Greg & Elizibeth just gave the most embarassing demo of all time at PAX

[A s0t]

You're easily embarrassed then. I once stripped down to my birthday suit in a drunk tank and rubbed my junk on the glass in an attempt to impress the lady jailer.

that's my normal tuesday

[Pyth]

You must have a nice package lol =p

A gentlemen never tells.

that's my normal tuesday

I believe it. And Wednesdays probably involve sky diving and ending up in Tijuana.

But man, you gotta be pissed that Dos Equis based their "Most interesting man in the World" advertisement on you and aren't paying you royalties.

[Billy Guile]

no matter how much time there is to prepare, i am always prone to do pre-combat checks and inspections. during my 6 month long Quick Reaction Force for our sector, my Troop was also tasked with the Crisis Response Team for the entire country of Iraq. even during downtime, we went over checklists, did movement drills, went over failure to fire procedures for weapons(cables unplugged, round jam issues, etc.), and continued to baby the weapons and computers so that in the event of being called up, we were up and out the gate within 7-10 minutes. While as CRT we were never actually activated(thanks to our landowner brothers keeping things under control), as QRF we were spun up on a near daily basis. this included several occasions that included taking indirect fire as we were moving out the gate to go engage the enemy. the point is that, no matter what is thrown in your direction, you continue forward. some might not agree with Greg's decision to mode the game, but i think it was a great on the move decision to do so, in order to get the key points across.

i saw your responses, Elizabeth. the reason why I bring up my military experience, is because the things we do on a daily basis can easily be translated in to the civilian equivalent. Murphy's Law does not apply in the situation with the cord. That was a failure of your support not keeping tabs on the equipment that is supposed to make you successful. Giving an excuse for a failure is akin to one of my soldiers giving me the same for something that could have easily been covered down on. I am in no way scolding, or putting you guys down. I am providing an "after action" comment for improvement. After any sort of training is conducted, even down to every morning physical training, we go through this process. I hope you guys have done the same to keep an incident from occurring again. Do this by using a model of the action action process. Define the issue, create steps to solve it, implement it and then once again go through the AAR process.


one last bit of advice: never, evereverevereverevereverrrrrrr use the acronym "snafu". i don't think you want your community believing that "situation normal - all f$%ked up" is the way you guys conduct business. don't use "fubar", either. both of these apply to situations that are common and require a great deal of talent, action and dedication to get through. if something as simple as an unplugged cord constitutes the "snafu"... i think you can see where i'm going with this.

s&%t does happen, but that doesn't mean you just throw your hands up and say, "ah well, what can ya do."

[MacDeath]

It was quite embarrassing. I felt a bit better when folks said the info was good during the screw up. Someone kicked the cord and our laptop eats powerif it is unplugged. It's a thousand pound Alienware.

I want to apologize that both demos had to be shortened. We originally had 30 minute slots (stuff happens in live shows and sometimes things get bumped but still - but that snafu won't happen again.) We will do encores of both shows so you guys can get a deeper look.

All-in-all I hope you enjoyed the part of the raid we showed.

Here's a pro-tip I've learned from convention shows: TAPE the power cord to the floor so it isn't easy to dislodge AND assign someone to STAND beside the equipment to watch that it doesn't get tampered with, and three have a second PC up and running the game in the unlikely event that the first machine dies.

I think your story telling mode WAS quite good but it doesn't really save the day. When people tune in to SEE a demo, they expect to watch the new game play, not to hear about it. I saw in the chat someone say, it's like when Grandma told us stories. (I don't THINK he was equating YOU with his Grandmother, just that story time was an interesting fallback and reminded him of his childhood.

I thought the stage where the raiders ported to the Plane of Death and the Plane of Life and had to switch focus at just the right time was quite interesting.

[MacDeath]

Who cares? Is any sane person going to be watching twitch and think themselves, "Herp-derp, dat game must sukk kuz teh powerz on teh laptop went out!"

And it's RIFT so, again, why do any of us care? I don't play games like RIFT.

There are a lot of people on these forums who just need to step away from the computer and re-evaluate their priorities and stop wasting their time.

This thread is not only pointless in a general context but completely unrelated to Defiance.

Who. Gives. A. ****.

Well, you ask why any of us should care. I cared enough to start this thread and Elizabeth cared enough to reply to it. I cared because I'm not only a Defiance player but also a Rift player, and more important a Trion customer. I had hoped that PAX would introduce Trion and thus Defiance and Rift to a broader audience in a favorable way.

For Defiance to do well, Trion needs to do well. If Rift weren't making money, Trion couldn't afford to keep Defiance going.

[Billy Guile]

Here's a pro-tip I've learned from convention shows: TAPE the power cord to the floor so it isn't easy to dislodge AND assign someone to STAND beside the equipment to watch that it doesn't get tampered with, and three have a second PC up and running the game in the unlikely event that the first machine dies.

I think your story telling mode WAS quite good but it doesn't really save the day. When people tune in to SEE a demo, they expect to watch the new game play, not to hear about it. I saw in the chat someone say, it's like when Grandma told us stories. (I don't THINK he was equating YOU with his Grandmother, just that story time was an interesting fallback and reminded him of his childhood.

I thought the stage where the raiders ported to the Plane of Death and the Plane of Life and had to switch focus at just the right time was quite interesting.

solutions. mac, you beast!

[MacDeath]

solutions. mac, you beast!

Well Billy, we're all aware of Murphy's Law: 'Anything that can go wrong will'. Are you aware of what Mrs. Murphy said? She said, "Murphy is an optomist".

Now here's Mac's Corollary to Murphy's Law: 'And it will go wrong in the worst possible way at the worst possible time.'

I survived six years in the Marines in the 60s AND 30 years in the Silicon Valley by expecting things to go wrong, planning what to do WHEN (not IF) things went wrong, and practicing the plan. Life isn't meant to be easy, it's meant to be challenging.

[Billy Guile]

Well Billy, we're all aware of Murphy's Law: 'Anything that can go wrong will'. Are you aware of what Mrs. Murphy said? She said, "Murphy is an optomist".

Now here's Mac's Corollary to Murphy's Law: 'And it will go wrong in the worst possible way at the worst possible time.'

I survived six years in the Marines in the 60s AND 30 years in the Silicon Valley by expecting things to go wrong, planning what to do WHEN (not IF) things went wrong, and practicing the plan. Life isn't meant to be easy, it's meant to be challenging.

i'm so embedded in the old ways, that with all the new tech that screws up these days, Murphy can sleep sound. FBCB2 went out? no big deal. got 3 different radio options, a map, protractor and compass. Murphy can go suckstart a shotgun

case in point: other tanks having coax issues because they weren't going through the correct steps of identifying functions issues. mine worked like melted butter on a piece of toast getting slow burned on a mojave highway in july. pacom top tank WHATSUP

[ten4]

So did someone actually trip on the cord or was it sabotaged by a bitter customer?

[AmnesiaHaze]

they are also only human beings and make mistakes