Co-Founder of Bungie Says E3 “Served No Purpose”

The co-founder and former CEO of Bungie, Alex Seropian, is praising the decision to downsize E3 this year. Seropian said, “I’ve got to say, it’s a huge relief. As a developer, E3 brought its share of excitement. There’s a lot of attention put on the industry and if you’ve got something that’s debuting or being shown, it’s very exciting. But more often than not, it ends up being a huge drain on resources to focus and to prepare for an event that really, from a developer’s perspective, did not seem to serve any purpose whatsoever.” He went on to say that he felt the old E3 benefited publishers more than developers, and then said, “It was really a big strokefest for the publishers to see who could make the most noise.”

While I would agree that the old E3 was a huge resource drain, it’s hard for me to refer to it as serving no purpose. I’ve seldom experienced anything that came close to the grandeur of E3, and that I will miss. Oh, and the booth babes too, of course.