E3 2005 Booth Babe Hall of Shame

DanAckerman writes "GameGal.com offers some of the out-of-control examples of Booth Babe excess seen every year (five years running) at E3 in their annual Hall of Shame gallery." From the article: "They're smiling on the outside, but three days of snapping Poloroids with sweaty game geeks leads these girls to swear off Guild Wars forever."

Comments

Booth babes

[secolactico]

Boothbabes faking a sleepover party? WTF! Now I'm embarrased of being a gamer...

At least there was a pillow fight, right? Everybody knows no babe sleepover is complete without a pillow fight.

Re:Why?

[QuantumRiff]

Mom,
I told you to stop posting to slashdot! Please keep our family life out of this!

America the Puritanical

[witchman]

Once again, we Americans are showing our puritanical roots, with the old credo, "Violence is ok, but anything to do with sex or sexuality is very shameful and bad!" So the companies use good looking women to attract attention to their products, wow, such crimes against humanity should not be allowed to persist in our "enlightened" society. Oh, by the way, pass me another beer while I watch a bunch of foreigners get blown up by our precision guided 500 pound bombs on CNN.

Sorry, but I think there are a lot of things to be upset about in this country of ours and booth babes are waaaaaaaaaaay down at the bottom of the list.

Where else can you find boothbabes?

[MMaestro]

The issue isn't about making women into sex objects this way, the issue is WHY here in video gaming? This isn't the movie industry where the females are always the 'damsel in distress', no this is the video game industry where the women can sometimes kick ass better than the males (Samus from Metroid? MMO games? Garnet/Dagger from FFIX who runs away from home/gets 'kidnapped'?)

If this was a car show I could see booth babes being around, but video games? Wtf? If this is the kind of perception gaming developers and producers have of gamers its no wonder Nintendo is constantly cranking out award winning games and capturing a loyal audience. Kids don't care about booth babes. Casual gamers don't care about booth babes. Hardcore gamers may stare for a little bit but even they know that it all comes down to gameplay. What kind of jobless losers are these developers try to attract with booth babes?

Re:Where else can you find boothbabes?

[witchman]

I understand your question; "why here?" but I think you're missing the point. Booth babes are just a small part of the larger phenomenon in American advertising, which is, "sex sells". You can see that in everything and everywhere, ads, TV shows, clothing, food, etc. I also happen to agree that it's a waste of advertising dollars, or maybe even development dollars, to spend money on the sex sells advertising campaign, but as long as Americans are "sex starved", I mean you can't even see any nudity on TV here, but you can see people getting killed (how wrong is that?), then you'll continue to see a glut of sex-based advertising.

What I dislike about the article, if you can actually call it that, is that it (too me at least) implies that there is something wrong with enjoying the sight of scantily clad women, which I don't happen to think that there is, whatever the reason.

Oh

[Konster]

This...this is how nerds would dress up their women...if only they had women.

And names? If nerds could name their women?

Grepina! The goddess of search!

booth babe insight

[Anonymous Coward]

As someone who is dating a "boothbabe" who was working at e3, I can share a few things that can tell you how they relate to the show and guys.

1) Majority of the girls that they hire hate or don't care about video games. Surprisingly enough, some of the girls take to video games after the show, but that is usually only if they are stationed around a fun for everybody game. Which means not the blood and guts shooting games that tend to make up the majority of the show.

2) These girls know exactly what to expect from guys there. Afterall, these guys are not *just* at e3, they are at movie theaters, malls, streets, etc. They know how guys respond to them and how to fake smile well. An extra bonus they even have a section in their training manual about dealing with "problem" guys.

3) They get paid well. Most girls can work two days and make enough to pay their bills for a month. Plus, we are talking LA where the cost of living is quite high so that is real good money. These girls are usually all "models" and are usually contracted through an agency or agent.

4) A lot of these girls are quite smart and just do this to make some extra money on the side. A lot are "wannabe actresses" of course, but if you have the goods, why not use it right?

5) I'm a gamer, I work in the biz, I did e3 and I'm dating a "booth babe." So use that for whatever hope you want :P (though I did meet her before e3 started).

Re:Sacred and private? Funny!

[Anonymous Coward]

And in my mind, going to a strip club isn't about getting your rocks off. It's about finding just how much you can embarass a girl with a dollar.

Perhaps you just have a very warped mind. I've been to several strip clubs in my town. The customers aren't allowed to touch the girls and don't get any closer than the girls want to let them. While I'm sure there's the occaisional smelly customer, most of the guys I see in the places are dressed pretty well and the worst smell you get is from the guys that wear too much cologne. My brother worked at a strip club for a couple years and dated a few of the strippers as well. They made good money, had a relatively easy job, and could afford to go to college. All in all, they're doing better than a lot of people I know. No idea why people don't seem to have much problem with women in bikinis at the beach, but feel that you're a slut or whore with no dignity if you show your nipples. What a fucked up country this is.

Check out this crazy wanker!

[antdude]

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