Smaller E3 = Bigger QuakeCon?

I think one of the reasons that Quakecon was so great this year was becuase it was a smaller affair. The whole thing gets bloody irritating when there are 8000 people wondering around. This year it was laid back, fun. This was the best Quakecon in my mind since the old ones in Mesquite. I know it's good advertising for games and whatnot when 10,000 people show up (and that's where Marty is probably coming from, he is the biz guy after all) but it also starts to feel less like a gathering and more like a mob.

But the entertaiment was cool this year. Random magicians and jugglers and what not. Rubber boy. The Sinus guys doing Footloose (maybe the funniest show I've seen Sinus do). The talent show where Sleepy won a full SLI system. And after watching the Team Deathmatch final I think that may be the way to go for the future of Competitive gaming. The 2 on 2 match was way more exciting to watch than the 1 on 1 final. But maybe that was just me.

The only thing I can say that was lame was the lack of vendors. And I know that was because of the limited timeframe but it was still a bummer. What was it? Enermaxx, Aegia, some CPU magazine, Directron or some other Newegg type of place, and Intel/Nvidia. That was it. And most of those had teeny tiny boothes with really nothing going on. Anyways, i guess there is no happy medium where we get lots of boothes and not a shitload of people. It has to either be low turnout and low booth numbers or high turnout and lots of boothes. Either way I'm a sucker and I'll go every year that I can. I've only missed the first one, 2000 (wife had twins), and 2005.

What ever happened to id co-founder, Adrian Carmack? Dod that whole lawsuit thing get settled or what?

Can we get anything on the East Coast please?!

With E3 becoming smaller, it isn't surprising that Quakecon will likely grow a bit to fill in the gaps. I wouldn't be surprised to see bigger presences developing there, at Comic Con, Gen Con, and PAX as these already established venues take up the slack a bit more.

Likewise, with multiple venues available, gaming news will likely become a bit more spread out(a good thing). Since there will be no "one big thing" anymore, developers will likely target specfic conferences that have less presence by competitors so they can avoid the trumpings that have happened in the past with E3.

Where are the, QuakeCon should come to _____ _____ post ???

ShooterCon '07!

And they should get:

Valve
Epic
Ritual
Rogue
Human Head
3DRealms
Infinity Ward
DICE
Monolith
CryTek

...and anybody else I forgot, plus EA, Activision, and other interested pub's to help sponsor events, demo their stuff, etc.

It would be the awesomest aggregation of nerdery ever!

How bad was the smell of QuakeCon 2006?

Hopefully id uses Quakecon as a launch platform and announces their next game at the next Quakecon.

Todd Hollenshead talked about this sometime last week and mentioned that they'd been throwing around ideas since the e3 announcement was made.

One thing he mentioned was focusing on Texas Developers, which would include Ritual, 3DR, Bioware, Warren Spector, NCSoft... Who am I leaving out? Tom Hall's new company is in Texas I think.

For quakecon to get bigger they are going to have to actually you know ... give us more than a month's notice to get there.

That's some terrible math, right there.

Vegas or Los Angeles would be best... (for me anyway) :)

I think this is a good idea

I think they could split E3 into two different venues:
One for the gamers (Quake Con)
The other for the business people (E3 @ LA)

Should focus on FPS games or derivative works. Sounds like a cool idea.

I thoroughly enjoyed the coverage of Quakecon this year from places like planetQuake4 net and live streaming from GGL. Making it a bigger event would be more awesome.