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Easy Allies |OT2| Love & Reset
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Fair enough, but I still think it doesn't surpass Kyle's bar for interesting podcast fodder. But I could be wrong. Just feels like a fart in the wind compared to the stuff he usually brings up.I didn't read the actual article but the source of all this is someone who actually posted here on ResetERA. Here are the posts:
So really not just a rumor from some unknown source, but possibly someone who has actually worked at Rocksteady in the past. Slightly more credible than just a run-of-the-mill random rumor IMHO.
Damiani said in his FFXI stream on Saturday that they were discussing stopping EZA Clips and he basically insinuated that they probably will. Really unfortunate, IMO, I love the Clips show especially as it is just not possible to catch even a fraction of their streams during the week.
Damn, I like it a lot too and it doesnt seem like it would take that much time to stitch together the clips from twitch but if they dont think it's worth it than it's there call. I would up my pledge for a real clips show (like somegamenews does) in a heartbeat.
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Shoutout to whoever said that during the steam tonight lol
Shoutout to whoever said that during the steam tonight lol
Super sad to hear about the end of EZA clips. I cant watch the twitch streams, so the clips were a very helpful way to catch up with their stuff.
Awww booooooooo. I loved EZA clips as I could never catch the streams during the week so it was a nice summary. Will miss. :(
EZA Clips is the worst thing they've ever done because it meant the death of the far superior SomeGameNews videos.
I take it they are filming the podcast now. Well, guess they'll talk about the Playstation Classic next week
I like the clips personally. No one has time for every single stream and it's nice to get a small tidbit from each one without having to dedicate hours and hours of my life to watching someone else play a game.
But I also understand that they might need the editing manpower to be put to use on something else.
I also need to say that I finally watched the Spider-Man costume review Kyle did and damn that was funny. Really enjoyed the casual low-key humor. Wish that dude did more.
But I also understand that they might need the editing manpower to be put to use on something else.
I also need to say that I finally watched the Spider-Man costume review Kyle did and damn that was funny. Really enjoyed the casual low-key humor. Wish that dude did more.
*Raises hand*
People needed to clip the setup as well. They also needed to pad the clips a bit so that they fit well when edited together (as in have a few seconds where nothing happens).
I still liked to watch them since I almost never watch streams anymore, even the group streams which I sorta became a patron to vote on.
Well that sucks! I was looking forward to their take on the games and design, etc. Oh well, if they have enough content to talk about, I can wait a week longer.
Takes too much time to put together for not enough gain (views) and the pool of people actually clipping was tiny (Otoshi?). Apologies if it was addressed on the Group Stream, I'm only just up now.
Just seen the post now. Huge shame nobody nobody wants to do it because it gets more views than quite a few of their weekly shows while serving the part of promoting their Twitch channel and a source of revenue, since no streams are posted to the main channel.
I mean, the most recent episode and Friend Code were posted at the same time and have about the same number of views. Not that views should be the absolute metric, but when promotional material can also be popular, that's a good thing.
I mean, the most recent episode and Friend Code were posted at the same time and have about the same number of views. Not that views should be the absolute metric, but when promotional material can also be popular, that's a good thing.
I suppose the thing to consider when comparing to shows like Friend Code or TTE which gets around 4k per week is that YouTube is only a small piece of the story, as the podcasts are (I assume) consumed as audio by far more people anyway. Clips just has those views to go by.
Friend Code fluctuates a bit, but it typically does double the amount of views, plus podcast traffic. I enjoy watching the clips as well, but there's no doubt that they were shrinking more than growing and Damiani can put that time into projects that would do far more.
Want to say that I love EZA clips. I don't have time to watch most of their streams (also because a lot of them are while I am sleeping with being in different timezones and all).
I already had a horrible feeling this was going to happen with the inconsistency of the last couple of weeks.
It's a shame as it was also one of the shorter videos they had which is what some fans were asking for. I personally don't care that much about how long their content is, but EZA Clips were always short/fun videos to watch.
I already had a horrible feeling this was going to happen with the inconsistency of the last couple of weeks.
It's a shame as it was also one of the shorter videos they had which is what some fans were asking for. I personally don't care that much about how long their content is, but EZA Clips were always short/fun videos to watch.
I was just about to say. Weird that they dont have enough time to do a 10 minute clip reel each week. But theres enough time for 4 allies to do an hour each week that gets a third of the views.
It's probably more work to edit than tabletop (minus the recording itself, but maybe even with the recording included).
It also looks like they love to do the tabletop episodes, so why would they stop doing them?
I am not looking at you specifically and people can like what they want, but I don't get how people keep bashing on TTE, just because it's something they are not interested in. Nothing wrong with not liking it, I can understand that completely, but what does it matter if they post it and you don't watch it anyway.
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After I saw Hasney's post, I am positive it's way more work to produce a clips episode compared to a TTE one, and that's including recording TTE. If there are so much clips to sift through, it's a couple of hours each week for sure to get a clips video done. Selecting the best clips will probably take more time than they do editing TTE (not trying to undermine the work put into TTE, I still love it, but it's usually a continues video with music and graphics put over it).
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True, although the shrinking part was with the inconsistent timing most likely as a regular show does better. Still, I was thinking how hard could this be, probably an hour or two to download and put the clips into Premiere, then I went into the Clips section of Twitch...
... Jesus that's far too much to trawl through. I don't think people got that they were only supposed to clip the best bits, not the entire stream.
Had nothing to do with it. I announced that I was slowing down output greatly back in September 2017 due to it not being sustainable for me. EZA Clips started in April 2018.
Given what it takes to produce a Clips episode, I can completely understand why it was axed. Producing it has a low skill barrier (watching the clips, compiling the best ones, and then editing them together) but is probably extremely time consuming given that they stream a lot and viewers can get clip-crazy (not to mention there being duplicate clips). Honestly, that's something you'd assign to an intern whereas the rest of the Allies are doing more high-value work. And plus, it understandably never really reached the quality of what FarisR does. So while I enjoyed Clips, it's time to say goodbye!
The idea was that nobody would have to watch all of the streams as they were using fan-submitted clips. Unfortunately, it looks like users decided to clip every single moment from every stream and make it a slog.
Honestly, EZA is always working themselves to the bone, so if something isn't really working then it's absolutely for the best to let it go and focus their energy on other stuff. It sucks to end shows, but it's always in service of making their other content better. It helps that they were so transparent and measured about it. It wasn't ever set as a Patreon goal (unlike the majority of their shows), so it's still neat that they took out extra time to experiment with Clips, even though it ended up not working out!
I can't tell you what to do with your money, but that seems like an overreaction to me (I understand you are disappointed with the news, I am as well).
I love EZA Clips and like I said, I am disappointed that they stop producing them, but I do understand where they are coming from. It's for sure a lot of work to produce those, especially if so many clips are post.
Also, they did make a patreon post about it as well (which is viewable for everybody as far as I can see):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/note-about-clips-21480085
There is not a lot more they can do imo.
It's not like it's a main show or anything like that either.
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