Conor Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 (edited) Aw shit the woke mob got E3 too? #cancelcancelculture /sarcasm cuz, y'know, internet Edited March 31, 2022 by Stan Lee 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelly Soup Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 E3 was always enthusiast and/or pro gamer geared. It was easy to call the doldrums between shows 'the end of gaming' when literally anything worth saying was/will be said there. Things are different now. Whatever the quality of States of Play or Nintendo Direct, they can reach about the same audience and release whenever they like. The casual market has never been this large before, either. While we might have been disappointed with Sony's last show, there are millions more who don't consume games on as regular a basis as your average user here who found the presentation exciting. I see this as an opportunity for publishers to try new things. Remember Devolverland Expo?https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283220/Devolverland_Expo/ More of this would be cool. Not just a flat presentation and it engages the viewer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mesopithecus Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 It seems like Summer Game Fest will likely fill E3's role in terms of new game trailers https://www.summergamefest.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance_87 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 They've announced a return in 2023, and NOT digital. Hopefully they'll find another ridiculous excuse to put the final nail in the coffin. WW3, economic crisis, another surge of COVID, a #MeToo-like scandal inside ESA, a terrorist attack on a similar event... or a combination of all of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Jokes aside, Geoff Keighley is a very, very happy man right now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squarevii87 Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 April's fool maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ_Radio Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Soon the Matrix will become a true reality... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alantor32 Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 20 minutes ago, AJ_Radio said: Soon the Matrix will become a true reality... No it won't... So stop it with your doomsayer crap already... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaivRules Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 3 hours ago, SelectiveGamer said: Someone explain to me how this doesn't mean that there is now a massive ass void of literal no gaming news now. Well.. since you asked. A void (emptiness), in this case "massive ass" sized meaning large, of "literal no gaming news" means a void of no news, a double negative, so that translates to a large amount of news. You asked how E2 2022 being canceled doesn't mean there is now large amount of news. Well considering how much "news" was "leaked" ahead of E3 every single year... as long as it's been going on, and how since 1995 there are now 100 times more websites covering every tiny sliver of gaming related news you could ask for, and every developer and publisher that exists has a twitter, probably a Facebook page, an Instagram, a Discord, a YouTube channel, and their shills and fanboys everywhere across the internet... all the same advertisements, I mean news, is still out there and will continue to be out there. None of the "news" was lost into a void. It'll be held for some other event or just released when whoever created it feels like releasing it. No publishers marketing dollars will be wasted just because E3 got cancelled, they'll just be spent in a different place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darling Baphomet Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 1 hour ago, AJ_Radio said: Soon the Matrix will become a true reality... ... I fail to see how E3 being cancelled this year has anything to do with the Matrix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ_Radio Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 1 hour ago, DaivRules said: Well.. since you asked. A void (emptiness), in this case "massive ass" sized meaning large, of "literal no gaming news" means a void of no news, a double negative, so that translates to a large amount of news. You asked how E2 2022 being canceled doesn't mean there is now large amount of news. Well considering how much "news" was "leaked" ahead of E3 every single year... as long as it's been going on, and how since 1995 there are now 100 times more websites covering every tiny sliver of gaming related news you could ask for, and every developer and publisher that exists has a twitter, probably a Facebook page, an Instagram, a Discord, a YouTube channel, and their shills and fanboys everywhere across the internet... all the same advertisements, I mean news, is still out there and will continue to be out there. None of the "news" was lost into a void. It'll be held for some other event or just released when whoever created it feels like releasing it. No publishers marketing dollars will be wasted just because E3 got cancelled, they'll just be spent in a different place. E3 hasn't been good in over 10 years. There is no point to ANY award show anymore. No point whatsoever. Every award show has been rigged and manipulated to the point where they're about advertising and marketing more than the product.. and of course the people who go to watch these shows. As I said to people on other websites regarding what Will Smith did in this year's Oscars, it's all a stupid show that is made purely on algorithms. California is a sinking ship and most any show held there has this Hollywood mentality of needing the views and money at the cost of actual quality. You're not learning anything from the Oscars and Grammys. You didn't learn anything from last year's E3 or the absolute shit show that was The Game Awards, which had people like Jim Carrey try to put on a performance despite the fact they are decades past their prime. All news is generated on the internet at this point in time as we head further towards an isolationist society bent on dystopia. Not that Twitter or Instagram are really any good since every other developer and publisher I come across on those platforms is some condescending, self entitled moron posting in an echo chamber. All while the pitchfork Twitter mobs try their best to throw mud towards the developers to try to get them to change their perspective. News these days on the big gaming websites is prefabricated crap anyway. 24 minutes ago, Darling Baphomet said: ... I fail to see how E3 being cancelled this year has anything to do with the Matrix. I intended for my quip to be a joke, but this is the reality we are heading towards. We spend more time than ever on an electronic screen, wasting precious hours typing into a void while actual communication continues to get worse. E3 was already becoming irrelevant 10 years ago in 2012, so it was only a matter of time. One of the last times I was really excited about E3 was the time when Sony tried to promote and advertise their PlayStation 3 when it was hot and new. That was a long time ago, so that goes to show how long it has been since I really gave a damn about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrophyChief Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Bummer. This allows publishers and others in the space to fill the gap in their own creative and unique ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanolt Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 What a shame, I loved seeing E3 until 2019. I still remember that E3 2015 with The Last Guardian, Shenmue and FFVII Remake, still the best announcement ever imo. Also I loved that everything happened in a few days so the companies have to do everything to "win" the E3. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slava Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 If E3 had returned, that would've probably been more news-worthy. Because at this point, we don't expect E3 to happen. But yeah, COVID was just one of the reasons for the previous cancellations. As people pointed out, companies and publishers don't really want to deal with ESA anymore. We'll see if they reimagine what E3 is and return in 2023 or it dies forever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelly Soup Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 7 hours ago, AJ_Radio said: Soon the Matrix will become a true reality... Metaverse. They're calling it the Metaverse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sendai-Horatio Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Jelly Soup said: Metaverse. They're calling it the Metaverse. It's just Club Penguin for adults. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zephrese Posted April 1, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2022 13 hours ago, Mesopithecus said: Not quite sure why the dramatic post. He does this a lot, pay him no mind. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephrese Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 13 hours ago, SelectiveGamer said: I see no reason to assume that these companies will do their own events instead. Let alone Nintendo or Sony either They literally have before, what are you actually on about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Alchemist Posted April 1, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2022 13 hours ago, SelectiveGamer said: Someone explain to me how this doesn't mean that there is now a massive ass void of literal no gaming news now. Because that's exactly what it means as far as I'm concerned. And don't just post assumption... because that's all anyone gives me whenever I ask this. Assumptions. Provide evidence. Provide links. BACK. UP. YOUR. SO. CALLED. 'CORRECT'. CLAIMS. I'll give you.... hmm.... 2 weeks. That seems fair. Chill out dude, Christ... Have you been living under a rock for the past decade? There's an avalanche of gaming news EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. Sony have been doing their own State of Plays and big showcases for years now. Nintendo do their own thing as well. I'm sure Xbox will too, if they don't already. Virtually all major publishers and developers are constantly putting out updates on the progress of their upcoming games. Outside of official channels, there is a plethora of Youtube gaming channels that do weekly news roundups, reviews, rumours.. you name it. Go on Twitter and you'll find more accounts than you can shake a stick at that do the exact same thing, Reddit is full of subs chasing every scrap of news and every gaming rumour, etc... There is no shortage of gaming news out there. Judging by the fact that you think E3 being cancelled now leaves a void in gaming news really goes to show how out of touch you are regarding this. E3 and similar shows have long been irrelevant because of the aforementioned sources of news. Throw Covid into the mix and it was the final nail in the coffin. If anything, the organisers are probably glad that they now have an excuse to finally kill E3 for good. Hosting these big shows are expensive, and I doubt they see any real return on that, and that goes for the publishers and developers too. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titanomachy_75 Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Everyone does their own thing nowadays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VigilantCrow Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Good riddance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber__Kate Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Nowadays there are quite a lot of "independent" gaming-related channels on YouTube where I get most of my news from. R.I.P E3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonaSaxPayne Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 E3 started going downhill since they made it a journalist only affair and stopped letting it be open to the public. the decline in interest has nothing to do with the pandemic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelly Soup Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 10 hours ago, Sendai-Horatio said: It's just Club Penguin for adults. A future where all social media is just a Club Penguin would be better for humanity in a way that is hard to describe given the limitations of English. Let's do this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephrese Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, MonaSaxPayne said: E3 started going downhill since they made it a journalist only affair and stopped letting it be open to the public. the decline in interest has nothing to do with the pandemic It was already like that for a long time before they opened it to the public, which was - relatively speaking - rather recent by comparison. And to say it had nothing to do with the pandemic, which has caused them to cancel physical and digital showings thus allowing other events to fill the void, is just plain incorrect. It's certainly not the only reason behind the decline in interest, however, but it has contributed to and expedited it a lot these last three years. Edited April 1, 2022 by Zephrese 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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