The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is subsequent week, and whereas that’s usually a time for builders from world wide to fulfill up, the builders of Rust have been additionally planning on utilizing the occasion to catch up with followers. That now gained’t be occurring.
As PC Gamer report, the unique plans have been for a assembly—at a “coffee shop in San Francisco”—to be “a chance for conference attendees and fans to meet the Rust team, share their portfolios, and ‘talk shop’”.
It has been now been cancelled after the builders obtained “threats to kill”, with the staff posting a press release to Twitter that reads:
This shouldn’t be a press release we’re comfortable to announce.
Due to an IRL menace we should take severely, we’re going to must cancel the GDC meetup in San Fran subsequent week. 😢
Fans are as a substitute inspired to “reach out via email!” as a substitute. “It’s important to remember the developers are indeed humans”, they add in a follow-up Tweet, saying “When threats arise we make their safety #1.”
“The overwhelming majority of fans are respectful and supportive,” Rust producer Alistair McFarlane informed PC Gamer, including “there is always going to be a small subset of individuals who engage in threatening and abusive behaviour.”
It’s necessary to notice that this meetup wasn’t part of the official Game Developers Conference schedule of occasions, and so had nothing to do with the organisers of GDC. This was one thing the Rust staff have been organising exterior of that, simply to benefit from the truth that the staff and followers have been going to be in the identical area for a couple of days.
The cancellation additionally solely impacts this one meetup; builders Facepunch will nonetheless be attending the Game Developers Conference itself, which runs from March 20-24.
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