Thursday, 29 December 2011

EBEXPO 2011 - Boomser

EB Expo was on this weekend for the public but on friday for vendors, EB staff, gaming reps, marketers and a few pro-gamers like myself it was a day to explore and the expo with a much smaller crowd. Nick and I headed out to the EB Expo on Friday afternoon with a swarm of EB staff who get a chance to get freebies and learn about their vendors booths for products and the latest games that are on offer. Thanks to Razer we were given exclusive passes to be a part of the experience and walk around without having to worry about a que or mass public traffic. I managed to speak to and visit the Vox Eminor sponsor's booths (CM Storm, Cooler Master, Western Digital, and Razer) to get an insight into what products they had to offer for the general public. 

Other than visiting the Vox Eminor sponsor's booths I wasn't really interested in visiting all the other booths during the weekend due to the fact that it was only PS3 and Xbox that were on showcase for the games that are coming out. The PC world was non-existent at the event and if you wanted to test any of the new up-coming titles you had to do so on a controller. Other than visiting the booths to use the odd pc on there, it really had nothing for us PC Gamers to get involved with so it was basically just looking which goes for the Booth babes as well I guess =P . 

I must say I saw all sorts of different people at this event as you had couples, geeks, kids, adults, cosplay, parents, dad's, mother's, models, and gamers I have known for ages it definately was an experience to be a part of for a gamer. It just goes to show that gaming is really breaking out of stereotypes and becoming more of the norm as I saw at EB Expo this year. What I took out of the EB expo was that Vendors and game developers really want to listen to the public and pretty much care about what they have to say about their product, they were all there to impress and interact with the gamers. 

Battlefield 3 pretty much took most of the limelight and was set right in a perfect spot for all to see with their bright shiny massive enclosed BOOTH! There was constantly a 30-60 min wait just to get inside it. As for MW3 I think if you looked hard enough at the back corner you might be able to see a small line as they were only taking in booked sessions to be able to play the game. No gamers or visitors were able to see the game behind the curtains unless you booked a 10 min time slot which basically got filled for the 2 days within the first 3 hours of the venue opening its doors on Saturday. 

During each session of the day the coolest thing would have to be the Crusty Demons performing live inside the venue at the EB Arena, it was fantastic. I am looking forward to hopefully being at another EB expo next year and being able to see the interaction of gamers and vendors. 

Oh did I forget? There was WCG there I think with a small crowd of gamers desperately waiting for their games to be played near the corner of the venue. I don't know the results and to be quite honest I don't think many people do with the outcome of this year's WCG. I saw no information and no coverage of WCG and I think that is about as much recognition it should get because of it. I must say congratulations to the teams that did win and wish them the best of luck overseas!

I would like to thank Razer again for the passes for myself, Nick and Jaydee who visited on the weekend and also a shout out to the people we got a chance to meet!

Check out the ebexpo gallery and 3 video blogs the team submitted from the expo under the media section.

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