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After delving into a business-like format for the past amount of years the Electronic Entertainment Expo has been rumored by several sources to become a public event starting next year.
The only thing there was more of at E3 than games were complaints about E3's new, tidy, business-like format. Everyone from company execs to game developers to the working press seemed to have something unhappy to say about the show. Coasting right there along with the complaints was a building buzz that next year's E3 was going to have to undergo some mammoth changes. Just how mammoth? According to a number of well connected sources I spoke with during the show, there's considerable thought going into opening the doors, this time officially, to the public at next year's big event.








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The common mistake that 99% of people who have never been make is that the show was ever public.
Odd that this would be an outcome since the ESA and IDG went to provide E For All as the public gaming solution and the industry essentially spit on it because they didn't want to be wide open.
Maybe if you tried to read beyond 18+ you would get it.
I guess I should make it much easier to read.
In earlier years, "sales representatives" for each local game / electronics retailer had about 2 invites per store available to go to the show, this would require that the manager authorize those two individuals and that the two pony up the cash $600 if I remember right in 06 to get in to the floor.
This means that the average joe couldn't walk in and go "hiya, lemme in to that thar E3 u gawtz" regardless of being 599 years old they would still tell them to take a hike and that they wasted their time going.
As such 2 per qualified store then authorized by the ESA and being required to produce a large sum of money to get in isn't a public event, it's not even remotely close.
If you still feel that it = public then you're only fooling yourself.
Here's hoping, anyways.
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