The growing list of victims of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) is joined by more and more new events conducted by large gaming companies. This time, the cancellation of their live events was reported Mojang and Electronic arts.
Mojang, the developer of the Minecraft sandbox, announced the cancellation of the Minecraft Festival, which was supposed to be held in Orlando, Florida, only in September this year.
At the beginning of this year, the organizers said that the Minecraft Festival after a three-year break was supposed to be the return of the brand to the format of “live” shows. However, due to the scale of the event and the rapid spread of the coronavirus, Mojang decided to cancel the event. So far, the company does not know when it will be able to start preparing it again, but hopes that next year the fans will see an even more amazing event.
“Our partners, producers and visitors are located in all corners of the world, and at the moment we will not be able to meet and cooperate with them in a normal format,” said Mojang.
Meanwhile, the cancellation of a number of eSports events to Apex legends and FIFA 20 According to the publisher of Electronic Arts. Thus the tournament Apex Legends Global Series, which was planned to be held this weekend, will not take place.
“These decisions were not easy for us, but given the large and international nature of these events, we believe that these changes best reflect the interests of protecting the health of the community, including e-sportsmen, participants and staff.”
EA promises to constantly monitor the development of the situation with the spread of coronavirus and, if necessary, make changes and cancel their e-sports events. See the full list of canceled EA events here.
These events have joined the growing cancellation list. Only in the past few weeks, the GDC 2023 game developers’ conference was postponed, the SXSW 20, Twitchcon Amsterdam, the Rocket League World Cup, GamesFirst London 2023, as well as the Google I / O and F8 conferences from Facebook were canceled.
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