FtXCommando wrote:
To be frank I have zero idea who Play of the Week is meant to appeal to on YouTube. The people that have played SupCom and get bored one day and look up videos of the game are an informed audience and do not really need to be “hooked” into the game by videos like Play of the Week as they already likely had a predisposition to RTS gameplay if they played/heard of FA before.
To me it feels like you’re trying to appeal to the dudes that somehow youtube channel surf their way to a fringe RTS game they never heard of and know nothing about. However the problem with that in my mind is that we don’t have that group of people to “lose” without these videos. Before this attempt to bait people to play FAF through some “epic play montage” can work, you’d need someone on FAF to become a major pro Fortnite streamer so he could explain his sense of 146 IQ strategy came from this decade old RTS.
Skimming through the titles of your plays of the week, it looks like it’s mostly high level players that get into the videos. Now, when you say that you want the community to strive for something, what is that supposed to mean? I don’t really think I’ve heard of any of the top players really talk about the videos. Again it seems like we’re missing a middle step here in community development. Montage videos of Shroud’s epic plays or s1mple really only work because there is a group of players that either are incredibly interested in top players on a personal level or they have a deep interest in improving themselves and so idolize those players.
I’d say you’re better off giving attention to lower level players through your series in order to develop this “middle class” of players that doesn’t exist on FAF.
To be frank I have zero idea who Play of the Week is meant to appeal to on YouTube. The people that have played SupCom and get bored one day and look up videos of the game are an informed audience and do not really need to be “hooked” into the game by videos like Play of the Week as they already likely had a predisposition to RTS gameplay if they played/heard of FA before.
To me it feels like you’re trying to appeal to the dudes that somehow youtube channel surf their way to a fringe RTS game they never heard of and know nothing about. However the problem with that in my mind is that we don’t have that group of people to “lose” without these videos. Before this attempt to bait people to play FAF through some “epic play montage” can work, you’d need someone on FAF to become a major pro Fortnite streamer so he could explain his sense of 146 IQ strategy came from this decade old RTS.
Skimming through the titles of your plays of the week, it looks like it’s mostly high level players that get into the videos. Now, when you say that you want the community to strive for something, what is that supposed to mean? I don’t really think I’ve heard of any of the top players really talk about the videos. Again it seems like we’re missing a middle step here in community development. Montage videos of Shroud’s epic plays or s1mple really only work because there is a group of players that either are incredibly interested in top players on a personal level or they have a deep interest in improving themselves and so idolize those players.
I’d say you’re better off giving attention to lower level players through your series in order to develop this “middle class” of players that doesn’t exist on FAF.
This is really really good feedback and actually things I've considered before. But yes, I've been working on some attention grabbers (uef Outpost video for example). Just things like that I'm experimenting with. Something that just makes someone go "ok, what is that". Maybe spawn a search and find us. But it's still a work in progress. Being such a small channel, it's tough to gauge how to properly focus videos. But, a montage is a very good idea. I'll definitely look into that. I remember tokyto doing a beetle snipe montage that I absolutely loved. Gyle is the one that drew me into this game. Crazy right? 2014 feels like yesterday.
But in short, I read through all of your response, and I'll reread again and see where I can apply some changes in the near future video sets.
Statistics: Posted by Medicraze — 07 Sep 2018, 14:35
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