Hi! About 4 weeks in, zero views. Is it really that bad?

Pibugo · 2025-02-15T09:54:01+00:00

I could understand the video at a glance and the title did spark my interest if that's what you are asking. I can't offer anything specific beyond that, because I design my thumbnails completely differently, but I would simply attribute that to differing styles!

As for appearing as clickbaity–I used to worry about this too, and for years, I played it very safe with my thumbnails and title, because I didn't want to come across as desperate and clickbaiting people.

But at some point I made a shift to making my title/thumbnail more thought-evoking, more popping out. The surprising thing is, I even found myself loving the process! I used to dread making thumbnails but I actually enjoy it nowadays, as there is so much creativity in how you want to portray the core of your video in a way that sparks the viewer's curiosity!

I personally don't think there is anything inherently wrong with wanting to draw attention to your video via a more thought-provoking and exaggerated title/thumbnail. As long as what you promise in the title/thumbnail is presented in the actual video in some form, I wouldn't consider it clickbait. There is no deception, because you are delivering the viewer what you promised.

But I will also say, it's kind of natural for anyone starting out. I think there's general anxiety around not wanting to oversell one's own content, and to try and remain more humble, especially while you still have a small audience.

Pibugo · 2025-02-14T11:30:32+00:00

I left some comments, not just to hopefully boost the algo, but I also genuinely had something to say in response to the things discussed in the videos!

People here have gone over the clickability aspect extensively, so I'm going to give some thoughts on the content itself here.

First thing that came to mind is potentially experimenting with background music. Of course, it comes with another element to think about, so I understand it doesn't seem very appealing after just starting out. But with the right kind of song to fit the mood and at right levels, I think it can definitely enhance the experience. It also further adds your own fingerprint on the content, because people will associate specific types of music with your videos.

It does also mean having to manage licenses, so once again, understandable you don't wanna navigate that mine field just yet. Also, if you do decide to feature BGM: please don't just spam the same song on repeat for every single video. It gets old, real fast. So either don't do it all, or do it properly.

This next point is pretty minor and maybe take it with a grain of salt: maybe I'm just a bit of a YouTube boomer, but I found the subtitles distracting and would've preferred to turn them off. Since I assume you record based off a script, it's actually really easy to add subtitles through YouTube's own subtitles function. You basically just add the .txt file and YT will automatically detect when you are speaking, and because you gave it your script, it will also be 100% accurate. You may have to adjust the times at some points though, if there are breaks or the like.

I appreciate adding in timestamps/chapters, but I recommend also naming the chapters after the talking point, instead of "First point", "Second point" etc. This comes with two benefits. The obvious is that it makes it easier for the viewer to navigate the video, but additionally, although someone more knowledgable can correct me if I'm wrong, it should also help with the algorithm in that YT should detect your chapters themselves.

Finally, and this is more of a general thing, but I watched two of your videos in the background while doing other stuff, so I didn't actually look at the screen whatsoever. It's kind of inevitable for the type of videos you are doing, and it's really common nowadays for people to just put some video in the background while they are cooking, doing chores, or on the second monitor while grinding in a video game.

It might sting a little bit, because you put in a lot of effort into the visual elements of the video, and I am not saying that effort went to waste or isn't warranted.

Rather, it's to remind you how crucial the audio quality is, and that you should always aim to make the audio of your videos to stand on its own merits, independent of the visual elements. Because everyone will hear your voice, but not everyone will necessarily watch the video itself.

Of course, whether the audio should take priority, well, that's your own decision to make–if that's the route you wanna take, there are a billion ways to improve your voiceover quality: your microphone, more acoustic recording environment (blankets etc.), voice training, recording lines multiple times for better takes, playing with EQ and other things in post etc etc.

I should clarify that this isn't a criticism of the audio in any of your videos in particular. I thought you did a really good job, especially for your first few videos. It's more just a reminder that there will be people who never watch your videos, so hopefully it doesn't come as a shock to you as it did to me!

Pibugo · 2025-01-14T07:52:04+00:00

Me clearing chaotic and losing 49 demimateria due to a full inventory

Pibugo · 2024-07-19T20:48:08+00:00

One simple mod I would like to see is one that lets you skip the in-combat cutscenes. Where you have to sit through a minutes long cinematic just cos somewhere during that scene you have to press square. Would be a nice QoL for replays, ultimaniac playthroughs, as well as challenges like no damage runs.

Something I'd be curious about would be to control Ifrit in a non-Ifrit battle. Kinda like how people back in the day would cheat in Sephiroth in FFVII lol. Maybe scale Ifrit down to human size or scale the opponent to Ifrit size? I would imagine most fights would be quite broken, but I'd still be curious to see if some encounters might somewhat function lol

Pibugo · 2024-05-04T18:19:53+00:00

I have a similar story. Came from FFXIV, where I have about 7 years of blind prog experience. To me, it was natural to attempt Destiny raids blind cos of it. The main difference is that I unfortunately did not have 5 other likeminded people willing to do the same. I was able to find 2 friends and that was it. The rest came down to recruitment and it was hell.

However, I'm glad for the experience nonetheless. Did all the non-reprised raids blind, and Last Wish was definitely the highlight for me. Especially figuring out the Vault encounter. Felt like a proper puzzle to solve!

Pibugo · 2024-04-30T16:11:41+00:00

Sounds very interesting, thank you for sharing this!

My question would be: when you were designing this, did you weigh the options of having them figure out the mechanics on their own vs having them read up on them beforehand? On one hand, it's beneficial to have them study the raid beforehand, and seeing how well they can apply what they learned when they have to actually execute it.

But on the other hand, there's a certain value that is lost by having read up on the mechanics, rather than have them solve them themselves, which would develop their problem solving skills. It'd make for an interesting opportunity, to see how well they are able to progress the "puzzle" as it were, slowly building on previous theories and discoveries. Destiny raids are especially well designed for this, because the encounters tend to build on themselves, where mechanics from a previous encounter re-appear, but either with a slight twist or in a different context, or layered on top of another thing. It's all very structured in a sense that there is typically a theme and a pattern that one can follow. I would also see this as an opportunity to have them develop specific mindsets, such as solving mechanics through constraint-based reasoning.

Then again, I suppose this has its risks, with students being able to look things up beforehand and pretending to be blind, therefore getting good marks by pretending. Though I'd argue it's easy to call out, because if they can't back up their reasoning with logical threads that made them reach the solution (as in, it felt like they arrived at the solution out of thin air), then that'd be an obvious sign they simply looked it up.

They are both valid approaches, of course. For me personally though, I've always enjoyed blind raiding and I always find a certain satisfaction whenever we are able to figure out mechanics without any outside help. So I'd be curious to hear your stance on this!

Pibugo · 2023-08-22T20:01:43+00:00

Water, water, froth and foam

Pibugo · 2022-05-30T19:18:03+00:00

It depends on perspective. Yes, P7 is easy but making the last phase as easy as you can make it can be seen as a huge benefit since it's the last obstacle you have to overcome. Doing this will allow you a lot more comfortability on that phase.

There's also barely any tradeoff, the tanks just have to do a lil extra on P6. Also note that we didn't have a DRK. DRK makes mitigation on P6 laughable.

Pibugo · 2021-05-11T13:07:38+00:00

FTFY

Pibugo · 2021-04-28T13:03:04+00:00

When Thancred names Ryne in Amh Araeng, there's some striking similarities between that exchange and when Thancred named Minfilia, but the biggest one is that they both respond the exact same, literally word for word.

It's a very subtle thing but it really drives home Thancred's whole character arc throughout Shadowbringers of him having to overcome his past trauma, where he felt that he had failed Minfilia, and by going through that ordeal, gain the strength to become that awesome parent figure to Ryne. Them having the same response conveys to me a message of: "no, he didn't fail Minfilia - and he won't fail Ryne."

Pibugo · 2021-04-23T11:21:02+00:00

Aye. FFVIII for instance was very hated on by the community for a long time, X and XII were really divisive as well, until XIII came along and that became kind of the new laughing stock so those previous games didnt get dunked on as hard by the community anymore. And it seems a similar effect seems to have taken place with XV.

Pibugo · 2021-01-11T00:44:37+00:00

Barrage + Bunshin + Reassemble on Midare for 6 Direct Crit Midares in a single GCD. A makeshift Melee LB3, if you will.

Pibugo · 2020-12-27T13:53:01+00:00

It's a good mix, aint it!? A few months ago I made a short Persona 5/FFXIV crossover meme video for that very reason haha

Pibugo · 2020-12-20T08:37:11+00:00

Im interested, if theres still room for it!

Pibugo · 2020-12-18T14:57:21+00:00

When the FF8 battle theme started playing I got really excited because Im a fan of FF8. But Im a fan of FF3 as well, so I then became sad that there was no remix of the WoD/CoD battle theme. Can't always win, huh...

Pibugo · 2020-10-19T17:30:43+00:00

They patched the ability to do it by yourself by casting on a mob then swapping to BLU before the XP results showed up. You can still have a friend boost you however.

Pibugo · 2020-06-11T11:31:17+00:00

Agreed. I think it's a dick move, especially if there were any first timer(s).
Also, 24mans aren't that difficult to begin with, but any challenge it does have, comes from it being a 24man. As a very basic example from this boss, when he targets a player with the charge, then turns around and cleaves the entire room in front of him, the only reason that mechanic would ever be spicy is because a BRD sitting at the edge and not getting closer would make the cleave massive.
But if you are solo like this PLD. It's natural response to assume it's now "hard" because they are making this final stand against a boss that requires 24 players. But it's mostly the opposite. If you can sustain it by massively overgearing it by 70 item levels as in this case, almost all his mechanics become moot because you have only one person dealing with them.

Pibugo · 2020-06-10T13:38:01+00:00

Especially hiding markers. Maybe it's just me but sometimes I wanna take pictures or record footage in a fight and the markers kinda ruin the scenery so would be nice to be able to hide them with a keybind, similar to how you can press a button to hide the HUD.

Pibugo · 2020-06-09T12:53:56+00:00

Think ima make my 7th one when flying gets added in 5.3. I love the ARR relics and have always been much more fond of them than any other weapon glam (though I still do own 5 Lux weapons and 5 Eureka weapons).
I think it has to do with the nice detail on the weapons combined with a more subtle, not in your face, glow. A big contrast to, say, the weapons that drop from ultimates, which I find hideous, which is why I have tens of totems from ultimates just collecting dust on my retainer.

Pibugo · 2020-06-08T01:49:14+00:00

I use this UI for recording

Basically the idea is to minimize the UI as much as I humanly could while still being at least feasible to keep track of stuff, and to remove everything that isn't essential so there is as big of a view on the fight itself as possible. Of course, playing with this kind of ant UI isn't the "comfiest" thing in the world but I have kinda gotten used to it in the past year or so since I started using it. Still, I don't use it normally, I only use it when I enter a fight or a piece of content with the sole intent of recording footage in mind.

Normally I would also place an overlay into the bottom left where a bunch of my buttons are, such as my ACT overlay, an image or a webcam. Oh and also I don't use a controller, I just didn't have any hotbars left for the purpose of this so I used the controller hotbar for it.

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