they did not want to expose them to extra risk? They could send other people to these events but they decided to cancel instead.
I mean what other reasons could there be?
I wasn't talking about directly leaking to someone, isn't a lot of stuff at gdc leaked because of devs talking to each other in line? then someone over hears them?
I would not expect a response, he has a tendency to ignore posts or parts of a post to which he has no answer.
The whole problem with Corona is that you are contagious before you ever show symptoms. There's no "possible signs" to screen for. By the time you're symptomatic you have been spreading the disease for days.
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It wouldn't even need to be that specific or technical, just a rough idea of performance, there's bound to be chatter like that going on.
While that may be possible I find it unlikely given the studios who would likely present ads from the US. You're free to believe it's the right decision just as I'm free to believe it's overly cautious and a bit of an over reaction. Sony is free to make their decision anyway they want I just find it odd that they're canceling in place where risk has been limited by the local government and the venue itself.
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Maybe it's not that I don't have an answer, but one that's better off left unsaid. :)
So you saying there's still a risk? I mean it's very unlikely for anyone to pick up the virus in these events but it only takes one person to spread it around. I mean it's not overblown if there's a tiny chance you have to take some precaution, and it's not just Sony and Faceook, AT&T and IBM are pulling out of a big cybersecurity event in San Fran also.
While true there are easy ways to prevent it given it's not airborne.
Yea we might not get a spec sheet but we could get an idea. But I think Sony will reveal before gdc so this won't even be a problem.
Nah, pretty sure you just don't reply whenever you get put in your place. But I guess that's better than a reply that ignores the entire post anyways.
there's a risk of breaking your leg getting out of bed in the morning. This is getting a bit too much for my likening are we really saying a risk even if it's say 1% chance of contracting the virus should reaulr in canceling a multinational organizations attendance at an event? PersonallyI find any company cancelling these events in the US a bit much but again I interact with thousands daily so my perspective is different.
Neither is COVID-19 if you wash your hands. It's not an airborne contagion.
Well whatever the location of the people they are trying to protect, the reason they are doing this is to try and prevent there employees getting and spreading the Corona virus.
You do have a point though, the risk of Corona in USA is very very low and Sony do have lots of staff in the USA, but if there not just being really cautious why else would they do it?, you think it's like some conspiracy that Sony are using Corona as a scapegoat to cancel there appearences because of some larger strategic play?
Mentioning chance of breaking you leg getting out of bed in the morning to a virus that can easily devastate families around the world when WHO advise to limit travel, I mean really?
These companies don't care about your liking, as you mentioned they're free to do what they think is best. It's an yearly event, just skip this year and come back next year, what's the big deal? They might even cancel the Olympics for god's sake.
There are perfectly valid other reasons: your employees normally interact with the same group of people from their local area, minimizing the likelihood that they'll be exposed to novel contagions and making it easier to slow the spread of anything they do contract. Mandating that they attend a conference that takes thousands of people from all over the world, puts them on airplanes with notoriously poor air circulation with a bunch of random strangers, and then puts all of these travelers together in a crowded conference space is not like sending them down the block to pick up office supplies.
Yes, the risk is still relatively low. It's still not zero, but it's also largely avoidable since this kind of show is optional in a world of pervasive electronic communication. Conferences are notorious for spreading infectious disease, so this is one of the things we can do to minimize personal risk and slow the spread of something new. It's neither rocket science nor a conspiracy theory.
If lots of Sony's staff got sick on a new console launch year for them it would be a disaster for them.
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We have a thread to discuss Sony's lack of presence at GDC and PAX due to the Coronavirus. Let's keep that conversation to those threads, mmkay?
Then tell Croat this, not me.
I agree with what your saying I don't know why you are quoting me about it being rocket science or conspiracy theory.
I mean do you think it's a conspiracy theory or something? That's crazy.
Washing your hands is gonna do fuck all if someone happens to cough in your direction/face. And alot of stuff gets contaminated: door handles, desks, keyboards and controllers. People giving you a hand etc etc. Even if you wash your hands often and cough in your elbow does not mean that others do the same. You are also gonna need a ton of hand-sanitizer if you want to clean your hands after every single interaction.
Where do we discuss Sony's lack of presence in the mind of The Gamer?
as commendable as that may be I didn't come up with basic hygiene or basic Preventable care agains non airborne viruses I do suggest you direct that praise to the fine folks at the CDC and other world bodies.
ok done with this in here don't want transistor to get all banhammwry on anyone as I enjoy talking to most of you peeps.
But its all we talk about, i think about the PS5 more than my wife and kids, and now Sony has gone missing :(
That isn't serious before I get called a loony.
Can we hurry up and give this man an award please?
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We need sacrifices. Blood for the blood god.
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I've been called worse. Quite recently, in fact.
Yess! Skulls for the Skull Throne!!
The one thing keeping this place going.
Haha, he is overly fond of sacrifices. Anyways I will join you in the not talking about github.
So the 20th really snuck up on us. We still have time for a reveal though. Don't fail me, Sony.
Look at poor Brohan with his itchy dogs arse avatar, be brave and take what is coming with a smile, it can't possibly be as bad as that one.
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