New E3 Show Announced - Smaller and Invite-only 40
fiorenza writes "The ESA has announced the date and venue for the new E3 show, which is to be renamed the E3 Media and Business Summit. The show has move moved from May to July, and next year will take place on July 11-13 in Santa Monica, California. Doug Lowenstein, the president of the ESA, said that past attendees wanted a smaller more formal show that would be oriented to the media instead of the consumer, so it will now be invitation-only and many of the 'events' will actually take place in hotel suites. It looks like other gaming shows will need to step in if the glitz and glitter of E3 is to be saved."
You hear that? (Score:2, Insightful)
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E3 was "originally" nothing more than a series of scattered events around the world because no one wanted to alienate the masses by making it "corporate employees only" and corporations didn't want to play ball with one another. Obviously you need some "Press Only" events, but they have those already.
Why take away E3? You have immature exhibitors throwing hotel parties before/during/after E3 and they wonder why E3 turned into a giant video game mosh pit! (Websi
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What happened in the last few years is that anyone with a reasonably visited blog got a ticket. And then we began to see the fruits of these huge torrents of quite immature and unprofessional "journalists": Booth Babes at every corner, stupid parties, and more and more covorage happening "behind closed doors", for the real journalists. The big players didn't even bother revealing anything at
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Booths were more attactive than the games themselves at
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I mean, I would like the Internet to be what it was like 20 years ago (nice community, non-commercial, none of this hysteria and attention from politicians), but there is no way to make that happen because the world has changed.
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Bring it on! (Score:4, Funny)
What's the purpose of E3? (Score:4, Interesting)
I have read [gamasutra.com] that PAX [pennyarcadeexpo.com] is not, cannot, be a replacement for E3. [e3insider.com]
I can accept this; I just wonder aloud: "What is the purpose of E3?" What essential role did it play?
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When I working at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari for six years, the PR department put together a video from the company's E3 party. The management team was plastered, the vice president was on stage doing a showgirl routine in fishnet stockings, and a PR girl was grabbing her crotch while slurring through a song. I stopped going to the company Christmas party when my date and I left early as the cops were coming into the club to haul my supervisor out for allowing an underaged employee to have a drink.
Re:What's the purpose of E3? (Score:5, Funny)
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You uhh, got a video for that?
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Actually visiting the booths was a distractions from the real business of E3.
If you went to E3 as a consumer you probably don't see all the meeting rooms where deals are done (those long boring quiet corridor
E3 got in the way of game development anyway (Score:4, Informative)
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I quite liked the zombie woman [advancedmn.com] I saw on E3 2005. I really think it helped advertize the product she advertized for. Uh....whatever that was.
I got a picture of her strangling my friend. Ah... memories.
gaming shows stepping in (Score:3, Informative)
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yes....but at small private events they are called (Score:5, Funny)
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Save glitter? (Score:5, Insightful)
It looks like other gaming shows will need to step in if the glitz and glitter of E3 is to be saved."
Does the glitz and glitter need to be saved? Have you ever played a game and said "I wish they didn't work so hard on this game. If only they had rushed it out to stores prematurely or had fewer people working on it, they would have had more money for E3 glitz and glitter."
That glitz money has to come from somewhere.
Glitz and Glitter? (Score:5, Insightful)
So, uh, yeah. This is hardly the end of gaming. In fact, the lack of stupid distractions will probably help us actually, I don't know, be informed.
You want a party? Organize a party. This is a media event that simply got out of hand, and is being reeled back to where it should be.
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Wow! I'm real excited now! (Score:2)
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Sounds like the G8 political summit. A whole lot of talk, almost no mass public attention and a whole lot decided without the input of the people years before it'll eventually take effect. How is this for the better again?
Does E3 realy matter anyway? (Score:2)
The only negative to the disappearance of e3 is perhaps the exposure for the small developer, unable
The Ultimate Game Show: (Score:1)
First Comdex, and now E3 :( (Score:2, Interesting)
As for the "booth babes" being either good or bad, it depends. The web sites that show them as a feature in the reporting are a big part of the problem since the idea really is to show off t
E3 lessons. (Score:2)
Hint: They don't care about your stup
Just Call It A 'Festival' (Score:2)
(Of course, I say this as someone who has been boycotting my own hometown Festival in Toronto, because it got too stup