Sigil team has set up a recap of the days in E3 about the performance of Vauguard: Saga of Heroes booth.

So - E3 2006 is over ... it was a pretty eventful E3 for us, what with our publishing news on the 5th suprising people, and a full-on booth presence in the SOE booth at E3!

Day One ? Holy Cow!? The SOE team really knocked one out of the park for us with our part of their booth!? There should be some shots on the site, but basically we had four public demo stations, setup in a huge walled stand with the Vanguard cover art on one end with a water feature at the bottom, and we had two demo stations and a meeting room inside.? While we had about 1/5th of their booth, along side Gods & Heroes out front and their other titles inside, it really felt (at least to us) like we ?owned? the booth.? We brought several of our development partners (ATI, etc) through the booth as well as our old partners from Microsoft ? and I think all were suitably impressed.? We also had about Sigil people on hand giving demos at our stations in the SOE booth, the 3rd party area of Microsoft?s booth, a couple of other partner booths ? and our own booth.? They all did an amazing job and I think the game really spoke for itself with press, all the fan sites who showed up, as well as our competitors.? Several developers from both SOE and Blizzard spent time in our booth ? and that speaks volumes for the work that our team has done on Vanguard over not only the last four years ? but more importantly the last several months as the game has evolved in leaps and bounds!

Day Two ? Chaos ? part two.? Wednesday was a bit of a slow day with only 5 hours of meetings and two receptions/parties, but Thursday was total chaos ? with meetings starting at 9am and not finishing until well after 6pm.? Met with most of our corporate/development partners, met with several new technology providers and a bunch of potential international partners for Vanguard.? In the morning, I would spend the first ~10 minutes of each meeting explaining the hows & whys of our transition from MS to SOE, but by the evening ? either my spiel had pervaded the atmosphere of the building, or people had just had more time to reflect on the transition, because the response went from ?why would you do that?? to ?wow ? yeah, this really makes sense!?.

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