1/2/2023 0 Comments Geek and sundry![]() ![]() ![]() It has also spawned a spin-off discussion show – Talks Machina – podcast, comic book and RPG sourcebooks based on the campaign. ![]() The show, which sees a regular cast of professional voice actors play an ongoing campaign of Dungeons & Dragons DM’d by Matthew Mercer, started in 2015 and has aired on Geek & Sundry since it began. I would guess that G&S has been downsized so severely at this point that they don't have the staff to keep producing content, which is a death spiral that will only lead to further contraction and if it hasn't already died then it doesn't have much time left to course-correct.īasically, investment capitalism killed G&S, in a hundred small ways.Hit roleplaying web series Critical Role is going solo. It doesn't look like those teams have produced much this year. Before Covid, a much smaller G&S was barely sustained by live plays of some various RPGs, and by Game the Game. Spellslingers seems to have ended because Wizards of the Coast shifted its marketing strategy and didn't renew its contract with them. Legendary had tried to capitalize on both those channels by selling Alpha subscriptions to see them on time, and that made a lot of friction. Critical Role seemed to size up that they held all the cards and took their production independent, which eliminated the show that was bigger than everything else on G&S combined, as well as taking away the cast who helped hold up a lot of other shows as well. Wil Wheaton quit the channel over some internal disagreements, which grew into a lawsuit, so losing Tabletop was the first big blow. ![]() This makes sense from a corporate point of view, wanting to make back its investment, but in corporate world creative success doesn't matter unless it's paired with sustained growth over time-not just continuing to make money but making more money than it did before. Once Legendary bought the site, it emphasized monetization through selling Alpha subscriptions. There's a lot more competition for this type of content online, so drawing an audience in 2012 isn't the same as keeping an audience in 2015-2020. When G&S launched, it was the best in the world at what it was doing, and got big attention on YouTube, who were trying to promote that sort of thing anyway. Basically, over a period of several years everything that sustained G&S went away. ![]()
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