Woffls
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That was a well deserved ban; civility is not difficult.
D dark10x you guys are doing great work over there. I mostly watch the videos to try and learn how to identify the differences that graphical settings make on-screen, and I still can't bloody do it xD I also just like seeing pretty things on my OLED, which is partly why I just subbed on Patreon.
Regarding the internal conflict of deciding what content to make... it really says more about YouTube as a platform and how people consume media that something as trite as unboxing a video card does good numbers. If it helps at all, I don't imagine people are engaging with that content on a meaningful level - it's just hype material with little value. If I watch an unboxing, I am 99% focussed on something else.
I think seeing "documentary" in a video is going to deter a lot of people. I'd be willing to bet that people jumped ship with the OnRush video when they realised that it was a relatively long video and might warrant some attention. "Documentary" makes me think of watching Sky in the 90s as a kid - is TV still a thing? It's something for which I need to set aside some time, rather than just watch and later realise that a chunk of time flew by.
I would be inclined to take particular aspects of the video, like the weather systems and terrain, and compare them directly to DriveClub as a stand-alone video. I get that it fits more naturally into the story about the engine that was being made, but just that headline with exciting words like "weather" and "DriveClub" would do quite a lot to improve engagement. A game engine is just so broad and it's difficult to make a narrative out of that which can be "sold", as it were, to the YouTube audience. All that said, I am nothing but a consumer.
D dark10x you guys are doing great work over there. I mostly watch the videos to try and learn how to identify the differences that graphical settings make on-screen, and I still can't bloody do it xD I also just like seeing pretty things on my OLED, which is partly why I just subbed on Patreon.
Regarding the internal conflict of deciding what content to make... it really says more about YouTube as a platform and how people consume media that something as trite as unboxing a video card does good numbers. If it helps at all, I don't imagine people are engaging with that content on a meaningful level - it's just hype material with little value. If I watch an unboxing, I am 99% focussed on something else.
I think seeing "documentary" in a video is going to deter a lot of people. I'd be willing to bet that people jumped ship with the OnRush video when they realised that it was a relatively long video and might warrant some attention. "Documentary" makes me think of watching Sky in the 90s as a kid - is TV still a thing? It's something for which I need to set aside some time, rather than just watch and later realise that a chunk of time flew by.
I would be inclined to take particular aspects of the video, like the weather systems and terrain, and compare them directly to DriveClub as a stand-alone video. I get that it fits more naturally into the story about the engine that was being made, but just that headline with exciting words like "weather" and "DriveClub" would do quite a lot to improve engagement. A game engine is just so broad and it's difficult to make a narrative out of that which can be "sold", as it were, to the YouTube audience. All that said, I am nothing but a consumer.