Remember when E3 was that cool video game conference that normal people could go to? Where, if you couldn't, you could watch it at home because school was out? Remember E3 forts? Where you could see all sorts of cool video games and normal/neckbeard devs who seemed genuinely excited about their product? Where the pandering was at the minimum, the cringe wasn't so bad (entertaining more like), and message boards would be filled with fanboys gushing with excitement?
When did it all start going wrong?