[PissedBuddha]

E3 used to be something I've always wanted to attend, or at least it was until I found out you had to be invited. Personally, I hate places that you cant enter unless your invited, unless it has to do with top secret info.

Then again, I also don't see the point of it being invitation only if all these game informing organizations/media such as IGN and G4 are going to blurt out basically everything they see.

Also, how on earth do some of these people get invited? Some of the people that Ive heard talk about thier experience there don't even seem like they have the appropriate job to be invited (like Scott, who does Vgcats).

I would love if E3 was a public event that would be in places all over the earth so it wouldn't be crowded....

[Goto]

It's not a case of 'special' people getting invited, it's an event aimed at the media. The last thing they want is for the information at E3 to remain quiet, it's a big opportunity to try to get people talking about their product. And of course the best way to get that information out there is to make it invite-only and aim it towards the media (and of course the publishers, a lot of products get picked up there), since otherwise it would be bogged down with hundreds of thousands of regular gamers who are individually far less important to the devs. That would impede the ability for those reporting on the event to actually see it. A few of the larger gaming webcomics like PA, VGCats, etc. get invites because they have large audiences that read the comics and news posts, so it's another gaming news outlet.

Obviously it'd be a lot of fun to attend, but it's just not something that could be done in a practical manner. E3 is prohibitively expensive as it is, that's why it was scaled down so much for this year. People were throwing so much time and money into looking impressive at the expo, that it was adversely affecting the games. Having it in multiple locations would make this much worse. Also having it in multiple locations would not stop it being crowded. Most of the regular gamers that would attend wouldn't live too far away from the location itself. So if you had other expos in other parts of the world, they'd also mostly be drawing on local fans. So it'd still be excessively busy regardless of how many locations it was run in.


Finally, the guys that run E3 have also organized a public event, known as the Entertainment for All Expo.

[PissedBuddha]

Finally, the guys that run E3 have also organized a public event, known as the Entertainment for All Expo.

Thanks, I didnt know that. But I hope they have good security.... since its in LA......

[Bespetna]

It was good.
None of the things that the companies introduced were a real rave.
CoD4 Online Beta though seemed cool