Forum - View topicNEWS: E3 Game Show Canceled Due to Coronavirus COVID-19 Concerns (Updated)
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Engineering Nerd
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If a June show in LA would be cancelled, at this alarming rate, I have some serious doubts if Anime Expo in early July would still hold as usual
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Kaylee Smerbeck
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Good thing my anime north hotel has free cancelation
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residentgrigo
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Can´t be helped I guess. Let´s have a web-only E3 and go from there next year. The importance of this convention will shift regardless of that due to the cancelation but the ones in 2007/8 were a big pile of nothing anyway and the industry went on like usual.
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CastMember1991
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You just watch, the panic will slow down in the next month, if not the next few weeks. Anime Expo will still go on, and they confirmed that. I'm not minimizing how serious COVID-19 is, I'm just saying that the hysteria is getting out of hand here in the US. |
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OrdepNM
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Considering how every year the topic of whether E3 is still necessary in the current games industry always crops up around E3 season, it's interesting to think of this year's cancelation as a trial run for several publishers and manufacturers on whether it is still worth their time and effort. I wouldn't be surprised if some might not bother coming back next year.
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WANNFH
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#HayamiLover
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This news looks scary and ridiculous at the same time if you live in a small European city where there was not even a single suspicion of infection. A strange experience
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Tripple-A
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The E3 getting canceled isn't much of a deal as there really isn't much of a need for it in the classic form anymore. Most of the press conferences are just a bunch of trailers with little to no talk in between so it shouldn't make much of a difference if it's going to be an online thing like the Nintendo treehouse for example.
I'm more concerned about the Gamescom getting canceled, that would be a real shame. |
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DerekL1963
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Your link does not support your claim of fact. Not to mention, pneumonia is not curable. We can vaccinate against it (unlike COVID-19). We can provide medical support while the disease runs it's course. But we cannot cure it. The spread of flu through the population is limited by vaccines producing herd immunity and providing a firebreak. There is no vaccine for COVID-19. And as a result it's spreading and growing at an exponential rate. Social distancing is the only tool we have to provide those firebreaks and limit the spread of the disease. Even if the lethality rate is the less (something that's not entirely clear at this point), there's very likely going to be a much larger number of cases. That leads to the significant chance that the number of deaths is going to be higher. Or, to put it another way, you're not looking at the whole picture - the number of deaths isn't a function of the lethality rate. It's a function of the total number of cases combined with the lethality rate. |
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Egan Loo
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As noted by the same CDC source link above, pneumonia has a number of causes -- and one of them this year is the virus behind COVID-19. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/2019-ncov-factsheet.pdf It is a common misconception -- that pneumonia and COVID-19 are completely unrelated. Pneumonia is simply the infection of the lungs that leads to inflammation, and many bacteria and viruses can cause it, including the virus behind COVID-19. |
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v1cious
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Seems more like a convenient way out at this point. By all accounts, this year's E3 was gonna be a dumpster fire. Sony dropped out, Geoff Keighley quit, Nintendo's being Nintendo... The only person left was Microsoft, and that's only cause they needed it more than everyone else. Good riddance.
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I_Drive_DSM
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I feel it will be the nail; the best trial run is trail by fire. If every company and publisher can proceed business as normal without E3 it won't be back. |
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AntiKuro
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I mean maybe that's because we see how other countries are faring and we don't want it to get to that point. That said I'm really surprised they canceled it since it's in June. I was getting the feeling most places where expecting things to be maybe back to normal by then, and the virus to slow down. It does make me wonder if things like Comic Con might be canceled in July if this is still going by then (I'm going on the assumption that Summer might not slow down the Virus, since some scientist have expressed doubts). |
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Tanteikingdomkey
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Yay let's not forget all the negative news stories about e3 that lead up to this, the thing with the creative director leaving the project *days before this reversal of the cancellation*. The docing of tons of attendees. The loss of sony, and nintendo from the event (again). the bad press about the proposed changes. |
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CastMember1991
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I still think things will be back to normal by at least late mid-April or May. Give it time. |
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