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Title: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on August 01, 2006, 08:26:28 am
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6154897.html?part=rss&tag=gs_news&subj=6154897

 :(
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: aldo_14 on August 01, 2006, 08:32:44 am
Only a good thing, I think.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Mefustae on August 01, 2006, 09:08:14 am
My [incredibly nerdy] dream of someday attending E3, shattered.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Blaise Russel on August 01, 2006, 09:29:44 am
Perhaps it'll go back to actually being a venue for games developers to show and discuss what projects that they're doing with each other.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Turnsky on August 01, 2006, 09:40:09 am
sounds like a fair cop instead of the advertising spectacle it became hopefully developers/publishers will spend more money on development, instead of advertising in these things.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Ghostavo on August 01, 2006, 09:48:14 am
(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20060731.jpg)
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Dark Hunter on August 01, 2006, 10:22:24 am
 :wakka:



My [incredibly nerdy] dream of someday attending E3, shattered.


Ditto...  :(
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: FSW on August 01, 2006, 01:58:14 pm
Well, I never would/could have attended E3 anyway.
All this means is that we'll get a more evenly spread stream of information rather than a huge chunk of marketing once per year.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: pecenipicek on August 01, 2006, 02:04:27 pm
*failure to care imminent*
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: vyper on August 01, 2006, 02:10:03 pm
I've said it before and I'll say it again, first they take our booth babes, and now this...
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: TheSleeve on August 01, 2006, 04:14:25 pm
Finally.  It got too big for its own good.  The games industry has gotten too evil and commercialized anyways.

It's all about the money.  The whole deal was that smaller start-up companies (maybe 5-10 employees) would have to blow half of their year's budget to get a 3' x 3' space in the very back corner of their hall, where they were supposed to display the game they have been working on for 3 years.

Meanwhile juggernauts like EA get a giant piece of land smack in the center of the exhibition hall, turn it into some circus with scantily-clad women who know absolutely nothing about the product, and showcase their 20th installment of the Madden series, *Now with accurate 3D-modeled teeth on all players, based on their dental records!!!*.

So, yeah.  Good riddance.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: vyper on August 01, 2006, 04:29:34 pm
Who the **** cares about small games companies? It WAS SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN! See this is why gamers get a bad rep... :wtf:
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Ghostavo on August 01, 2006, 05:30:58 pm
Who the **** cares about small games companies? It WAS SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN! See this is why gamers get a bad rep... :wtf:

So why don't automobile fans have a bad rep too? They have scantily clad women too! :p
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Grug on August 01, 2006, 05:55:22 pm
Who the **** cares about small games companies? It WAS SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN! See this is why gamers get a bad rep... :wtf:
Or you could just go to a stripper bar... :rolleyes:
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on August 01, 2006, 06:21:36 pm
Who the **** cares about small games companies? It WAS SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN! See this is why gamers get a bad rep... :wtf:

So why don't automobile fans have a bad rep too? They have scantily clad women too! :p

Thats exactly why they don't get a bad rep. Read his post again, see where you made the mistake.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Krackers87 on August 02, 2006, 04:15:16 am
Wow, thats stupid, there already is a smaller game con in that takes place somewhere in the midwest every year. I swear if they kill E3 theyd be shooting themselves in the foot. E3 creates hype which = big intrest which = big $
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: aldo_14 on August 02, 2006, 04:21:03 am
Wow, thats stupid, there already is a smaller game con in that takes place somewhere in the midwest every year. I swear if they kill E3 theyd be shooting themselves in the foot. E3 creates hype which = big intrest which = big $

And very big $ cost for the publishers, too.  It doesn't make sense to keep E3 as was - who gives a **** about the few thousands of fans, it's far, far more important and sensible for publishers to be able to give out information, etc, to media sources (TV / Internet) with a hundreds of thousands / millions reach, particularly when under current conditions it's (reportedly) nigh on impossible for real proper journalists to get into meet people unless they're known by face.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: vyper on August 02, 2006, 04:48:03 am
Who the **** cares about small games companies? It WAS SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN! See this is why gamers get a bad rep... :wtf:
Or you could just go to a stripper bar... :rolleyes:

It's easier to consider it tasteful when combined with video games.

Who the **** cares about small games companies? It WAS SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN! See this is why gamers get a bad rep... :wtf:

So why don't automobile fans have a bad rep too? They have scantily clad women too! :p

Thats exactly why they don't get a bad rep. Read his post again, see where you made the mistake.

Indeed.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: aldo_14 on August 02, 2006, 05:00:07 am
So what we need is a strip-bar with arcade machines?
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Mefustae on August 02, 2006, 05:23:57 am
So what we need is a strip-bar with arcade machines?
Nah, an arcade machine with a strip-bar. That's the way to go.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Ferret on August 02, 2006, 10:25:51 am
Who cares about E3? GDC is where it's at.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Harbinger of DOOM on August 02, 2006, 01:10:03 pm
So what we need is a strip-bar with arcade machines?
Nah, an arcade machine with a strip-bar. That's the way to go.
Yer weird.

I personally have never been to E3, so I don't really have anything to say about this.
However, E3 seemed like a good place to learn about upcoming games better than any game magazine.
Someone getting rid of something good is never a good thing.
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: aldo_14 on August 02, 2006, 03:28:18 pm
Forget your stupid E3!  I'm going to have my own E3!  With blackjack!  And hookers!  In fact, forget the E3 and the blackjack!
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Charismatic on August 02, 2006, 11:42:25 pm
Forget your stupid E3!  I'm going to have my own E3!  With blackjack!  And hookers!  In fact, forget the E3 and the blackjack!
Save a seat, im comeing too!
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Grug on August 03, 2006, 01:00:07 am
Forget your stupid E3!  I'm going to have my own E3!  With blackjack!  And hookers!  In fact, forget the E3 and the blackjack!
Sounds familiar... :p
Title: Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 03, 2006, 03:10:11 am
It does ring a bell.........Cant think where, Might just be another office party gone slightly wrong :nervous: