Comments on: Press and GDC

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:25:00 +0000

Sure, but ... ONLY if people like you start liveblogging or at least partial transcripting the sessions you go to.

Too much good stuff at GDC goes unreported on the textual internet, and as we all know: if Google can't see it, then it never happened.

Sorry.

/unmount soapbox

But I'll keep protesting until Google starts Speech-to-Text'ing every conference as a matter of course...

By: ladyophelea

ladyophelea — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:08:00 +0000

As press who attended and has attended for 6-7 years, I hope not. With E3 nebulous it has turned into a mini-E3.

I used to send staff and require they attend session so they would be educated and could review/interview intelligently.

This year, due to money constraints and the terrible timing, I was the ONLY person from my site there the entire time. (I had two people who were there for half a day and only to see product.)

I never opened a session guide much less attended a session and this is 2 years running.

I no longer hope I can review intelligently; I only hope I can write intelligently.

By: albino_goldfish

albino_goldfish — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:47:00 +0000

I have yet to go myself, but it’ covered enough so I can get a feel for it, but maybe just stricter credentials to get in? I mean less attendance from media outlets generally men guys like me don’t get the full scoop. I mean if a low level journalist manages to score a few emotional minutes with a prominent developer it’s better than something like Joystiq popping in there with scripted questions, no? hmm… I’m gonna cut this before it gets too long…oh and by the way, this is Max, I met you at the lecture you gave at SCAD.

By: Elle Munster

Elle Munster — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:00:00 +0000

GDC was such a great experience for me, but even I noticed the press, which kind of annoyed me because I felt like it took away from the actual games and the hard workers behind them. Like you said, I think the press should have to pay to attend GDC.

By: David McGraw

David McGraw — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:41:00 +0000

I just noticed that there were 18,000 people at the GDC this year… Probably around 1,200 press. Can you even imagine what the GDC will look like in 5 – 10 years? O_o! Madness.