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ESA confirms to PC Gamer no E3 2020 online event planned
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I can't find the relation between COVID19 and an online event. It's completely safe so what's the issue? It's not like the virus spread through wifi. Media outlets already working from home.
The issue is that the ESA doesn't have their shit together. Complete mismanagement.
Publishers didn't want to participate.
IGN will host an online event with the support of some publishers.
What's the point of the ESA holding an online E3 when the various pubs can do it themselves already? It was a flawed plan from the start.
I bet this is what was always going to happen the ESA just wanted to piggback off of it and many of the publishers and companies said no.
E3, as an event represented and held by the ESA, likely has to be dead now, right? If the IGN collaboration works well enough publishers won't necessarily have to scurry back to the ESA next summer. I'm thinking that If anything publishers may put a greater emphasis on the other fan-focused conventions instead.
It's thier mismanagement more than the virus then because big publishers already planning online events.
Sounds like 3rd parties will just do it themselves and ESA will piggyback of that and link to them.
Why would a company play along with this? They could simply host their own online event instead if they wish to do so.
You have no benefit participating here and sharing your limelight.
When everything is online and publisher's will be making their own content that they can broadcast at a time of their own choosing, what did the ESA have to contribute?
It's both. If the pandemic wasn't happening, there'd be no reason to cancel E3 to begin with, but things were slowly moving this way anyway. We'll see next year what the fallout of all this will be.
Since there's no actual event, there's no need to release news at the same time or any need to do special events to draw attention. So why bother?
Even before the pandemic, E3 2020 was really taking hits.
Hope they can come back big next year!
Hope they can come back big next year!
E3 is not needed.
Every major publisher is able to generate enough buzz by having its own event.
Every major publisher is able to generate enough buzz by having its own event.
I could see smaller pubs wanting the extra attention being a part of a bigger event instead of putting their video out and it being ignored because most don't know to check them out.
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The thing is that E3 was still the convention that any games outlet worth their salt attended. It was the one videogame convention that attracted a global audience. The problem was that the ESA was trying to turn it into PAX, and was doing a really bad job of it. Ultimately, we shall see. I do think claims that E3 is dead is a dumb meme being repeated, but we'll have a better idea of it's health next year. This also applies to every other convention (let's be frank, Gamescom is also getting canned, as is the rest of year's PAXes and EGSes). I don't think E3 will sink alone. Either the idea of convention attendance will die out in its entirety, or we'll be back to business next year (pandemic pending).
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Because production requires a sizable team - and most places right now don't allow that kind of large gathering for a non-essential business/service.
oh well
i'm sure the events put on by the publishers + whatever IGN got cooking will be good enough.
i'm sure the events put on by the publishers + whatever IGN got cooking will be good enough.
That seems like an enormous missed opportunity, especially since a lot of companies had already begun planning on what they would have revealed at E3.
My guess is the ESA doesn't know how to profit on an online event and as such they don't feel the need to promote one....
My guess is the ESA doesn't know how to profit on an online event and as such they don't feel the need to promote one....
Definitely, but this seems like a nail in the coffin for E3. Can't see publishers flocking back to E3 next year if whatever they do this year still works at creating hype.
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