Name: E3 2020 CANCELLED: here's what that actually means.
Uploaded: 2020-03-16T01:14:49.000Z
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It sounds like e 3 2020 has been canceled.

This is a both a bigger deal than you would think in a much smaller deal than you would think.

So everyone you know often do you see got canceled south by Southwest got canceled.

Both conventions I was supposed to be at.

I was supposed to be doing so much travel in March and it's all gone.

Actually, there were speculations that e three would be cancelled, basically because of the virus.

The potential pandemic that is coming out way it is considered to be unsafe to have large quantities of people within the same space.

Though it calls itself the largest video game convention in the world and is actually not games comments, you know, does have a number of attendees.

Xbox may not have PlayStation may not have Activision.

A still lodge convention draws a lot of traffic to downtown L A.

So people have been wondering about this for a while, but people who are actually in contact with the essay journalists who do not include myself.

If the contacts that I had at the essay was still talking to me, I would have asked since I was pretty brutally unkind to them after they docks to my fun number and email address, both of which have been changed.

I feel so sorry for whoever like has inherited that phone number.

Ah, they will not talk to me about anything.

Um, which I guess, is what happens in these situations.

But always, Technica specifically, um, has posted e three as we know it is over multiple sources familiar with the Entertainment Software Association essays plans have confirmed to Oz Technica that the organization, which is responsible for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, will soon cancel the three day expert.

From what I'm hearing from friends in the industry, it's going to be cancelled tomorrow morning.

So for a lot of you, by the time you watch this video, we might have already working up to a tweet.

Oh, our ah press release from the essay saying it's going to be canceled.

It's just that they are considering cancellation and actively talking about it.

But technically the first ones to let whistle blow this, which is a really real bowl of, ah, bowler of a move that is develop a digital.

The publisher, they said, Cancel your E three flights and hotels.

I think everyone kind of had whispers that this was going to happen and then develop a bill like, Went of over.

We're going for it If you haven't heard of developer, um, just go watch one of their E three press conferences and you'll get a very good understanding of who devoted digital ours, a company that wonderful but back to you as technical.

One source, who spoke two hours on background said they'd heard the news of the 3 20 twenties cancellation directly from essay members in that official public statement on the matter was supposed to be today, Tuesday, March 10 and slipped.

Representatives to the USA did not immediately respond to our technical questions about state of the three going forward or whether the events seismic shift may instead mean a delay, a move to a completely different venue or holy virtualized Livestream event.

To me, canceling every seems like a very strange choice because he is.

Here's the thing that you know is going to sound obvious to some of you.

But I feel like is not generally in the public conscience is that E three is not the press conferences.

The Nintendo directs the PlayStation press conferences.

In the past, you be softie a square enix, sometimes PC get those are not actually a part of the three when you work e three.

It starts usually Friday now and it was Saturday For a while, I was covering that as a journalist for almost a decade that those those press conferences are not owned or paid for by the Yes, a.

All of those companies who booked venues to do those things could absolutely still do them.

A pot e three is actually just the show floor days at the convention center in downtown L.

A, which I think is Chu State of Friday, Wednesday.

So this isn't the press conference is being cancelled because the E S A can't cancel anyone else's press conference.

You know that they're completely independent.

I feel like those companies probably will cancel any life in posting press conferences because they also want to avoid the public safety concerns of having everyone in the room together.

While there's a potential pandemic, it's not a good look for anyone.

Okay, exactly why the event will be canceled.

I'm sure that it's because off the Corona wires late last month, the essay addressed concerns about the spread of current virus and its impact on major 2020 expose around the world by insisting that it continued to plan for a safe and successful E three while otherwise monitoring and evaluating its potential impact on events held in Los Angeles, which seems like the responsible thing to do honestly following that announcement.

E three contract ID Creative directors The much of dice and events company I Am eight bit resigned from its post off 25 weeks on the job.

That news followed a February announcement.

The longtime teeth E E three collaborator, Jeff Kelly, would not be participating in this year's Expo.

What I heard about Julie, which I did not hear from Jeff himself.

This is like just something I heard that's it.

But what he did for you three was around the call it singing YouTube Live is a separate thing that Jeff does.

They think the last four years in a row that's you should live a T three and that is again alongside the press conference is a separate thing.

Jeff was the host of the E three Coliseum, and I have hosted panels at the Coliseum.

I did three last year and the rooms never full anyway.

Um, so, you know, that was a very cool opportunity to see someone do Dev interviews in the same way that I g n water gamespot wood on the show floor as part of the official E three programming where the schedule would tell you, Go watch This panel is part of this convention.

Three, upon shifting a lot of that strategy this year, just based on sales in general and also a lot of the publishers pulling out of the three because I guess it's not that beneficial to them anymore.

You could just do things remotely, and tenders proven that time and time again is that to drive more traffic to the Coliseum, which again was not a high trafficking thing.

From what I perceive having worked there, they wanted to have Jeff or whatever other hosts interview a lot.

Tubas influences, Um, sometimes even like sports players like celebrities rather than actual Debs.

That's not what Keeley does for a living.

Um, if I were him and I was told that by the essay, I would probably also don't want to do that.

That's not really the spirit of the three.

Naturally, that is them trying to get the mass market to approach the show.

When I get why they're trying to do that, I actually don't think it's, you know, distasteful of them to be approaching it that way.

But if that is why Keeley pulled out, I get it.

But yeah, as this mentions E a officially ditched, the three and 2016 operate a play, a standalone event timed alongside E three on an annual basis.

Ever since you could do that at any time of you, anytime you could do a P S X I, you could do any of the Xbox events that they have globally any time of year.

We know that for the big publishes, E three and no longer existing doesn't really matter.

Aside from the loss of press, because you have to remember the three was a trade show.