Sunday, December 15, 2013

VGX I/2013 was a con in more than one sense of the word

VGX I/2013 was a lie.

  • The Game of the Year was awarded half way in the middle of the show
  • Those games and awards were barely talked about.
  • They pretended to empathize and portray internet culture while horribly failing and making them look horrible.
  • The guests were cheap. The set was cheap. Everything this year was cheap. They did not try. Especially Joel McHale. (I never liked Community anyway.)
  • They instead heavily promoted future games


    Another form of Con that VGX and the Video Game Awards have been trying to be for a while: a video game convention. They demonstrated future games at something that implied previous games of the year! How backwards (or not) is that?
    They can hire booth babes.
    They can charge people to go.
    They can make some money and have people going.
    Why don't they do that?

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