{"id":7375,"date":"2017-03-20T19:29:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en-news.qoo-app.com\/?p=7375"},"modified":"2017-03-20T19:29:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:29:02","slug":"qoo-news-first-ever-gamercon-enrages-fans-with-poor-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/post\/7375\/qoo-news-first-ever-gamercon-enrages-fans-with-poor-management","title":{"rendered":"[Qoo News] First-Ever GamerCon Enrages Fans with Poor Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-85448\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.files.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17032009261619-1024x438.jpg?resize=1024%2C438&#038;ssl=1\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.files.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17032009261619-1024x438.jpg?resize=1024%2C438&#038;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/blog.files.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17032009261619-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.files.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17032009261619-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.files.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17032009261619.jpg 1070w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"438\" title=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekends (18th-19th March), GamerCon held what was meant to be the first professional game show in Ireland at the Dublin&#8217;s National Convention Centre. From e-sports to cosplay, the game show exploded with anticipation from gamers all across Ireland, what they did not expect was a weekend in the rain waiting to be allowed in the venue.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/technology\/angry-games-fans-left-out-in-the-rain-at-dublin-s-gamercon-1.3016586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish Times<\/a>, the organizers were expecting over 20,000 attendees during the weekends which quickly became a problem, as the venue could only offer a maximum capacity half that amount a day. Because of this, attendees were queuing up for two-three hours and of course, the rain was no help at all in cooling down the angry fans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GamerCon?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GamerCon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Current scenes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aC22MppCdA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/aC22MppCdA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Craig Jocelyn (@CraigOHoon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigOHoon\/status\/843087221926313989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In response to the poor management on their behalf, GamerCon had only offered this as an apology.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Apologies for severe delays, we are working through the Queue as quickly as poss. Refund requests processed here <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pUCXnbREjX\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/pUCXnbREjX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GamerCon (@GamerCon_Europe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GamerCon_Europe\/status\/843096288799457282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gamer-con.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GamerCon Official Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QooApp_EN\" data-size=\"large\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow @QooApp_EN<\/a><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the poor management and equally poor weather, the first-ever GamerCon didn&#8217;t sound like a pleasant experience at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[19],"tags":[1669],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/03\/17032011153870.jpg?fit=460%2C260&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8G4K-1UX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.qoo-app.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}