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Posted this about a month ago:
Comma said:
I think it'll be interesting to see how Phil's going to act once he hits the point where Twitch earnings won't be processed in time for when his April payment is due. If Twitch keeps the money for two months, that should be around/after the beginning of February.
At that point it doesn't matter how much Twitch makes him, and he'll be fully depending on tips, direct donations, Patreon and Youtube earnings. With Twitch being his biggest source of income, that should be interesting to watch.
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Well, I guess we have the answer now: DRASTIC MEASURES, meaning a 16+ hour marathon most likely heavily focused on pushing for tips/direct donations.
He's going to m-i-l-k his fanbase for all it is worth.

https://twitter.com/TheyCallMeDSP/status/1084722431787294722 (http://archive.li/A5TCF)
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As someone in a response to his tweet pointed out: he'll be getting around at least 20K in February...

kebab4you said:
So much for the Twitter poll, just put out a tweetlong where he argued for Dark Souls.
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As expected. That's where the money's at.
 
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Comma said:
Posted this about a month ago:


Well, I guess we have the answer now: DRASTIC MEASURES, meaning a 16+ hour marathon most likely heavily focused on pushing for tips/direct donations. He's going to m-i-l-k his fanbase for all that it's worth.

https://twitter.com/TheyCallMeDSP/status/1084722431787294722 (http://archive.li/A5TCF)
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As someone in a response pointed out: he'll be getting around at least 20K in February...
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I just watched a video of Maximillian announcing he was let go from his mcn and the contrast to Phil's really shows why these people are in very different places. Never watched his content, and admittingly calling the video "I got fired" is clickbaity, but just not hearing the phrase "you gotta step up" was quite refreshing.

Phil is a month away from that sweet E7 money and he is sounding alarms for a couple months down the road, whatever the hell that means. As someone who doesn't watch Let's plays or follow that style of game content it was just refreshing to see someone calmly explain what happened without shaking a cup full of change in the viewers face. I'll put a link if anyone is interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMKZkcBabs0
 
JamFlowMan said:
I just watched a video of Maximillian announcing he was let go from his mcn and the contrast to Phil's really shows why these people are in very different places. Never watched his content, and admittingly calling the video "I got fired" is clickbaity, but just not hearing the phrase "you gotta step up" was quite refreshing.

Phil is a month away from that sweet E7 money and he is sounding alarms for a couple months down the road, whatever the hell that means. As someone who doesn't watch Let's plays or follow that style of game content it was just refreshing to see someone calmly explain what happened without shaking a cup full of change in the viewers face. I'll put a link if anyone is interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMKZkcBabs0
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To be fair though, Max probably makes 7 figures per year with Twitch and YouTube so he'll definitely be fine without his MCN.
 
Comma said:
Posted this about a month ago:


Well, I guess we have the answer now: DRASTIC MEASURES, meaning a 16+ hour marathon most likely heavily focused on pushing for tips/direct donations.
He's going to m-i-l-k his fanbase for all it is worth.

https://twitter.com/TheyCallMeDSP/status/1084722431787294722 (http://archive.li/A5TCF)
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As someone in a response to his tweet pointed out: he'll be getting around at least 20K in February...


As expected. That's where the money's at.
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He must be feeling better. The last time a fan floated the notion of a marathon he shot it down, saying it'd LITUHRULLY KILL HIM, DOOD. But of course now that it's an idea springing from the font of inspiration that is his head, it's a good idea. Phil, Phil never changes.

Oh, and as to his question, I'd like to see him marathon DDR. Or any RTS in existence. I want to watch him twist in the wind.
 
kebab4you said:
So much for the Twitter poll, just put out a tweetlong where he argued for Dark Souls.
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polls dont matter to phil, theyre just a way for fans to feel like they have power. but phil can and has just made some excuse for when something he doesnt want to do gets voted on, i.e "trolls have destabilized the poll cause they know i dont want to play this fuckin game"
 
Pargon said:
Oh, and as to his question, I'd like to see him marathon DDR. Or any RTS in existence. I want to watch him twist in the wind.
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Dood, you wanna break him? Don't let him move more than his fingers or else he could develop muscle mass.
Speaking of random movements, for a guy who does random T-Poses all the time he refuses surprisingly often a Dab. Hilarious T-Pose for free, cringy Dab for $200. Figure that out.
 
gaarashatan said:
polls dont matter to phil, theyre just a way for fans to feel like they have power. but phil can and has just made some excuse for when something he doesnt want to do gets voted on, i.e "trolls have destabilized the poll cause they know i dont want to play this fuckin game"
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Fuck, the last like three times people have had a chance to influence what he played he just ignored some of them. Stardew Valley got dropped "because one person voted for it" and it'd be boring, though in what way that would be boring versus Minecraft I'm sure I don't know. And Deltarune got hosed the first time it was on the docket, iirc.

Phil gonna Phil. Personally I'd be more concerned with the level of turnout being such that one vote was sufficient to get a game through the final running (if in fact that was true) but hey, whaddoino?
 
I know that spamming is a thing in Twitch Chat, and there are vocal minorities, but I found it hilarious that everyone was asking for Shenmue, and then DSP went on a rant about how he couldn't play it because nobody wanted to see it. While they were actively asking for it. Maybe it's just me.
 
Pargon said:
Fuck, the last like three times people have had a chance to influence what he played he just ignored some of them. Stardew Valley got dropped "because one person voted for it" and it'd be boring, though in what way that would be boring versus Minecraft I'm sure I don't know. And Deltarune got hosed the first time it was on the docket, iirc.

Phil gonna Phil. Personally I'd be more concerned with the level of turnout being such that one vote was sufficient to get a game through the final running (if in fact that was true) but hey, whaddoino?
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Didn't he say that only like a dozen people nominated games and voted?
 
DSP Logic: I can't play two JRPGS at once because people will get burned out, so instead of Shenmue 2, a game that is NOT a RPG, i'll be playing Dark Souls again which IS a JRPG.
 
Skyclaw said:
DSP Logic: I can't play two JRPGS at once because people will get burned out, so instead of Shenmue 2, a game that is NOT a RPG, i'll be playing Dark Souls again which IS a JRPG.
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he thinks jrpg is some kind of final fantasy anime game or some shit. hes sooooooo dumb. when i heard him say that i just closed my eyes and rubbed the bridge of my nose. how can someone who makes their living off of gaming, and constantly boast about their knowledge not even understand genres. jrpg (japanese role playing game) its right fucking there. cut clean and dry. if its a rpg from japan, its a jrpg.

and little fun note, japan calls rpgs from america, western rpgs, wrpg
 
I was looking at his Patreon stats on Graphtreon, and noticed how it has fallen is still below the $600 mark, $585 with 125 Patrons, to be precise. According to Graphtreon that's the lowest amount of earnings per month since they started tracking. Oof.
-edit- Actually, that's not true: November 2018 was his worst month with $547 from 129 Patrons. So that makes December 2018 his 2nd worst Patreon month ever. Still oof, though.

(https://graphtreon.com/creator/DarksydePhil)
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This made me think about how he initally pictured this whole Patreon thing, so I had a look at the time where he started it all, and oh my...

First ever mention of Patreon by DSP on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/TheyCallMeDSP/status/542942468145029120 (http://archive.li/zmvNN)
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I mean, you can't make this shit up, right? Oh, how things have changed. :story:

And this clip, taken from his "Patreon Launch Special Announcement!" stream from Feb. 19th 2015, when he started using Patreon:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXve2aqsayY)
"I'm tired of waking up every day wondering who's going to be on stream, who's going to watch my videos on Youtube. I don't want that to be what I become: Mr. "I Only Care About Views", and have to worry about views constantly. Alright? I want to roll out of bed wake up and play FUN games, no matter what the game is, no matter what the viewership is. I could wake up and work on a CREATIVE project, like PROJECT 7 or I could work on a MONTAGE, and I don't have to worry about PAYING THE BILLS! I want to be at a level where that doesn't matter anymore, okay? Where it's about ENJOYING MYSELF and having FUN. Because that's where it's going to come through in the videos and content I make for you: when I'm having FUN and I'm NOT PRESSURED, okay?"


Ouch, that hasn't aged well either. It basically all went in the opposite direction of what he actually envisioned. Whoops. :chicken:

Not his fault, though. Nothing he could do.:stress:
 
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Comma said:
Posted this about a month ago:


Well, I guess we have the answer now: DRASTIC MEASURES, meaning a 16+ hour marathon most likely heavily focused on pushing for tips/direct donations.
He's going to m-i-l-k his fanbase for all it is worth.

https://twitter.com/TheyCallMeDSP/status/1084722431787294722 (http://archive.li/A5TCF)
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As someone in a response to his tweet pointed out: he'll be getting around at least 20K in February...


As expected. That's where the money's at.
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Someone suggest Papers Please for 16 hours :stress: Or you know, the classifieds. :story:
 
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