I have backed them for the their attitude as well and because I love their content. I think it is great patrons get their say in some stuff (eg. the game that's played during the group stream and the questions they can ask for several shows), but I rather want them to create the content they want to create.
You can see they are more free now because there is no boss which tells them they need to get a certain amount of viewers/clicks and that they can use their own creative freedom to create the stuff they want.
You will get the best content when the creator is standing 100% behind it imo.
I think you can see it especially with Ian who seems to enjoy himself a lot more than he was at GT (I also loved his content at GT, but still).
btw I do agree with Pie and Beans that it would be best that there are some extra people who can edit. You can see Brandon Jones is working his ass of and he looks very tired most of the time.
It shows his commitment (which is great), but I don't know how long a human body can take this without getting really sick or something.
This is my main concern with patrons, I'm totally with you, we are backing them up like sponsors, but we are not in any way their bosses, we should never feel entitled to demand them to do anything for us, we are paying them exactly for the opposite, we are paying them to be free to do whatever they want to do.
Don't like what you are currently seeing? then please go ahead and cancel you pledge, may be they will change after, may be don't, but stop being an sponsor if you don't like the content, stop pledging before you feel entitled to ask them do whatever you want just because you are a patron.
Yup, it was the one where the house collapsing while you're playing inside it was the finale.
I don't have complaints with Damiani on the podcast - the strength of EZA is the variety of personalities in the crew and everybody has a place. The "Best of E3" segement that went a bit south was actually a good idea but it would have benefitted from Kyle either mentioning other contenders for each year or being more strict and making it just about the impact the Game of the Show had that year and not about the alternatives. It was still entertaining though. The others just need to call Damiani out more often when he goes to his Zelda / FF happy place. You don't need to think twice when you discuss the impact of Uncharted 2 or TLOU, just mention the hundreds of GOTY awards and end the discussion.
the difference in personalities is not only good for EZA, but it is fundamental for a podcast, I was surprised to hear them say that the world is good when there are people not agreeing, and that is also very good for the podcast, it would be pretty boring if they just nod at each other's statements all the time.
If Damiani puts his Nintendo glasses for every discussion then why isn't anyone else putting something else? ok not agreeing with him on the "Yup" to Gamecube? then go ahead and make a different proposal. That's how it should work. Damiani might had Nintendo glasses all the time, but I don't think that's bad, what is bad is that everyone else is just shutting to his arguments, which I didn't see often in the podcast.
I figured after the shitshow last night, I thought Damiani would be in full up troll mode.
For context, I have agreed in the past that Damiani did feel a little out of his element in other podcasts, or just out of place.
This was my favorite episode of him. He actually did provide historical context to the yep nope segment, even with the Nintendo lenses. I thought he meshing pretty well except for the LOL answer at the end and that did seem odd.
This was the first group podcast where I felt he really belonged and that makes sense since he was out of the loop from the rest of the guys for quite awhile.
this is true also, I didn't see yesterday problems on the thread so I can't really comment fully on it, but I saw he posted he was going to get someway out of the podcast and, now, that makes me afraid.
Why? Why let other comments on the thread/forums let you decide for you whether you should be or not in a content? I agree it is a good option if everyone is commenting that, but a vocal minority shouldn't be an indicative at all to do it.
I actually found Damiani pretty good on the podcast, for me it's not necessarily bad if he is Nintendo oriented, because by that measure I wouldn't be able to stand Kinda Funny which are extremely leaning to Sony's side (which I can't stand sometimes, though) for me it is more important that he adds meaningful content to the podcast, arguments that make the conversation richer and he did, that segment "Nope, Yup" was wonderful most of the time because of the retrospective he did on each E3 year, which I, most of the time, didn't know.
I really hope Damiani wasn't talking seriously about not appearing on the podcast anymore,
that made me salty
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