The Plan: Week of 3rd February 2020

Hey everyone! We’re deep into a week packed with content, but even more packed with future planning, both with YouTube and Gamedev. On the latter, you might enjoy this bit of church organ BTS https://twitter.com/BellularGaming/status/1225082346342359040) & our updated site:http://www.coffeeboxgames.com/. Alright, lets go! 

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Well, the soloing video went out! So far, it’s performed decently, which is always nice to see, especially since gameplay oriented content tends to struggle these days. More importantly, I hope it helped to highlight the strengths of Legion & what we should be on the lookout for in Shadowlands. 

Next up is the final retrospective of Vanilla! ...ish. Naxx hits YouTube this week, and we aim to have the cut content of vanilla up in the next few days. After that, there’ll likely be a 1-2 week break, and then we’ll be into The Burning Crusade. TBC development is going quite well, with the first script almost ready for recording. The new title & thumbnail style seems to have worked decently, though the very low views (yet high ratings!) continue to show it’s a more niche endeavour - not that it’ll stop us as Patreon makes content like it possible. 

Past that we’re almost at the recording stage for our next series. I’ll have more details on that one soon! 

There’ll be Saturday WoW news, and that’ll be us for this week. While they’re a little while off, we’re working on two lore videos that, I think, are going to be great. The first is on the Cosmos of Warcraft. There’s a LOT more there than you may think! After that, we’re going to take a deep dive into Medivh, and what he may be doing. 

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Oh Warcraft 3... At this stage, I’m rather determined to get something positive out of this situation. Past news coverage, the majority of which I imagine we’re done with, I want to create some positive content.

One potential video is one on how the situation can be rectified, and the moves Blizzard would need to make to regain their image. Another, and one that’s going to go live this week, is a showcase of Age of Empires 2 Definitive edition. Simply put, where Blizzard messed up, Microsoft succeeded, and tremendously so. It’s a great opportunity to highlight the moves we want to see companies make. 

We’ll have a video covering the ‘entitled gamer’ discourse. It’s a topic the tacking of which has been a long time coming, and American McGee’s recent commentary provides us with the perfect jumping off point. 

If it’s a slow news week, then we’ll have a chance to finish our video on the role of punishment in game design, and our disagreement with much of the recent discourse on the divorcement of difficulty & punishment. Thrilling stuff! 

The 6 video a week plan seems to be holding strong into it’s third week, and as the days go on, it seems like we’re only getting better. It’s early days, but I’m feeling very good about our 2020 prospects!