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Offline Jetmech Jr.

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E3 as you know it=Gone
on: August 01, 2006, 08:26:28 am
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #1 on: August 01, 2006, 08:32:44 am
Only a good thing, I think.
 

Offline Mefustae

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #2 on: August 01, 2006, 09:08:14 am
My [incredibly nerdy] dream of someday attending E3, shattered.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2006, 09:11:15 am by Mefustae »
 

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #3 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.
 

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #4 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.
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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #5 on: August 01, 2006, 09:48:14 am
"Closing the Box" - a campaign in the making :nervous:

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Offline Dark Hunter

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #6 on: August 01, 2006, 10:22:24 am
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Quote from: Mefustae on August 01, 2006, 09:08:14 am
My [incredibly nerdy] dream of someday attending E3, shattered.


Ditto...  :(
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Offline FSW

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #7 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.
 

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #8 on: August 01, 2006, 02:04:27 pm
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Offline vyper

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #9 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...
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Offline TheSleeve

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #10 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.
 

Offline vyper

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #11 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:
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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #12 on: August 01, 2006, 05:30:58 pm
Quote from: 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:

So why don't automobile fans have a bad rep too? They have scantily clad women too! :p
"Closing the Box" - a campaign in the making :nervous:

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Offline Grug

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #13 on: August 01, 2006, 05:55:22 pm
Quote from: 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:
Or you could just go to a stripper bar... :rolleyes:
 

Offline Jetmech Jr.

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #14 on: August 01, 2006, 06:21:36 pm
Quote from: Ghostavo on August 01, 2006, 05:30:58 pm
Quote from: 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:

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.
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Offline Krackers87

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #15 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 $
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #16 on: August 02, 2006, 04:21:03 am
Quote from: 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 $

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.
 

Offline vyper

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #17 on: August 02, 2006, 04:48:03 am
Quote from: Grug on August 01, 2006, 05:55:22 pm
Quote from: 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:
Or you could just go to a stripper bar... :rolleyes:

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

Quote from: Jetmech Jr. on August 01, 2006, 06:21:36 pm
Quote from: Ghostavo on August 01, 2006, 05:30:58 pm
Quote from: 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:

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.
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #18 on: August 02, 2006, 05:00:07 am
So what we need is a strip-bar with arcade machines?
 

Offline Mefustae

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Re: E3 as you know it=Gone
Reply #19 on: August 02, 2006, 05:23:57 am
Quote from: aldo_14 on August 02, 2006, 05:00:07 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.
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