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Ding dong the witch is dead. And by witch I mean E for All.
ElectricTurtle
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In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz: "Ha, ha!"
No more tellytubbies, or suits lying about their communication or lack thereof with PA, or cheap hype and overpriced admission.
The big question is, with the ESA in dire straits and trying to make one last desperate bid for relevance by trying to build up E3 again, will they succeed? I think they've managed over the last few years to forfeit most of their momentum in the market to PAX. I think their final push will end up being based on a flawed understanding of the new market environment, and they will overreach themselves and collapse.
(I now notice that my thread is a duplicate, but then why would somebody call a thread about E4Ennui "PAX on Yahoo news"?)
No more tellytubbies, or suits lying about their communication or lack thereof with PA, or cheap hype and overpriced admission.
The big question is, with the ESA in dire straits and trying to make one last desperate bid for relevance by trying to build up E3 again, will they succeed? I think they've managed over the last few years to forfeit most of their momentum in the market to PAX. I think their final push will end up being based on a flawed understanding of the new market environment, and they will overreach themselves and collapse.
(I now notice that my thread is a duplicate, but then why would somebody call a thread about E4Ennui "PAX on Yahoo news"?)
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This one's pretty clear about the matter.
granted, i'm still a huge pax fan, but let's be fair, we all loved e3 way back in its hayday.
I think that was just a misunderstanding of some sort, I can't remember the details, but no it is not going to be open to public, just media and the gaming indrustry... So E3 will be growing again it seems, but they still fail... And that just probably means PAX will grow even more
Maybe by 2010 when we have PAX twice a year that will thin the crowds just a bit lol
I agree, everyone, everyone wanted to go to E3 back in the hugeness and spectacle. As a press-only event, it doesn't make a bunch of sense: a friend of mine explained it (be it his or someone else's explanation, I don't know) like this.
"Suppose you want to give someone some papers, containing information. E3 is the equivalent of throwing said papers in a bag full of cats, and then spinning the bag around above your head really really quickly. Did you get the information? Do I know? Does anyone even care?"
They really tightened up their restrictions when they moved to the new format, and based on the results of that change, they're loosening them up again.
I imagine we're going to see E3 try and recapture the glory that it had 3-4 years ago, but it's probably not going to work. Gamers are stubborn people, and we hold grudges. E3 was this huge, great, amazing festival, but it did lose focus. It became too big, too self-important, and too vague. But the response from E3 was disproportional. Instead of moving the festival back on track, they completely gutted everything that was attractive about it and turned it into something akin to the GDC, only lamer. Then they lost all the fanfare, traffic, and (I suspect) money.
Now they're desperately scrambling to recapture the awesome festival that they had 3-4 years ago, but in my opinion, they're going to miss the mark like the OP suggested. If these are the people who decided on the new format for E3, I don't trust them to re-envision it successfully a second time.
Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
Satellite Theater for life!
I watched a 'review' of E for All on You Tube, for one I like conventions having been to the last Two PAX's, secondly I miss (the old) E3 and E for All was rumored to be a resurrection of the glory days of E3.
Anyway, the reviewer (Sadie) mentions PAX as 'the place to be' that and just seeing how 'empty' every thing was at the place juxtaposed against PAX really made me know that I'd done the right thing by going to PAX.
I figured others might enjoy it so I'm posting the You tube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7qyXyGHKWM
zWolf -out. (woops dupe post, thanks for the shift mod. and I re-watched the vid.. the 'slammings' don't start happening till about mid way through the vid.. it looks like she "ultraneko" was trying to give it a decent chance at the start.. but by the end - it was more of a satirical look at the con / FauxCon.)