E3 gone?

[Grandiagod]

http://next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3538&Itemid=2

Damn.

[Linkisdoomed]

Re: E3 gone?

Wow, that sucks. I was hoping to go to an E3 event someday...

[Chromer]

Re: E3 gone?

**** YOU GAME ENTERTAINMENT.
**** YOU:

SONY
MICROSOFT
NINTENDO
UBISOFT
NAMCO-BANDAI
SQUARE-ENIX
ELECTRONIC ARTS
ELECTRONIC ARTS SPORTS
SONY COMPUTER ENTETAINMENT COMPANY
BUNGIE
ID
ETC.

AND A WHOLE SLEW OF OTHER GAME COMPANIES I DID NOT MENTION.

**** YOU ALL. HOW THE **** AM I GOING TO GET KNOWLEDGE OF UPCOMING PLATFORMS AND GAMES NOW!? ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

****!

*clears throat*

I am most thoroughly pissed now.

[Omeganitros]

Re: E3 gone?

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Hrmm.



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Well, that's really quite a twist.


This idea that companies should pull out of E3 because it's not worth the money put into it had to start from somewhere. At some point in time, someone had this idea, and decided to speak out about it.
The question is: Who is that person, where does that person live, and how shall that person be punished for breaking hundreds of thousands of hearts?

[cC@Zz]

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good thing i went to E3 before this happaned.

[JKPolk]

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Some comments from the slashdot write up of this:

Remember, E3 is NOT supposed to be a convention. Its a PRESS event. GDC is a convention. It has "convention" in the name even. The general public is not invited, though generally anyone who wanted to go could get in. I've always thought its a pretty terrible event and generally not a good face for the industry as a whole. Most of the real stuff happens behind closed doors, and a lot of the big publishers have their own press days anyways.

E3 represented everything that was wrong about the games industry. The hype. The focus on graphics. The sexualisation. The sequelisation. The CG sell. The marketers.

Playing a video game can be a serene repose from the world, not unlike a quiet read of a good book. But you'd never gather than from the Festival of the Casual Gamer that was E3. There games are presented like six-packs and waxed over automobiles. E3 was like an arms or car show. Games deserve better.

Also, E3 is not cancelled, only being downsized.

[lightdarkness]

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WAY TO JUMP THE GUN SPARKKY

[Chromer]

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PHEW

That scared the hell out of me. It's still bad news as G4 will not be able to host it yearly E3 Live shows as it had before because of the more "closed-door" attitude now.

[Omeganitros]

Re: E3 gone?

OmegaNoxim: http://next-gen.biz/index.php?option...=3538&Itemid=2
Wi LLW EEVE RFLY: oh well
OmegaNoxim: I realize that it really an "oh well" thing, but
OmegaNoxim: okay, let's put it this way.
OmegaNoxim: E3 being cancelled is like when you're a little kid and you LOVE Christmas and then one day as you're growing up, someone finally tells you Santa doesn't exist. It's not a big deal, but all the same your heart feels a little hurt.
Wi LLW EEVE RFLY: LOL
Wi LLW EEVE RFLY: i guess



Personally, as a child growing up in the 90s, my way of staying in touch with the latest in video games was magazines like Nintendo Power and Game Informer. And every time the E3 issue came around, I would sit down on the floor by the magazine rack in Tom Thumb and read through the articles with fascination at all the amazing pictures of the event and the to-be-released games. And while I never seriously considered going to E3, I always thought, "Wow, that would be soooooo cool of a thing to be at." I'm 17 now, and that dream had been long forgotten. But, ya know? I read this news, and somewhere deep down I'm pretty saddened by this.


P.S. Don't buy the "it's just downsized" stuff. E3 as we know it is gone.
"Sources said that rather than fill the 540,000 square feet of the cavernous LACC, the show will take place at a location that would support exhibitors in meeting room space only, with companies showing their wares to a select group of attendees numbering in the hundreds rather than thousands."

[ToshX]

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So basically it's still there, it's just that none of us have any chance of seeing it.

[ToshX]

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and Corn, I'd ban you just because you're an idiot if I could. I bet a mod will.

[Omeganitros]

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Nah, he's not worth it.

[Grandiagod]

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I kinda liked E3, just for the fact that all the companies let out their big suprises.

Now info is just going to leak out intermitantly on the internets.

[Tasuke]

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Even though E3 didn't really do anything, it was one of my favorite
parts of the whole gamer thing. A huge show of all thw big companies
going head to head. I'll miss the flashy-ness and the excitement i
got when i saw pictures, thinking that i may be able to go one day.
But, the internet can do all of those thingsa without costing nearly
as much.

[Moogy]

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E3 was terrible anyway.