Jason Schreier

I know not many official events are open to the public, but would it be worth a two-day solo trip for those that are?

And if not, are there any other conferences or events that you would recommend?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Absolutely not.

Yeah, I think that would be the only additional advice I would offer is to like lower the stakes and keep it as close to you as possible.

Because, you know, going to something like a PAX by yourself, like PAX is probably more fun with your friends because then you're waiting in line, but you're waiting in line with your friends.

Like it is still, you're going to the hotel together, you're sitting around in the beanbags, you know, playing Switch together.

Like there is...

kind of there's plenty of opportunities for being social but if you're on your own I could imagine it actually feeling kind of isolating or like a bummer if depending on the experience you wind up having like you could still kind of feel alone in a crowd and that might be a bummer where you know looking at your local town you know Kevin doesn't talk about where he lives but

There might just be like a game night, a tabletop night at a game shop that you could go to where you kind of start meeting people who are into this kind of stuff.

And then maybe that game shop does a live stream where they watch the Game Awards and you can go hang out.

And, you know, there's a bar where they do that and you hear about it through people you're kind of meeting there.

And then you can like have a beer and watch the Game Awards and get to know some people.

And it's kind of like...

a lower key social environment with like a lower degree of difficulty where it isn't like, okay, I bought this ticket.

I bought a plane ticket.

I'm in a hotel.

I don't know anyone here.

And you're kind of going back to your hotel alone.

And it's like, damn, I didn't meet anyone.