Good Riddance To Booth Babes

Colin Campbell has an editorial at Next Generation in which he applauds the decision to fine risque outfits worn by the traditional 'booth babes'. From the article: "Exhibitors at E3 employ a whole range of human beings to attract attention to their booths and excitement to their live events. The ones who attract the largest crowds are either celebrities (fair enough), well-loved industry-creatives (quite right) or so-called 'booth-babes', often behaving in ways that at least mimic the lowest sort of strip joint. People do not dress this way in normal life, not even in Los Angeles. There are some companies that seem more susceptible to this kind of technique than others. It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense."

Re:Boo!

[AlterTick]

If you want things more family-friendly

Thing is, E3 isn't really supposed to be a "family event", is it? I mean, didn't they move it from weekend to weekday scheduling like four years ago because they thought it was getting to be too much like a "leisure time" attraction? And haven't they always required that all attendees actually be verified company employees, i.e. NO KIDS? I think the organizers want to turn it into some dignified, somber stuffed shirt convention. Not likely. GIVE US OUR BOOF BABES!

The photos are here

[kill-1]

For everyone complaining about the lack of pics, you find them here [e3girls.com].

3840 entries... That's what I call comprehensive media coverage.

Everybody uses booth babes

[Jeff85]

"There are some companies that seem more susceptible to this kind of technique than others. It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense."

It would appear at least Microsoft is no stranger to booth babes. A quick glance at e3girls.com easily reveals one of many pages of Microsoft using so-called "booth babes" to promote products.
http://www.e3girls.com/display.cfm?startrow=1909&p agenum=213&type=full&query=full [e3girls.com]

What? I was only visiting that site for uh... proof to refute the summary's claim... yeah...

Re:Conventions should move to private property

[bcattwoo]

I looked at several different news sources and I didn't see anywhere where it said that the convention center was making the rules, but rather the organizers of the convention, the Enterntainment Software Association, made the new rules. Look like the free market spoke afterall.

Re:how can I make an informed opinion?!!

[d3ac0n]

WARNING! Above link is NOT WORK SAFE!

I really wish people would think to add that before posting links. It doesn't affect me, I'm the admin. What am I gonna do, write myself up? But others may not be so lucky. Please be considerate when posting links, mark them as NWS or not!

Re:I fully applaud

[hritcu]

You can look here and [e3girls.com]here [flickr.com] if you are curious.

Nice troll....

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that is a funny one Mr. Troll, a non-work-safe one shows up even if the "safe search" filter is on.

And no, the link does not contain a "safe-search=off" as far as I can tell and yes my settings are on the default filter.

Then again I am not the warning grandparent poster, I know better and that GIS tends to have non-work-safe images even with the filter in place.