In recent years, a number of big-name video game publishers have moved away from on-site presentations at E3. Rather than competing for the spotlight, a lot of companies such as EA and Nintendo now host standalone conferences, where the focus is entirely on themselves.
Alongside E3 2019, Electronic Arts will once again be hosting its EA Play event. This year, though, there won't be any media style presentations taking place, instead, it'll be a series of live streams starting on Friday, 7th June. Here's the official word from EA's blog:
This year you’ll see less talk and more play, with an event entirely focused on the heartbeat of EA PLAY: our player communities and the games they love. We're skipping the press conference this year and are replacing it with multiple live streams that will air during the first two days of the event, bringing you more of what you've told us you want - more gameplay and insights from the teams making the games.
Fans will be able to come and play all of the newly announced titles on Saturday, 8th June and Sunday, 9th June.
Weekends are meant for play, and this year we’ve moved the EA PLAY fanfest to Saturday, June 8 and Sunday, June 9 where players will get hands-on with our games. We’ll also have content creators streaming live from our Creator’s Cave in the Hollywood Palladium providing gameplay content to our players viewing online. EA.com will be the home for all online EA PLAY content. Players can get behind-the-scenes with our games via exclusive gameplay reveals, developer talks and breaking news.
Can you live without an EA presentation? Are you looking forward to the new format? Let us know down in the comments.
[source ea.com]
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E3 is dying... oh well.
EA Direct? Yeah now they're just desperate.
Sooooo no Sony, and no EA. Technically Nintendo is out, but they're at least doing a large scale announcement. This is getting interesting. Next thing we know, Ubisoft will announce they're holding a dancing competition instead of a conference.
EA: We're doing Livestreams like that other company! How ya like me now?
gamers: eh
Nintendo: mario maker 2, pokémon gun and link's awakening remake
Fans: SHUT UP AND TAKE OUR MONEY
Ok..., so how about some info on Sea of Solitude now. I take a video or just a lonely press release 🙄
EA Direct, but with microtransactions.
@Joeynator3000 they'll only show you the mobile game and EA sports portion. The rest can be unlocked for an easy payment of $7.99, but you better buy the day one edition or else you'll miss out on a skin for the video feed.
These comments are going to be infested with E.A. bashers.
@Elvie You're a bit too late on that
When livestreams are more hype than E3...
EA: Are you tired of FIFA 19, then take a look at this:
FIFA 20, is the same but with some stats and names changed, also the cover have now a different player.
EA Direct ?!
I want to see this from their Direct.
Then, continue by this game.
On NINTENDO SWITCH.
It took a lot longer than expected, but the internet has rendered events like E3 rather useless... people can find out about games every second of the day and companies can reach huge audiences by just releasing a video.
Same with the Academy Awards (Oscars) and other similar events.
@Elvie you got that right
More like all about the microtransactions!
@Elvie You say that like EA doesn't deserve it. They very much do.
Yeessss
Unleash all the hate in your soul, now is the time.
Like Anthem, it'll brick the device you're watching it on. 😂
I'll be interested to see the future of E3. It seems like the event is now more about the fans and playing demos than it is about companies having press conferences and announcing games. A big change of events. Nintendo adapted to this a while ago by having Directs. It seems like other companies may follow suit.
And nothing of value was lost. Though I’m not sure how this is Nintendo news, not like we’ll be getting anything from EA, save for maybe another FIFA game.
I would be disappointed if Madden 20 won't be on the Switch this year. I rather would like to play the Switch than my PS4...
But, will the games shown be better than Anthem?
@locky-mavo Not true! They’ll announce a random indie game that won’t initially be announced for Switch, but announce it within January-February Nintendo Direct, but by the time it’s announced, no one cares about the game anymore since it’s been released on other consoles for months.
@Anti-Matter As long as it includes the expansion packs, I would love this!
@Dpullam EA and including expansion packs? Good one. You're going to have to buy all of those separate.
@sanderev Haha wishful thinking!
They finally ran out of neatly steamed navy blue suit jackets.
EA was only worth watching for the cringe. Now it's just not worth watching. It's just not as fun to see them to pull a C&C mobile in a stream. You don't get the same crowd reaction, or the awkward interactions.
EA press conference was always the one that made my skin crawl. Least I don't have to sit through it all for no news on a decent starwars game or new dead space.
Will they be Pay to Watch?
It'll still be awful
From my sources, it'll cost £7.99 per stream. An additional £4.99 will be charged for audio, and £2.99 for the audio to be in the language you require.
Microtransactions are included, starting with the £2.99 "You guys have mobiles, right......." meme
Awwww, I was looking forward to the awkward silence when they announce the next Command and Conquer as a games for life service with flow charts on which platform you can play it on and then see a trailer which is clearly not staged and end up looking nothing like it when it releases and then have my phone blow up after using it.... is that too much to ask?
Other companies, I would say this is about streamlining and such. But not EA. This can only be to have a controlled environment so they aren't shouted off the stage when they announce their next perversion of what gamers want.
Is Activision still doing one? They took a beating at they're own con doing the same thing.
I think it's safe to guess the E3-waiting craze is about to unfold.
Oh boy! Maybe they'll make it a loot box system, and you can only see the announcemnts if you get lucky with your pulls!
The only thing I want from EA is madden, is that too much to ask for
Come on EA - full versions of Madden, NHL and NBA please.
@Heavyarms55 They do but it kind of seems like people take every opportunity to bring up their greed.
For example, this is just an article about them switching up their E3 reveals, not some half baked Switch port that they cut corners on.
I hate them ever since they shut down my favourite game cuz money
Kind of hilarious how Nintendo was criticized heavily for the Nintendo Direct instead of a live E3 Press Conference back in the day only for pretty much everyone to be headed this route now. I guess Nintendo really was ahead of its time.
@DarthFoxMcCloud Yep, E3 has become more and more a consumer event than a press event. So press shows simply don't fit anymore.
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