Industry events such as E3, Tokyo Games Show, and more recently, GamesCom are meant for professional and high web-traffic blogs to publish thoughts and opinions on first-hand interaction with upcoming games (whew, what a mouthful) — in other words: publicity.
But for some reason the public view is that these events should be open for everyone! And while TGS and GamesCom have public days, after all the journalists and bloggers have had their go, the video below is reason enough to make me never want to attend such an event again.
A brand new Gamescom Asia event will take place in Singapore and digitally between October 14th and October 17th, featuring many games.
This is going to be a must watch event and now more information on what to expect from Opening Night At Gamescom has arrived in the form of two videos.
Gamescom tweets: "Even though not all details are known at present, the nationwide ban on major events until the end of August will also affect the planning for #gamescom2020. Furthermore: Gamescom 2020 will definitely take place digitally! We will provide further information shortly. "
You'd think being in the house and (getting paid to telework would he cool). It's getting pretty old. I would just love to sit down in a restaurant and have a beer and sushi.
I remember TGS last year. Got a advanced entry/press pass type ticket which got you into the event a couple of hours early before it opened to the rest of the public. On both days, I had to play as many of the games I wanted to as possible before the public got in because when they did, it became ridiculous. The fact that I had to queu up for 2 hours just to play Tales of Graces F, which wasn't even the biggest game there is telling.
From that experience alone I believe they shouldn't be public events or at least, be limited. If you make public events have something like we do in the UK. Gamescom in continental Europe, then we have Eurogamer Expo which is a public show of the years biggest games. Don't combine the two.