After the long list of video game companies that will not attend the conference, such as Sony, Kojima Productions, Electronic Arts, Epic Games and Microsoft, the Game Developers Conference has been forced to be canceled completely due to the same reason, the outbreak of the coronavirus. Considering that the disease is spreading rapidly, the conference would only be an opportunity for them to be more infected, since this virus is able to spread easily among the multitude of people.
In the official statement shared by GDCThey have clarified that it has been a very difficult decision and was discussed with industry partners to reach this conclusion. In addition, this is also because the most important developers were not going to attend, which is also not beneficial for the company.
Important GDC 2020 Update https://t.co/EoReMGtZJJ
– Official_GDC (@Official_GDC) February 29, 2020
«After a close consultation with our partners in the industry and the game development community around the world, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the March Game Developers Conference. After spending the past year preparing for the fair with our advisory councils, speakers, exhibitors and partners of the event, we are really upset and disappointed that we cannot receive it at this time. We want to thank all our customers and partners for their support, open discussions and encouragement. As everyone has been reminding us, great things happen when the community joins and connects in GDC. For this reason, we intend to organize a GDC event later in the summer. We will work with our partners to finalize the details and share more information about our plans in the coming weeks «.
The industry has given its sincerest apologies for this inconvenience, and although the conference has been canceled, they have plans to organize it for summer, although everything will depend on how the coronavirus situation is at that time. That is, there is still hope that the GCD 2020 will be realized.
