Since this is not possible at gamescom anyway, I tend not to play anything and just watch others playing. I want to do that in my own time without knowing that lots of people are waiting for their turn right behind me. The thing is – and the reason why I don’t care much about long queues personally anyway – that I want to *know* what I’m doing and I need time to read the tooltips and to get into the game. It felt a bit like a trip to the zoo and we were watching the animals inside their cage. We watched them for a bit, but you could only see them and not hear them as they were inside a “glass cube” and streamed live on Twitch from in there. Or maybe you have seen the name before as they are quite popular on Twitch. This is something that non-German speakers probably don’t know. But eh, it was free, so I won’t complain.ĭirectly next to the booth was the XMG booth where Rocketbeans were set up. A copy of “Sacred 2” and a magazine guide for Minecraft from last year (original cost: 10 €) are the only two useful things. Very ugly cheap green plastic sunglasses from “Just Dance 2014”, for example. Unfortunately, it was mostly stuff we will throw in the bin this time. As subscribers of one of their magazines, we got a little goodie bag there. Once inside the gamescom, our first stop was the computec media booth. I really love that walk as it leads over a big bridge and you can see the Cologne Cathedral from there as well as overview a part of the Rhine. We decided to park our car in a parking garage close to the venue of the Wildstar Community Event in the evening, so we would not have to park our car in two different spaces (which would have cost more) and walked to gamescom from there. But we have also spent several hours in a traffic jam once a few years ago, so that was nothing in comparison. It took us a bit longer than planned to arrive in Cologne (1,5 hours drive) as there had been quite some traffic on the roads. The only hall that was so crowded you could hardly move was the merchandise one. Thankfully, they opened more halls this year which meant that the crowd got to spread out a bit more and I think the paths between the booths were also a bit wider. I don’t need the Guild Wars 2 demo, for example, when I can just play the beta weekend event on my home PC. This year, however, we wanted to see gamescom as well, even though again, there was nothing we really wanted to see. There was also nothing there we had really wanted to see, so we only went to the Guild War 2 community party in the evening. But it is still far from empty! That’s the reason why we completely skipped gamescom last year. Thursday is the day where gamescom is usually the least busy out of all the days that are open to the general public.
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