E For All Ends Early With Blackout - Kotaku Comments

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mettleh3d — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:55:37 MDT

Haha! I left at 5:30 because my feet were tired!

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humperdinck — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:38:49 MDT

I was there. I had only been there for 2 hours when the power went out. Good thing that that was plenty of time to see the entire show.

Oh yeah, and the Wii is for babies.

humperdinck

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Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:59:32 MDT

I was out for food and when I showed up in the South Hall, I saw a blackout. I thought it was a joke, but ya know, pretty funny!

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Nikolii — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:21:42 MDT

A fitting way to end off that amateur hour event.

Nikolii

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Laser_iCE — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:58:16 MDT

@UnJamma6096: Not to mention power to press the "eject" button.

Laser_iCE

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UnJamma6096 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:27:43 MDT

oh, and about stealing things, there are guards there with guns, and the wii's are in plastic cases... you would need a large hammer to get the plastic open and steal the wii.

UnJamma6096

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UnJamma6096 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:26:40 MDT

Man, i was in line to play super smash bros brawl when this happened. Luckily, nintendo was in the very middle of the expo, and only half of the tvs went out, so I was in the last group of people to play ssbb that day

UnJamma6096

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Jamez — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:22:17 MDT

What the hell, you went back the second day? Did you not fill up your picture quota?

Jamez

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Sight — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:53:27 MDT

Is that what happened? I was there yesterday, but I was in the MGS4 booth at the time. I was going to head over to the PC stuff right after, but then I saw it was all down. I just assumed they were closing shop early.

Sight

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Scazza — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:46:51 MDT

@La Sepultura: Exactly what I thought... Early copies of Mario Galaxy? Hell Yeah!

Scazza

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vizion — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:36:16 MDT

Truth be told, E for All was supposed to be powered geeks but no one showed up :(

vizion

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teknomcr — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:21:11 MDT

The lights came back on about 10 minutes before closing. The stations that were on that side of the building ended up called it a night, but the other side continued to operate until closing. I blame JLo for being next door at the Staples center. Damn her and the spawn that resides in her sucking the power out of establishments!

teknomcr

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Codexx — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:56:00 MDT

I hope it's back up today. I'm on my way up to LA right now. I didn't go the past 2 days, I was too busy. If you can enjoy everything in 2 days, I think I'll still have a chance at trying everything.

Codexx

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gunbu — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:32:53 MDT

I went to E for All on Thursday with work. It was pretty tame, hopefully next year more exhibitors will be there. I got to play Mario Galaxy for a little bit and I can gladly say I'm looking forward to it.
As we were leaving, we passed this large group of plugs, and we were joking about how we should pull em and take out the show. Guess someone went through with it ;/

gunbu

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Doomstink — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:01:15 MDT

For people questioning if anyone swiped demos:

You need power for the systems to eject discs, so I highly doubt anyone could have gotten away with anything. Plus the systems were probably in plastic bubbles like they are at stores, so even if they had power to eject the discs, no one could get to them.

Doomstink

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Witzbold — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:46:35 MDT

*Low Power*

*Shutting Down*

Witzbold

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FallenEverdark — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:43:21 MDT

Wow... I uh... Thats more than amusing, that cracks me up. I approve.

FallenEverdark

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MarkMan — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:21:42 MDT

Hhahahaha I left right before the power outage... and...

Is that Yuji Naka taking a picture ? Hahahah.

MarkMan

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RPharazon — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:30:42 MDT

@Zero_: I don't know whether you win or fail. You're a fucking uncertainty lich.

Hm.

RPharazon

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shinko — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:29:10 MDT

what a piece of shit event. how can this be the new e3?

shinko

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huginn — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:28:30 MDT

given how badly it has been for them so far, this is the LAST thing they need

huginn

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Robotube — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:13:18 MDT

What an utterfly fitting end.

Robotube

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Zero_ — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:24:42 MDT

Maybe the 'E' in 'E for All' meant 'Electricity' and maybe the 'All' meant 'None'.

Zero_

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Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:19:59 MDT

Why could they not have been showing off portables at the time?

If it was a big network game of Advance Wars, this wouldn't have mattered.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

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Animejunkie — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:11:11 MDT

@Spds: Proof of major failure indeed.

Animejunkie

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BigChiefSmokem — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:59:52 MDT

i lawled, poor E for All

so yeah did anyone swipe any hot demos? =)

BigChiefSmokem

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Candlejack — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:33:24 MDT

Haven't been keeping track with E For All, I take it it sucked hard? :)

Candlejack

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humorbot — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:04:25 MDT

Shit. Salt in the wound. Sure, this happened at E3, but E3 was free. Not counting your sanity, I mean. And so many game Ts ruined by flop sweat.

humorbot

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Spds — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:47:39 MDT

massive failure :(

Spds

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setuzoku — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:17:16 MDT

If there were EA girls, what would've happen?

setuzoku

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IntelSilver — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:18:22 MDT

Sounds fishy... Conspiracy I tell ya!

IntelSilver

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Trackback — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:46:14 MDT

Sure, the inaugural E For All doesn't really hold a candle to the bloated spectacle of old E3, but then again, the new low-key Santa Monica-based E3 doesn't hold a candle to the old E3 either.

Trackback

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Tei — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:42:59 MDT

is called "anticlimax"

Tei

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silkylove — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:32:32 MDT

10 bucks says Ubisoft was behind this.

silkylove

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denki — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:13:39 MDT

I'm sure all 12 people attending were very disappointed.

denki

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Akin — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:10:20 MDT

@Nirvash:
Silly, why would it be up on eBay?
*checks torrent sites*

Akin

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Laser_iCE — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:02:17 MDT

@floppylobster: too many nots

Laser_iCE

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Shigamado — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:49:28 MDT

It didn't affect me as I had wrapped up my stay by 6:15.

After 2 days, I had seen everything I wanted to, and I wanted to get out of LA while there was still some daylight.

Still, all in all, I enjoyed it very much. It was like a mini E3, without the huge crowds or stress. Still, if it is to survive another year, it needs more Exhibitors badly!

Shigamado

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HeyApples — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:42:44 MDT

From all accounts it sounds like the power outage was just putting the event out of its misery.

HeyApples

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floppylobster — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:37:13 MDT

It would be hard not to say that E For All was not great. Not great at all. But there were virtually no queues to play games, I got to talk one on one to people who worked for game companies all day, and to personally speak to the guy who made Elebits/Dewy's Adventure about his games. So I'm pretty happy about it. I doubt I'd go back and I wouldn't want a 4 day pass. But I'm pretty happy overall.

floppylobster

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Crippl3 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:32:14 MDT

This thing does continue over the weekend, right?

Crippl3

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Nirvash — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:24:38 MDT

Cool, maybe someone managed to sneak out with one of the Smash Bros. Brawl demos.

*checks eBay*

Nirvash

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Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:24:25 MDT

That sucks for some people I guess. :(

Then again, I didn't get to go anyway.

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skullflame — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:22:05 MDT

I've got 3 Wii's with Smash Bros Brawl in 'em. Unfortuenetly, I was over run by the 5 people attending, and lost all of them.

skullflame

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Retribution — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:15:26 MDT

What can i say, EA is not power friendly, i once heard they run their cell phones on car batteries. From a reliable source i might add!

Retribution

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SidepocketPro — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:02:44 MDT

Omen time!

SidepocketPro

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Slayer — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:01:42 MDT

Wish I was there. Lights out = Snatch and Grab!

Slayer

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Xagest — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:55:19 MDT

Kinda sucks for those who bought the Friday only passes, I suppose

Xagest