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rythex |
Oh no.. a bunch of nerd workers from EB can't attend E3 now.. the world is ending.. maybe we'll get better coverage now since we won't have 50,000 + nerds who bought passes crushing real website/magazine coverage..
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herothezero |
Does anyone really learn anything worth a damn from E3 events?
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#1, it's done.
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sluggo |
I've never been to an E3, but it sounds like they learned the Comdex lesson. Comdex died mostly because it just got too popular, and the people who paid for the show (the exhibitors) saw the quality of the business they did go down and down as the number of non-industry attendees went up and up. When HP, Intel and others bailed on Comdex it never really recovered.
Staging an expensive week-long playground is certainly one way to create buzz, but letting the media do it for you for free makes a lot more sense. Do the bloggers get left out? No, not if they pay like everyone else. |
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Saeghwin |
It's funny. If you look at all the "How to Get into the Gaming Industry" articles, almost all of them credit events like E3 as being the best way of jumping in the pool and getting connections. Here's to hoping the gaming crowd won't actually become the next film industry!
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Furen |
Should make it a hell of a lot cheaper. Security became a huge concern after Bush scared everyone into thinking that a gathering of three people could be a target for terrorists, having the whole thing be invitation-only should help out with that quite a bit.
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thecoldanddarkone |
I honestly agree with prime, might as well stick a fork in it.
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Thats a big no-no. I have no problem with people having the go through the proper connections with the ESA to be qualified for an invitation.
But basically, media outlets are now going to have to be bed-buddies with Publisher PR reps in order to try to get an invitation to cover an event where all the news is supposed to take place.