Due to the spread of the corona virus, more and more developers are now withdrawing from the Game Developers Conference. Since the largest industry representatives are now staying away from the event, it is becoming increasingly likely that the event will be canceled.
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After Sony, Facebook, EA and Kojima Productions have already withdrawn from this year's Game Developers Conference, other giants in the game industry have announced that they will stay away from the event due to the spread of the corona virus. The names are Microsoft, Epic Games and Unity. This raises the question of how informa, the organizers, will react to this loss of participants. So far, people have continued to let the GCD take place. Across from The Verge A spokesman announced that the San Francisco authorities, the venue of the event, will not move away.
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For game developers in particular, the GDC is an important meeting point for mutual exchange and networking. Tickets cost between $ 250 and $ 2,400, a price that can no longer be justified if the industry's greatest representatives are absent. For this reason, streaming is not an alternative. Large companies that have planned announcements at GDC will do so online at a later date.
In any case, informa is running out of time. The GDC 2020 is scheduled to take place on March 16. A cancellation of the entire event no longer seems too unlikely after the recent events.
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