E3 (but not really) 2022

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Rest in piss.

ETA: Meme I made for the occasion:
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I guess canceling your event is what you deserve for having drag queens and troons in your last event. You become obsessed with troons you end up committing 41% Bye bye Shit Three!
 
Wow, it’s almost like filling E3 with troons, degens, and pretentious indie trash won’t make people wanna watch it!

I didn’t shed a single tear.
 
E3 2004


R.I.P. E3. Remember what the faggots in modern "gayming" took from us.
 
E3 has been going downhill for a long time almost 20 years so no surprise (and no sadness) seeing it die. I remember when "Kacey" aka pornstar Diana Prince was kicked out of E3 2006 for being dressed inappropriately for wearing Wonder Womans costume. Shit had already gone gay by then when in 2006 they banned the booth babes.


 
I wish E3 was still around.

Every few years they would fuck up and just dox everyone in game dev/game journalism. Going to miss that the absolute most.
 
TVBForever said:
If the world wasn't woke with trannies and dumbass representation shit, E3 would still continue.
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Realistically not. It wasn't woke/tranny shit that killed E3, but the companies themselves.

Nintendo really spearheaded the "direct to consumer presentations" of marketing in like 2011 with Nintendo Directs. They could put out anything they wanted, whenever they wanted and did not have to compete with anyone else for attention. They did it for console reveals, game reveals, DLC reveals, and have been having gigantic success with it for more than a literal decade. Sony does State of Play and the PlayStation Experience, Blizzard has Blizzcon, Final Fantasy has Square streams (and Live Letters, Community Streams, etc), and so on.

Internet video production made it so companies could market directly to consumers by themselves - absolutely killing the need for E3 to ever exist again. Geoff Keighley saw the weakness in the E3 format and made the "big industry event" into his Annual Award Show - further pissing on the E3 corpse. E3 was a relic of an older, simpler time (pre internet) and was always going to die in one way or another.
 
Tanner Glass said:
I wish E3 was still around.

Every few years they would fuck up and just dox everyone in game dev/game journalism. Going to miss that the absolute most.
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Disagree. If E3 was just pure cringe like in 2016 or 2017, then I'd be okay with it returning. Like the cringe reels are very funny. But by 2021 it was going gay. E3 2021 was a fucking disaster with trannies and drag queens thrown everywhere.

If E3 2023 was gonna be as bad or worse than E3 2021, then I'm glad it committed 41%. And hopefully it stays dead. Now if only E3 was good again like it used to 😔
 
ProfDongs said:
Konami 2010 was amazingly bad, they were so earnest about embarrassing themselves. I honestly think it could be passed off as some sort of Andy Kaufman inspired show or performance to someone who has no idea about video games or the industry.
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I'm glad the whole world got to see what a flamboyant goofball Naoki Maeda is.
 
E3's biggest failure is that it never knew what it wanted to be.

Was it an industry trade show? Or a consumer oriented fan convention? It never could answer this fundamental question.

I remember when they made a big stink about allowing in non-industry, non-journalists (read fans) into the show, and how much of a flustercuck that was. E3 never could figure out who it was for. The booth babes are something the fans loved. But as the convention got more corporate, more white washed, they had to go to keep up appearances.

Look around. Fan Conventions, like Comic Con, or the various anime conventions such as Anime Matsuri, are all still going strong. Actual trade shows, like CES, are still going well. Hell, other video game trade shows, like the Tokyo Game Show and Gamescom are still going. Conventions aren't dying out, despite the number that COVID did to the industry as a whole. But E3 is dying because its format made less and less sense every year, and the people running the convention had no idea what to do with it.
 
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