E For None?
Big Download reports that most video game publishers are taking a pass on the upcoming E For All Expo, scheduled for October 3-5 in Los Angeles:
...less than six weeks before the second edition of the event is supposed to begin, the official E For All web site has listed Microsoft and Electronic Arts as the only major game publishers who will be exhibiting at the show this year. Big Download has learned via their official PR representatives that THQ and Konami, both of whom attended E For All in 2007, have no current plans to attend the 2008 event.
...a large number of other major gaming publishers also have no current plans to attend. That list includes Sony, Midway, Atari, Sega, Warner Bros. Interactive, NCsoft, LucasArts, Sony Online, Square Enix, Codemasters, Gamecock, Southpeak, Disney Interactive and Capcom. When contacted, PR reps for Nintendo, 2K Games and Activision did not yet know whether or not their respective companies would be attending...
Big Download cites competition from shows like this week's PAX and October's Tokyo Games Show and Blizzcon as possible reasons for the lack of industry interest in E For All.
With poor publisher support for the second year in a row, the future of the show must be called into question.
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Good post.
Many companies devote their efforts to T and M rated games
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This is supposed to be the new e3. God damn. e3 sucked so badly I was hoping that maybe this would make up for it. Guess not.
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Unsurprising. E for All was poorly conceived from the start. An attempt to set up a convention for the people they were throwing out of E3. Unfortunately for them, it just isn't E3. You can't make two big announcements for the same thing, can't release the same previews as new twice, and so on.
So that it would lack publisher support isn't unexpected. Particularly as E3 itself is sagging and losing publisher enthusiam and/or support.
-Gray17
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Good thing I chose PAX over E for All. I wish I could go to both but could only afford one and PAX was it and right now I'm glad I picked the right one. Anyone going to PAX I will see you there with the tons of other people!
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That's a shame too. While the overwhelming majority of games aren't M rated, they are the ones that appear (at least from my personal perspective) to get the most attention ad and convention wise.
2K really should attend and why Disney isn't, I can't imagine. Many companies devote their efforts to T and M rated games, so their lack of appearance is understood. But you'd think those companies that lean more towards the Es and lower T (such as sports games) would support such an effort. If for no other reason than to work to dispell the myth that video/pc games are merely adult media made for kids.
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Not surprised at all. E For All is a joke ever since they sent people with flashing T-shirts to PAX to advertise their own expo at somebody else's. Not to mention the whole "look at us, we have Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel" crap. PAX is about a hojillion times better than that expo will ever be.
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I'm not really surprised. PAX is where it is at for the game consumer these days (I wish I could go!).