Today, E3 Starts :) Thread for general discussion

[Airget]

My predictions:



EA will be one of the more entertaining shows with a number of big name franchises demoed/new IPs. I am sure Epic will have something neat to show us if they haven't yet already.

Apparantly EA is gonna talk about swtor from what I've read. It's been amusing to read on the official forums of said game how such a high profile license could plummet so hard after only a few months of release. It's easy to see why things have fell apart since it seems to be taking the same route as Warhammer when it comes to balancing and pvp. Though the only reason I see people sticking with swtor longer is because of swtor, a game of the same type by any other name wouldn't have even had 1/8 the starting subscription based and it would most likely be under 30-50k by now if this wasn't a Star Wars game.

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One thing I"m surprised with atm is the lack of any concrete info in which interviews will be taking place. I would have thought they would say something by now so people could plan their schedules accordingly if anything was going to be streamed about E3, but it almost feels as if information won't be known til after E3. Odds are sure he'll have interviews but given the situation it doesn't seem like we'll be able to hear anything about until either after E3 or from a community rep post about it.

I haven't really seen or heard any mention of any group going out of their way to have an interview with the 14 developers during E3 so I kinda wonder what they have planned. Maybe they'll say something later today, ideally it would be nice to have some idea of what they have planned during E3 before the end of the day.

[JDR388]

One thing I"m surprised with atm is the lack of any concrete info in which interviews will be taking place.

I wouldn't worry to much. From what I understand things on the E3 show floor are extremely frenetic (and smelly, believe me when I say the best seats in the house are at your computer screens. The showroom floor is a total non-stop sensory overload and there are precious few chairs). Since most of the big companies keep their announcements close to the heart until their various pre-shows many of the interviews don't get scheduled until after the reveals. This is, of course exactly why they do the pre-shows to begin with.

All of the developers there are there for their piece of the press pie and there is plenty of it to go around. You can bet that a company like Square Enix will get whatever interview it asks for.