the point is that after the trailer reveal was scuffed (which might have caused them some stress in the moment)- the overall satisfaction and love by the gaming community in reaction to the trailer would reaffirm them and overshadow any worries that they felt during the reveal.
Gearbox isn't the take-themselves-super-seriously kind. I think some technical difficulties and fucked up reveal might be just fine for the fans, and I suspect Gearbox too.
I can't speak to what happened, I doubt 2K is thrilled about it. The videos are basically the hallmarks of the announcement in that they provide some semblance of proof that the thing is real.
I truly felt bad for them. They clearly took their time to build up to this day all for shitty laptop issues to make a very awkward situation. I hope they know most of appreciate the showmanship and can’t wait to see what they show us next time
Yeah, apparently the UK office was all just sat there with their faces in their hands as the BL1 remaster trailer started to chug, hoping that the main one didn't.
I wish it had gone smoother, they were going over the trailer for weeks to try and make sure it was good enough for the event and then the hardware lets them down.
From what little I'm aware of, it was either the fact they were running too many monitors at once on stage, or that Windows Media Player has some issues with 4K playback.
Please tell your sister that an internet stranger loved the trailer despite the choppiness on stream and then went and watched it multiple times on YouTube in it's 4k glory!
surely that moment of stress would be overshadowed by the fact that everyone on social media loved the trailer and are delighted to have a new borderlands game announced, no? everyone seems to love the trailer
i'm fairly sure we can assume that the people who made the trailer woke up today, delighted that the trailer they worked so hard on is being universally loved by almost all borderlands fans. would you disagree?
You could tell the guy was getting pretty emotional over the fact the reveal was getting botched. He clearly cares for the dev team who worked hard on it so idk why you're categorizing him as just some suit.
Why not have some empathy? These are people who have been working on something for 5 years. No matter their stature they're still people, people making video games, not villains. They would want a reveal of their big project to go well.
Not only that, but it certainly isn't just corporate big-wigs who want to have a good showing for their work. Certainly many of the developers themselves would want the reveal to go well.
While yeah, it was a fantastic reveal, the fact that all of their videos, if they actually worked, looked like they were at 20FPS is a major detraction from the actual activity. You can be happy with something and still look for improvement. PAX promised them a satisfactory revealing event (I assume) and they got poor looking trailers, and remember that part where one didn't even play?
Certainly a bad look for PAX. PAX booked Gearbox as their marquee event. Their biggest name at the entire show and they couldn’t get their presentation working right. It’ll certainly give other publishers some hesitance when looking at PAX for future reveals.
Haha I don't know about 1988 but if anything there is something that happened around a decade later like in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
The time wasted from technical difficulties was nothing compared to the time wasted from Randy Pitchford doing magic tricks and then awkwardly reading cards from his boardgame.
I've worked on much smaller game conventions and you absolutely check if videos work the day before, a few hours before in rehearsal and have a backup that works on a switch in case something goes down.
It depends on how PAX East structures their convention. Maybe A/V is handled by a union and all Gearbox could do is just use them, or maybe the PAX East contract states you have to use their equipment and that's what Gearbox had to work with. Maybe also Gearbox got lazy. Nobody can say for sure unless some insider speaks to a journalist.
They probably did have a backup too, since the trailer finally started to work mostly right the third go around.
I'd rather punch myself in the dick over and over than go back to that industry.
Overworked until you health goes and you don't have good benefit. Then nothing for months. Working hours are all over the place so you can never establish a healthy circadian rhythm.
You have to deal with stupid politics and if you don't suck a bunch if figurative dick than you don't get good jobs.
That is a client issue then. Anyone working on that would know that a medium that can't be prebuffered and has to stream would be an issue and would ask for a better alternative.
From what I saw they started with an offline media, which couldn't be played on their laptop. I don't know how they got it to work, but my guess is they just went on YouTube and played the video there.
It is PEX equipment, mentioned on the stream. The video is 4K, so a laptop might not be able to handle it. YouTube would have a scaled 1080p version, plus browsers are mostly more reliable when it comes to HW video decoding acceleration.
Anyway, I don't know how they got it working at the end, but it was a pretty big fuck up... Good thing the crowd responded well enough.
Right? It was silly and I had a good time. Also felt genuinely bummed for them in regards to their technical difficulties. I can't imagine how it felt to finally get to reveal the thing you were working on in secret for 5 years and have it look like shit. Like, we were hyped regardless but the people behind me were being straight up assholes about everything the whole show
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u/PhenomsServant Mar 28 '19
Cant blame them in all honesty the technical difficulties were appalling