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Good. VGA should also die ASAP and will eventually. The Audience stays the same, but the Show changed. E3 was a trade show for developers, actual journalists,
by NanoYohaneTSU 3y ago
Good. VGA should also die ASAP and will eventually.
The Audience stays the same, but the Show changed. E3 was a trade show for developers, actual journalists, and the gamurz. Journalists decided to make politics fashionable for the world of gaming and so it did.
E3 banned Booth Babes when their core audience was males. E3 tightened up on what was going on behind the doors with the groupies. Technology and games stopped being revolutionary or edge and now it's safe. No more actual gaming icons, we need celebrities and influencers.
This is the result of the mainstream industry adapting to SafeGaming only. SafeGaming isn't appealing to enthusiasts, just AAA gamers who continue to get taken for a ride.
VGA is going to die when their politics decide to change, leaving their current audience behind. Always happens.
- jay_kyburz 3y agoWow, I'm a game developer and I hated E3 for almost the exact opposite reason. Booth babes are gross and happy to see them go. Celebrities and influencers can fuck right off. My first E3 opened my eyes to the disparity between the actual talent building the games 60 hours a week for $80k a year and money been thrown around for the publishing execs and marketing teams. The marketing budget wasn't being spent on carefully placed ads or thoughtful and creative campaigns, its blown on massive parties for the leaches and vampires.
- tyree731 3y agoThis feels like the reason you'd like for E3 to have failed, but doesn't line up with the evidence. E3's attendance peaked in 2005, well before booth babes were banned and groupies were cracked down upon. It's decline started right as video streaming took off on the internet, and accelerated as companies like Activision and Sony began pulling out of the event, making it less and less relevant or useful.