Podcastin'Follow

So thanks for the questions guys. We used Spoonless' verbatim, and incorporated some of the other stuff into the general discussion topics.

Appreciate the input!

I haven't listened to this one, but I'd wager it's a bit awkward. We didn't have our host, so it started out a bit stilted. Then we lost like 30 minutes and had to rerecord. Meh.

Episode is in the signature, if anyone's curious.

Edited, Nov 2nd 2012 3:05pm by Eske

Hey, I do my best, but you're really gonna want to listen to Elkcast for that sort of fare. They record on Tuesdays.

Since THQ's stock dropped to nearly $1.75 a share, do you think purchasing stock in the company is a good idea?

Since Silicon Knights lost their lawsuit against Epic Games over the usage of the Unreal 3 Engine licensing fees, they have been ordered to destroy any remaining copies of their games that used the U3 Engine and pay Epic $9 million in awarded fees. Do you think this is wasteful, or should the profits (if any) from the sale/auction of the remaining copies should have went to Epic to pay off part of the money owed?

Was the cake truely a lie?

Hey Eske forget that THQ question, they're not going to be around much longer.

http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/10/3628880/thq-in-default-with-wells-fargo-over-50-million-credit-facility?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I like quite a few of their games. They publish several successful franchises; it's a shame they got themselves in such a hole.

Some podcast, it was a total cop-out on the stock advice.

Edited, Nov 12th 2012 12:29pm by Shaowstrike

Bumpage an' whatnot, since I'm back. You know the drill.

Last podcast of the year. Would anyone like to ask anything? We got a couple from other sources this time, but they're on Kickstarter stuff, and we've hammered that topic pretty much to death. Wouldn't mind a few on other subjects.

Podcast up.

Alas, we're only doing one more of these (it'll be in January sometime). So there's an end of my forum-spamming in sight for ye.

Pretty much. I'd certainly like to keep going (podcasting is fun!) but the powers that be have had to do all the editing and posting, and the numbers just aren't high enough to warrant the effort, I gather.

Perhaps I'll see if anything can be done for it a little later on, when I'm a little more entrenched.

Honestly, I'm not sure how much steam you could garner through podcasts alone. You'd probably have to branch out into some Let's Play videos, tutorials, etc. and play up your individual personalities. The short videos bring the audience in, and they then seek out the podcasts to get more content.

I like the site itself; it's very clean and inoffensive. That said, to bring in more of an audience to make the work of doing podcasts and videos and whatnot worth doing, you unfortunately have to branch out more into social media, be it Twitter and Facebook, or sites like Reddit.

Yeah, I just think that it's difficult to grow a podcast for a podcast's sake. With a podcast, you're selling yourselves as the product, and without enough other product available (preferably in smaller bites - editorials, videos, single-panel webcomic, etc.), you're not going to find a whole lot of people are going to listen to a bunch of dudes they have no prior attachment to ******** about games for an hour.

Really, I see a podcast as a relatively low-cost form of content to string your customers along in between higher-cost ventures. I know there's editing and whatnot to do for it, but it's less work per time unit than it takes to produce a good Let's Play or tutorial video. So if you release a bi-weekly 10-minute video, you do a podcast on the off-weeks to keep the users coming to the site. I think you really have to have bite-size content to rope your target demographic in.

The only way to grow a podcast on its own without doing the other content would be to get some significant names on there for interviews, and to ask good questions, and to advertise that so-and-so is going to be on your podcast. Establish yourselves as posters on r/gaming (or the more serious, r/games). Don't just drop in when you have something to advertise.

Anyway, I think it's possible to have a successful podcast; it's just not something that's going to sell itself.

Pretend to be Alla and Illia calling to see how things are going these days.