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An update on our GDC 2020 plans
- jayd16 7y agoAt this point it might be easier to talk about who's still going. Are any big players left?
- greggman3 7y agoNintendo, Microsoft, Epic Games, Valve, Adobe, Autodesk, Intel, Google, have not announced. Most of them usually have a very large presence at GDC.
- Impossible 7y agoEpic officially stated they are attending. https://twitter.com/UnrealEngine/status/1230899968157868032?s=19 https://twitter.com/UnrealEngine/status/1230899968157868032?... Edit: As stated in the reply Epic is now out also.
- meheleventyone 7y agoAnd they're out too: https://twitter.com/UnrealEngine/status/1233103903148924934?s=19 https://twitter.com/UnrealEngine/status/1233103903148924934?...
- Jare 7y agoMicrosoft just did I think. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/blog/gdc-and-the-wellbeing-of-our-teams-community https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/blog/gdc-and-the...
- applecrazy 7y agoThey're not attending, though. They're doing online sessions.
- Jare 7y agoHehe yeah sorry that's what I meant, that they have announced that they are pulling out.
- BookPage 7y agoSeems like bad news for GDC - I wonder if they will provide discounts on their tickets? I would like to go but sadly my work won't cover the cost for me.
- pfranz 7y agoI'm kind of ignoring the "human factors" but these companies are pulling out because spreading the infection would be a big PR hit for them and opens them up to law suits. I imagine discounting tickets, or any official way of encouraging more travel (especially in response to transmissions concerns) would be even worse. GDC isn't the first big conference to get cancelled. World Congress, a huge cell phone conference held in Barcelona every year, was cancelled. It was supposed to happen Feb 24-27. But to your point, there was a #unofficialMWC2020 in response.
- gentleman11 7y agoArguably, an unstated reason is that they are still uprooting and replacing/fixing their rendering pipelines, standard assets, having no built-in multiplayer, and the whole dots thing, and I hear they are preparing for an ipo. They are going to be extremely busy this year Edit: not sure why the downvoted. Their hdrp pipeline doesn’t even support terrain grass yet, and you can’t use line renderers without it throwing a hundred errors at you. This is a huge year of tech transition and it’s been bumpy
- rasz 7y agobtw Intel Extreme Masters XIV - Katowice 2020 (Poland) was just prohibited from letting in live audience by province governor.