Zomboid Ends, a New Game Rises (Poll Below)

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The poll will run for 48 hours or so just to give everyone time to vote!

Greetings traveller,
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So ends Project Zomboid, literally the most disliked Youtube series I've ever done with sometimes 6x as many dislikes as a regular video.

I won't lie, I was pretty disheartened with this one. The things that I found the most fun and enjoyable about it - driving like a lunatic and restarting (it's a persistent world, the game is literally designed for that) and the survivors mod, were some of the most heavily disliked regular series videos ever. People constantly complained in the comments about not playing it realistically despite the fact it's a game about zombies.

It was quite a tricky game to learn as you go, I had never even heard of the game before, let alone had any experience watching/playing it, that coupled with the no apparent goal but survival meant it was a bit of dud, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, and will probably play it when I'm not recording so that YouTube randomers can't whine.

Maybe one day I will return to Project Zomboid, but not anytime soon.
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And so, with the death of Zomboid, a new series begins and that can be WHATEVER you want (within reason). Ultimately, the poll is to give me an idea of what games you guys are interested in and I'm not going to promise that the top result is what we'll play but 99% of the time it will be.

This series will probably be every other day, simply because YOUTUBE doesn't notify if I upload more than 3 videos within a 24 hour period. That means that whatever the 3rd video is that comes out in that 24 hour period is buried, and if the final video is offset even by a minute then it will bury the first video that is meant to come out.  EXAMPLE HERE

At which point I basically have to willing choose a series to bury, and if I do that we get onto the next point which is being shouted at for underperforming videos.

If you post a video and it doesn't perform as well as your regular content, firstly you get a lovely screen telling you you're a failure, then it reminds you that the content wont be recommended as much, and then it gets less views, then you get another "you suck" screen when you post the next episode in the series, etc.

Overall, the channel has actually performed better when only running 2 daily series on the main channel and uploading the extra series to the second channel instead where they wont get buried and potentially risk the performance of the main channel as a whole.
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The other thing I wanted to briefly discuss was Crusader Kings III.

Unfortunately, it just doesn't do as well as CK2. And unfortunately now that CK3 is out, CK2 doesn't do as well either because the audience is split between the two games.

The big problem for me is that Rimworld does REALLY well, and there's not a lot of overlap between the CK and the Rimworld audiences, so every time I upload a CK3 video Youtube likes to remind me about how badly this video is doing compared to my usual content and how they're not going to recommend it so much as a result, and I get the sad screen that I discussed earlier.

It sucks, I want to play CK3, but I don't want to punished for it, and in 2020s Youtube that's unavoidable. To be honest, I've mulled over moving CK3 to the second channel permanently, but the last thing I want to do is split my audience between two channels because it's more than just the regular workload when juggling two channels, and I would just get mediocre growth across two channels.

Ultimately, CK3 is still in its infancy, and I know when it gets a few DLC like Way of Life and Monks and Mystics for CK2 that it will be a lot closer to the CK2 experience whilst also having a lot of the nice quality of life features that CK3 is known for. It just needs a bit more time in the oven.
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I'm looking forward to seeing what you voted for, but please god no more suggestions for Nekopara.

Tales of your misdeeds are told from Raymon Lastname to Natsa Claus,

Sam
Mr Streamer
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