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Posted on Wednesday, May 23 @ 11:17:21 Eastern by

So, ummmm, yes, it is very difficult to get into E3. It's also a little difficult to get into the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. Sh** gets bought up pretty fast and then there are no more passes, so what's a gamer left to do? QuakeCon is a little too exclusively Bethesda/iD/PC for you?

I guess you could go to the GameStop EXPO, an extension of their annual employee-only gaming convention that opens the floor to all comers. EXPO runs August 29th, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. That's it....

In that time, you'll be able to "see more than 200,000 square feet of this year's hottest video games from the industry's top publishers, such as Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Activision, EA and dozens more!" I honestly don't see how you can pack in even three of those publishers with only 5 hours time, but who knows. Maybe you're only interested in playing one unreleased game.

The EXPO takes place in San Antonio, Texas and General Admission runs $35. VIP Admission runs $100 and comes with a bunch of bull sh**, like "an exclusive GameStop bag to fill with swag!"

Now, I'll come down off my high horse and say that any opportunity a die-hard gamer has to see stuff before its released is going to be enticing, but I frankly feel like this is disrespectful to the most dedicated consumers out there. And honestly, that's not far from the typically GameStop attitude towards customers anyway, so it shouldn't be surprising.
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  • UghRochester
    UghRochester
    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: May 23rd, 2012 at 2:30 pm
    So, you have to be employed at GameStop to get in? What a kick in the nuts.
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  • warmaster670
    warmaster670
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: May 23rd, 2012 at 9:13 pm
    That's not what it says, at all.

    Did you even read it? "I guess you could go to the GameStop EXPO, an extension of their annual employee-only gaming convention that opens the floor to all comers"
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  • UghRochester
    UghRochester
    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: May 24th, 2012 at 3:59 am
    I read it perfectly fine. It open to all comers, which means anyone who's employed by GameStop.
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  • UghRochester
    UghRochester
    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: May 24th, 2012 at 4:01 am
    I did a Google search and it's open to the general public. I stand corrected.
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  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: May 23rd, 2012 at 5:20 pm
    If I was one of these booths, I would have a sudden power outage that lasts until about 5 PM
    0 2
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: May 24th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
    Nominated for Relay-TIng
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