POLL: Temporarily Patreon-Exclusive Media Podcasts as an alternative to weekly Q&A? (Patreon)
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People have been asking for my thoughts on The Witcher, but I've been rather strapped for time to sit down and do a video on it. I could see myself perhaps recording it tomorrow morning, but that's when I would normally record the Patreon Q&A. In general I'm a bit short on time, as there's the normal video schedule, then the multiplayer sessions, then the weekly Q&A, then the new addition of a weekly D&D session. There have also been a number of local two person recordings, which require manual audio processing in order to get to a presentable state. The recordings themselves go just fine, but the editing process takes more time than usual.
So...yeah. Busy. I'm pretty happy with the kind of content I'm providing right now, but juggling it all is a bit of an undertaking.
So what if media review/podcasts replaced the Q&A from time to time, or even half of the time? The main sticking point however would be that this kind of content really should be public, not Patreon-exclusive, not only because of the wider demand but because discussing these sorts of things in publicly available videos is one of the ways that one grows their channel.
I figure that a reasonable compromise would be to make the videos temporarily exclusive. You all get to see them one full week earlier than everyone else, and in return I get one week off from the Q&A so that I have time to make it. You guys get a perk, I get to point impatient people towards the Patreon, there's more content diversity, everyone kind of wins.
Giving people a new reason to join the Patreon could be helpful, too. I've been toying with the idea of buying a decent camera and lights so that Stephanie and I can sit in reasonably-spaced chairs in front of the bookshelf instead of crammed into the narrow frame of my current webcam. A "set," kind of. It would be closer to the Sit and Discuss podcast setup I had with Andrew, but hopefully improved in a few key ways. Being able to sit at a comfortable distance where we're both kind of facing the camera but also kind of facing each other makes it all a bit more natural. Increased funding would certainly help offset some of these supply costs.
I dunno, I've got more ideas than time. Let me know what you think.