Incline E3 is dead

[Venser]

Should've said "GG no re"

 

[Black]

Hopefully all of gaming follows.

 

[NecroLord]

Hopefully all of gaming follows.

Modern gaming.

 

[Cyberarmy]

RİP in pepperonni. It was on life support for a few years.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

We needed more pepperoni ……….. tiddies. That woulda saved it.

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

Nearly all the game conventions are cringe.
Just show some gameplay, maybe discuss a few things with fans, that's it.

All conventions are just an excuse to do drugs and have sex in a hotel.

Of course, seeing the general attendee of E3, I could only imagine the debauched and hellish sights that happen at nighttime.

Conventions aren't even drugs and sex any more. They're funko collector meet ups if the stalls are anything to go by. Cam girls whoring their onlyfans and funko pops..

They do live demos attendees can play during E3 on the floor. That’s always been a part of E3. Was part of the Consumer Electronics Show event too before E3. They’ve always done playable demos people can play, and behind closed door demos where someone plays the game to a room of people live.

The show floor aspect of E3 doesn’t seem to get reported as much though despite it being a thing. Not that there isn’t news that comes out of that, big stuff in recent years being behind closed door leaked footage of Cyberpunk and The Avengers games. But it seems like sites stopped covering the floor as much in like the mid 2010s or something. Maybe even a bit before that. The only recent thing I’ve seen get show floor coverage like everything used to get show floor coverage was Street Fighter 6 during whatever non E3 thing Capcom had the game set up at.

I remember the 90's media used to really push on the floor. It was exciting to see a few seconds of gameplay for a new upcoming title. Now it's CGI trailers on loop and closed beta sign up announcements.

Why do people in this thread keep confusing E3 with a generic gaming convention?
There were NO gamers at E3! It was marketing and industry folks only.
Thats like thinking the Emmy's have real movie goers in attendance and not just industry people, get a clue.
Glad its gone, the only fun that came from it was a few more amusing streamers mocking clips from it.

The industry people used to be gamers. It wasn't opened up to the general public until much later, which is when they started giving passes to webcomic makers.