2006-08-01, 17:01 | Link #1 |
The Omnipotent One
Join Date: Jan 2004
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The Demise of E3
So the legendary Expo in which gamers all around the world gather in celebration of next generations games each year have finally met its end. From the information I gathered, the movement of the big company's such as Sony and Activision are pulling their support from the event, and without financial support from the big guys up there, it's impossible to host an event of such caliber. Personally, the news has yet to have an affect on me, until of course next year when there's no local expo fill my anticipation of MGS4 and DMC4, then maybe I'm gonna start crying. So waht are your thoughts in this issue?
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2006-08-01, 17:21 | Link #2 |
I can see time itself!
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Some 70 million dollars in lost revenue for the City of Los Angeles due to the visitors can't be fun for them.
I find the reasons for the big names to back out are silly. E3 could be so much more than it is now, instead it's going in the opposite direction. |
2006-08-01, 17:45 | Link #4 | |
Team Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Frankly, I won't miss it. Thanks to the one-supershow-fits-all mentality caused by E3, almost every major game is revealed in May, but in most of those cases, I have to wait until it gets released in October/November to play, and sometimes even into the next year. I think it's better to break the supershow into a series of smaller shows, designed to more comfortably meet the needs of either the press or the general public, whoever gets invited. This way companies can save money on the booths, and get more effective press out of it since the information would hit the market closer to the actual release of the game. Gamers also benefit by being able to learn about new games when the information is relevant, rather than 6 months to a year earlier. |
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2006-08-01, 21:58 | Link #6 | |
I am mowing clowns
Join Date: Dec 2005
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2006-08-01, 23:23 | Link #8 | |
Reverend K-Rist
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So they got themselves into a vicious cycle of stupidity that finally let to them doing the business equivalent if sticking their finger in a pickle slicer. |
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2006-08-02, 00:14 | Link #9 |
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E3 collapsed under its own weight.
It was done in by the very companies that participated in it. They saw that it was being attended by gamers, increased their pandering to the "common man" instead of journalists and industry workers and ruined it for themselves. What they're converting to has its advantages, but much is lost. They just needed to stick on the middle ground, but the cat was already out of the bag. |
2006-08-02, 08:51 | Link #11 |
Day Dreams...
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Upon reading the articles at gamespot, my opinion changed. They discussed how before, E3 was like a kept secret. They would discourage the public from coming and everyone would have to find clever ways to sneak in. However, in 2005, they practically invited the public to come, urging people who had no business there with advertising.
Although they did have high ticket prices, they were encouraging people, and the cat was out of the bag. Come 2006, there were so many people there, as the Gamespot editor described, it might as well have been a "Shindig". The public, most of which had no business there, was too involved. It was causing serious problems and undermining the very reason the expo exists. Appealing to the public was a mistake for both developers and organizers. This announcement is their reaction to that. Also, the withdrawl of big name companies is always a feint. If you know anything about politics, it's simply a bluff: "Change this issue or we won't come back." If you ask me, the bluff was pretty successful. |
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