Mardak said:You could fit the van if it was standing on its side... vertically....
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TJ Spyke said:E3 is a TRADE show, meant for companies to show their products to retailers and the press, not gamers who like to overanalyze every little decision. This new and improved E3 will make that easier for publishers.
Would I have liked to go to the old E3 at least once? Sure, but we will still gets tons of coverage with the new E3.
Uh, you seem to be terribly misguided on this. E3 was not a celebration. It was an annual cluster****.itsme said:No matter what the publishers said about E3, and their justification of it, they got it all wrong because E3 was not about them, but us, the gamers. It was a celebration of gaming and a festival for gamers. All the game media people complained about crowded E3 can eat my **** since it's not for them either. Seriously, what do we have for gaming? Movie industry has a bunch of movie festivals and Oscar award, and music industry has equally lots of way to celebrate their beloved format. E3 was the biggest by far going for gaming. It's a shame that it got shot down because of grumpy publishders.
Seriously. This is the show for gamers. And PAX. Congratulations, gamers! There are your shows.TJ Spyke said:There is that "E for All" thing from GamePro that will be open to the public.
Tieno said:I blame game journalists.
You can't be serious? A horde of nerds and booth babes showed that gaming should be taken seriously? If anything the whole huzzah showed to the unsuspecting public that gaming can't be taken seriously. Sure it's a million dollar business, but so is the porn industry.Rhindle said:I agree with this. The ESA and publishers completely missed the point.
E3 was the industry's big annual public statement that showed that gaming is a major medium that should be taken seriously. Every other major consumer industry has at least one big annual public bash, whether it's CES, or Cannes, or CTIA, or whatever. The shows are there to draw attention to the industry as much as anything else, and also are a way to directly communicate with your fans and audience WITHOUT a lot of filtering through the media.
It's kind of ironic that people in the industry complain about not being taken as seriously as film, music, print publishing or whatever, and yet their big spend for the year is going to be a 20x20" booth in a hangar.
Who cares? It was awesome for us fans. Now we get nothing on the scale of that show.fallout said:Uh, you seem to be terribly misguided on this. E3 was not a celebration. It was an annual cluster****.
Coverage of E3 in the general media was almost always overwhelmingly positive. It was the one time of the year where the games industry got attention outside of Take Two being sued for a school shooting.Phife Dawg said:You can't be serious? A horde of nerds and booth babes showed that gaming should be taken seriously? If anything the whole huzzah showed to the unsuspecting public that gaming can't be taken seriously. Sure it's a million dollar business, but so is the porn industry.
I think concerning a serious approach to a gaming expo this is a right step.
OMG, Journos can sit down quietly with developers instead of having to shout themselves stupid on the show floor. It's the end of teh world! Though many had conference rooms off the hall, which made things a little easier. Really, what it is now is what it should be. Shift your focus to the wannabe events. This seperation is better for everyone.Xavien said:God, my living room is larger then one of the largest booths.
E3 is dead, i can only hope a show of size and scope of 2006 E3 will evolve somewhere.
Developers may have not liked the old E3, but it did many great things for the industry as a whole. It got people excited, it got the mainstream press involved, it was a place for all the big announcements, the extravagance and flashiness of the industry. Something tells me that E3 is just gonna slowly fade away, year on year from now on.
Speevy said:Now even the market leaders will know how Nokia feels?
Fight for Freeform said:I apologize if this is an elementary question that has already been discussed, but I truly don't know what I'm about to ask...
What is the new purpose of E3 now? Will games no longer be demoed? Will journalists still attend seminars and such? Will most revelations now be done via closed door unveilings?
moku said:Who cares? It was awesome for us fans. Now we get nothing on the scale of that show.
****ing sucks for us gamers, period. Biggest, baddest show in all of videogamdom. Over-the-top expo, news leaks, awesome booths, you name it.
Trying to argue otherwise with diehard gamers is just ridiculous. The biggest gaming event of the year is now gone, and trying to convince us otherwise is futile.
You can take your agenda elsewhere, thank you.Rhindle said:Coverage of E3 in the general media was almost always overwhelmingly positive. It was the one time of the year where the games industry got attention outside of Take Two being sued for a school shooting.
Contrary to your apparent perception, most E3 attendees were not geeky loserboys.
Unless you're referring specifically to the Nintendo booth, in which case your observations would be correct.
Does that really matter? E3 always just gets attention for being big and wacky, I don't think it's actually educating anybody about games at all. The local news does a five minute piece about how many people are then they interview some dorky guys or a booth babe then it's done.
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Mar_ said:Is that... A woman, next to those women?
All sorts of conflicting blood flows to my penis right now.
Mithos Yggdrasill said:E3 is dead. The only interesting thing with it is the press conference.
Would they need friend codes in order to communicate too?Juice said:E3 2k8 to take place in a password-protected chatroom confirmed.
user: golin, password:harris
Were you going to this show or were you just excited by seeing the pretty pictures of the event?moku said:Who cares? It was awesome for us fans. Now we get nothing on the scale of that show.
****ing sucks for us gamers, period. Biggest, baddest show in all of videogamdom. Over-the-top expo, news leaks, awesome booths, you name it.
Trying to argue otherwise with diehard gamers is just ridiculous. The biggest gaming event of the year is now gone, and trying to convince us otherwise is futile.
Kobun Heat said:Seriously. This is the show for gamers. And PAX. Congratulations, gamers! There are your shows.
Kobun Heat said:"Gamers" need to realize that the entertainment that they got from E3 was for all intents and purposes a lucky break. Like if my neighbor has an apple tree and a branch of it goes over my fence into my yard, and I get free Granny Smiths. If he chops it down, I will certainly feel the loss, but I have no grounds to really complain about it, because it wasn't mine.
Remember, the game publishers pulled out of E3. They decided it wasn't worth it. If they want to reach the fans directly with glitz and glamour, they will do it through PAX or E For All -- or not do it at all.
Quite frankly, it's the same thing for smaller publishers. They were benefitting substantially from the millions of dollars that the huge publishers were pouring into E3, because it gave them, basically for free, a huge ready-made audience for their smaller product. But it's not EA's job to fund every tiny company's marketing plans. The apple tree is gone and they have to find different PR tactics.
!Blablurn said:I'm looking forward to the Games Convention in August ^.^!