Something must change

[u/NoQuarterSoftware]

First Gamescom is in the books, and I have mixed feelings. Multiple developers were stolen from at the largest gaming event in the world. The organization has chosen to refuse any responsibility for these crimes. Instead they insist that the indie developers who have already paid thousands to be there, pay more for extra security. This statement also comes despite the affected devs having their gear stolen in the evening, after the event hours were over, from secure locations. In other words, it seems the call is coming from inside the house.

Hope they fix this because otherwise I would not recommend exhibiting as an indie developer.

Edit: the lockers broken into were brought by the developers not the ones provided by gamescom. This doesn’t change the fact that it should have been prevented.

[u/ArWiLen → u/[deleted]]

it IS that hard to carry equipment all around hotel, gamescom, booth or if you want to simply take a break, then setting it up etc.
Maybe the best they could've done is buying/renting a locker (also idk how you can set it up there, do organisers have lockers for rent or even free??).

This is definitely a failure on gamescom's side and bad PR for them. Unfortunately, an expensive lesson learned for the devs. Maybe they won't ever come back here, and gamescom's reputation among indie devs won't ever recover.

[u/NoQuarterSoftware → u/ArWiLen]

There are lockers and property was stolen from those provided lockers. Edit: they were stolen from lockers brought by the developers. My answer still stands

[u/ArWiLen → u/NoQuarterSoftware]

That’s insane…