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PlayStation cancels planned PAX East appearance due to increasing concerns related to Coronavirus [See Staff Post]
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There are fewer cases of coronavirus in Spain than the US, but AT&T, Amazon, BT, Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, Cisco, Intel, Facebook, HMD Global, Nokia, LG, Sprint, Verizon, Sony, MediaTek, Royole, Marvell, Volvo, NVIDIA, Marvell, McAfee, Sprint, Rakuten, Western Digital, and Vivo all withdrew from the Mobile World conference in Barcelona. The conference was subsequently cancelled. Maybe all these large companies are overreacting, maybe they have risk assessment teams telling them better safe than sorry. Sony pulling out of PAX isn't an isolated event, and it will probably be a rocky road for conferences for the next couple months.
I've personally already had to deal with overreactions and fear-mongering surrounding the virus. I work in a hospital and it was from staff. One of them was the nursing manager for a floor.
While America is very low risk, Sony will have people flying in from Asia.
I wonder if this will effect E3 for other publishers.
I wonder if this will effect E3 for other publishers.
I mean there's very little reason to think people in Chinatown are significantly more likely to have the disease atm than anyone else. Even if more of those people do travel to China or come into contact with people who do, there are currently a bunch of rules in place around such individuals to prevent spread.
Just because you can argue this, doesn't mean you should. Lol. It's the fact that the Flu AND the C-V are out there together what makes this even more sensible to do.
Nobody should be in danger so you can watch a new trailer or play a demo man.
Like I said earlier in the thread, it might not be about getting infected by Americans but rather having people from other countries infect Americans as well. Sure it is only 12 cases in America but there is already community spread in some countries, including my own. It took 1 person to spread to 7 others here, out of which 4 went back to their countries and spread it to other folks. These measures also keep the situation from getting worse in the US.
If the virus is not under control by then it will definitely affect E3. And probably the release of the new consoles.
People are flying here internationally, on planes with other passengers flying internationally, from countries with higher rates of the virus than the US. Another thing is that were an employee to get sick, it would likely spread to many other employees, it's a large company. It could have a big effect on their bottom line.
"Tis just games" is such a weak mindset. You are ok with Sony cancelling, losing, imperfection of a craft. When you stop getting angry after having an event cancelled, you've lost twice.
Worth keeping in mind Spain has way less people than the us so the actual rate of appearances isn't that difference, and the fact that the US is so much bigger also means the way outbreaks work will be different. Also with Spain it's an EU country so you need to keep in mind that travel from other EU countries that also have had cases need to be considered
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PAX Organizers Report "Confirmed Swine Flu Case" From Show
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Is sony pulling out of gdc too since it's right around the corner? Well, honestly I have no idea if they were going to gdc.
Might be a good idea...
At the end of the day, they really want to put all the attention to the PS5 reveal evet, and they are just building expectations. Zoning the different periods of the year to generate hype for a specific moment or event is more effective than saturating everyone with stuff to the point of being a turn off. I wonder what is the specific time frame the want to hit....
Would they do it close to E3? One would think they would take all the attention anyways. Not gonna lie, I'm more excited about how thye decide to reveal it, than the reveal itself.
At the end of the day, they really want to put all the attention to the PS5 reveal evet, and they are just building expectations. Zoning the different periods of the year to generate hype for a specific moment or event is more effective than saturating everyone with stuff to the point of being a turn off. I wonder what is the specific time frame the want to hit....
Would they do it close to E3? One would think they would take all the attention anyways. Not gonna lie, I'm more excited about how thye decide to reveal it, than the reveal itself.
Self-assessment is the only reasonable stance, imo. The WHO can't realistically make everyone's decisions. But that doesn't mean people should misconstrue what they're actually trying to assert or weaponize the WHO to push a particular agenda.
US is safe, but chinatown is around the corner,
damn....
i'm out of here.
Imperfection of craft? What the fuck?... Is this a troll post?
People losing their minds over not being able to see a stupid new demo.
I mean this is true, having a lot of measures in place is absolutely important. My point was more that most of those measures come before people would even be entering the con
Wow... comments in here ruined my day. Didn't know era was this full of asses.
Good on Sony. Westerners waving their fingers at an Asian company for thinking about safety during a virus outbreak in asia (and might be going global) is interesteing.
The smell of entitlement in the morning.
Good on Sony. Westerners waving their fingers at an Asian company for thinking about safety during a virus outbreak in asia (and might be going global) is interesteing.
The smell of entitlement in the morning.
They will probably decide closer to the event? Cases are going up worldwide. I won't be surprised if they do and others follow.
I shouldn't but...
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Edit: Sorry for being a buzzkill, but this thread has enough hostility in it already. Last thing we need is people going bananas on a joke post.
It's a joke:
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Edit: beaten like Ninja getting mad at video games
Not what I was arguing but whatever. I just want the world to keep spinning and people to stop being racist to Chinese people due to a health scare. You can still go out and interact with people. Just wash your damn hands and if you are sick stay home and get tested. Is that so radical? CDC spread the information on this virus to curb the spread (which it is doing) and not make people lose their god damn minds.
Honestly I'd personally be more worried about people traveling from nations that don't have major outbreaks yet but also don't have good restrictions on people traveling from areas that do than I would for people who had actually been in China a few weeks ago
this is obviously from the standpoint of who I'm likely to interact with btw, since it's under the pretenses that someone with COVID 19 is more likely to be found and quarantined if they had been to China than anywhere else
this is obviously from the standpoint of who I'm likely to interact with btw, since it's under the pretenses that someone with COVID 19 is more likely to be found and quarantined if they had been to China than anywhere else
Do you think Sony will give the information about the PS5 using surgical masks and hazmat suits? ;-p
Seriously, I think this is an overreaction. I can understand being cautious when needed but I don't think we are there yet with all of this panic.
Maybe it's a coverup, we already know Sony doesn't seem to like marketing lately.
Maybe the company has been taken over by introverts. ;-p
LOL, I am just joking here guys, not being serious. Just so you know, I just find it funny that they are that afraid of this when it's severely unwarranted.
Maybe if everyone lived in China, but the flu every year kills people.
Seriously, I think this is an overreaction. I can understand being cautious when needed but I don't think we are there yet with all of this panic.
Maybe it's a coverup, we already know Sony doesn't seem to like marketing lately.
Maybe the company has been taken over by introverts. ;-p
LOL, I am just joking here guys, not being serious. Just so you know, I just find it funny that they are that afraid of this when it's severely unwarranted.
Maybe if everyone lived in China, but the flu every year kills people.
I know people who live in a small village who stopped going to the local Chinese restaurant because of the virus.....
Hey remember when this happened?
www.wired.com
PAX Swine Flu Outbreak Soars to Nearly 100 Cases of 'H1Nerd1'
With sick gamers documenting their illnesses on Twitter, the organizers of last weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo are urging everyone who attended to take an apparent swine flu outbreak seriously. PAX organizers say they have confirmed nearly 100 cases of H1N1 virus infections, or swine flu, in the...
Well, it seems that the president of MWC, who is american , was influenced, on top of cancellations, by CDC recommendations.
Yes MWC probably has more Chinese people attending than other events,but any important meeting, conference etc is a potential risk. As i said, the 2 cases in Spain were, if not mistaken , a German and an English, both coming from conferences in Europe , apparently not related with China, yet they had the virus. So even overreaction, seems the right thing to me, at least hold the expansion as much as possible until a vaccine is created.
And i think cancelling a few events is not a major thing.
It will be interesting, if things continue like this, what will happen with Olympic games for example.
You are right, that isn't what the staff post was saying. It was saying that it was okay for people to believe their decision was an overreaction, which I simply don't agree with. I'm sure Pax East is a large event with a large number of people attending from all over different places, and, as a result, I personally think it is more than justifiable for Sony to make this decision.
My equivalence was a bit too extreme, and I do apologize for that. Still though, I don't know how people think it's an overreaction considering the event, its size, the amount and various origins of different people, so on.
Wanting to mitigate risk for both employees, event staff, and event goers is not an overreaction IMHO, even if the overall risk is truly "low".
Avoiding Chinese restaurants/people is an overreaction, but I don't think it is one to want to pull out of a large scale, individual an company diverse, convention.
I mean keep in mind that when we talk about this issue each EU member country isn't that functionally different from an individual US state, since people from one can freely travel to the others, so it's a bit different than the normal situation between countries
There's no "playing their cards right". If Sony delays the PS5 it's due to delays on the production line due to people getting sick. There isn't some conspiracy behind the scenes.
by "play their cards right" you mean hope the Coronavirus continues to infect people?
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