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  Horny Melon | May 02, 2008
  E3 last year was a farce. It was a pain in the but to move from venue to venue for press conferences. It was largely considered a disaster. Whoever was in charge of the event is back to square one and must reattract all the developers. Without the public to generate hype though is there really a need for the big developers to go? What would be said there that wouldn't be picked up through press releases and GDC?
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  Final Blade | May 02, 2008
  _{Well nothing lasts forever, and this is clearly one of them. Sad though.}
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  Donnelly | May 02, 2008
  wtf? It's not as if there is a lack of big names.
  
  
  CAPCOM Entertainment, Inc.
  Electronic Arts
  Konami Digital Entertainment America
  Microsoft Corporation
  Nintendo of America Inc.
  Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.
  Sony Online Entertainment Inc.
  Square Enix Inc.
  Take-Two Interactive
  THQ, Inc.
  Ubisoft
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  Gothic Girl | May 02, 2008
  It'd be a shame if there was no E3 next year, because it has failed as a result of their own poor changes. E3 was doing fantastically up until they suddenly chose to make it a private expo. The public was a big part of it, and small things like public-demos and booth-babes added alot of fun to the expo that no longer exists.Rather than completely getting rid of E3 next year, why don't they just return it to the way it was? It would be a big loss to the gaming world if E3 ended forever. No other expo comes close to it's "hugeness".
  
  I miss the days where I would enter IGN or Gamespot and be bombarded with exciting news about my most-anticipated games from the latest E3 expo.
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    VeGiTAX2 | May 02, 2008
    E3 = Corporate Trade Show
    
    The show wasn't meant to be a public swag fest, yes there was swag for people to take home but it was more based on the idea that this is the industry and it should be more lax compared to a normal show.
    
    E3 has forever been a private expo, if you tried to apply as a regular joe there was no admitting. You had to pull some card out of your hat to fake a website, your "sales assistant" tag or something else to get them to pass you through the registration gates. Unless it was a really really low budget third party, most demos were behind badge only doors.
    
    The problem apparently though was the cost of the show, the cost of producing all this gear and all these shows for people versus the money they were taking in later. E3 was basically becoming a huge entertainment budget and expectations had been growing for years about magical amounts of freebies and shows. The progression though starting around in 2004 had showed that companies in 2005 and 2006 had already started cutting back their participation, R* was one of the first to step back and even EA reduced their booth design as a more closed feel as the years started to push on.
    
    I'd love some form of that E3 to return though even as a media fest, the show last year was a sham though, empty kiosk isles with "beta testers" to act as company consults were insulting, no more hands on play sessions with the devs? yeah. right.
    
    The show will hopefully shape up in the coming months, if not then the West loses one of the biggest shows for gaming that there ever really has been.
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  joshuam | May 02, 2008
  lol im sure there be others to go to not jus E3
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  Kinetic | May 02, 2008
  I really look forward to E3 each year. Have for the past five or six years. It would suck if it went away.
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  kik36 | May 02, 2008
  It's a shame, it was always a big dream to go to an E3.......but I never got to it before they closed it to the public......I'm sure it will be shut down soon.
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  Spazerman | May 02, 2008
  wow BS ubisoft doesn't have great games either bad list 0.o
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  twilightprince | May 02, 2008
  All the big names are still there, but the number is dwindeling.
  
  Its a shame. E3 used to be like Christmas for gamers. Now its something less.
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  R1DDL3S | May 03, 2008
  All the big developers are there...I always thought I would be able to go eventually but i guess not...
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  VeGiTAX2 | May 03, 2008
  Official Statement from Activision on why we'll not see them this time around.
  
  "After careful consideration, for business reasons Activision has decided not to participate in any official E3 activities. We wish the ESA best of luck with the show."
  
  One could also wonder if last year's live demo had anything to do with that seeing as it was quite uhm... bad? Yeah never have drunk/high comedians as your host.
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  Spazerman | May 05, 2008
  it would of been so much better if the included blizzard
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    R1DDL3S | May 05, 2008
    Agreed, but they do have their own events that are much bigger.
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      VeGiTAX2 | May 05, 2008
      Indeed, Blizzcon is a much bigger bash for them, their invitational tournaments and so on only demonstrate further that they don't really need to piggyback on any venue at all.