Remember the lines for demos as long as 8 hours? Those lines were caused by all you s*** faced gamestop employees, and dumb kids with a stupid fansite. Now they are only allowing people that actually matter, blame yourselves. This change is good, now the press that actually matters will be able to attend the press event without battling thousands of nobodys to get their take on a demo.

But the rest of us are. We like getting to know games up close and personal, and just because your content with playing Madden NFL and movie games, doesn't mean the rest of the world is.



This is pathetic. Every single person who approved this, should be shamed. This is for money. Nothing else.



People are always throwing out things that mean alot nowadays for a quick buck. They will be ruining a long standing gaming tradition, and destroying many gamers dreams of going to E3 so they can save a few thousand dollars every year, which probably won't even show up on their end-year profit quotas. The people who would do that are soulless, heartless, shallow people who gamers everywhere should look down on.



The only hope I have is if the whole of the gaming population finally stands up to this. The gaming industry in the past few years has gone completely downhill. I, for one, will NOT consider E3 affiliated with gaming at all in this form.



Shame, ESA, shame.

E3 was the orginal all video gaming convention...And we down sized to two hotel confence rooms and suites. there will always be TGS but WTF. They killed everything..this was like my christmas, hannuka, (yes i celebrate both) and anyday worth remembering. They got rid of the Booth babes. Those hours of waiting to try the wii were worth it. This is a dark day in the history of video gaming.

To Jesus, it is these stupid kids that are the ones that will eventually buy these crappy games, not the press that they are trying so hard to impress. The thousand nobody's you refer to are the ones that keep these gaming companies afloat.

E3 was never meant for the masses of whiny, pimply-faced, wannabes and fanboys who overtook the show for the last couple of years. From the beginning, E3 was meant for industry insiders. Why the hell else do you guys think it took "connections" to get in?



From the beginning, however, the high geekdom of gaming has found a way in to the show (I attended the very first three with passes I got by begging them off of the guy at my local video games shop). But that didn't mean that the gamers were supposed to be there, the show wasn't meant for us gamers.



If you were to actually take the time to read the press release from the people at E3, you'd see that what they're doing is simply enforcing the rules of the show, and limiting it to REAL insdustry people, not a bunch of kids.



Think about this, too - even with 60,000 fanboys in the room, even if every one of them buys three games and a console when they're released, you're only talking about 3 to 5 million dollars for the industry as a whole. Then offset that by the costs to set up a huge display, have hundreds of consoles, develop demos so that they're playable at the show, and the amazing amounts of giveaway goodies that every stinking kid that comes just has to have, plus all of the travel and hotels and the cost of renting the convention center and paying everybody who works for the companies and the center and it really is a monumental waste of money.



Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and everyone else is still going to be doing their own shows for gamers so that all of the fanboys can drool and feel "leet" about getting a Mario keychain, they just don't want to do it at the show where they're supposed to be talking to fellow industry professionals that has been overtaken by a bunch of fanboys.



Finally, there are so many arguments about how E3 and the gaming industry have betrayed gamers. But, just look at how quick gamers have been to jump ship over a show that wasn't ever even meant for them. Hell, 90% of the people complaining have never even been to the E3 and they're all pissed off like E3 came and personally kicked them in the face. Gamers are way more disloyal to the gaming companies than the companies have ever been.



All that said, the real reason that E3 is gone as we know it is the gamers themselves. It kind of sucks that the show is gone, but it wasn't really doing what it was originally meant to do anymore. The industry knows this and is doing what it needs to to bring the show back to it's roots. Gamers whining and complaining that something was taken from them that was never really theirs are just showing their true colors as selfish and ungrateful little kids who feel they deserve everything without doing anything to earn it first.

Worldwide coverage on TV and in magazines , specially in media that has nothing to do with gaming ?

Forget it.

It will become a footnote on page f---ing sixty.

Nobody will care if a few insiders meet in Bates Motel , to discuss gaming.

They want "The Big Fuzz" that gathers 60000 people.



Time to cancel my Gamespot account.

GAMES ARE FOR EVERYONE. So we as gamers can't go to these game expos like E3? WTF YOU FAIL