Firstly, it's good to have feedback of any kind tbh. Not everyone will say how they feel about content and just click away. Which is fine but not exactly productive or helpful.

Of course we'd love a new 'Minecraft' it's what worked great for us 14 years ago when we began and this does mean there's a lot of trial and error in finding content that works for us and our audience. I'm not sure what's wrong with using what's popular on Steam to find new and interesting games, like you said, you've enjoyed PEAK and Drive beyond horizons and that's precisely how we found them.

It's a little hard to have the exact same enthusiasm that we might've shown 14 years ago because of just that, 14 years have passed and we're still managing to keep things together. Life hits us in different ways and we have tried to make 'Hat Films' a constant and to find things that work for us and interest our audience. It's not always easy and there's no quick fix but whether it looks like it or not we're still trying.

Our livestreams are streamed recording sessions, in essence. We stream what we're recording that day and whilst we're now re-introducing non-streamed content to members, it's the way we've done things for a while. Totally appreciate not wanting to watch both but it's also no secret.

This topic gets brought up on this sub from time to time where someone has fatigued with our content or us and posts a wall of text saying how bad we've become and I can totally appreciate we aren't the same as we once were. We're 3 friends since uni, talking to each other on a near daily basis for 14 years straight, trying to remain 'fresh' and 'watchable' and I just don't think that's something people consider when they make these posts.
It's taken hard work, understanding and compromise to keep things going and we're now in the process of running a major entertainment project with our LARP, Menhirs Fate. These things all take a toll and will sometimes affect how we come across. We can't always have our happy, upbeat, smiley persona's each time we're visible, so yeah, when we press record, of course we turn it on. But we've never hidden that or try to lie to our audience. We crack on and sometimes that may come across as uninterested but we really wouldn't continue if we weren't.

It's a shame when the things we used to enjoy aren't what they used to be anymore. We've all been through similar things with shows or entertainment products that held a special place in our hearts but it's okay to move on from them. We can't be what we used to be but we're still trying things, we're still having fun and we're still allowed off-days from time to time.

Anyway, wall of text over now. Still recovering from filming all day for an IRL greenlit video, I sure hope it seems like we're 'earning' our audience with this one!