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"In the wake of the protests over George Floyd's death, The Guerrilla Collective has postponed its showcase to support Black Lives Matter.
With the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man from Minnesota killed in an act of police brutality, profound conversations around racial equality and justice have been at the forefront of national conversation in the past few weeks. Protests and gatherings across the world have called for major systemic change and reform towards police brutality and racial equality over the last week. With these major conversations happening, several upcoming events in the games industry have postponed their events to let these conversations take the spotlight, including the Guerrilla Collective.

In the wake of the nationwide protests, the Guerrilla Collective has announced that it will be postponing its upcoming digital showcase in support of Black Lives Matter. Originally scheduled to begin this weekend (June 6 – 8), the event organizers provided a statement in regard to the event’s delay. Though the event is intended to show “the cumulative effort of incredibly diverse teams unified” and to bring “hope and positive content to the world,” the Guerrilla Collective stated that “we recognize this is a time for action and for voices speaking out for justice and change to be heard.”

The event instead will be taking place a week later, from June 13-15, to highlight upcoming indie games and an assortment of projects from developers and publishers around the world. In addition, the organizers of the event also announced that in place of having its original event this weekend, on June 7 there will be a livestream to highlight black voices and members of the games industry, along with showcasing games made by black developers, featuring black protagonists, and engaging in conversations with black game developers.

Several other events that were originally planned for this weekend, such as The PC Gaming Show and The Future Games Show, and Sony’s PlayStation 5 reveal event, had similarly postponed their upcoming events in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests. In this case, these publishers all made the right decision in order to let important conversations unfold, and for an opportunity for change and hope to take the forefront"

Whatever.

By the time poor Larian can finally get the Early Access out to everyone, we will all be 1. unemployed an unable to buy it, 2. back to work and no time to play it or pay attention ... Sometimes we need a break from reality. meh

For fucks sake.

This has to be one of the most laughable trends woke twitter has come up with yet.

Better virtue signal so people buy BRAND.

Pathetic.

Hi, Any information on what day BG3 will be shown at the end?

Good move. Makes me like the company that much more.

Yea, we all need a break from the worst year ever but going forward without acknowledging what's going on in the world would have seemed like fiddling while the world burned.

Drow lives matter. So do Duergar. I'm fine with waiting if it means bringing light to injustice.

it literaly changes nothing.
its just virtue signaling to get you to buy a product.

also fuck bringing american racial politics into everything.

To be fair, it is hardly great timing to try to get attention for entertainment announcements currently.

You just described the entire year of 2020 as far as I can tell. Some cities are getting rid of their police departments right now, and there is still the November America election, aka Ragnarok 2020.

It's good that most folks here see reason compared to a lot of folks on the BG3 reddit. I support an end to racial profiling, police brutality, and those 4 officers brought to justice. This will achieve none of that.

But Tim Poole has brought an interesting point, what if this isn't PR corporate virtue signaling, but rather fear, like the scared folks dropping to their knees on camera when told to.

that's ridiculous, because of a racism case the whole world is supposed to stand still or what? like crazy since all, nothing is normal anymore, i have no understanding for a total disproportionate action, it is and was bad and yes it has to change but everything within the scope it takes dimensions where you can no longer save reacted moderately.

what does the games company have to do with racism? play sensible games and stay with your things.
can't laria market its own news?
Everyone I ask doesn't understand and everyone just laughs, and rightly to postpone a game marketing because a policeman has committed a racist murder is something out of the way that doesn't go together. this is crazy and in my opinion nothing more than a postponement you just weren't finished yet, it's a shame that laria doesn't manage to get an official announcement out there, you're looking for news to death and the fans are in the woods.

There is no evidence that what happened to Floyd had ANYTHING to do with race. It was police brutality and the cop that killed him, along with the others, should be and have been charged. But like most cases...don't judge the 99 by the actions of the 1. The overwhelming vast majority of cops have never and would never do what was done and are good cops. Even if someone found evidence that the cop was racist and did this because he hated African Americans, he doesn't represent all cops or all white...or, really, he doesn't represent anything but himself. It's a narrative being pushed. People are better, in general, that the MSM would have you believe. There is not nearly as much racism in America today as the MSM would have you believe. We can stand arm in arm and protest what happened, police brutality in general, police over reach, etc, and I will happily stand by you. But don't push this as something when there is no evidence to support your claims, once you start doing that your view of the world will only get worse and worse when its actually not that bad.

Not really. Social distancing and most people staying at home was a net benefit for entertainment in general, before the pandemic suddenly disappeared (coincidentally just in time for protests that had the correct politics). The American elections will get a lot of news coverage, but not all, and there will be lots of people actively avoiding such coverage.

It's a marketing event, and hosting it while their biggest market (the US) is occupied with non-trivial events would mean they are less likely to reach their audience. It made sense to postpone. I think we can wait a week to see whatever they are planning to share.

Fear is definitly also a factor.
Nobody wants to have their house burned down by antifa terrorists or rabid looters.

And of course fear of social media shaming and thus losing customers.
If everyone is doing it, NOT doing it sounds like you endorse the opposit position (to retards)

That is really bad bait.You should feel ashamed of yourself.

Bait? how tf is this bait? It's the truth. And I absolutely do not feel ashamed of myself. I'm not going to see race issues where they don't exist and i'm not going to buy into that narrative.

Someone would need to be completely out of touch with reality to honestly believe "nope, nothing to do with racism here!" about the Floyd murder.

Can you point me to anything that hints this was about race?