New Year, New Channel

[lrbaumard]

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Wow really? This is nothing

 

[Azurespecter]

Honestly haven’t looked at any of these videos, I start looking at tutorials only when I start getting frustrated not understanding how a game mechanic works (ex: cities Skylines tutorials I watched were mostly about traffic control).

That being said I find it kind of disappointing that for the release of this DLC on consoles you guys still didn’t want to use the console version for the “official” tutorials. Three videos, all under three minutes so I’m gonna guess it’s not even more than a presentation of most features. I’ll admit that most viewers won’t even see the difference but to me it feels... weak? Dishonest? I’m not sure how to describe it. Kind of like you guys didn’t trust the “basic” console version for three short videos presenting your product. I’m not saying it’s the end of the work or even really bad... it just kind of leaves a bad taste realizing you don’t trust your product to sell itself on console...

Totally understand where you're coming from, and I appreciate the feedback!

I made the call to use PC over console, and here's the primary reason: PS4 and Xbox One don't have pre-release versions or beta branches that we can use to create content with. Unlike on PC where we can literally update a beta branch any day we want to... Console versions have to go through a validation phase, and Dev Kits are under very tight restrictions and can't leave our office, therefore our only option would be to bring somebody to Stockholm and have them film the entire thing here. That's about a 4-5 day trip, which is asking a lot for a YouTuber (Sam Bur lives in Australia!). Alternatively, we could have had them film after Green Cities went live... but that meant the tutorials would've gone up a week after launch which didn't feel right.

So with everybody just getting back to work from the holidays, I found myself in a circumstance where we didn't have time to plan for someone to fly into the office and film on console. So we did our best to use a PC player that made sure to keep in mind that console players would be the main audience. Not ideal, but it was the best solution we could do in a short time.

I am trying to find more influencers that are interested in playing on Xbox and PS4 and creating content from that. It's... hard, to be transparent. I continue to work hard and am gathering a group of more people to provide console-specific content, but it's taken me some time to get that ready =)

Hope that's understandable to you, and feels like an explanation rather than an excuse. Again, I appreciate the feedback!

 

[Irealys]

I’m... shocked. I honestly didn’t expect to see an answer from anyone, at best I thought maybe some random forum person would have said that it was easier and leave it at that.

our only option would be to bring somebody to Stockholm and have them film the entire thing here. That's about a 4-5 day trip

Seems like an easy and convenient thing to pull off out of the blue... :-/

Jokes aside, thank you for a complete and honest answer. These are always appreciated. I figured there were some technical reasons (didn’t think about that part of console restrictions) but I’m glad I got the full picture.

If you can arrange for people to travel to your offices and record there, i salute the effort. If i may propose a possible alternative when you are short on time or otherwise unable to have someone on site, it could be to discuss with the person in question and see their “script” and provide them with the footage they would need. It would not be ideal and I’m sure it would have its challenges but I thought it was worth a mention.

As for the difficulty to find people willing to create content for console, that is kind of a shame. I’m thinking about getting myself a computer to record Let’s Plays and other things. It’s still in the project phase so no need to worry yet, I promise to warn you when it’s time to block my private message requests

Again thank you for your time and response. I don’t believe you understand my appreciation of it. I feel like a lot of my (and probably other) console players frustrations comes from a lack of communication.

Anyway, thanks again

 

[Loltak]

Hi all

Few days ago I went to the channel during a live stream with Leader of the monkeys. It is normal that it's not avaiblale (unlisted) in the playlist?
It could be usual practice to wait some days but I not very familiar with live stream

Bye

 

[Azurespecter]

Hi all

Few days ago I went to the channel during a live stream with Leader of the monkeys. It is normal that it's not avaiblale (unlisted) in the playlist?
It could be usual practice to wait some days but I not very familiar with live stream

Bye

We're working on a schedule that will take cut-downs of streams so you can watch all the best highlights and most interesting segments. We've found that watch times for these streams is generally like .02% so that's why we haven't been posting the whole streams =)

 

[Loltak]

Ok, thanks for the answer
Yes it's a long one and I have to admit that I've not seen all of it