Channel Update & The Next MMO Project!

So with Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds over, as well as the FF6 finale coming tomorrow, we have about 10 weeks to kick up a new project! So I thought it'd be fun to reflect on the year so far and set up the next thing: FFXIV.

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[WoodenPotatoes]

Morning guys! Update for you all today on how things have basically been going since my update back at the start of Feb. It might be somewhat boring but hopefully sheds some light/details on the current game play. Thanks again for the support, especially during the JW playthrough we just did! That was very awesome.

[slytherben]

I desperately missed you during SOTO. Your voice has been a constant companion in good time and bad for about 7 years. But. I always want you to be honest and I always enjoy your critiques. Super happy that you don't sugarcoat.

[TalkativeTri]

Really enjoyed the Janthir Wilds play through, looking forward to FF, too.

Just wanted to shout you out here…you inspired me to start my own channel in the same vein as yours for Path of Exile and it has changed my life.

Thanks for all the videos and memories, dude!

[AuroraPeachy]

A "Let's Read" of the novels would be so interesting!

[sirottaro]

I am really hyped the announcement of new edited content. It was always my favourite stuff to watch on your channel.
Every time I open Youtube I see your streams, but I am just do not enjoy streamed content so much.

Also glad to see your enthusiasm about your new projects. And just saying: I would be really interested in your take of the hole Guild Wars story.
I can understand that you do not want to make a video about the missed opportunities but when I think back your videos always showed me the potential of the Guild Wars story, even though Arenanet often missed some awesome story possibilities.

Finally please share your opinions about the series you watched. I am here your content and would gladly listen to your thoughts about non video game stories.

[DrawingHoneyMelon]

Man, it's great to hear that you're considering another go at Stellaris! That LP was genuinely so unique and cool I still watch it sometimes. Excited for Monday too!

[PurpleTurnipLife]

Until about 4 months ago, I hadnt played GW2 since heart of thorns. With the release of LWS1 I've been playing the post core releases which I'm enjoying a lot! I've been following you since your original guild wars let's plays and it makes me feel sad you fell out of love with gw2 with the secrets of obscure post release patches. I'm happy to hear janthir wilds is clicking for you! I'll be watching your streamed lets play when i get to janthir wilds (on LWS4 now). Keep up the good work WP. P.S. Your one off essays/reviews are damn good - looking forward to more!

[DigitsRPG]

Long time FFXIV player here and been playing GW2 for almost a year now. Looking forward your replay of FFXIV: ARR "A game replayed"

[shawnisme]

Teasing me with the start of the Wooden Potatoes OSRS era.

[Blu_Beard]

Honestly I'm glad you are diversifying your content. I loved your TES Arena playthrough and the Zeus series. I was hoping for a Daggerfall series unless I missed it, but whatever comes I'll still watch for the commentary if not for the game.

[rsownageXxX]

I'm definitely interested in a dedicated video showing off the Stellaris mods and I think that it would make a great video overall. Modding Stellaris is obviously something you're passionate about and sharing that passion with other modding nerds like myself sounds great. I've been making mods for games since like 2008 with Oblivion and love seeing people's passion projects for the games they love.

[coridulou]

I'm here not just for GW2 content, but for WP content. I have no idea if I am in the minority or the majority though.

I definitely felt the same way you did about SotO/Pre-Janthir. Anyone who was hyped about Janthir, I didn't want to rain on their parade, but a lot of the announcements did not get me hyped. I don't care all that much about decorations, I'll be excited about the PvP mode if they actually stick with it instead of abandoning it like they did with Stronghold, and I had very little faith in their ability to deliver a good post-dragons story. However, Janthir really impressed me, and made me excited for the game for the first time since EoD. It was not perfect, but it was a step in the right direction.

[michaelpoulsen]

I love watching whatever you do, Janthir Wilds was nice and I can't wait for whatever is next

[leela]

In my opinion, you shouldnt shy away from popular content format, like tier lists. Especially if you want to grow your channel further. You have unique perspective, you're not copying anyone. I'm sure people would love to listen that expansion tier list, both story and gameplay wise. Same about story summary, both video essay and tier list sounds awesome!

I'm no content creator, but from what I've seen from other channels separating regular videos and let's plays to two separate channels should be good idea. Look at Preach for example. You talked a lot how streams don't help to grow a channel, because content is not very easy to discover and thats a lot to get through - and thats true for many people. You could try to plan on what you're going to do on your streams in advance, and then upload edited stream highlights to your channel. Or even just pick more interesting pieces, like I loved analysis and theories about Mehir / Mabon / Darda, and I think that segment, with some work, could easily be uploaded into main channel :)

[nikidelvalle]

I'm super glad you're enjoying your endeavors! I think that's important! I think if I had any opinion on all of this though personally, it's that I miss the content I subscribed to this channel for, that being the really long videos I could put on in the background where you talked about your thoughts about features, news, or an expansion. I just don't watch Let's Plays, it's not what I started watching you for, I started watching you to listen to you talk about stuff because I think your opinions are super interesting and I learned a lot about the game by listening. So I'm really excited for these reviews you're working on, and I hope we get more content like it in the future!

[anti-macro]

Been following you since the launch of GW2 even if I don’t play GW2 that much nowadays, loved your FF playthroughs and since I’ve picked up FF14 a while ago I’m definitely looking forward to some content about it - keep up the great work!

[nikolajkristensen]

I’ve been watching your videos for many years now. Your content is always top-notch.

I personally get really winded from all the 2-3 hour livestreams (especially when there are a lot of them back-to-back and they’re the only way to hear your thoughts on the game / reactions to things happening in Tyria (would totally be watch a compressed / summarized version of those videos if that was a thing).

I usually gravitate towards your lore videos (and also some of your other LP’s, like Tomb Raider and Bioshock) and have also watched your more long-drawn content a lot (for example, I’ve watched your reviews of HoT multiple times (all of the videos) and I have watched your GW2 LP twice all the way through, too).

I think it’s because the content feels more concise and prepared, so it’s easier for me to connect to rather than a couple hours of ongoing engagement with the chat (I always have the content running as a podcast anyway so I’m never reading the live chat, etc.) and some natural breaks where there isn’t a lot going on (as is normal for livestreams) and that makes me lose focus.

So hearing you’re considering doing a review of the mini-expansion thus far is great news to me 😅 And I would personally really enjoy watching non-live videos for FFXIV, too. But I understand that the live-streaming format probably is a bit more approachable (and enjoyable) for someone who does this full time so that also makes sense to me.

I just feel like I end up losing out on lots of great discussions, lore reveals and hearing your general take on where the game is heading when it’s stuffed into a multiple hour livestream that I don’t have the attention span for 😅


But regardless, thanks for many years of great content! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the new FFXIV stuff and your thoughts on the GW franchise in general. Cheers!

[RudexAwakening]

First song is Cider Time - Lifeformed. Happy to recognize it in the wild

[CadeAid]

As someone who regularly plays both GW2 **and** FFXIV together, I am very excited for the Let's Play, WP!

[DeorisTyr]

Hey there :) lovely to hear from you again. Personally i'm all for guild wars content, but i think as long as you love what you cover it will always be engaging, so any content is fine really. A highlight for me was you reading Snargle Books, i almost died laughing at the bee/bear thing.
Anyway, happy that you enjoyed janthir so far - i did too :) (i just really hope that theres not going to be any expanded under water content...)