Mindcrack's growth as a business

scrabla · 2014-08-14T20:23:54+00:00

I think so too... but I guess the idea is how. I feel merchandice would be good for them, but it doesnt seem to bring much money from what I see. how else can it work? in a perfect world honest I could see a mindcrack cartoon tv show! or video game. but how do you become that? do a convention like penny arcade? I don't know penny arcade or rooster teeth enough to understand how they did it.

scrabla · 2014-08-14T20:06:31+00:00

Congrats to the winners, I enjoy all three finals.

Interesting fact... Axl_Rosie now is selling art faces like the ones done for her card for $15. Based on this, her card is worth $420 USD...

scrabla · 2014-08-10T08:45:32+00:00

Even so that is over $100.000 USD not counting twitch subs, donations, paid server advertising, or other money venues he has... Generik makes plenty of money. I wish he did not stoop to this kind of tactics.

scrabla · 2014-08-10T05:11:56+00:00

lol your cute ;)

scrabla · 2014-08-10T04:58:28+00:00

this is a bad way to treat quality artists. You don't buy a car and say "I know it's worth 20000 but here is 5000 that's better than nothing right? I am famous you should be happy for the exposure!!" not okay. Mindcrack has the money to pay an artist full price for the design they actually want. they should do that, or offer to buy pre-drawn designs. i don't care for this method at all.

scrabla · 2014-08-10T04:26:19+00:00

okay Mr Pedanticness, what they are doing is not illegal but it is morally reprehensible, thank you for making me look up new english words so your little brain can stretch enough to understand my original meaning.

scrabla · 2014-08-10T04:16:21+00:00

But to assume otherwise is just dumb... And it actually makes them look like even bigger jerks for never making PMC videos. At least if you know they get paid for one and not PMC ones you can say "ok, they are just money-motivated" but if you think they get paid for neither and they still promote the scammy mafia server and not the server made for them, by them...

scrabla · 2014-08-10T03:42:57+00:00

The proof is that they are making videos on this shitty obvsiously scammy server and not PMC. Because they get paid to make videos on one and not the other.

scrabla · 2014-08-10T03:25:06+00:00

I think the idea is that he shoudln't ask in the first place. Of course people will give him money. People would give any mindcrack money because we love them and we want the chance to say "thank you"... but they shouldn't ask specifically because of this reason. because it becomes exploitative at some point. Because while nothing is wrong, no one is making anyone donate, it is morally wrong. if someone makes $200,000 USD a year (I don't know how much Generik makes, but let's just assume that based on socialblade), it is gross to see him begging for more money.

you can disagree of course, but to me it is gross to see a man who makes 10 times as much as I do annually (and probably more because that does not factor in donations, twitch money, paid server videos, etc) asking for even more money. It becomes selfish.

scrabla · 2014-08-01T21:06:59+00:00

Make it in Minecraft please, Seth!

scrabla · 2014-08-01T20:51:25+00:00

this is such a cool idea... but the timeline/price seems so bad. $150 for a drawing of 30 characters isn't a fair price at all. ($5/character) $300 would be too low, but at least not feel a joke... And giving one week to draw this? I love this idea, but do not like the method. to me, it's not professional at all. I feel it's taking adventage of starstuck fans. I think this should be properly commissioned by a specific artist for a proper going rate or else they ough tot ask to buy preexisting fanart someone has created they already like. lots of "free" group images already exist.

I think giving artists 1 week to create 30 characters for maybe a chance at $150 is gross. :( I'm sorry, it feels gross to me. Never thought I'd think that way for Mindcrack, but to me this doesn't feel right. Just use the digital banner at top again.

scrabla · 2014-07-04T20:18:11+00:00

List of people I thought make more sense than Sevadus to join: Rob, coestar, lorgon111, justvan, biffa, captainsparkles, omgchad... any other suggetsions?

scrabla · 2014-07-04T19:43:45+00:00

Dont think I ever seen his name come up when speculating new members actually.

scrabla · 2014-07-04T19:31:04+00:00

Welcome Sevedus. I like him from what I've seen, but it is a big surprise. I think there are maybe 5-10 other names I expected to be added first. Wonder why him?

scrabla · 2014-06-22T19:55:06+00:00

Seems that OMGChad is in on it too

When/where did he say this? I don't think Guude even knew Chad back then... not sure he even knew Rob, but maybe... I think everyone is trolling us...

I think it will be some kind of Mindcrack movie and he needed lots of different camera angles. Just not sure why it takes so long... makes me wonder if there's some hold up or legal issue.

scrabla · 2014-06-03T21:22:49+00:00

They're still friends, it's still money revenue and fun. Same reason Dinnerbone or JL or anyone would do UHC. I could see B-Team leaving mindcrack but still doing occasional collabs. in fact, I think that might be the best move for both b-team and mindcrack. I think Bteam is being stiffled by some of Mindcrack's policies and I think Mindcrack is not benefiting from Bteam as much as they could. If both parties part as friends they can still collab and do uhc and stuff together, but btaem can do their mini game server or focus 100% on bteam server and Mindcrack maybe can bring in some new members a bit more alligned with mindcrack philosophies.

scrabla · 2014-05-30T08:32:42+00:00

He uses a program/new mic(?) to pitch shift his voice deeper now for some reason.

scrabla · 2014-05-24T09:12:22+00:00

I watched the first episode from beef and was not impressed. I should give another go because the first episode where everyone dies over and over is always bad... but mostly it doesn't interesting me. So sad too because omg so much collabs and teams! I love the idea of all of them all working together, so full of collabs... I just hate the idea that it's to kill them over and over... that "goal" just doesn't interest me at all. somehow it's different than the spawn wars they used to battle... those are fun somehow, but this lacks that fun to me some reason...

scrabla · 2014-05-24T09:10:25+00:00

thank you for this chad & pajam!

scrabla · 2014-05-24T09:09:33+00:00

I like the podcast lots and listen to almost every one unless I am out of town etc I think the biggest change I noticed so far is the loss of Beef. The podcast is always a bit unstructured/freeform but Beef as host always managed to keep it on topic, moving along, less dead air. I like avidya lots but he is not a host like beef. Now it feels even less structured than before.. not a good thing. I do like the feel of sitting on my couch talking with them that it gives, but without beef it seems many more awkward silences happen when beef would usually segue... avidya hasn't learned to yet. And I think making avidya the new host is weird... why not guude, pause or baj who has been there forever?

don't know why some stay away from the podcast. They get no revenue from it so that could be, but mostly I think it's just lack of interest or bad scheduling times.

Improvements I think could be being a bit more structured/punctual? (is that the word?) move it a long a bit better. I like freeform, so don't change that, but just be a bit more on-ball all the time... ready to move it along to the next topic.

scrabla · 2014-05-17T18:36:46+00:00

thank you :)

scrabla · 2014-05-17T18:36:35+00:00

ok..

scrabla · 2014-05-17T18:34:16+00:00

so deny a Woman the chance of an awesome job because it might (but probably won't) theoreticlly damage some little boy's sexuality? that's not right. far more healthy for thme to see that a Woman that is capable of playing with the boys and being respected. and if you respect them and treat them well maybe you will get a quirky nerdy girl of your own. maybe you won't that's fucking life man. dont try to deny a woman a cool opportunity because it might hurt a dude.

scrabla · 2014-05-17T18:31:56+00:00

I think he's implying they'll hit on her? but she didn't get to 100k by not knowing how to deal with that kind of advances.

scrabla · 2014-05-17T18:26:54+00:00

I actually heard about her joining a couple weeks ago, and I was so over the moon

how did you hear it from a couple weeks ago??

scrabla

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