Bay caused a brouhaha on his blog (michaelbay.com) by voicing his displeasure that Transformers would not be available on Blu-ray and that he was rethinking his plan to direct a sequel. The next day he backpedaled, but he is still upset about the format war.
"It's short-sighted and it has delayed consumers' moving to HD (home video)," he says. "As a director, my critical eye is that Blu-ray is where my money is. Consumers are smart, and they are going to wait it out."
"While the 20 year anniversary edition of Nordic Game, NG24 Spring's homepage on 21-24 May in Malmö, Sweden, is getting closer, the organizers announced that more than 150 speakers are now lined up for the show." - Nordic Game.
The gaming industry has drifted away from offering full-fledged games to putting unfinished titles that are jam-packed with microtransactions on the market.
It's not the fault of the gaming industry. Gamers were told what was happening, were warned about where this would lead, did nothing, and now are acting like it's the fault of publishers that they kept buying these games and investing in MTX. If only those gamers at that time felt as strongly about these things as they do Helldivers 2.
This is what amazed me the most when playing hours upon hours of stellar Blade version 1.00.00 no bugs, no crashes, no sudden drops in frames, no screen tear, no falling from the world, just a complete package on a game under 50GB.
I think Korea will play a major role in gaming in the long run , because they're releasing banger after banger.
Still pretty common to find if you stay away from the AAA publishers, in the last 10yrs ive probably only bought like 3 games combined from EA/ACTIVISION/UBISOFT. Even now i still buy games that work right out the box perfectly fine. Just recently got like 6hrs into Alone in the Dark, and not a single sign of any of that bs, really enjoying my time with it.
And we as gamers have to accept our role in that. Constantly never being satisfied. Constantly demanding more while paying less. Constantly demanding better frame rates, better graphics, more modes and faster faster faster…. Then review bombing the product when a demand isn’t met. Meanwhile those same demands are making games more difficult, complex and more expensive to create than ever before, on shrinking timelines that burn out employees and make their lives miserable.
You wanna know why so many games get delayed? Cuz the original release dates weren’t realistic to begin with, but you can’t tell a gamer their game is further away than they want to hear. Some dev or game designer will be threatened physically. That builds even more pressure and rushing. We are officially squeezing water out of rocks and still complaining about that how hard you have to squeeze the rock be just waiting for rain. Most of the time we take it out on the developing studio, when it’s the publisher making the calls.
All you need to do is read the comments on most websites and social media to see how toxic, entitled and petty the gaming community at large is, and realize how that transforms into impossible expectations on the parts of game makers.
This is one battle that gamers have never won, hahaha. They were parading recently for their "win" against Sony. Where's the energy for this one, guys? LMAO!
"The most important games event of Latin America, gamescom latam, has unveiled the finalists for its flagship award ceremony, the gamescom latam BIG Festival, which celebrates the best in the global market of games." - Gamescom.
very interesting.
However I must say, consumers aren't always that smart, bias is a large factor, they don't think 'Oh yeah 100 Gigabytes is better than 51, or 50 is better than 30", if the salesman is pro-microsoft they will say "yes blu-ray is an option, however, you want to get a HD-DVD because Transformers is coming out on HD-DVD and I mean what else is coming out on Blu-Ray?"
This is what a Myer salesman told me, if I was not aware of the specs and information about the formats I would be easily swayed to HD-DVD.
I then asked the salesman why he thought HD-DVD was better, he did not mention anything about space capacity he said this "well it's backed by Microsoft, so you know its good quality."
I was taken aback and a bit shocked to be honest, so then I questioned him with questions like "But isn't 50Gb better than 30, isn't 100 GB better than 51GB?"
And he got very defensive, and continued to hit the same point of Microsoft backing it so you know it's going to win.
So you know, it isn't always the consumers fault, many many people are unawares of the features, specifications and are blindsighted. I mean you'd think, double the storage capacity = better technology = more sales, but consumers don't even know anything about that, so at the moment it seems very airy fairy and out there.
I remember another salesman said Plasma was outselling LCD and LCD was far worse to Plasma, then I questioned him about bruned in images, viewing angles, brightness, contrast ratios and he was taken aback than I actually knew my stuff.
Anyway I hope the better technology wins, because well, I want better technology, I'd like to back up my whole hard rive on one blu-ray, not multiple hd-dvds etc.
Blu-Ray for me mate!
(bubbles ;P)
the end of HD-DVD? possibly
EDIT; ok bubbles for # 1
Not that I need to see the movie again just yet but if I do, DVD is the way to go for Blu-Ray users.
I think Michael Bay is just pissed that Paramount let Spielberg choose his format for his movies and didn't let him choose what format he wanted. He probably doesn't give a damn which format his movies go to, he just wants to get the same respect that Spielberg gets. Well, until he makes a great movie, he won't.
same i just buy transformer for dvd..looks better anyways. transformer would of sell like crazy if it was on blue ray