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[Draugoth]

Ubisoft is no longer attending this year’s physical E3 event, VGC understands.

Last month the Assassin’s Creed publisher became the first major company to publicly commit to attending the revamped E3, which is due to take place in June at its traditional venue of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

However, in a statement issued to VGC, the company said it has now decided to “move in a different direction” and will instead be holding its own Ubisoft Forward Live event on June 12 in Los Angeles.

“E3 has fostered unforgettable moments across the industry throughout the years,” a spokesperson told VGC.

“While we initially intended to have an official E3 presence, we’ve made the subsequent decision to move in a different direction, and will be holding a Ubisoft Forward Live event on 12th June in Los Angeles. We look forward to sharing more details with our players very soon.”

E3 organiser ReedPop did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

[Imtjnotu]

 

[Topher]

 

[Kvally]

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Oh yeah we don't need your E3 we'll do our own

With blackjack

And hooker's

In fact forget E3

 

[64bitmodels]

E3, more like E 3 feet in the grave, lol

 

[SantaC]

Nothing of value was lost

 

[BennyBlanco]

so who's gonna be there?

 

[winjer]

Does it matter?

 

[Mr Hyde]

E3:s pull out game is S tier.

 

[Punished Miku]

Keighley won. Now you will see worthless shit with ads and sponsorships spread out over 3 months. Enjoy your dystopian hellscape everyone.

 

[Kacho]

So I’m guessing they committed and expected others to follow. When that didn’t happen they changed their mind?

 

[just_jr]

 

[Skifi28]

At this rate E3 is pulling out of E3.

 

[SmokedMeat]

It’s not like they’d have anything worth showing.

 

[Sentenza]

Watch "their own event" being a wasteland, anyway.

 

[coffinbirth]

They probably cancelled everything they were going to show.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Sony be like,

 

[TrebleShot]

Couldn’t care less

 

[Deerock71]

 

[Bloobs]

 

[Pejo]

Ubisoft:

 

[Varteras]

64bitmodels

E3, more like E 3 feet in the grave, lol

Wait? You have three fe- ... oooooooh

 

[Shubh_C63]

Good. They have been fucking E3 with their dance moves for a while.

 

[Robb]

so who's gonna be there?

The gaming press arriving to the show floor:

 

[Esca]

E3 needs to go to Vegas and bring the booth babes back

 

[NickFire]

They need to make it a spectacle again to have any hope of saving it. I'd suggest working out licensing deals with EA and 2k to have "current version" "year end" tournaments in 2k, Madden and Fifa. Maybe have celeb / athletes in a side tournament too. Get Fortnite mixed in or other shooters too. That alone would get big attention from the younger crowds. And end the restrictions on attire.

Spectacle, competition and sex appeal sells. Sanitized shows for everyone end up being shows for no one. There's no hook in watching YouTube videos on a special day in June. None.

 

[CatLady]

E3 is looking pretty bleak.

On the upside things are looking very positive for the Xbox ABK Acquisition so they can have their own E3 with Zenimax/Bethesda Softworks, Activision/Blizzard/King, Mojang and of course Xbox over at the Microsoft Theater on the Microsoft Plaza.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I say we find a way to twist this into an Ubisoft sale is imminent thread

 

[bitbydeath]

Maybe they shouldn’t charge so much…

 

[blastprocessor]

Use to the the gaming highlight of the year seeing Sony, Microsoft et al attend

 

[DeepEnigma]

E3 is looking pretty bleak.

On the upside things are looking very positive for the Xbox™ ABK Acquisition so they can have their own E3 with Zenimax™/Bethesda Softworks™, Activision™/Blizzard™/King™, Mojang™ and of course Xbox™ over at the Microsoft Theater™ on the Microsoft Plaza™.

 

[Joramun]

They'll probably force you tom create a Ubisoft account just to watch their live event. Meh

 

[Hendrick's]

It's gonna get cancelled isn't it?

 

[SJRB]

 

[digital_ghost]

so who's gonna be there?

Bunch of indie developers. And uhh devolver digital?

 

[DeepEnigma]

It's gonna get cancelled isn't it?

 

[Pop]

Lets just axe E3 again

 

[Imtjnotu]

Bro wtf is this

 

[Twinblade]

Do people still go to E3 anyways?

 

[JohnnyFootball]

Who's left at E3 at this point?

 

[Iced Arcade]

Keighley won. Now you will see worthless shit with ads and sponsorships spread out over 3 months. Enjoy your dystopian hellscape everyone.

Ugh. That sounds terrifying.

 

[Drizzlehell]

 

[YukiOnna]

Happy Geoff wins again

 

[Fbh]

Ubisoft always seems eager to support any event or service where they can push their games. You can probably make a gaming subscription service that's exclusive to smart fridge screens and they'd bring every Assasins Creed and Far Cry to it.

If even they are passing on this then it's as good as dead.

 

[jaysius]

 

[TheGodfather07]

Why they even bother bringing E3 back? It won't last and they'll kill it for good eventually.

 

[Hendrick's]

Bro wtf is this

It's what Druckman wishes Jimbo looked like.

 

[SteelCurtain 59]

Sad, I'll never know why everybody wanted E3 to die, it was infinitely better to get a years worth of news packed into 3 days rather than the annoying dripfeed of content we get now

 

[LiquidMetal14]

SON OF A BEEESH