E for Fans Blocks Access:

E3 [Electronic Entertainment Expo] was always a zoo with fans invading what was meant to be a trade show. But at least there were top Game people in the building. You had a chance of meeting them and talking to them. It might have been hard to get to them but they were there.

For the last couple of years you had to have an appointment to get into Lucas Arts. But you could get in if you had a good enough reason.

This year they have split the E3 show into 2 shows, scaling way back to a locked doors trade only show that only major game companies can get into and opening up the new show to the fans with a show called E for Everyone (sic).

But is it for everyone? The Gaming fans have their own Comic Con now and the Gaming companies have a trade show locked up behind closed doors so no one can talk to them. But what about the private developers? What about the budding Game artist wanting to break into the industry? Where is their access?

The middleman is screwed again. E3 is blocked to us and E for Everyone is useless to us. The booths will be manned with Game testers and receptionists. People with no more power or connection in Gaming than the people at your local game store. In fact, you stand a better chance of meeting real Gaming people at the mall than at E for Fans.

Why is it that people who have made it to the inside of anything always try so hard to keep everybody else out? Somebody gave them a break once. Here is a whole industry mindlessly blocking access to the people who are their very life`s blood. It is like the Spanish Inquisition getting rid of the whole Spanish middle class.

They are blocking out hopefuls and the up and coming along with all the fans and the crazies. Game Makers, you are cutting away your roots.