Channel Update #16 (Jul) – 6 month plan (Patreon)

Tough month. 

I think it’s a good time to give another longer-term update on my plans for future videos. I’m probably going to do this regularly, maybe every 6 months as that’s about as long as it takes for plans to start to unravel in my experience, and I feel it’s important to keep patreon supporters informed as people should know where their money will end up going. So, in the rest of the year the videos I’d like to make are:

1+2. Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 retrospective (BG3 is delayed but I’m not sure that matters very much. For me the most important thing is making sure I have covered these two games before BG3 comes out as I think that might benefit the inevitable BG3 video, and if there’s a good time to make these videos soon then I will)

3. Genshin Impact critique (Probably the biggest surprise here for people, and possibly not a good one. It is an interesting and important game though, and I’d like to talk about it. Plus it’s a game I’ve already played (started as research for the china video) and have already made extensive notes for. So the video would not take that long. This video could potentially be soon as there is a big update happening... now, actually.)

4. Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous (This one isn’t 100% as I don’t want to force a video if I don’t have something interesting to say. Also no idea the format/length of the video. I’ll play the game on release though, and if I don’t cover it then I might come back to it in some kind of update for the crpg guide video some time.)

5. Total War Warhammer 3/trilogy video (I’ve been playing total war since Shogun 1 and this might be the best moment I’ll get to talk about the series as an ‘entire series retrospective’ would never work. This is also the video I’m most excited for. Game might be delayed to 2022 though.)

6. Gothic!

Anyone who pays really close attention to how long it takes me to make videos might be thinking “how will you fit 6 reasonably big games/videos into less than 6 months?”

And yeah, I also wonder how I will do that. The most likely scenario is that I won’t. But plans evolve with time anyway so I’m just going to take it video by video and see where I end up. I mean it’s possible any of these videos gets canceled, well, except for the gothic one. That video will happen but even it’s in danger of being delayed if I do end up making all these other videos. If it does get delayed it will be delayed until Jan 2022, so not a big deal but I’d still like to finish it before the end of the year.

But regardless this is the plan and even though the plan has some problems I still want to share it with you.

And while it’s clearly too early to talk about plans beyond the next 6 months, I do want to say at least one thing about the future, which is that I don’t really see myself making the exact same types of videos forever. And I know the vagueness of such a statement must sound ominous but I want to say it regardless. I enjoy making videos and I’ve been continuously productive since I started this youtube channel, and I don’t plan for either of those things to change, which means that one day the type of video I make might have to change for me to keep going like I’m going. Maybe not a drastic or sudden change and I don’t see myself leaving my safe haven of video games, but I feel like things will change, one way or another. I hope that makes sense, vague as it is.

I don’t have any grand plans for the future by the way. This isn’t me being coy. This is me trying to be open and ensure that if change ever does happen, it doesn’t come as a surprise. Hence the 6 month plan. So expect more updates like this in the future I guess.

On a semi-related note I also want to say that if anyone ever wants to cancel their patreon subscription, then I hope you know you can do that, guilt free, at any time for any reason. And this isn’t something you ever need to justify to me. By giving on patreon you have already went above the level that’s expected of you and you should never feel guilt or stress as a result of that. I know very well that circumstances change, tastes changes, priorities change… creators change, etc. It’s normal. I understand that. And I always will.

So if you ever want to go, go freely with my sincere thanks for the time you supported me.

Wow, this update has felt a little depressing… and that’s without talking about the Mass Effect video! I hope everyone is well. I am well. This update is not a subtle cry for help. I just wanted to mention a few of these things and this seemed like the time.

Until next month.