COVID-19 brought with it a huge shift in the way we do things, and it continues to impact businesses and events around the world. This obviously extends to gaming exhibitions such as Gamescom, which have been operating on a purely digital level since 2020. This year, however, the German show will be returning to in-person attendance, inviting the public back to the huge expo later this year.
As reported by VentureBeat, Gamescom 2022 won't sell as many tickets as it used to, but co-organiser Felix Falk says it will still be the "world's largest game expo" when it opens between 24th and 28th August.
It sounds as though the event will be responsible with regards to COVID restrictions, and is aiming for a "climate-neutral" approach to carbon dioxide emissions. "It has all the digital parts we developed in the last two years," Falk says. "We have COVID measures already in mind, and because we have six months to go we are looking to the measures that we will have at the end of August... We are very confident that, together with some measures we already have in place, we can get a really nice Gamescom atmosphere and feeling back."
It will be interesting to see whether any other events follow suit, slowly bringing in-person attendance back. What do you think? Will you be heading to Cologne for Gamescom 2022? Tell us in the comments section below.
[source venturebeat.com]
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You can have either covid restrictions or climate neutrality, you can't have both.
I doubt this will stay in-person but we shall see...though personally I'd prefer it stay online only.
...and in a few months time there will be another new COVID-19 variant I bet & back to square one... :-/
@jrt87 The other thing is that the war in Ukraine has woken us up to reality and shone a light on stupid policies pursuing not zero that assume that importing oil from across the globe is better for the planet than getting it locally. These people hold conflicting views that just don't go together. Like you say, the connecting thread is whatever is in the media zeitgeist.
@RubyCarbuncle What are you talking about "it only takes one"? We need herd immunity at this stage.
Finally! Yes, I hope every event follow suit. Enough is enough.
@RubyCarbuncle So you are saying that you are for the China no-human rights zero covid approach? You can't stop transmission from one person to another without subjecting the populace to inhumane treatment. It isn't worth it either because more people will die due to the restrictions than they save.
It's nice to see stuff like this getting back to normal. I'm all for exercising caution but at some point we have trust the vaccines to do their purpose. Could you still get it? Of course and obviously some folks are more at risk than others for multiple reasons but let people decide for themselves I say at this point.
This won’t be full capacity and probs not even in person at all. See how the next few months transpires
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