No more E3 booth babes
 

I was searching the net for a topic for my latest english paper when I found this.

Apperantly there might not be a single one this year. Now personally I couldn't care less. I spent more time drooling over the new games then on the girls, then again I only read about it and see the pictures. I never actually attend.

Pshhh. Now why'd they go do a thing like that? That's the reason 98.92% of all people who get to attend E3 go there in the first place.

...Kidding. I'm kidding. I'm all about respect for women. I'm probably the only person in the world who enjoys DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball and Rumble Rose for the volleyball and wrestling, respectively.

Why would they do this? They're taking away the closest thing to bare woman-flesh that many of the attending nerds and geeks will ever see in person. They need this!

Seriously though, why the hell did they do that?

something about there being too much sex in gaming I think *shrugs*

Well, I betcha someone's already painted GTA as the scapegoat. But seriously, the women there that aren't in a suit and representing a game, going around looking like Xena: Warrior Princess, does detract from the plethora of games.

Oh well, 10 to 1, someone's going to have some scant-clad models on a monitor to get around the wraparound. ;)

Hey, let's remember that not all nerds are attracted to booth babes. For one thing, we have those male nerds who are afraid of women, especially attractive women. Then we have female nerds.

So this could be a boon to those groups.

Female nerds shouldn't have a problem with booth babes, unless they're also frigid femi-nazis. In which case no one cares. As for male nerds who are afraid of attractive women--the only cure for that is to actually spend time with attractive women and realize that they're human (sometimes they even fart and burp, HO'SHIT!).

So I see no boon to either groups.

Also, I don't see why having 'booth babes' immediately means that you aren't serious about your product. That's like saying funny commercials means that you aren't serious about your product.

In all honesty, companies that use booth babes are just SMARTER, not less serious or more insidious. Men will flock to those places, and the majority of gamers ARE still men. It's called marketing.

Same way beer commercials usually involve some guy popping open a cold one just to have a hot chick materialize on his arm. Same way those Cellphone commercials back in the day had that chick (I THINK Zeta Jones) in a tight black PVC cat suit doing acrobatics and then being all like "RAR! Buy phone! IT GOOOOD!"

The commercial told us nothing about the product. It merely associated the product with an attractive woman. This causes easily confused and/or manipulated people to buy the product, because, on a subconcious level they associate the product with attractive women.

This is also why you'll never ever see an ugly woman modeling woman's clothes on a commercial. Women subconciously (unless they know not to) identify those clothes with women who look like that. Thus they subconciously believe that by wearing those clothes they'll look more like that model.

In E-3, you still get all that beautiful subconcious marketing, sans the loss of product information. I mean, it's not like they don't still have the game in the booth. It's just a way of getting more people to play it.

If anything, I would say the 'boon' of this, if there is one, is that companies who can't afford, or are--for some reason, usually stupidity--morally opposed to booth babes, are now on a level playing field.

But that hardly makes sense, either, because there aren't all that many consumers who get into E-3. Not enough to make a significant difference once the game goes on sale, anyway. It's mostly journalists and panelists and celebrities, people who can usually see through such cheap tricks--because they're either trained to or have used those tricks for themselves, that can advertise the games they saw later.