I miss E3. It felt like a yearly celebration of gaming.
Keigh3 is better
>>736893108Everyone kept taking the piss out of it so they stopped
>>736894740No the ESA was charging companies an ungodly amount of money for floorspace and so companies just stated advertising directly to customers. Then influencers happened and they could just drop a few grand on the top 100 to get more eyeballs on their game than a dozen E3s could possibly deliver.
e3>expensive booths>live fuck upsmaking your own streams>saves money>can be prerecorded to remove all soul
It was like christmas, something we could all collectively look forward to each year and come together for a week and have a blast. If things were good we were happy, if things were bad we got mad together, and if things were hilarious well it gave us content for years and years. E3 all but forced companies to come out and say something and it collected all the biggest reveals and important news in one spot, not like the shit we get today where its a drip feed at random times.E3 is dead and so is the internet as a whole, it's fucking shit these days.
>>736896083It's this. Having worked in tradeshows for a little while now the amount of money you need to spend on floorspace is ungodly. Just doing something like hanging a large banner at LA convention center can cost $50k due to the elevated work rigging and cost of union labor. A large size booth can be upwards of $500k.When the vast majority of people watching your show are watching just the keynote online, it's ridiculous to continue. E3 made sense in the 90s when the internet was too immature to use as an exclusive marketing strategy, but it hit its high-water mark in the early 2000s and was dying a slow death ever since. The elements that were worth anything got transformed into Directs/Showcases.
>>736893108Game announcements feel like a mess nowadays.Its just randomly sprinkled into non centralized marketing events rather than having your yearly round up of the new big game announcements.Whatever happened was a clusterfuck because not even all of them go into the VGAs now. It goes on Sonys separate State of Plays. Sometimes on the Microsoft events. Random PC gaming conference sometimesRandom game festivals. Random everything.
>>736896342Sorry maybe clusterfuck was the incorrect term and i came up short for the correct expression.I just don't know how to describe something that is so disorganized post e3.
>>736896405expecting some grand organization in the first place means being an easy mark for marketers like dorito popepeople missing E3 are just hypebeasts reminiscing about epic funnees, you can hardly care about videogames when renting in the most expensive place in the USA
E3 was shit more often than it was good>but the funny memesExceptions, the majority of the events were shit
>>736896695I far too often reminisce about that one year where it was really good to forget all the times that it was really shit and i was complaining about it. But you'll find a lot of the early 2000s events to be far more entertaining than post 2010s ones.
>>736893108>E3 in the 90s and early 00sThey're a fucking legend as far as we know, there's probably some fuck ups but we don't have footage of them>After they banned booth babesAlmost every year had a mejor fuck up, tons of vaporware and many moments and people became a joke Dunno about the celebration of gaming but banning booth babes was the beginning of the end
>>736897096yo, I have this dvd. Pretty cool.
reminder that e3 used to have booth babesand it was killed during the "metoo" era
>>736897096>>736897196Is this the one where the booth babes have thosr neon pink and teal panties?
>>736893108It died a sad death. It was legendary but those last years were so sad.The last year I remember was fucking Anita Shartkeesian being on stream the whole time and some guy whose entire thing was saying how amazing Xbox Game Pass was 1200 times in a 30 minute window.
>>736897328Don't remember for sure in the dvd itself, but I just checked and there are 2 on the back of my dvd with white shirts with red or orange short shorts
>>736893108It's not like E3 is truly gone. Some companies still hold events during that week, and you have Geoff's thing.
>>736896254>E3 is dead and so is the internet as a whole, it's fucking shit these days.This is an interesting divide because E3 had nothing to do with internet originally. It was exactly an on location event for VIPs, and journalists to write in the magazines you bought, not live streamed press conferences.I remember getting the Gamereactor in 2005 after E3. This was the first time I got to see the Wii, the PS3 and Xbox 360 and what next gen games would look like.I think E3 could make a come back in some form. The issue is rather that the gaming business ran its course. Everything got too premium, so the ESA got greedy. Nintendo got greedy. Sony got greedy and Microsoft got greedy.Originally E3 was more like a litmus test for the up and coming publishers to attend and convince investors through this as a publicity event why they should take the majority of investors.That's the true reason behind E3. Its intention was never to celebrate gaming, and the hype was a means to an end. But that's also the reason why it was so hype. It's a really high stakes event for all the people who make games and wanna sell them. But if they're too monopolistic they don't need E3.
