Do you miss the live stage shows, paying upwards of 1000$ to travel to a desert hive of scum & villainy pretending to be a suburban grasslands, or do you prefer the quieter livestreams you can enjoy from the creature comforts of your own home, even if there's less chance of a "live" demonstration?

Personally, I'm a cynical introvert, and I've always viewed E3 conferences with a healthy dose of derision; people who called it "Gaming Christmas" especially baffled me, seeing as the entire event is nothing more than a glut of marketing materials where there was basically no bottom to the barrel of sales tactics.

Additionally, it put a metaphorical gun to the head of many developer teams, forcing them to have a targetable demo by the middle of the year. I'm sure that was great for their already high stress levels when many of them were also having to figure out if they'd be able to keep their jobs when the project stopped. Or the "We got our feedback from E3 and think the game needs a massive shift" forcing the entire project to sway in a different direction.

But that's just me. What do you think? Can you remember of what you did think back in 2013, when the first domino was pushed by Nintendo?

I had never been, nor was I ever going to go, but it seemed like fun from the outside looking in.
I was just excited for dope trailers. And still am. All these 'Direct's seem enough at this point. It didn't even seem like there was no E3 this year with all these Directs anyway.

E3 has been a meaningless corporate glorification festival for at leats a decade. Long gone are the times where new videogaming wonders where presented there, and with them my attention.

To me E3 was a scam put on by grifters. I'm glad to see it gone. Good riddance.

It was something to look forward to, a highlight of the year. Necessary? Certainly not, but it brought a lot of attention.
Now every company does their online presentation whenever they see fit. I think this way we actually get more information, but it's less exciting.

Indeed. For many years we used to play the game called "Guess the Industry Bullshot this year" (ie, who had the worst fake cinematic 2-camera change per second pre-rendered trailers / 'screenshots' that looked good but was content that was either never actually in the finally released game or was remotely reflective of the gameplay).

Dragon Age 2 Trailer vs Dragon Age 2 Reality...

I never understood why gaming is the one hobby where the average joe is expected to get excited about trade shows.

i guess you have never been to an outdoors show, or crafting show, or car entusiast show, or.......

Good riddance to what was just a giant circle jerk of the big AAA publishers.

I don't care for these type of events, but for those who do - gamescom is still around and seems to always have been the better alternative anyway.

Nothing.
Seriously: what am I supposed to think?
I never went to any of these shows (regardless of their topic), so there's nothing I will miss.
After reading the news about this, I shrugged and thought "yeah, whatever"...and my life went on.

Nothing is a valid opinion; if you cared not for trade shows and expositions. But I do miss COMDEX sometimes. Well, as I just mentioned, seeing what's new and big for computers, pretty exciting at the time.

That feeling when your take turns out to be hotter than expected

I will always have a soft spot for E3, even though I never went. I always enjoyed the thought of a massive show of all the studios and reading about it or seeing it on G4.

I guess E3 made sense as a networking event of sorts for those who were involved in the production and marketing of (for the most part) blockbuster videogames. But even when looked through that lens, it probably was way too pharaonic for its own good.

I don't mourn the loss of E3. It felt as if at its best it was nothing more than a hype machine, and at its worst nothing else than a snake oil seller. From the booth babes to the carefully orchestrated out of touch corporate keynotes directed only towards shareholders, to the trailers with no gameplay whatsoever and often times trailers for upcoming trailers or just logo reveals... None of that celebrated the culture of videogames more than it celebrated the culture of consumerism and capitalism, and I believe we're much better off with other forms of events which involve wildly available demos for a wide variety of real upcoming games.

E3 has been a glorified corpo circle jerk for a long time now, and the self indulgent redundancy of what it had devolved into was laid bare the moment Nintendo noped out and ran their first direct event. If anything, I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.

Good riddance I say.