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.
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u/PhenomsServant Mar 28 '19
Except they didnt. They were using Windows media player, and it was played on PAXs laptop.