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David Jaffe Responds to His VGExpo Cancellation
It Was Firewall that Killed the Beast
by Coop
On Saturday afternoon I sat in what might be the most cursed room in the Philadelphia Convention Center, which had just previously seen cancellations of other events, waiting for David Jaffe to walk on stage and deliver a rousing speech on the state of the industry. The room slowly filled up, other journalists took their seats, prepared their laptops and recording devices, and captured what might be a defining moment of the VGExpo: “Are you guys here for the David Jaffe thing? Yeah, I just got word that it isn’t happening, it’s cancelled.”
The picture above is from that wonderful and somewhat satisfying moment, one we all knew, deep down inside, was going to happen. So what was the cause? Was David Jaffe simply too good for Philly? Too good for the VGExpo? Too good to show up for an ill-advertised event?
Yeah, but that isn’t why it didn’t happen.
Apparently it was going to be a Skype meeting that Jaffe was doing for free, and he was sitting at home playing Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (which he very well could have been doing at Gamervision’s booth, as well) waiting for the call. It didn’t happen, so he went for a walk. 24 hours later he finally received word that the speech had be cancelled. He has no idea what happened, and no one from VGExpo has contacted him with any details as of yet.
“But I'm sure they cancelled it for a good reason,” Jaffe wrote on his blog. “I know as of Monday, there were some firewall issues we were trying to deal with in order to get the Skype going. So I got no beef with them canceling it… My issue is more with: hey, could you guys have fucking given me a heads up? Before you cancelled it? DURING your canceling it? How about over a day AFTER we were scheduled to go on. But alas, nada. Still have not heard word one.”
Needless to say, he is none too happy about it either. I was personally excited to see him in person (as implied by the schedule) and, hopefully, hear him make an impressive snafu, calling the Wii a toaster or referring to God of War III as “Gaming’s Jesus.” Oh well. There goes that.
Anyone else show up for the event hoping to see Jaffe? I feel a little annoyed, but at least I have this story to tell. Though, I definitely wish he would have been there, even if it was in Skype form.
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The whole expo was a series of disappointments.
wow that sucks, total letdown i bet
GAY!!!! No wonder so many people seemed bummed. -__- I had no clue what was going on. Ugh I'm soo outta it.
this and millions of other things were cancelled... irritating, isn't it? I feel like I was cheated on.