GameSpot: E3 Opens To The Public For The First Time Ever

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The Dutch Slayer said:
Welp you had a good run E3 have fun doing your job everyone best of luck to you.

Your in my world now have fun.

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Never again. Media day was the only day worth going there :( At least the first time I was in Cologne and the last time it was in Leipzig.
 
As someone who had the oppurtunity to go in 2015 as non press, definitely reccomend going at least once. What an experience I'll never forget.
 
I can't imagine that, when allowing an additional 15,000 people into the show, E3 is going to be running at the same capacity it was for just the press. Surely there will be more staff, booths, etc to accommodate?
 
Gamescom shows that it's maybe not the best place to be if you don't like masses of sweaty ppl. Although the price and ticket limit will probably prevent that.
 
I feel like this is a response to the fading relevancy of e3 in the shadow of things like PAX & PSX pulling huge audiences.
 
Kagari said:
They were. It's not particularly difficult to get in if you know what you're doing.
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Yep, this just makes it easier for those folks to go, and just recognizes the changes that have gone on in the marketplace.

Business will still be done behind closed doors, as has always been.
 
Yeah, happy that more people get to experience it, but overall this might be what keeps me from going to E3. PSX felt like a mini E3 that was open to the public, and the public aspect of it is what made it a piece of shit this year lol. I would also guess this will either A) increase the count of people there or B) reduce the complimentary ticket pool for industry people, which both will reduce its coolness.

Hopefully I am just being pessimistic old dude and it's still a great event.
 
MatPiscatella said:
Yep, this just makes it easier for those folks to go, and just recognizes the changes that have gone on in the marketplace.

Business will still be done behind closed doors, as has always been.
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Speaking from experience this isn't always true. Which is why E3 would do well to have designated press-only days, the same as Gamescom and Tokyo Game Show do it.

E3 was crowded enough with press/exhibitors/retail employees etc.
 
Shauk said:
I feel like this is a response to the fading relevancy of e3 in the shadow of things like PAX & PSX pulling huge audiences.
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Precisely. The buzz of RDR & Monday Night Combat in 2010, and Splatoon/Overwatch in 2015, was palpable at the PAX Easts I've been to. You can't put a price on that kind of fan exposure.

Edit: Plus PAX's indie showcase area is probably the most traffic any of those games are going to see before release. Games like Axiom Verge, Hyperlight Drifter, and Broforce were all big PAX debuts.
 
Well that will be a shit show then, more so than usual.

Private meetings are going to be even more of a thing this year.
 
I really don't mind as someone who goes for work, but they really should just open it up on the weekends for public. Making people take a few weekdays to go is kind of lame, baby steps I guess. At least now they can get rid of that lame public E3 Play bullshit from last year, thing was pointless.
 
I like this if you're a small media site trying to get in, but I don't know how I feel about people in the non-industry coming in. I guess I'll see how it is when it happens.
 
This is good. Press events are stupid when you're a normal consumer with no industry ties. It sucks knowing you won't get a chance to try something ages in advance purely because you work in a different industry.

I'm from the UK and likely won't be going anyway, but it's great news for others like me. I never got to play Starcraft Ghost :(
 
Garrett Hawke said:
Cons are very rarely "worth the money" on face value. It's more about the experience, having it as a trip, going with people you like etc.
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Exactly. Think of it like going to an amusement park, a ski resort, or any other vacation. Conventions hold absolutely zero interest to me, but that doesn't mean I can't see the appeal for others.
 
RecRoulette said:
I thought lot of Youtube folks/streamers were already getting E3 invites over the last few years.
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I've always assumed the tickets were relatively easy to get to be honest. I'd been offered them in the past when working with a couple of growing sites. They were closer to blogs with a reasonable audience and yet we had no real trouble getting them, however we did have some pretty solid contacts too. I'd have gone, but being from the UK I couldn't really afford the travel. I'd imagine being a well know Youtuber is pretty much guarunteed access if you actually try for it.
 
Honestly not really for that. E3 always seemed like a press/developer thing and not something like PAX where you have 8 billion people lined up.
 
RecRoulette said:
I thought lot of Youtube folks/streamers were already getting E3 invites over the last few years.
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It's never been hard to get into E3 at all. If you just gave them money they'd let anyone in.

What they should definitely do is have a separate media and public days, though.
 
Swag will easily pay for your ticket
those zelda breath of the wild shirts x coins still go for money

I will go one of these years, just to say I went to one, pretty cool.
 
Trace said:
Honestly not really for that. E3 always seemed like a press/developer thing and not something like PAX where you have 8 billion people lined up.
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When i went two years ago there were long lines a plenty. Though I guess adding 15000 people doesnt help.
 
PAULINK said:
When i went two years ago there were long lines a plenty. Though I guess adding 15000 people doesnt help.
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I think they should have tightened the press specifications a bit if anything so you wouldn't have people from "random blog you've never heard of that has 8 hits" showing up, not adding more people on top of that. There already are conventions like Gamescom/PAX for the fans, which have separate things for developers like press days or PAX Dev. Just opening the whole show at E3 to fans seems like it'll be a shitshow.
 
I'm pretty sure it was open to the public from 1995-2006. The press won't like this because it won't be their super-cool exclusive get-together anymore.
 
friskykillface said:
Swag will easily pay for your ticket
those zelda breath of the wild shirts x coins still go for money

I will go one of these years, just to say I went to one, pretty cool.
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Lol you had to wait in a 5+ hour line just to get that. Now this year will be much worse and there is hardly and public swag like that. Anything I've gotten is usually at the private parties/events in gift bags.
 
Falchion said:
My dream may finally come true in the near future because I've always wanted to go to E3.
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Same, the booths all the publishers set up for three days look like Disneyland for video games.

I'm pretty sure it was open to the public from 1995-2006. The press won't like this because it won't be their super-cool exclusive get-together anymore.
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This is exactly what I thought.
 
While I'm glad it's only 15k allotment, I assume for one-day passes, the idea of going to E3 and dealing with families and children irks the shit out of me. There's a vibe at E3 that everyone kind of knows what to do and where to go and all in the same boat of videogame media/retail etc.. (in other words, people tend to be professional and act as such).

E3 is becoming more and more unnecessary so I guess these are the final breaths.
 
I'm all in on this! Hope tickets don't sell out too fast on Monday.

I've gotten in the last 3 years for free w/ Microsoft's FanFest thing, but I wouldn't mind paying $150 to go again.

Being LA local helps too (no hotel cost).
 
Pay all that money to stand in massive sweaty lines and get angry looks from the press who hate the public getting in the way of their work and making them feel less important. Sounds great :p
 
Along with this news, I wish they would start having a different city host E3 each year. But if PAX East was anything to go by, I don't think I would go. Just too damn crowded.
 
Dear god, I can only imagine how crowded it will be. No thanks. It was fun when I used to go, but I don't think I could stand to go any longer. Everyone should go once, though.
 
Not sure it will change something really, there was quite a few people there that aren't from the industry / press. Any serious media outlets got appointments behind closed doors anyway or get their info before the E3.

But if ESA is doing that, it's clearly because the E3 is dying. There's no need for a big publisher to go there anymore, it's easier to get the job done via Internet than being there. It's quite the same for journalists. The showfloor is a mess and I don't think adding 15K more people will help it.

So people will go there to say "I've been at E3!" but it will not really different from going to PAX. I wouldn't be surprised if some publishers change their mind in the coming weeks.

(Disclaimer: I've been to 8 E3 from 2002 to 2012)
 
MadLaughter said:
I expect most media outlets to be against this. The sense I get is that it's stressful enough to cover the show effectively WITHOUT hordes of randos crowding up the joint.
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I've definitely not against it, but it definitely makes me rethink about attending this year.

letmetrythisname said:
I'm pretty sure it was open to the public from 1995-2006. The press won't like this because it won't be their super-cool exclusive get-together anymore.
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Nah. We still get access to stuff the public can't. It doesn't change anything, just makes it more crowded. Think of how most other events are now; Comic Con, PAX, TGS, Gamescom. I'm surprised it took them this long to do it again.
 
To everyone who is going to get tickets via this:

GO TO THE GAF MEETUP

SouSouRocket and Modus do good work and GAF meetups are always a blast.
 
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