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PlayStation cancels planned PAX East appearance due to increasing concerns related to Coronavirus [See Staff Post]
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I know what you are doing but I'll break it down anyone just in case anyone agrees with you.
1. People from all of the world aren't flying in to use your local grocery store or go to your party.
2. Schools do close in case of outbreaks and don't let kids come if they are seriously sick.
That would be a great gesture that would show compassion and appreciation for the fans. I doubt they do it though.
I have a badge for Thursday, but I may try to sell it or not go at this time. Looking over the playable games (the main draw for me), mostly everything I was interested in was at Sony's booths. With them not attending, and this causing me to be even further worried about getting the usual con crud, eh...
Why in God's name would they be lying about it? Seriously not everything is a conspiracy and not everything is nefarious. Seriously take a Step back.
Of course it's not his choice to make what Sony does, that doesn't mean he can't criticize them though.
We're so sad to have to miss PAX East! We were really looking forward to meeting you and seeing your reactions to the demo. Although we know this makes the wait until May 29 a bit harder, we appreciate your understanding. Don't worry, we'll have more to share closer to launch.
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“We’re so sad to have to miss PAX East! We were really looking forward to meeting you and seeing your reactions to the demo. Although we know this makes the wait until May 29 a bit harder, we appreciate your understanding. Don’t worry, we’ll have more to share closer to launch...
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And if the event takes place and then people get infected during it you'll be the 1st to argue that it was irresponsible to do such type of event in current time, and taking all the risk only for videogames is a shame.
Come on guys, Sony aren't dumb. You can call them names etc if they start claiming that vaccination is bad. The coronavirus doesn't seem to be more lethal than the flu if I've understood it correct (you're welcome to correct me if I'm wrong here.) But better safe than sorry.
Edit: it's more lethal than the flu.
Edit: it's more lethal than the flu.
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Well it was only a matter of time before this type of comment was posted...
Unfortunately being extremely stupid is not a bannable offence.
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I'm guessing you don't poke around that much? I wonder how 50% of the people on this site function day to day.
no. The PS5 doesn't actually exist and Sony doesn't know how to tell us so they keep putting it offhoping you'll just forget.
Lol. Sony as a company pulled out of MWC 2020 before the whole event got cancelled due to the coronavirus. Do you think they pulled out of a phone conference because of some internal turmoil with the PS5 too?
As far as I know you're incorrect. I believe the current number puts the mortality rate at around 2% and as far as I know the flu is way under 1%.
Whatever you're arguing is not sticking so I think you should just step away from this thread. Concerns about racism over wife does not equate to making sure the virus doesn't get a chance to spread.
The thing with Alex saying 'well there's only one recorded case in Boston etc' just doesn't seem that relevant with a disease which has a long incubation period and can have asymptomatic carriers.
We all know how easy it is to get sick at these trade shows. That whistleblower doctor who died was like 31 or something. That's my age, so I ain't going to fuck around with that.
We all know how easy it is to get sick at these trade shows. That whistleblower doctor who died was like 31 or something. That's my age, so I ain't going to fuck around with that.
sure they are losing all the money and let the preparations go to waste to support your conspiracy theory and lie
The people acting like 12 year olds are people hyping up every foreign virus as the end of the world because their medical knowledge comes from World War Z.
What the fuck? That's not right, super scummy. Imagine if you paid to go to a music festival and the headline band said they didn't want to play and they were the reason you bought a ticket and not being able to get a refund. I hope people go after whoever organizes pax for that and they have to change it.
Hard to do that when your entire world view and critical thinking ability revolves around "how does this relate to my ability to get video game news?"
Hypothetically, they could have hit any number of issues compromising a potiential PAX East show, and could use this as an excuse without actually being concerned about the virus. Because they aren't *wrong* to avoid the show, but they are also the only ones exhibiting such caution - which makes their excuse potientially suspect.
Personally, I believe the pullout is coronavirus related - I also don't think people are wild to doubt Sony's story here.
I do not care at all about The Last of Us 2, I care a lot about promoting a culture of fear which has taken over the United States and infected it with more racism than before.
Problem is that people will datamine demos that get downloaded onto their systems and leak stuff. Limiting them to tightly-secured trade shows heavily reduces the risk of that happening.
There also often isn't time to properly test or optimise trade show demos, and they could fall apart if played and poked with for too long.
Probably nothing, PAX East is a little over a week away. Not much time to book a replacement exhibitor to fill the large space Sony probably was going to occupy.
Yep. Coronavirus is both just as likely to infect as flu and more likely to kill.
I travel to the UK every week from CA to get some branston pickle....
I'm wondering if Sony is cancelling GDC as well. Its also an international conference with people flying from all over the world.
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