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Hezekiah
Banned
I feel like the loss is almost symbolic, because it's nowhere near as good as it was in its heyday.
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Kiddo Cabbusses
Member
It's about vindication over the belief that some recent E3 trends were "killing E3", going back to when E3 first became a public-open event.
Personally I think this is tragic, even if it could easily be predicted. A year without an E3 is effectively the end of an era for videogames, as far as I'm concerned.
Andrew Evenstar
Member
lol cv19 i guess runs up to 22-23, hahaha. it's the world we live in.
Batiman
Banned
Could be done great independently, but it hasn’t happened for Sony since they left. Most of their showcases or events never came close to their E3 highs. If that was the case everyone would be happy with no E3. That’s not the case though. Until it is I’m gonna saying no E3 sucks.
anthony2690
Member
I'm going to miss the three days of non stop game goodness.
Now we have to suffer through weeks of long drawn events that you can't keep up with as you can't find schedules or times.
Disappointing.
Now we have to suffer through weeks of long drawn events that you can't keep up with as you can't find schedules or times.
Disappointing.
March Climber
Member
I'm okay with this. The other showcases have been growing and they can scoop up the remainder of any exciting exclusive reveals E3 might have had to improve their own showings.
If anyone needs schedules or times you just go to Gamespot's website, as they always post them front and center.
Edit: I will say that 'Summer Games Fest' needs a catchier name. 'E3' and 'E3 week' were always catchier in that regard.
If anyone needs schedules or times you just go to Gamespot's website, as they always post them front and center.
Edit: I will say that 'Summer Games Fest' needs a catchier name. 'E3' and 'E3 week' were always catchier in that regard.
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Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
I believe e3 also bolstered a level of competition among companies we don't really see these days. I think that loss is something consumers will take on the chin.
Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
E3 died when Sony left.
How’s this a good thing?
its dead for good
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Leyasu
Banned
Now this is a good point and something that I never thought of.
Although I will miss E3, you are bang on with this assessment
fart town usa
Member
I welcome E3 being gone forever if that's what this cancellation means. I haven't watched one since 2011.
As an old fart in terms of gaming culture, life is infinitely better when you completely fall out of the loop with the games that people are hyped on.
At some point the game is gonna release and you'll feel like you never waited for it. Elden Ring for example, I didn't know the game existed until like 6 months before it released and even then, I forgot about it until the day it released. "Oh cool, new Souls game released..."
Fuck waiting years for games. Just be clueless about it and everything feels like a gift that arrived at the right time.
edit: Just read the post above mine, lol. Serendipitous.
As an old fart in terms of gaming culture, life is infinitely better when you completely fall out of the loop with the games that people are hyped on.
At some point the game is gonna release and you'll feel like you never waited for it. Elden Ring for example, I didn't know the game existed until like 6 months before it released and even then, I forgot about it until the day it released. "Oh cool, new Souls game released..."
Fuck waiting years for games. Just be clueless about it and everything feels like a gift that arrived at the right time.
edit: Just read the post above mine, lol. Serendipitous.
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March Climber
Member
The E3 that they're remembering and the E3 that you're remembering are from 2 different generations. I would have been sad about this news if this were pre-2012 E3. Almost this entire decade has had a massive negative impact on the event, from both inside and outside parties and Geoff was already running the show and interviews near it's end. I would instead feel like a clown for wanting this shambling corpse of an expo to keep walking.
Killer8
Member
I welcome E3 being gone forever if that's what this cancellation means. I haven't watched one since 2011.
As an old fart in terms of gaming culture, life is infinitely better when you completely fall out of the loop with the games that people are hyped on.
At some point the game is gonna release and you'll feel like you never waited for it. Elden Ring for example, I didn't know the game existed until like 6 months before it released and even then, I forgot about it until the day it released. "Oh cool, new Souls game released..."
Fuck waiting years for games. Just be clueless about it and everything feels like a gift that arrived at the right time.
edit: Just read the post above mine, lol. Serendipitous.
The ideal really is to be 6 months behind the curve. Then you get everything at 75% discount, all the problems patched out and no hype blinding people's opinions.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
If there's no E3, then where's Dragon's Dogma 2 going to be announced? Don't care about anything else tbh.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Can’t wait for everyone to be bored over summer and wishing there was a known 3 days that we could all be hyped about.
I hope it doesn’t continue to be drip fed shite. It’s so shit.
I hope it doesn’t continue to be drip fed shite. It’s so shit.
fart town usa
Member
How many games suffer due to hype and presentations though?
Clearly you have to market stuff but there's a research paper waiting to be written about people who followed games for years and how they felt towards the game when they actually played it, compared to people who had no clue about the game and also bought it launch. How did each person feel towards the game? That'd be something interesting to read or watch.
I rely on the PSN storefront to let me know when new games release. Hype trains are fun and presentations definitely have a purpose but I think it's fair to say that way too much weight is placed on them.
It's a business though, influencers need these things to help with exposure, marketing departments obviously want them, fans want them, media outlets want them, share holders want them, gamestop wants it for pre-orders, etc. They definitely serve a purpose but they aren't necessary by any means. If you have a PS4/PS5, PC w/ Steam, XBOX, it's easy to see what's available and what the top sellers are. That's just me though, I didn't always feel that way about E3s and other presentations. Back in the day it was completely necessary cause you'd have E3, and then the articles would come out sometimes weeks later via EGM, Game Informer, Nintendo Power. The landscape is just completely different these days.
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Fbh
Member
E3 was good like 6-7 years ago.
The event has sucked for years. With longer development cycles and games having more longevity due to DLC/live service crap it increasingly felt like most companies were putting up a conference just because it was expected of them and not because they actually had things to announce. That's how you end with Sony basically focusing on the same 3 games multiple years in a row, MS focusing on CG trailers for shit that's coming in like 4 years and Capcom having a conference that's a power point announcing they will make RE Village DLC
And most of the ones who are devastated by this are the people who overhype themselves every year and then spend the next month bitching and moaning about the event sucking and making doom and gloom threads about the state of X company
The event has sucked for years. With longer development cycles and games having more longevity due to DLC/live service crap it increasingly felt like most companies were putting up a conference just because it was expected of them and not because they actually had things to announce. That's how you end with Sony basically focusing on the same 3 games multiple years in a row, MS focusing on CG trailers for shit that's coming in like 4 years and Capcom having a conference that's a power point announcing they will make RE Village DLC
And most of the ones who are devastated by this are the people who overhype themselves every year and then spend the next month bitching and moaning about the event sucking and making doom and gloom threads about the state of X company
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March Climber
Member
My only counterpoint to this is that I enjoy seeing old devs/new dev teams come out of nowhere to reveal a brand new game that surprises and delights people. It makes me put a game on my radar that I otherwise would have never found out about because people don't realize how many games slip through the cracks when they aren't Triple A.
Example:
There's a Tenchu-style game series called Aragami that I managed to see a preview of thanks to one of the summer showcases last year. I would have never known about nor played this fun game series to this very day because barely anyone talked about it anywhere.
aliadiere25
Member
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SuperSaiyanWithDreads
Banned
So wtf is Xbox going to do now?
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Not like E3 where you had the likes of Ubisoft and EA taking center stage with their godawful self-important conferences that nobody asked for.
PropellerEar
Member
You can thank Jimbo the saviour of AAA gaming.
March Climber
Member
Kerotan
Member
They should have tried to charge Sony so much to rent a space there. They needed the big boys on their side and they played hard Ball with them.
Kokoloko85
Member
Sucks. It was good when Everyone had their main shows at e3.
No we have rumours of when an event is and it ends up being shit and spread out through the year…..
No we have rumours of when an event is and it ends up being shit and spread out through the year…..
cyberheater
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What a shame. I loved the hype and madness of E3's gone by.
ShaikhCroft
Member
In the good old days, E3 was the highlight of the year for me. Damn miss those days!
And Geoff is taking advantage with that boring Summer Game Fest.
Still hoping that Microsoft + Bethesda will host an XBOX Game Show that is 2 hours long and worth of it!
And Geoff is taking advantage with that boring Summer Game Fest.
Still hoping that Microsoft + Bethesda will host an XBOX Game Show that is 2 hours long and worth of it!
ForAcademicPurposes
Member
Zero fucks given.
Captain Toad
Banned
Who cares? I had no desire of actually going to stand in crowds. The only thing that mattered was the game announcements.
If E3 is gone, there won't be any fewer or any more game announcements. If anything, companies won't feel as much pressure to show stuff years before its ready, just because they "have" to show something.
There were a few years where almost everything in Xbox's conference didn't release for 5 years or was eventually canceled altogether. How many times did they show Scalebound to pad out their show, for example.
If E3 is gone, there won't be any fewer or any more game announcements. If anything, companies won't feel as much pressure to show stuff years before its ready, just because they "have" to show something.
There were a few years where almost everything in Xbox's conference didn't release for 5 years or was eventually canceled altogether. How many times did they show Scalebound to pad out their show, for example.