Wow. Holy sh*t. Look, I love E3 and it's one of the highlights of my year to attend every year. I know how very lucky I am to get a free pass and a hotel room and behind-closed-doors looks at all the hottest games. It's f*cking awesome, and you'll never hear me say any less. But $795 for an expo pass?! No.
Registration for E3 2012 started this week for attendees. Those that are not industry professionals will be paying $795 for a three-day pass, and that goes up to $995 after April 23. Compare that to last year's $400 and $500. Maybe they're doubling the price to keep the swag hogs and robot head weirdos out.
As much as I love E3, it's not worth $795 to see games that you'll have for yourself months later. Some of the system-launch E3 years have been pretty exciting, but I don't know if they were worth that kind of cash. Keep in mind that general attendees do not have access to the press conferences, off-site meetings, or private showings. It's $800 to wait in lines in the Los Angeles Convention Center.
E3 Doubles Expo Pass Prices [Gamasutra]
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12:45 PM on 12.13.2011 | 
The rest of it, like you said, is mostly waiting in lines to play games. It's fun for sure, but it's not $800 fun, pre-room and board.
*You are sending me this year, aren't you Dale?
Also, all the conferences are broadcast live...so what is the point of this. $800 for an expo ticket is ass. But if they really want to bite themselves in the ass, more power to them.
So this will most likely separate the real gaming journalists, from the fans, who are just there for the sake of getting to play new unreleased games. People in the gaming media always complain about the mass amount of people there, who are just impeding them from doing their job, so this will only help to thin out those people. Sure its harsh, but oh well, that's life!
See you there!
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I'd rather spend that on a South By Southwest pass.
It wont do that, it'll just be richer (and therefore twattier) fans that get in.
Not the rich people are neccesarily idiots, but spending that much money on a conference has a certain idiocy to it.
13 NEW games
13 NEW GAMES
THIRTEEN FUCKING NEW GAMES.
THIRTEEN. FUCKIN. NEW. GAMES.
are you fucking kidding me?
As much as fun it is to goto E3...it is not like it used to be years back and definitely not worth 800$.
Kinda bullshit, but E3 is still E3.