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This is why E3 will never be a public event
Ricardo Trejo
Year in and year out gaming fans everywhere ask the same question over and over: is E3 open to the public? To answer that question we need to look only to the image above and the video presented after the break for some convincing evidence as to why not just anyone is allowed to lay their eyes and hands on gaming’s next biggest hardware and software. — More after the break!
Industry events such as E3, Tokyo Games Show, and more recently, GamesCom are meant for professional and high web-traffic blogs to publish thoughts and opinions on first-hand interaction with upcoming games (whew, what a mouthful) — in other words: publicity.
But for some reason the public view is that these events should be open for everyone! And while TGS and GamesCom have public days, after all the journalists and bloggers have had their go, the video below is reason enough to make me never want to attend such an event again.
According to reports, the max capacity for the Koelnmesse, the venue for where GamesCom took place, is 62,000. Well, that number wasn’t anywhere close to the total of people who actually showed up since the entrance doors had to be locked shortly after they were open due to the sheer craziness of it all. Talk about fire code dangers!
Just imagine how long one would have to wait just to play an upcoming, anticipated game? Heck, back when the Wii came out, the wait to try it out at E3 was 6 hours — and that was just a very small fraction in comparison to what we just saw in the video above.
