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No word on the reason for postponing?

It seems odd to dance around the issue like that. I mean, I get it, we all know why its being postponed, but it seems weird to not say something about coronavirus risk.

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Really? you would have to have just come back from the moon to not know or be able to speculate why.

Or be from the future. Granted, this announcement isn't that major that I expect it to become a significant part of any historical record, but if someone from the future is looking through the GDC records and comes across this, is would be nice to give them a bit of context instead of making them search around to find out what else was going on in the world at the time.

The plague of 2020 will be taught in history classes for hundreds of generations.

Downvoters:

Apologize.

Keep in mind that this is about the length of recorded human history. Surely they wouldn’t be fixated on what is currently a small outbreak.

Really depends how big it gets, not how big it gets currently. We're still taught about the Black Death, and that was nearly 700 years ago now.

(though it does seem absurd to suggest it'll get anywhere _near_ that scale)

It could be taught within the context of economics:

> The asset bubble of the late 2010s was finally popped by a minor pandemic, initiating the Final Great Recession of 2020. The Final Great Recession led to the abolishment of all Central Banks and the outlawing of all public stock markets. Strong nationalist economic policies characterized the remainder of the decade.

I think there would need to be a violent revolution to get rid of public stock markets. This would not happen because of a measly recession or depression, even if tens of millions die from the virus at the same time. I mean what is America if it's not the host for the stock market. Do we even have an identity not related to money? 90% of people at all class levels esp in software work for publicly traded companies or companies that desperately are working to become publicly traded. As an American most of the decisions that influenced your upbringing, your interests, your housing, your transportation, your hopes and dreams, your leisure activities, and indeed even the decision of your parents to have you was a consequence of those sacred numbers moving a certain way. We know no other force to tame and guide our society.

John and Jane Q. Public will go back to hating the stock market like they did 2008-2015, shortly after thinking they were smart to rent not buy a home so they can put more money in their Robinhood account. Meanwhile the big players will accumulate, things will go back to normal by this time next year, and John and Jane Q. Public will be saving rainy day money they will eventually use to FOMO back in on the same shares $RICHGUY bought from them at the lows. This is the American way.

You just have to look at the front page of 'hacker' 'news' for the last few weeks, it's completely dominated by the mexican beer virus. no technology is being discussed here.

the HN crowd likes data. this is as much about data[1] as anything else - and it's not like the tech topics stopped.

[1] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

The HN crowd likes to share anecdotes and bikeshed on off-topic topics like this one.

I think its implied since they’ve already mentioned it on their homepage before.

> The Game Developers Conference will take place as planned in March, and we are watching closely for new developments around the Novel Coronavirus (COVID19 or 2019-nCoV) situation in China to keep the GDC community appraised of the latest updates. This dedicated page will keep you posted on new information, as well as our approach to keep our attendees healthy and safe.

https://www.gdconf.com/faq

Ah, I see, that 503s for me at the moment so I was unable to read that.

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