Channel updates

I haven't used this blog in 2 years. Good thing it's tied with my YouTube account or I probably wouldn't even know how to access it.

It probably won't even get much attention like it used to thanks to YouTube and their stupid current channel design which makes your description very unnoticeable.

I had to make a new post because you probably have no idea what's going on on my channel, especially if you've been watching me for a long time.

First of all, YouTube changed these years many times. I know it's not all about views, but if you upload videos you worked on you want them. Back when I started it was very easy to get views, even though I initially didn't know how to grab people's attention, but no ad revenue at all.

From mid 2010 it became A LOT worse, generic gameplay videos wouldn't get viewed at all because YouTube's search was taking you to old videos, so people started to make commentary videos and making their channels a lot more unique and I started doing the same. It was also the time people started getting partnered. At first it was fun, but then I realized there were too many people doing it, and I should have started before if I wanted to do that. Some of my Let's Plays were pretty popular, but most people were always there to watch the gameplay because I didn't have an interesting style, and the fact some of the videos would get under 50 views made my commentary even worse.

Then things changed again... it may be worse or not. People who managed to break the 60K sub barrier grew even more because they appeared on the main YT page. Other people completely disappeared, popular Let's Players get like 20 times less the views they get now.

Meanwhile YouTube's search system tends to show more recent videos and not the most popular one which tends to lead people to watch old videos, so doing generic videos like boss runs and such is now an option again.

It also happened though Content ID and copyrights started to get a big problem, especially with Nintendo who claims revenue even on 20+ year old games, and considering how I get revenue from my videos, if I can avoid playing a Nintendo game I do.

So with that said, I probably won't be doing commentary playthroughs for a long time, without Nintendo it's not a good idea. I still want to finish Ratchet & Clank 3 but after that I have nothing in mind for LPs.

Many people liked my Kingdom Hearts videos, so I'll keep it up while uploading some other games I feel like to play as well.

Lastly, I remind you I'm having health problems which take away all my gaming mood, my internet is shit at uploading now and it takes me hours to upload videos, and I'm also a bit busy, so sometimes I'll be a lot inactive.