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[muttyeah416]

I was wondering how you can get uh tickets to E3. Being an average guy with no connections to say the gaming press, how do people get a pass? I just wanna know.

Eh, anyway it'll probably be finals week.

 

[Dante]

work in the industry.

 

[TekunoRobby]

One does not simply walk into E3.

 

[PhoenixDark]

I was wondering how you can get uh tickets to E3. Being an average guy with no connections to say the gaming press, how do people get a pass? I just wanna know.

Eh, anyway it'll probably be finals week.

I can't go this year due to school. [EDIT]

 

[TekunoRobby]

The website has everything you want to know:
http://e3expo.com/attendees/faq.aspx

 

[OmniAvenger]

You can walk right into the convention center (past the "security checkpoint"), but you can't get into any of the halls without a pass. You can stand outside the doors and watch people more connected than you have so much fun than you could ever have (unless, of course, you're eating something wrapped in bacon). Still some freebies can be acquired like magazines and there are "booth babes" in those areas too.

 

[tedtropy]

Unless the requirements have changed drastically, you need to run a shitty gaming fansite. I'm told they're going to crack down on the $6-an-hour pre-order jockies attending as "part of the industry", but we'll see.

 

[koam]

Go to site, register and invent company name, pay $300 or whatever it is and you're in.

 

[WasabiKing]

I'm told they're going to crack down on the $6-an-hour pre-order jockies attending as "part of the industry", but we'll see.

It's covered in the requirements. Says you need to be added on a corporate registration list.

 

[Fishie flop oog]

Well, you start out with a little eatery.
Make sure its a success and people like your food.
Once they do and you cant keep up with demand you try to find people who want to open a place that serves the same food you do.
I think they call it franchising.
Once you have thousands of franchise restaurants selling your food you can aproach a software company.
And have them make a game where the objective is the same as in your franchise restaurants(serving beef bowls for instance).
If you have done all that you can go to E3 as part of the industry for free.

 

[Ghengis Cohen]

Well, you start out with a little eatery.
Make sure its a success and people like your food.
Once they do and you cant keep up with demand you try to find people who want to open a place that serves the same food you do.
I think they call it franchising.
Once you have thousands of franchise restaurants selling your food you can aproach a software company.
And have them make a game where the objective is the same as in your franchise restaurants(serving beef bowls for instance).
If you have done all that you can go to E3 as part of the industry for free.

Quit reading my business plan.

 

[Fishie flop oog]

Quit reading my business plan.

YOUR biz plan?
Dude I was first, then Yoshinoya came and stole my idea.

 

[Tathanen]

You don't have to be associated with anything at all. The public can get in, it's just not FREE. You have to purchase an "exhibits only" pass. That'll let you roam the show floor with everyone else.

 

[Shogmaster]

It requires you giving me a BJ.*









*

Spoiler

only if you're a hot chic.

Spoiler

On second thought, I'll take it where ever I can get it.

Spoiler

Scratch that. Momentary lapse in judgement there. It's all this Brokeback Mountain brouhaha going on these days. Fucking Ang Lee....

 

[tedtropy]

It's covered in the requirements. Says you need to be added on a corporate registration list.

To be fair, they never really belonged there. Hoepfully this will result in better coverage and less ZOMG TWILITE PRINCESS DEMO AWESOME! business.

 

[ManaByte]

This will be the best E3 ever.

Not because of PS3. Not because of Revolution.

But because it won't be crowded because retail monkeys can't flood the floor space!

 

[skip]

are they really keeping out retail this year?

 

[ManaByte]

are they really keeping out retail this year?

http://e3expo.com/attendees/faq.aspx

What are the requirements for attending E3 2006?
E3 2006 is not open to the general public. You must be part of the interactive entertainment industry in order to attend the show, and you must be able to provide documentation demonstrating your direct and current professional affiliation in this industry. If you are from the retail sector, you must be selected by your parent company to attend. For other affiliated industries attendance is limited and late registrations may be denied. To be considered for registration, two forms of industry ID must accompany your application. At least one form of industry ID must contain your name and the name of the company where you work. Incomplete applications will not be processed, and the Management of E3 2006 reserves the right to deny any applicant admission.

 

[skip]

my excitement has increased tenfold. perhaps even by an order of magnitude. I'm not sure.

 

[MassiveAttack]

Bribery

 

[muttyeah416]

So any of you too busy and are willing to forfeit your pass/badge to me?

 

[Yamauchi]

One does not simply walk into E3.

What I was going to say.

 

[Mr Jared]

So any of you too busy and are willing to forfeit your pass/badge to me?

Hey. I'm on to you, Johnny Nightfraud.

 

[MassiveAttack]

So any of you too busy and are willing to forfeit your pass/badge to me?

I suggest you go to the other forum for that, otherwise you won't last here.

 

[thetrin]

I went to E3 in 2002, and 2003. The first year I put down the $250 and went as part of a company. The next year I was part of a gaming website, and just had to prove my affiliation with the site for the press pass.

 

[MrDaravon]

If you are from the retail sector, you must be selected by your parent company to attend

Hasn't it always been that way really though? I'll be impressed if they actually DO crack down this year. Do they still send out the things each you to everyone who went the last year? I got them for like 3 years even though I didn't work at EB anymore, but you have to prove you're still with them, are they not allowing that either (as in you have to re-qualify)?

Plus like someone else said, can't anybody get in, you just have to pay the $300 or whatever it is to get in? That's not THAT bad really, for those of us who are employed at least.

 

[ShowDog]

Basically anybody can get in as long as you can get a pass from someone who isn't going on a particular day. On the first day people need to register their passes, the next 3 or 4 days you just need to show the pass to get in. At least in years past. If you knew anyone who didn't want to go on a particular day, you'd just become them for the day. The security guards at the door barely glance at the pass, and it only has a name on it. You just waltz through.

 

[Roland Stiles]

watch people more connected than you have so much fun than you could ever have

Nobody in the industry has fun at E3. What a cruel lie you've been fed.

 

[MrDaravon]

Basically anybody can get in as long as you can get a pass from someone who isn't going on a particular day. On the first day people need to register their passes, the next 3 or 4 days you just need to show the pass to get in. At least in years past. If you knew anyone who didn't want to go on a particular day, you'd just become them for the day. The security guards at the door barely glance at the pass, and it only has a name on it. You just waltz through.

:lol I'd forgotten about that. I went with a guy named Chris one day, then the next day he gave his badge to another friend's girlfriend and they don't even look.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Just stay here with us, it's always a laugh.

Often a despairing laugh that breaks down into sobs of pain, but a laugh's a laugh.

 

[DrEvil]

Basically anybody can get in as long as you can get a pass from someone who isn't going on a particular day. On the first day people need to register their passes, the next 3 or 4 days you just need to show the pass to get in. At least in years past. If you knew anyone who didn't want to go on a particular day, you'd just become them for the day. The security guards at the door barely glance at the pass, and it only has a name on it. You just waltz through.

This year, media at least, also have to have valid Photo ID at all access points as well as their media badge; so pass trading won't work this year methinks.

d

 

[ChrisReid]

Unless the requirements have changed drastically, you need to run a shitty gaming fansite.

You also need a business license and tax documentation to prove you're a commercial business. So just starting a website won't do it.

 

[Beezy]

One does not simply walk into E3.

Uh...yes you do.

 

[Mr_Furious]

If you have to ask how to "get in" then you don't belong at E3.

Nobody in the industry has fun at E3. What a cruel lie you've been fed.

Bullshit! I've attended every single E3 so far and with the exception of a couple years where I had to work at a booth (and that wasn't even that bad), I've really enjoyed attending every show. This year won't be any different

 

[TekunoRobby]

Uh...yes you do.

It was a bad LotR joke, pay me no heed.

 

[cvxfreak]

Uh...yes you do.

I heard that you run and tackle people in an attempt to get to the PS3 and Revolution kiosks.

 

[djtiesto]

My coworker and I both got confirmation this year due to our work in wargaming/simulation. I guess you can always try and find a tenuous link to the gaming industry... I faxed my form in, put my place of business, career - "Engineer in Operations Analysis/Simulation", type of business "graphics/media", faxed over my W2 and paystub, and got confirmed.

 

[flarkminator]

One does not simply walk into E3.

These aren't the freeloaders you're looking for....*waves hand*

 

[Beezy]

It was a bad LotR joke, pay me no heed.

Mines was a joke too from a certain LotR gif.

 

[CB3]

I was wondering how you can get uh tickets to E3. Being an average guy with no connections to say the gaming press, how do people get a pass? I just wanna know.

Eh, anyway it'll probably be finals week.

Sam Fisher Style. If you do, make sure you take pictures. Then when everyone starts stealing your bandwith with no credit to you switch the URL with *another* picture

*ahem*

 

[MassiveAttack]

Bullshit! I've attended every single E3 so far and with the exception of a couple years where I had to work at a booth (and that wasn't even that bad), I've really enjoyed attending every show. This year won't be any different

Last year was so ridiculously overcrowded it was difficult to have "fun" no matter who you were.

 

[VOOK]

One does not simply walk into E3.

You skip obviously

Or in my Case Waddle

 

[Tathanen]

Are you people deaf? Did you all ignore my post?

http://www.e3expo.com/attendees/pricing.aspx

You do NOT have to be part of the industry. Even though it says you do ALL OVER the E3 website, there's a pricing page. Packages 1-4 can be purchased by anyone. Only package 5 requires an industry affiliation, and will give you free floor access.

 

[FtsH]

Are you people deaf? Did you all ignore my post?

http://www.e3expo.com/attendees/pricing.aspx

You do NOT have to be part of the industry. Even though it says you do ALL OVER the E3 website, there's a pricing page. Packages 1-4 can be purchased by anyone. Only package 5 requires an industry affiliation, and will give you free floor access.

is this a new policy for 2006?

 

[argon]

is this a new policy for 2006?

It's been like that since E3 2000 at least.. (when the passes were only $275.)

Spoiler

You spend a ton of cash to basically get treated like dirt by developers, publishers, and the press.. Damn those french journalists hogging the Gamecube duffle bags =( Meeting Miyamoto was worth it tho =)

 

[Mr_Furious]

Last year was so ridiculously overcrowded it was difficult to have "fun" no matter who you were.

I didn't have any problems in that department

My only real complaint was the lack of power at one point making it much harder to get food due to decreased options.

 

[MassiveAttack]

I didn't have any problems in that department

My only real complaint was the lack of power at one point making it much harder to get food due to decreased options.

I guess after attending 11 E3s in a row, it's becoming a bit predictable. Either that or seeing downtown LA once a year is too much.

 

[Ronin]

One does not simply walk into E3.

Needs an accompanying photoshop.

 

[Fusebox]

"One does not simply walk into E3..."

edit - late as hell.

 

[Fishie flop oog]

I guess after attending 11 E3s in a row, it's becoming a bit predictable. Either that or seeing downtown LA once a year is too much.

Definitly the second.