Hey JP! Some frustrated but hopefully constructive feedback.
Let me preface this by saying I love all the content and been a longtime viewer since the SOTG days. I’ve watched pretty much all the shows and continue to do so. Having said that, I just changed my original Patreon pledge from $20 down to $2. Significant or not, I am simply using it as a tool to voice my feedback on top of making this post. I can’t be as invested when you are making it so difficult to follow your content without fear of something being spoiled.
You’ve spoiled significant events in Court of Swords a few times now and are often on the edge of spoiling BoP. Having watched your content for years now, I know you have a tendency to do this.
Most recently, I’m of course referencing Dropped Frames, where you just randomly throw a major spoiler in the conversation out of nowhere before Zeke manages to note “wow spoilers much?” and I pause the video. Too late at that point. Spoiled. Ruined.
This happens quite often and it’s at the back of my mind every time I now watch a show you do - the fear of being spoiled on something, whether it’s games, shows/movies or RollPlay. I like your content. I don’t want to watch it having to tiptoe around with my finger on the pause trigger. I would hope those seemingly casual offstream/aftershow conversations stay out of the actual liveshows. Maybe you are just jaded towards spoilers because of Twitch chat and whatnot, I don’t know, but try to remember many of us aren’t.
On the other side, when I’m watching the Co-optional Podcast I can trust that anytime a spoilery discussion begins, TB will say so and have warning graphics on screen for the duration of the conversation. Something to be learned from, I think. There’s also something to be said for keeping the shows in their own respective slots.
There’s lots to watch every week, whether it’s RollPlay, Dropped Frames or the normal livestreams. This means it’s also hard to stay up-to-date on everything. I am still catching up on Solum. I am some weeks behind on both CoS and BoP. I’m not asking you to remain silent about the shows forever. I am simply puzzled by the lack of restraint regarding recent shows. The rest of the cast seem to be able to contain their enthusiasm by staying silent and respectful of spoilers, but you are constantly “slipping”, to put speaking of character deaths without warning lightly.
I’m glad you’re having fun and being enthusiastic about the shows, but please remember on top of the people who watch the livestream, there’s an equal amount of people like me who wish to watch the content from the vods days/weeks after the liveshow. Believe it or not, you are a part of the media we consume now. Try to treat your own content in the same light.
About Patreon specifically (CoS spoiler)
Some general feedback I’m hoping you can learn from and avoid in the future.
A month ago I felt like the first big Court of Swords spoilers popped up. The way this happened, was through the RollPlay Patreon emailing me: “Hey! Here’s the new character creation video for so and so!”
That quickly prompted me to disable all future Patreon emails and stop me from reading the RollPlay patreon posts altogether. I would appreciate it if you found a way to name the post titles of such spoilery videos differently, to avoid specifics that scream topics like character death.
EDIT:
Glad to see this is better formatted in the recent videos. I suggest grouping multiple videos under the same post if there’s more than one character creation video for the same week.
Hope you read this JP and can take it as constructive feedback. I do appreciate all the great content you and the others are producing. I’m just hoping you can tread more carefully with the spoilers in the future.
