Hello everyone! Last month we did the subscriber Q&A over
at twitch and I noticed that we ran out of questions about half way through the Q&A. This on
its own is not a big problem, I just opened up the chat for everybody, we had a grand old time
with answering all the questions, but it did get me thinking as to what I could do as a
little thank you to everyone for supporting me and I figured it might be fun to make a
news letter where I talk about the channel, events going on in my life and some future
plans I have in mind. I don’t how often I’ll write a letter like this and make a video accordingly. It might be every three
months, it might be a monthly thing if a lot of exciting stuff is happening, but
this gives me an opportunity to, you know, give my train of thought behind the channel, things that we have in mind and yeah we'll just see how it's going to go!
Things on the Youtube channel are going better than I had ever expected. I finally found
the time to make my “How it’s made video” which a lot of people enjoyed. I’m very
happy about that, I was really worried that talking about work would get boring, but apparently
not and now you all got a better understanding as to what it is that I actually do, what goes on behind the screens of the Youtube channel. I’ve
finished up covering most of the lore with Warlords of Draenor and now I’m just waiting
for the next patch, the next step in the legendary and to see how it’s all going to end. I
wonder if 6.2 will be the final patch or if Blizzard decides to add some filler content in
between. Considering that Blizzcon is like 7 months away and I expect that we’ll get a new expansion
announcement. Maybe they'll even have a beta ready? So... that's a lot of time to
go without any new content and a minimum of 6 months of the same raid, that really doesn’t sound good in my ears
So I hope that Blizzard has some filler content in between, now In the meantime
I’ve returned to the stories of, like the story of the Ashbringer which was again a
brilliant success. Thank you to all those that took the time to like the video, comment on it, share it around...
it really helps the channel and it means the world to me so thank you!
In the let’s play department we’re getting closer to the end of the Game of Thrones let’s
play since they haven’t released new episodes yet. I’m thinking about what to do next
for the Wednesday, because I still have that slot to fill, and I think the best plan of action is to start playing and recording
Warcraft 3 and I'll do that on the stream and use those episodes to fill up the Wednesday. Once Game of Thrones
returns, once they release new episodes, I’ll definitely play those and I'll use another day to upload new episodes for that.
Might be the Thursday, might be the Saturday... Who knows, but those new episodes will definitely come and in the mean time we can do Warcraft 3
A Warcraft 3 let’s play has been requested quite a lot so hopefully I’ll be able to
deliver as to what people expect. I'm thinking about what difficulty to play it on. Do I want to do it on normal and get more time to talk or do I want to do it on a harder difficulty and actually try to beat the game?
I'm not quite sure yet, but I'm sure we'll figure it out!
The WoW let’s play with Fury is currently at lvl 94/95 so that one is also coming to an end and we’re thinking
about what game to play next. We also had a bit of trouble with the audio for Fury, her microphone got destroyed so we purchased a new one, hopefully we'll get that up and running, get the quality a little bit better...
And for a next playthrough, we were personally thinking about maybe doing Portal 2. We might do Don’t Starve Together could
be a lot of fun, but we haven’t decided on a new game just yet.
As some of you know by now, I work on a weekly basis when it comes to the lore videos, so
I don’t know for certain what stories are coming, BUT I’ve got something really special
coming up. During one of the streams I decided to read the steamy romance novels which you
can find in the game and we had such a good laugh with it, that I decided that the whole
world should know these stories. We got a few friends together for voice acting and
even more exciting, I got someone real special onboard which is going to bring the story
to life. I don’t want to spoil too much just yet, it’s coming (hopefully soon) and I hope that it’s
going to be brilliant. I've let you hear a couple of previews on the stream with the voice acting. I still need to see how it all turned out graphic wise. I truly hope it's going to be brilliant and I hope we'll all have a good laugh.
Not all is rainbows and sunshine with Youtube though. A few weeks ago, Youtube announced
a new policy and they’re planning to add a subscription to Youtube. It’s kinda like
Twitch turbo which offers you the option to pay an x amount per month and in exchange
you won’t see any adds on any device that you use to watch Youtube with. I’ve been
trying to get more information on the subject, but so far Youtube hasn’t come back to me
and I don’t believe anyone knows for certain what this will do to Youtube. I doubt much
will change for the viewers, either you support this program or you don’t, that's entirely up to you, you can still watch the videos. But it might
have an effect for the content creators. It’s uncertain how the income will change on the
videos. I can imagine that advertisers won’t be happy with an option that allows people to skip their adds.
I don't know how that's going to effect the income that I currently make. I don't know what it's actually going to mean for me but at the same time I don’t believe that Youtube would
mess up the lives of so many Youtubers so yeah...uncertain times ahead.
In light of that, I’ve been pondering about re-opening my Patreon page. I’ve done this
before as people requested a place to support me and the channel, but I’ve always been
of the mentality that you gotta work for what you earn. Accepting donations has always bit
difficult, but on the other hand...Even youtubers have to eat and have to pay their bills. I too need to pay and I’d
rather have a back up plan incase this new Youtube policy does go bad, I rather have a back up plan on Patreon so that I can continue
doing what I love doing, instead of suddenly having to say like:
Oke guys, this new policy. I'm screwed right now, I can't live of what Youtube is earning so you know, I gotta get back to work. The videos, who knows if they'll return? See ya!
That would suck you know. I really don't want that to happen so... yeah I’m still considering those options. I might just open up the page
as an option and those that want to support can do so, those that don’t...they don’t
have too. We’ll see how it's going to go!
That’s what’s going on with the Youtube channel now for the streams on twitch, I don’t
really have many changes in mind. There is one thing that I would love to do and that’s
simply stream more often, but real life combined with wanting to get some videos stored in
case I get sick or for when I’m at Blizzcon...it’s not in the cards right now. I’m currently
streaming at least once a week which is a lot of fun. We've been doing Siege of Orgrimmar on heroic. I want to take that up to Mythic.
I want to do the Q&A's, want to have a bit of fun with everybody. It's been a blast and I just wish I could do it more. I will be streaming more Warcraft 3
similar to how I did it with the Game of Thrones episodes. I will be going live on Twitch for those so that should be a lot of fun.
I'll do my best to free up some more time and hopefully we'll be able to do more streams in the future.
I was actually toying around with the idea, and maybe you guys can give me some feedback on this... I was toying around with the idea of creating a new character and level up as far as I can go while streaming.
This could be all the way to level 100 or just a 12 to 24 hour stream kind of thing
with the idea of raising funds for Blizzcon or having a good old time. Like I said, this is just an idea floating around, but it could be a lot of fun.
Speaking about Blizzcon, as you might have guessed from dropping it a couple of times...I’m actually going to blizzcon this year and it's going to be my very first time going to Blizzcon. I managed
to score some tickets and now I’m doing my best to save up some money and go on the
trip. It will cost me around... 1000/2000 euros...minimum! So yeah it's an expensive trip and I need to set that money aside. This would be my first blizzcon ever and I can’t wait to meet people that I’ve
been talking with online and of course I get a chance to meet all of you. That’s
the main reason why I’m going to be honest, to experience the con and to make lots of
pictures with fans so if you are going to Blizzcon, you see me running around there, don’t be afraid to approach me.
I might look like a big bear and I might look grumpy in my face, but trust me I would love it if you approached me.
I'll be taking, at least that's the plan, to take couple of postcards with me that I can hand out.
I want to take a couple of t-shirts with me that you guys can sign for me as a momento that I can hang up in my closet like
LOOK THAT WAS THE TIME THAT I WENT TO BLIZZCON, that was the time that I got to meet everybody. It should be amazing and I can't wait!
All the information for the new expansion and what not... that’s not the main goal. I’ll
probably catch a bit of information here and there, but all the details I’ll get once I'm home. I'll re watch the stream and the VOD and what not, and than I'll get all the details about hopefully a new expansion.
Maybe we'll hear more about Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, Diablo, Starcraft... All that good stuff, I'll catch up on that when I'm home. When I'm there, I'm there for you guys and it should be brilliant.
I already can’t wait for that holiday, but I’ll still have to wait a few months. I
think that wraps up my little news letter though and I truly hope that you enjoyed this. I hope it was a little bit informative and let me know what you think.
Did you enjoy it? Was it meh for ya, don't you care? Let me know in an comment down below, can't wait to read what you think! Until next time guys...SEE YA!