Doug Lowenstein's Exit Interview

Well, it's official -- ESA president Doug Lowenstein has announced that he'll be stepping down in early 2007. GameSpot News' Curt Feldman worked the inside angles (in addition to his CNet duties, he was the executive director of the E3 Expo Conference) to score a chat with Lowenstein immediately following the announcement.

That's just the nature of the beast. It's the nature of the public policy environment. It's a continual educational process and you hope that every year you've converted and educated a few more people, raised awareness and understanding, and are a little bit better off than you might have been a year before.

I think we can certainly look back at what we've done over 12 years and look at where we started and look at where we are now and say with absolute certainty that the appreciation and awareness of the industry are far, far beyond what they were 12 years ago--or even four or five years ago.

Doug Lowenstein, Going the Distance [GameSpot]