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E3 2023 Has Been Canceled
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Danjin44
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Most people here demanding high tech graphics and people shit on games like FFXVI and Tears of Kindom because it’s not high tech enough, what exactly are you expecting?
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DownLikeBCPowder
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I loved E3 when I attended several times in the mid 2000s, it's a shame that it had become such a shell of its former self.
hemo memo
Gold Member
They embarrassingly run late to their own conference every year so of course a recorded video is less embarrassing.
onnextflix5
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Sad to see it go, but in the modern digital age, I can see why platform holders no longer viewed it as value for money.
hemo memo
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People don’t hate it. Companies do because of cost and because they are forced on a yearly schedule instead of their favorite game guess the date.
SoloKingRobert
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The Cockatrice
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Fake trailers, cringe and/or garbage shit, and lies are no longer sustainable? I am shocked. Good riddance. E3 was like a toxic relationship. Hot but horrible.
MarkMe2525
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Umbasaborne
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Thats not my problem, they had this figured out on the xbox 360 where they could make a brand new game in 2 years. Not every game needs to be some shitty open worlg gaas, we need more 8/10 hour triple a experiences like we used to get. The ones that capcom and insomniac can make in a reasonable amount of time, but the rest of the industry seems to be content sitting with their thumbs up their ass for 8 years until they release a shitty destiny clone that gets shut down one year later
Fbh
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Elder Legend
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I've noticed that over half of this forum seems to be filled with many over entitled children who cry every time when something doesn't go their way. They never want to take things into considering such as the pandemic delaying the entire industry, game development itself and technological breakthroughs. It seems that they know everything, how to manage a company, how to invest money and how to make games with a press of a button. It's quite a circus I tell you.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Time to just pack it up. E3's were great though. Ya, you got some filler crap wasting time, but in general when a game is presented it's sure more exciting than a canned video which game makers now do.
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TrebleShot
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None of these companies have anything worth showing anyway.
Looter shooter 122876
Looter shooter 122876
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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You hated games?
Elder Legend
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Everwild
State of Decay 3
Hellblade 2
Fable
Gears of War 6
Spiderman 2
Wolverine
Starfield
The Outer Worlds 2
Avowed
Elder Scrolls 6
Blizzards Survival Game
FF7 Rebirth
Naughty Dog New Game
Kingdom Hearts 4
IO interactive Dragon Game
Dragone Age 4
Mass Effect Reboot
You are 100% correct, so many looters shooters...
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Batiman
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This also made MS more conservative with what they brought as well. The drip feed of announcements scattered to smaller shows instead just putting it all out there at E3. It’s been less exciting for all platforms since then.
Dr. Samuel Hayden
Member
And its permanent replacement will consist of 50 livestreams every year that are 95% commercials and woke circlejerking, and then maybe 1 shitty indy game reveal if you're lucky.
Have fun.
Have fun.
thismeinteil
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E3 was dead when Sony dropped out for good. I had to laugh when people kept telling me it wasn't dead and would be just as strong without Sony. Sure.
Putonahappyface
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nowhat
Member
I'm sure somewhere, out there, there will be an Ubisoft showcase with dancers.
StreetsofBeige
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It's too bad since they basically just all just followed the leader quitting.
Nintnedo started it off bailing around the Wii U era. Their shows were so bad and Wii U was such a disaster, they bailed. Sony and MS continued on with traditional shows, but then Sony bailed after that god awful banquet hall E3 show where they spent time with music bits. Covid came around finishing it off for everyone as game makers had to focus on streaming their own shows due to it being cancelled. And because of that game makers just said fuck it, well just stream a one hour show that was pretaped a week before.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
E3 was always about making money. It was never just some goofy folks trying to have a good old time.
Power Pro
Member
Truth. I got into an argument on discord recently on this subject, and it must've been full of kids who didn't know any better. Like they didn't understand why I would care about game trailers or why can't I just see the reveals all year round. E3 centralized things in a way where I didn't have to be glued to a twitter feed, or some other bull shit 24/7 in case MAYBE something gets revealed. It was better to have an event also where shit just all happened at once. I could focus on my hobby during a specific time of year. Find out about upcoming games, and consoles more than a couple months before release was nice. I actually miss the marketing of games as they were coming along. The trailers for Metal Gear games were something I'll always remember fondly.
I kinda hate the new approach where everything is "Here's the announcement: okay, it's gonna be out in a couple months, have your money ready" it's like, mother fucker, give me some time to save up first, especially with the rising costs of hardware. Or with the bull shit CEs that sell out right away because of scalpers.
Like someone else in the thread said, this industry hates it's audience. And like you said, it was good to have E3 because it did get developers having to delivery SOMETHING...instead they sit behind closed doors, taking years and only showing a game right before it comes out, and then games come out broken, because they never got feedback on how bad it looked during an initial reveal or something. Sometimes it helps to have public eyes on something so they can point out what needs to be fixed that they developers might have been just too close and blind to see.
Justin9mm
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I'm going to chalk this up to bad management. The gaming industry is one of the biggest in the world and no one once a year can put on one big show for the world to celebrate gaming and the community. I think it comes down to people not knowing how to promote this to the industry internally, and it also comes down to the gaming industry and all the big wigs not caring enough about the gamers, the ones who line their pockets.
Yoboman
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The extravagance of E3 was really unmatched it's sad that it is going. E3 must truly be a corrupt organisation for everyone to have quit on them, seems Sony quitting didn't give them the message?
Things like Comic con are not losing any relevance though, they are only getting bigger. Something will replace this
If I were building a new E3 for the modern era it would be a week long:
Things like Comic con are not losing any relevance though, they are only getting bigger. Something will replace this
If I were building a new E3 for the modern era it would be a week long:
- Have panels for everyone like Comic con rather than stage shows. Bring on devs and cast in a more grounded environment, drop trailers and gameplay and fan questions
- Eg instead of a Sony showcase you might get the Last of Us panel covering the games and TV
- For Nintendo you would have a Zelda panel
- Microsoft could host a mergers and acquisitions panel
- Take the emphasis off perfectly curated CG trailers and more on gameplay showcases.
- Have live bands and orchestras that people can go see between panels
- Have a huge eSports component with the industries biggest prize for the 2-3 biggest current games
- Have an actual streamed portion of the E3 awards at the end
ShadyAcshuns
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Danjin44
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If someone “lazy” they wouldn’t choose game developers as their career.
