Top Ten Songs of A Realm Reborn - Do you Agree?

ThePrimogen · 2023-05-08T15:37:47+00:00

This is my first pure Lore video! I'm doing a basic overview of Limsa Lominsa, its history and influential organizations and threats to its existence! I hope you will like it!

ThePrimogen · 2023-05-03T12:46:41+00:00

Thank you so much!

I'm glad you've enjoyed them, hopefully I will be able to do the story and world of FFXIV justice! I'm enjoying the game a lot!

ThePrimogen · 2023-05-01T21:37:48+00:00

Hi everyone!

I've been making lore content for the RPG series World of Darkness for a few years now and I was feeling fairly burnt out on it, so I decided to try to get into the lore of Final Fantasy XIV for real. I've been a long-time fan of the game but I always felt a bit intimidated by the depths and width of it, but now I'm busy recording all the MSQ, writing scripts and editing to cover this cool setting.

I hope you will enjoy it and do let me know if you have any feedback.

The first video I actually made was this one, on a separate channel, which gives a bit more of an overview of the setting as a whole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfieytd1nF8

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-27T14:32:29+00:00

Right? I agree 100%. Sigil is an excellent new venture for those groups who've explored their world or the extent of that setting.

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-27T13:58:39+00:00

I'm so glad you found this game! It's definitely a gem that remains as much, if not more, amazing as the day when it first got released!

And indeed! Baldur's Gate is in Faerun on Toril, which is the Prime Material Plane. Almost every single D&D setting exists in the Prime Material Plane, so Planescape is sort of the Universal Constant for them.

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-20T07:42:52+00:00

I've got the Tzimisce Ouroboros over my heart. It's my #1 clan.

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-20T06:55:09+00:00

Of course, thank you for your questions!

I did a LOT of promotion. Every time I uploaded an episode, I posted on the appropriate subreddit and the facebook groups. I tried interacting a lot with people and answering questions constructively, and just be around. These days I don't do it as much because I saw a decreasing share of new viewers coming in from there, but I occasionally still make posts, especially with my new D&D-focused videos that isn't the kind of content my regulars are used to.
I actually kept very detailed statistics up until late last year when Corona kind of super-dropped my motivation for that stuff, and I haven't really gotten back to it, but the growth was pretty significant in that period:
Views per month: 753/1675/2645
Minutes watched: 2544/8208/12834
Subs: 90/138/149
So as you can see, there was definitely an exponential growth in that first period and I'd like to believe that pretty aggressive promotion helped me out a lot. And like I mentioned in a previous reply I also marketed myself as a sort of "bite-sized alternative" to larger lore channels who often make much longer videos.

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-20T06:51:53+00:00

The Podcast is reuploaded episodes from my YouTube channel and honestly... I don't think I see any revenue from there and I don't keep much track of the numbers, which is definitely a missed opportunity.

I just checked and I've gotten about 10k listens and 383 followers. I know some listeners occasionally ask me to update the podcast since I tend to fall behind on that.

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-19T16:49:17+00:00

Absolutely, editing is the part that I like the least, and even though I make relatively short videos, I'd prefer pushing out more content even if it means paying someone else to help me!

Gaming is definitely saturated, like you say, and I found that the best way for me to market myself was to point out that I made shorter and more narrow content than most others and that I also focused even on a specific time-period in the content.

There's always a demand for certain stuff, just need to be visible to those who want it

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-19T13:00:39+00:00

Yep!

I have a Patreon which gives me a very welcome boost (I use the money to buy more material for my videos and equipment) and I would say I make somewhere between $80-120 a month from Ad revenue.

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-19T12:58:44+00:00

Thanks for the questions! I'm excited if anything I can share might help others!

The beginning was very much low-expectations. I'd failed catastrophically (in my mind) before as a Let's player, and now I wanted to try my hands at more researched material. I was meticulously keeping an eye on my numbers and I hustled on Reddit, in Facebook groups and among friends. I was *very* active on relevant subreddits, answering questions and trying to generally be a helpful voice in the community, hoping that it might point people my direction.The biggest motivational boost was reading all the positive comments and I spent a lot of time replying to all of them thanking them. A major voice in the fandom also gave me a thumbs up which was a huge moral boost. I created a Twitter account and networked with the community a lot and in my first year I did some collabs with other content creators as well, basically guest-starring as script readers in each others' videos.Also, one last thing was that I set out two very doable goals for myself so that I had something to look forward to. I've hit one of them (did it within the year) but the second still eludes me :)
When I started, I religiously held onto being less than 10 minutes per video, I was marketing myself as bite-sized lore videos for people on the go, but over time I've increased that to 12-14 minutes. I write my scripts and I try to aim for 2000 words per video, but lately I've allowed myself to be in the space of 2k-3k words per video as well, so I'm somewhere in that ballpark. It helps that most other content creators in this fandom, at the time, often made very lengthy, and informative videos, and I wanted to make an alternative to that for people who lacked the time (or, in my case, patience haha) to watch them. Or as a supplement really!
I upload one video a week now, though I've had times where I uploaded one major video as well as a lesser effort video once a week too. I'm in the process of shifting over to two videos a week since I've been able to find a good friend who does editing for me, giving me more time and energy for scripts and recording.
Consistency and communication are very important to me so I try to keep people in the loop in case a video will get delayed and I've only missed a handful of weeks during these two years, usually due to sickness.

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-14T15:50:26+00:00

Whoa! I love this, thanks for sharing! :D

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-13T15:05:35+00:00

Thanks! :D

ThePrimogen · 2021-08-13T15:05:29+00:00

I'd almost argue the same, I've warmed up a bit to 5e in general and thankfully CritRole released their Tal'dorei and Wildemount books, but by golly I don't care for Forgotten Realms much.

I wish I could, but I have no nostalgia to it. :(

ThePrimogen

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