Reminder. People paid $1000 to get into E3
A grand just to see bad videogames get annoounced, pretty sad desu senpai.
>>341218829
>A grand just to watch a week's worth of doctored bullshots and corporate marketing, pretty sad desu senpai.
fix'd
The corporations that sent them there can afford it.
I'm sure there were a few people who were legit just huge fucking fans of video games and got tickets on the cheap but I doubt there's anyone who wasn't professionally tied to video games there that expensed $995.
>>341218829
Don't they also play around with demos as well as get swag from devs and their booths?
>Paying to watch ads
>tfw you didn't go to E3
glad i still have my $1000 desu
>>341218514
if I paid $1000 and I was surrounded by youtubers with 100 subs and blue haired sjws who "knew someone" that all got in for free I'd go postal
>>341219059
NO THEY ARE STUPID DOO DOO HEADS AND EAT POO POO LIKE A DUMBY STUPID HEAD
>>341219127
>posting anime gifs on /v/ at 2am
you don't have $1000.
I don't. I get mine for free.
I didn't go this year.
Being a blogger on a website is great fun.
>>341218514
E3 is meant to be for journalists and industry professionals. It's not for the general public. Companies send people then claim it as a business expense on their tax returns.
>Corporations think you're a journalist
>Get free shit
>Pandered to so that you don't write a mean tweet
Idk it's a pretty good power fantasy for $995, you get to roleplay the kings of the industry.
>>341219059
you gotta remember that these are press conferences for the press and not your average consumer
That $1000 is the cost of a single class at UTA
Would afford you 1000 (one thousand) mcchickens from McD old dollar menu (the shitheads raised the price from 1 buck to 1.18 and spicy from 1.00 to 1.47), hell its half the price of a beater car.
If you qualify as part of the industry your tickets are free. I am a web developer and I qualified, it's very easy to get in.
>>341219174
thats life senpai. a friend got to play the unreleased latest version of a sports game last week at the development studio and offer his opinion on it because he used to play tennis with the guy that ended up as the project manager for the studio.
can't get mad at the way it works.
$1000? Holy fuck has it always been this expensive? I was hoping to visit America and go to E3 next year but if it's a higher price than the plane tickets maybe wrestlemania is the better choice...
>>341218514
I know people that work at the convention center, they don't care about games, so they give me a pass for E3, it's pretty great.
>>341219186
>2 am
Not everyone is in your timezone, Amerilard
>>341218514
Are you kidding me? If I had the money I'd pay $2000.
What kind of snorebore posted this?
>>341218514
>$1000 pass to enter E3
>Meanwhile other conventions passes are $60
Try again E3.
>>341218514
No one actually fucking paid $1000 to go to E3 because it's fucking easy to get in for free.
>>341219510
Alright in addition to being a penniless anime poster you're also living in the third world.
>>341218514
What is an expense account?
>>341219541
15 rupees have been deposited into your account, Pajeet.
>>341219260
My website I run is minor of the minor, but even we got E3 passes offered for the last two years.
Want to know the criteria to get a free E3 Press Pass?
Have 50,000 unique hits a month.
>>341218514
but doesn't that including meet and greets, first to play new games, and swag?
>>341218514
>tfw French
>all major titles will be at Japan expo
>we get Callie-mari concert as a bonus
>for 50 euros
feels good man.
>>341219921
>>we get Callie-mari concert as a bonus
I got a free pass but I can totally justify the cost considering I get to hang out with devs and network with various studios.
It's not a fucking consumer event.
>>341219913
Swag is always free for everyone and the "first-to-play" is a load of bullshit because those that DO have that ability... hey, guess what? There's a fucking line for that, too, because other people have that.
>>341220047
>working in the video game industry
>paying for e3
>implying companies don't write it off
>>341219921
Video games are haram my friend. Your imam would not be impressed.
>>341218514
people paid 1000$ to use E3 to network and get a shoe in across the industry
>>341220438
No they're not.
>Pay 1000 bucks not counting travel and hotel fees to watch several hours of Runarounds and Bullshots.
>All you get is the chance to play a limited version of the game and trinkets from their booths that roughly add up to 30 bucks at best.
what a waste. I would demand it back.
desu its not really a big deal unless you want to rub shoulders with other people in the industry
If all you care about is announcements then just watch the streams
You guys aren't listening, no one pays to get into e3.
>>341220581
That isn't what you pay for. You pay to meet the developers and to network.
>$1000 + tax to watch vidya trailers and play demos
>not including the lodging, travel, and food expenses
I am so glad I have money saved for a Platinum pass for SWSX.
>>341220438
moderate muslims are how Sony sells their fifa/cod machines. Immigrants like to express their newly fuond freedom by buying all the expensive shit they can.
>>341220808
This. I still have all my fucking business cards from 2013.
>>341220808
>and to network.
but it's free to do online, via tweeter, facebook, or even neogaf.
>>341221084
I just got a $1300 G-Sync monitor from Acer because I knew a bunch of their PR team from Conumer Electronics Show and Computex
I regularly get merch from hardware vendors such as MSI and EVGA as well. I got my job from hanging out with an engineer at GDC. Please remind me how I could have done that for free on /gaf/?
>>341221084
That's easy to do, but to mean business you have to meet face-to-face. Go to parties, mingle, talk to devs on the floor, etc. People on the internet are looked at as just another retard, but in person, you show you mean business.
>>341218514
£1000 is absolutely tiny for a business expense.
>people on this board think E3 is basically an exclusive PAX
Kill yourselves. These are the people who play armchair gamedev.
>>341221084
It isn't. When you're face to face with the CEO of a company, it's easier to get your point across and to read the situation.
It doesn't take effort to write a Tweet of "HIRE ME DEVS :DDD" or write an email of "HIRE BE DEVS :DDD". But to go out and meet the guys, get to know them briefly and go "I have an idea and some experience..." will more likely, if you gave a good impression of, "Okay, I'll get my girl/guy to book you an appointment next week".
When you've paid $1,000 just to have a shot at meeting a guy, it shows you mean business, compared to firing off a dozen emails to a dozen different companies a day.
>>341221683
$1000 =! £1000.
$1000 = £700 or so.
>>341222558
No wonder millennials don't get jobs anymore if this is representative of how people think getting hired works. "JUST POST ON NEOGAF"
Didn't E3 use to be full of suits and professional?
It's not open to the general public because people went apeshit for the Wii at E3 2006.
Heaven forbid the people who actually like video games and who actually have to buy video games instead of getting free copies handed to them want to go to an expo about video games.
>>341222857
Then go to PAX. I don't want E3 becoming SDCC. This is an industry event and I need to network and check out other people's tech
>>341218514
Journalists didn't pay their own tickets their companies did
>>341222558
Not to mention, unless my knowledge fails me, E3 is the Electronics Entertainment Expo. Correct me if I'm wrong but, doesn't that mean there's MORE than just vidya games there?
>>341223867
theres a bunch of different conferences that are there, but the only ones streamed are the big vidya ones. Theres dozens of other smaller conferences with smaller companies/devs
>>341219127
what are you gonna spend it on instead?
>>341218514
i got in for free
speaking of which, it's my first time at e3, anyone have any advice?
>>341224237
Parties are the real fun. Find them, go to them. Most of them are open bar, and ones like CCP run the alcohol is free.
>mfw I ordered a $200 bottle of tequila for free
>>341224237
Go eat at the Yardhouse across the street as soon as they open at the ESPN complex. If you're desperate for parking, do the hospital over near the Mayan Theater/Ace Hotel. It's about a mile away but you can park there as long as you want for $4 a day.
>>341224479
Go to the parties. Yes. This. Fucking this.
worth every pennt
>>341223736
>Then go to PAX.
I'd rather not go to a convention founded by two awful webcomic artists that started a charity that helps no one.
>I don't want E3 becoming SDCC. This is an industry event and I need to network and check out other people's tech
Funny, E3 did just fine allowing the general public in prior to 2006.
>>341225265
And then 2007 hit and it became cool to be a gamer, just like Comic Con. In this era of "nerd culture"? No thanks.
>>341224237
I should add: If you go next time and want to network, bring your own set of business cards, but don't go fucking Patrick Bateman with them. If you want to see some of the behind-the-scenes kind of stuff, like your own exclusive look at a game get a hold of the secretary at the booth section and make an appointment ASAP. Also, if you're going there as a random con-goer, don't expect to be seen unless you have some mad social skills and a pretty face. Representing a major company will get you far, even if you have to fake it somehow (trust me on that one).
>>341219594
e3 is a trade show you retard. Not a convention.
The high price serves 2 purposes. Jew jitsu, and to keep non-industry people out.
>>341224881
that guy was the best part of the preshow, bethesda should hire him for the next year
>$1,000 is a lot of money
Is /v/ really that poor? I give my wife's son more than that per month in allowance.
Reminder: $1000 is nothing if you're over 23
Why haven't you committed suicide yet, you poor fag?
>>341220047
Muchas gracias doctor.
>>341228817
I make around 4k euros a month after taxes
1000 dollar is a lot of money to simply waste away
grow up faggot
>>341228075
enjoy raising another mans kid
>>341218514
>Not sneaking in
LA is an hour away and worst case scenario we'd get escorted out. We didn't.
Why is it paid at first place? They pay to see 3 days of ads? Top kek,e3 should pay you for watching
>>341232419
This. Snuck in once like a decade ago.
it was super boring.
