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Geoff Keighley is skipping E3
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C'mon now, you know why.
Yeah I dont know what happened? E3 was the event of the year and then since Sony skipped last year its fallen out of favour?
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Has no effect on me. I don't like Geoff all that much as far as how presents things and never been a fan. As long as Giant Bomb still has their Sofa interviews all is good with me. Really love Jeff G. interviews and always look forward to them, especially his interviews yearly with Phil Spencer.
Who literally represented us, gamers.
With presentation dedicated to reach gamers.
Now they want to call Justin Bieber, they have every right to do so. This isn't what I waited E3 for.
I wouldn't say quick. It's been happening over the last few years.
According to Giant Bomb they talked a lot about there not really being a lot of interesting things for non-industry attendees to DO, old games being shown/exhibited, etc.
Well something big did change the past year, they did reveal a bunch of people's personal info and announced that the next e3 was going to feature celebrity and influencers which to me is the absolute last thing I want to see. It's not like people are turning on e3 just because Sony is skipping or Nintendo hasn't done a live press conference there in yeaes., They've actually done things that merit people disregarding the show.
We have numerous events that have already taken its spot or at least nullified the need for it.
I mean you still have Directs. If everyone does them I feel as tho people would be okay with that. Sure it's not the all in one E3 holiday but yeah.
We'll just get twitter announcements or out of nowhere dropped trailers. We reaaaaaaaally don't need the big spectacle of revealing anymore.
Direct-style conferences are way better because they're much more focused, better paced and cut alot of the stupid fat in conferences. I embrace the transition to Directs instead of actual conferences.
Because E3 actually was good a few years ago, and now they're rebranding it into nothing more than a fan festival for "influencers" and celebrities. I get what you're doing, but people are allowed to call out bullshit when they see it, you know. E3 is dead.
- No longer relevant
- Companies have found better ways to communicate with their audiences
- Much better fan-oriented conventions like PAX
- Late to adapt to above changes
- 2019 data leak that exposed a ton of journalists
Let's not forget this
E3 organization leaks data for over 2,000 journalists and analysts [Update: Additional security breaches discovered, see threadmarks]
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And their completely trash response to it.
"Given what has been communicated about E3 so far, I just don't feel comfortable participating this year," Keighley tells The Hollywood Reporter.
If you're referring to this, I think he just meant that E3 isn't what it was about anymore.
He's confirmed that he's still going to do an Opening Night Live at gamescom. He's just not doing anything for E3.