Curse

Rhedd · May 03, 2007, 11:47 PM // 23:47

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Originally Posted by Bubba

Meh, E3 was too much show, babes and music anyway. I like my news more spread out and efficiently. Last year E3 was a mess and it was hard to keep up with all that was happening.

Were you there?

Either way you're a dork. ^_^

The industry needed E3, no matter what the "big publishers" wanted. E3 wasn't about factual news, and it wasn't about the top-ten unveiling their pet projects. It was about generating excitement for the industry as a whole.

Excitement!

Hype is a good thing. Attention is a good thing. The only bad thing was that the major publishers lost sight of this and decided to stop funding it.

At least other conventions will surely step up to the plate and fill the gaping void left by the shameful death of E3.

jon0592 · May 03, 2007, 11:51 PM // 23:51

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Originally Posted by Rhedd

Were you there?

Either way you're a dork. ^_^

The industry NEEDED E3, no matter what the "big publishers" wanted. E3 wasn't about factual news, and it wasn't about the top-ten unveiling their pet projects. It was about generating excitement for the industry as a whole.

Excitement!

Hype is a good thing. Attention is a good thing. The only bad thing was that the major publishers lost sight of this, and decided to stop funding it.

At least other conventions will surely step up to the plate, and fill the gaping void left by the shameful death of E3.

So I was semi-right in the fact that major companies pulled out BUT E3 is still alive? Huzzah! Time to watch G4!

drago34 · May 04, 2007, 12:15 AM // 00:15

I went to E3 when it was still good in 2005 and all I can say is it was an experience I doubt I will forget. The new idea for E3 is just stupid, they are taking away everything that made it E3 in the first place.

MerLock · May 04, 2007, 08:44 AM // 08:44

I thought E3's been canceled since it got too expensive to put on a show. I thought some other people are doing it and calling it something else and it's going to be in Oct.

TRUEgamer · May 04, 2007, 02:03 PM // 14:03

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Originally Posted by MerLock

I thought E3's been canceled since it got too expensive to put on a show. I thought some other people are doing it and calling it something else and it's going to be in Oct.

That's news to me.

But really, they should just cancel E3. That's where it's going. GDC is trippling in size every year, so game companies should just invest all of their resources into that.

Str0b0 · May 04, 2007, 02:06 PM // 14:06

I thought Anet and NCSoft had been barred after their "noise violations" the last time. Well E3 is sort of on the way out, too many restrictions. I heard that some companies who are ticked off at the E3 organizers are trying to start their own little e3 like deal but without all the stodgy rules.

Diablo™ · May 04, 2007, 06:00 PM // 18:00

E3 is getting watered down, but not cancelled. The convention was to attract sponsors and investors, but an analysis (and an obvious one) reveals that the ratio of the attendees were mostly teenagers/young adults looking for freebies, boobies, and gamies. They thus decided to redirect the convention to target a more serious, business driven audience, like they once intended. Basically its just gonna turn into one huge gigantic boring press-event. weeee.

You can tell from the map that alot of the booths are significantly smaller than previous years, when Sony and Nintendo took up an entire side of a building. In addition, this event is no longer taking place at the L.A. Convention Center. I'll see you there.

Silly Warrior · May 04, 2007, 08:50 PM // 20:50

Obviously Ncsoft isn't going to have a gigantic booth, but theres seems big enough.

I'd love to see if someone from Guru went, and posted pictures, info, etc.

J3mo · May 04, 2007, 09:39 PM // 21:39

I'm interested in GW:EN stuff.
GW2 will come later, although I'm not gonna go all the way to the USA for the E3. ^_^

Rhedd · May 04, 2007, 11:26 PM // 23:26

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Originally Posted by Diablo™

E3 is getting watered down, but not cancelled. The convention was to attract sponsors and investors, but an analysis (and an obvious one) reveals that the ratio of the attendees were mostly teenagers/young adults looking for freebies, boobies, and gamies. They thus decided to redirect the convention to target a more serious, business driven audience, like they once intended. Basically its just gonna turn into one huge gigantic boring press-event. weeee.

You can tell from the map that alot of the booths are significantly smaller than previous years, when Sony and Nintendo took up an entire side of a building. In addition, this event is no longer taking place at the L.A. Convention Center. I'll see you there.

Absolutely true, as far as it goes.

There's also this slightly darker side to the decision...

See, the big companies like Sony and Nintendo were in charge of E3, but they realized that they don't really need it. They get plenty of press coverage.

It was the smaller companies, the innovators, the new faces, that really benefited from E3. To put that another way, it was the heart of the whole industry that benefited.

If you put that in the perspective of the big guys, though, they were ending up paying handsomely for an event that was mostly benefiting their competition, so since the group of them is officially in charge, they made changes that helped them, at the cost of hurting everyone else.

It's like a shopping mall. If the big-assed anchor stores all decide to move out, your mall will be dead within three years. There's no way E3 could continue without support from the major players, even if they weren't actually the committee that was in charge of organizing the event (which they are).

Teenagers, freebies and boobies might seem like a waste of money to the money-hungry gentleman in your last (very funny) screenshot, Diablo, but they are WRONG. Sadly, they'll probably never realize it.

E3 made the world take notice of the industry. Sure, maybe some stuffy old people were shocked by the booth babes, but shock is still effective advertising. It was all good.

I think everyone who's expecting flashy, fun news from this year's E3 are in denial and withdrawal, and are going to be very disappointed. Do you have any idea how small 20'x20' actually is? TINY! And those are the big booths. The small ones have about enough room for a folding table and a stack of brochures.

As I said, though, some event will step up to the plate. This business needs flash and chicks in racing outfits, not corporate dorks in grey suits.