E3 2022 Canceled - Like a dying dog being put to sleep, really

[Neil]

E3 should have died years ago, doing so would've prevented shit like the drag queen promotion below from ever happening:

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Quick reminder what showed up last E3. Good fucking riddance to this shit.

I got my 1 game of the year (Elden Ring), doubt any shit the industry comes up with this year is going to get me excited.

Edit: Last year's thread for anyone who wants to dive a bit more into the shitshow that was E3 2021, California edition

The absolute state of western gaming post 2015. The only worthwhile titles at E3 for the last decade have been Japanese anyway.

 

[Margo Martindale]

I prefer /v/3 anyways

 

[starborn427614]

Doesn't really mean anything in the age of streaming, companies can put out a video of stuff they want to announce without tying it into any one event. I'm sure Geoff is salivating though now that he has a clear path over the summer.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

There was an E3 last year?

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

"covid-19". its clear they dont have nothing to show to make it worth it. its for the best. i rather not have to see broken bucks and trannies being "stunning" and "brave".

oh, you just know they would shill the fuck out for Ukraine and piss on the Russians if this year had a show.

 

[Pee Cola]

E3 is like The Simpsons: the first decade was great, but everything after that sucked balls and it should've been put out of its misery years ago.

 

[Gamercat]

who dafaq still cares about E3 the game publishers have their own events anyway

 

[Fougaro]

While on one hand I believe that E3 has been put out of its misery, I'd be lying if I said that I won't miss the cringe.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

God dammit, but I was looking forward to an entire week of being told what to preorder, and what super cool in-game jpgs I'd get. What will I unquestioningly consume now?

 

[Fougaro]

There was an E3 last year?

Yes and it was wild! Capcom and Bandai/Namco managed to have worse shows than the tranny indie devs.

 

[Lone MacReady]

The best E3 was in 2004, and it was all downhill from there.

 

[Ruin]

The last E3 I watched unironically had a massive black troon try and fail to use a game controller.

Good let it stay dead forever.

 

[FatMebius]

Last year's was a big nothing burger, so this is fine. No real loss. I'm not gonna miss any diversity experts or bugman journalists shilling garbage. I might miss Todd Howard in some kind of fancy jacket trying to blow smoke up my ass though.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

Only thing I will miss is the twitch chat being unmoderated as fuck

 

[Blue Screen of Death]

I wonder if E3's death is of its own doing or just a side effect of how games in general have gotten worse.

 

[The Big O]

It's for the best. California has become a miserable place to conduct any sort of business just from how bat-shit insanely paranoid they are over COVID. Not to mention the AAA tier of the gaming industry is starting to show how terminally unsalvageable the woke rot cancer is with them, while indies and non-western studios stay true to form and outdo the corporations at every turn.

It could be that shedding E3 is a sign we really are overdue for a brand new game industry crash, COVID-related excuses aside. It probably won't happen in the same way as the 1980s did, but it might make Microsoft, Sony, Ubi, Squeenix, Capcom, Blizz, and maybe even Nintendo to re-evaluate their futures as companies.

 

[Slav Power]

The only yearly events that are worth following are tech expos like CES.

 

[Anon88]

This is sad. I always looked forward to making fun of all the retards who were apart of it. This year probably would have been really funny too. I bet they would have pushed a bunch of NFTs no one wanted filled with terrible artwork.

 

[verissimus]

I wonder if E3's death is of its own doing or just a side effect of how games in general have gotten worse.

Why would it? The whole point of the show was just to advertise upcoming games once per year. It's not like that can't be handled in another venue or in-house by the major publishers (Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, etc.). If anything, the whole thing has become largely pointless.

At worse, this may only hurt the Indie games assuming they can't get some major sponsor.

Edit : I would also add/emphasize there is still the Tokyo Game Show which, as far as I'm concerned, is less ridiculous than E3 shows have been in years although not quite as interesting for whatever reason. So if you're looking only for information on a slew of Japanese published games, you can check that out. All the Western game publishers (Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, etc.) will have to come up with something else.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

Don't worry, friends. E3 changed ownership a couple years ago. The real E3 event has been taking place at a homosexual couple's house since 2018 and in 2020 it got so massive that they moved it to the back yard. It's kind of a big deal. They do it way better than the multi-billion dollar corporations. Al Pacino even shows up!