I am going to Gamescom, but I need some advice!

[Fei-Hung]

I'm not sure how similar Gamescom is to EGX other than size, but these are my recommendations and things I did :

1) buy tickets early
2) eat out and bring snacks with you. Food is usually average at best and over priced.
3) being a hand held for those long waits or something to keep you occupied.
4) go with a friend or a group of friends. It makes the waiting much easier.
5) there might be lots of stalls selling gaming goods etc, they are usually more expensive. If you really want the stuff, take a picture of it and find it online.

Last but not least, I found a way to skip all the queues. Me and my friend casually walked right to the front and said, do we still have to queue if we don't want to play the game, but just see it? It threw off everyone we asked and they let us skip the queue. We got to chill longer in the spaces than others, we got to speak to reps for longer as they were curious why we didn't want to play and some even let us play anyway.

The reason I have for not wanting to play was something along the lines of, "I love games and been playing them since.... These queues are too long and if it means I don't get to see everything, I rather sacrifice playing some to get to watch them all. The developers have put too much effort in and we should get to see and tell them how much we appreciate it, even if we don't get to play it."

We managed to see every game, play a few, speak to lots of developers and even have pictures taken with them.