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Earlier today popular gaming website FiringSquad released an interview with Robert Khoo, in which Khoo calls the CEO of E for All Expo a "a liar".
Link to the article: http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17438
Link to the article: http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17438
JCal of FiringSquad wrote:While IDG World Expo will launch their first consumer video game show E For All Expo in Los Angeles in mid-October, they have already announced the dates for the planned 2008 edition of the show which is currently scheduled to be in LA on Aug 28-30, 2008. That happens to the the same traditional weekend as the Penny Arcade Expo which held its fifth event last month in Seattle with over 37,000 attendees (almost double their 2006 numbers and well over their predicted 2007 numbers of 30,000 attendees). So will the two expos clash in late August 2008? FiringSquad contacted Penny Arcade's head business person Robert Khoo to get his input:FiringSquad: First, what was PAX's reaction with IDG officially announced E For All Expo's plans for their Oct 18-21 launch?Editor's Note: We contacted IDG World Expo and sent them our interview with PAX's Robert Khoo. They sent this brief response to his comments: "E for All was created as a celebration of video games and the people who play them. Given the millions of video game fans around the world, we think there’s plenty of room for multiple video game events. We look forward to continuing our efforts to work productively with PAX organizers to create great experiences for gamers of all types and to a great E for All event next month.". FiringSquad has repeatedly requested time for an interview with IDG World Expo CEO Mary Dolaher, either on the phone or through email, to get more info about their plans for the E For All Expo. So far our requests have not been granted.
Robert Khoo: My first reaction was "that's... interesting?" Of all the times to plan a show, the middle of the school year doesn’t seem ideal. October historically just isn’t a good month for gaming shows.
FiringSquad: When you first learned that IDG had decided to hold their 2008 event on Aug 28-30, the same weekend as PAX is usually held, was was your reaction?
Robert Khoo: It was in early June that they announced their 2008 dates, so by that time we already realized PAX 2007 was going to be insane because of the prereg ticket sales. I actually gave (IDG World Expo CEO) Mary Dolaher a ring and told her that for the past four years PAX is on the last weekend of August. She actually had no idea who we were, but I told her that it would be in everyone's best interest if she reconsidered the date given our size. She said she would call me back "next week…" and that was 4 months ago, so I don't know- maybe she lost my phone number?
FiringSquad: IDG's CEO stated in an interview a couple of weeks ago that she planned to chat with PAX organizers within the next week to try to resolve the conflict with the 2008 dates. Has PAX organisers heard anything from her at all since that statement was made?
Robert Khoo: This is where I tell you she is a liar.
FiringSquad: An E For All Expo street team appeared during PAX 2007 to try to pass out info about the show. Did IDG tell you beforehand that they would do such a thing and how did you feel about a rival show trying to force their literature on PAX attendees?
Robert Khoo: IDG didn't let us know beforehand, which was great because it gave me the opportunity to kick them out of the show. After doing so I immediately called up Mary to let her know how I felt - I think the term I used was "low rent." I didn’t get a call back.
FiringSquad: Does PAX have any plans at all to change their 2008 dates to accommodate E For All Expo's announced date or are you prepared to deal with E For All and PAX sharing the same dates?
Robert Khoo: If we change our dates at all, it won't be because of this- it's always a challenge to wrestle and negotiate for as much space as possible at the convention center, and since we're expecting 45-50k next year, we take what we can get.Right now we are planning for that same weekend, but if for some reason even more space opens up two weeks before, we’ll take it.
But I'll be honest with you- since PAX started I've seen my fair share of consumer shows come and go (take IGNLive for instance). It's super hard to run one of these things, and I'd be surprised if E For All lasts longer than this year.
FiringSquad: Finally is there anything else you wish to say about PAX's opinion on E For All Expo?
Robert Khoo: I think the big difference is that Gabe and Tycho call the shots at PAX, whereas I get the feeling E For All is being run by a bunch of suits. We try to throw this super cool party each and every year that's focused around the culture and the community- E For All seems to be about some corporate agenda. But that's fine. We don't mind.
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is this where we talk about how we have been impacted by Khoo?
'low rent'
that is ice cold
STEAM!
Yes.
Liar
lordy lordy, I love me some khoo
how about that khoo, eh
how about him
eh
EH
:winky:
Shit.
Somebody call the burn ward, we got victims.
My buddy almost pissed himself with happiness.
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It's not hard.
I mean, seeing him is not hard, however catching him to exchange words is different.
Khoo is usually on his phone, but he's the swankest dressed person there.
They are in the origional interview from FiringSquad. Whether the author added them or Khoo did himself, I do not know.
He usually doesn't piss white.
not usually
HE WOULDN'T DO THAT TO US! he would use his magical Khoo-stare to fix the coding and get it out faster to the rest of us.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
Scarlet and I are the gates.
Mully and Trill are the throne.
Khoo is the lord Buddha.
Secret Satan
STEAM!
There aren't enough of them.
or something
It's more of a :? here.
STEAM!
It's because they are actively realizing that they are the pastiest, whitest, dorks, in a picture full of pasty, white, dorks.
Secret Satan
actually I am noticing that people get less and less happy as you reach the fringe of the crowd
only in close proximity to khoo do the smiles because radiant and genuine
This guy doesn't look into it at all
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
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