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"FerociousPanda;c-2256092" wrote:"Kyno;c-2256020" wrote:"Iy4oy4s;c-2255997" wrote:"Kyno;c-2255971" wrote:"Iy4oy4s;c-2255960" wrote:"Kyno;c-2255954" wrote:"Iy4oy4s;c-2255946" wrote:
So the new format for the Q&A's is dead or gonna take even more time? Asking for a friend who isnt one of the 802 Operation Metaverse followers and doesnt pay any attention to them.....this seems to be just another one of CG's classic "say one thing, do another".
The "new format" was (is) intended to be more like the OM thing they did.
I cant speak about the direct details but it seems he wanted to go with a more "take in a bunch of points", "sort", then "disseminate answers". Rinse and repeat.
There are many road blocks along the way and in part the dissemination methods and frequency seem to be where he is having the trouble (not all on one side or the other) and that is where he is trying to figure out the best new path forward.
So no not really a "say one thing, do another", more of a "say one thing", "try to do it", and now try to improve it.
We were never given a reason why the old Q&A's stopped, although we can all guess why as its painfully obvious. My problem is that they have been "working" on this new format with nothing to really come of it. Why pick OM...they only have 802 followers on Twitch and 8.7k on YT...Ahnald has over 15.5k AND HE DOESNT EVEN STREAM ON TWITCH and has 195K on YT. It's like EA releasing some news about a new game by giving it to the Hotdog stand guy on the corner rather than some big game news outlet.
How many people even watched the OM thing? Is there a reader's digest version or do we have to sit through an entire VOD that didnt interestmemy friend, in the first place? How is picking one to the smallest streamers "getting community questions answered in a fun and interesting way as Crumb and I work to broaden the ways in which we engage with the players."?
People have questions, people want answers, people don't want to have to sift through a thread that is basically the "Ask Kyno" thread or watch some obscure twitch channel. Bring back the old Q&A's. Effective communication with the player base should be built into the schedule, so its quite important.
As I said I cant speak to the details.
Many said the old QAs were not effective communication.
Why not work with other sources? Why wouldnt they want to help any content creator, and not just the big ones? Also as I said, I believe frequency and dissemination were one of the bigger roadblocks he hit.
Broader would mean more sources, not just the big ones, so that could be part of the plan and it's just going through growing pains.
People are always going to have questions and want answers, I dont think there is any single way that is going to resolve that situation, and it seems that everyone involved is just trying to help build to a better situation.
Both you and Ultra keep saying "not just the big ones"....when the last time they worked with Ahnald....who has the biggest audience in SWGOH? Wouldnt you want to start a new series, or whatever CG is calling it, by starting it on the biggest channel to get the most attention, so they can then shine a light on the smaller channels? OM and GWR are getting ALL the love and have been for quite some time...isn't it time to shine on someone else?. CG's hate for Ahnald is real. Like him or not, you can't argue that he has the biggest reach in SWGOH and that reach could be used to inform and possibly bring in new players, especially now since there are new SW mobile games on the horizon.
I will give Crumb credit for going on CubFanHan's stream in March for the conquest launch to chat, which was nice, wish he did that more often.
I believe that Doja and Crumb wasted their time (something they say is extremely tight) on a video that only gained 1275 views.
Not if part of the idea is to broaden the resources used to disseminate the information/answers.
Aside from Crumb being on Cubs' stream during the day that Conquest launched, I'm struggling to think of a single instance in the past year (and even beyond that), where CG worked with content creators other than Galactic War Report or Operation Metaverse to disseminate information. In what world does almost exclusively working with the same two channels for over a year count as "broadening"? If they really wanted to broaden the resources and "help" smaller content creators, there's plenty of other content creators out there not called OM or GWR that they could work with.
I don't want to be a downer, but I mostly agree with ly4oy4s. This new format is just a major step down from the Q&As we used to have. I appreciate the work that Doja and Crumb must have put into this, but it's just kind of sad that months of work resulted in three videos and something like 15-20 questions answered, most of which were only fun trivia questions. I don't have anything against trivia, I actually thought some of the questions were interesting, but not when there's so many other harder-hitting questions that they could tackle.
Say what you will about how effective the old Q&As were, at least they occasionally answered some harder questions, and at least they generated discussion. There would always be post-Q&A discussion on the forums and reddit, there'd usually be someone who made a TL;DR post for those who didn't want to read all the answers, and there'd be videos made by content creators talking about the Q&A. But this new format has had three videos and I have literally not seen a single discussion post about the answers they provided, either here or on reddit. However you paint it, it doesn't seem like their attempt at "broadening" has worked. I hope they stop going to the exact same content creators every single time and expecting different results, because it's clear by now that the reach just isn't there.
The plan with the QA was to do exactly that, Doja is having some issues, which have caused delays, and rather than delay it further, he launched it and is working on was to make it better and figure things out.
They have made a few statements about broadening platforms they use, and they have also made it onto Discord.
I liked the old QA, I'm just pointing out that many would and have said they dont like them.
Edit to add: they have stated the plan they want, it has not really worked out the way they wanted, but it's still a work in progress. "Going back" to the old things doesnt help that plan. We can see how things play out.
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