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The apple case seems closer to anything consoles, google where using their position to keep Epic off other manufacturers phones.

Tbh if everyone did a chargeback on this it would cost Valve a lot more money than the refunds. Those chargebacks usually cost companies about $35 per instance plus the amount being retrieved.

Geoff right now

It was dying before COVID came along TBF. The pandemic was just the final nail.

It became cool to hate it. Consumers gave the companies the excuse they needed to pull the rug.

The pandemic is over, we should be back to in person events.

Fair enough. Maybe I was in a social media bubble but I've been increasingly frustrated with all the hate of what was simply an in person event to get gamers together to enjoy games. You could see it dying a death, this is no surprise.

I don't agree it was instigated by the video game industry. Absolutely they would prefer not to do it. I mean look at the **** show releases we are seeing, God forbid they would have to pull together some playable demos for an event. But to me it became this cool thing to hate on it. Games are years out, same games each year etc etc Who cares? It's an event to get together and enjoy your hobby.

I know in person events are on the come back, that's my point to the argument that covid killed it.

Ah I loved the anticipation of E3 and prior to the big internet boom get a trailer disc on offical playstation magazine along with the demos. The good old days.

the Epic thing is really interesting and one to keep an eye on, I am firmly of the believe the real reason people chose one console over an other is not the exclusives is just that so many people are digitally invested in a console and its not worth moving to another as odds are your mates are in the same boat.

Unless of course you and your mates are Nintendo fiends only.

Wonder if much truth to this.

Never particularly kept up with the guy, but his entire shtick seems to be every cynical game media trend manifested in one being and dispensed with the charisma of a dual carriageway.

If it was just details of the game, Insomniac could release all info in a spoilered post. But the fact that they also have employee details makes it worse. Hope they can be traced/caught. Pure scum is all these people are. A known ransomware group... state of the times.

Yeah Sony had already pulled out in order to do their own thing, and Nintendo were doing their own Directs. It was really Microsoft and Ubisoft who were keeping their own big showcases at E3. But many started to suspect the writing was on the wall in 2019. And then 2020 happened which all but guaranteed it.

E3 for several years had always just been about the Youtube videos and game reveals/announcements anyway. But it started to make far more sense that the bigger companies began doing their own things in order to not have to try compete for headlines with other companies, or having to get trailers ready for a specific date they may not have wanted to hit.

In terms of people actually playing the games on the floor throughout the week, as JU says the vast majority of people will never have set foot there anyway, and most would have just relied on different gaming outlets/journalists playing the games and then sharing their thoughts. That still happens at other events and even private preview events.

The E3 most people enjoyed, in terms of the game reveals/announcements, is just Keighley's Summer GamesFest now. Some other companies do their own showcases that same week. It's basically E3 at this point.

Wow, rare W from IGN. They reached out to devs who won awards at the Geoff show but didn't get a chance to give a speech and the devs replied with their own speeches through this article, classy move!