Originally Posted by
zeropeorth
From what I recall from the reddit; the way the went about it was very disrespectful not only to the member of yogscast it affected, but also dedicated forum members. Them being misleading for nearly a year about SoI was enough for me to just give up on them. I also can't stand the face-cam crap they did, around the same time I stopped watching; I was enjoying the farming sim until lewis joined and shortly thereafter, it always had a face-cam. I don't watch the vids to see their (or anyone's) face. I'd not like JesseCox's vids if he put his face in his playthroughs. I wouldn't enjoy the sips and sjin stuff as much if it had their faces in it. I wouldn't like sips' simcity playthrough with face cam.
Back to the point, you don't two face one of your main admins by telling them 'everything is ok' 'you aren't being let go' ... then the jerk admin you hired to 'clean shop' because a different member (tinman) allegedly stole money, fires the dedicated member you told wasn't getting let go (after they hacked into his facebook account and his youtube account), and bans any forum members he just doesn't like or questions the motive of firing the one who was 1) running their servers 2) running their website/forums 3) was active and a positive influence in the online community ...
Lewis let the 'fame' get to his head. I recall him complaining about 'working on the weekend' playing a beta game. For fuck sakes, you play video games for a living ... all 'work' sucks, but get over yourself and realize you have one of the best jobs in the world ... playing games with friends. When you have a series that 'makes' you ... don't lie about it. I don't believe the 'production times' thing ... I think they just didn't want to do it any longer ... and instead of saying 'we are taking a hiatus from SoI, we'll pick it back up some time in the future' ... they just kept leading people on; and everyone got involved in other projects, developed.fleshed out their own channels ... and now it is nearly impossible to make it on the schedule people would want.
I understand they are all busy. But I just don't enjoy most of the other content. I can unsub until SoI returns; because there hasn't been much I've enjoyed since then. My one sub matter not at all, and I'm fine with that. I will still watch the SoI series on rare occasion. I'm just disappointed in how they handled the real life situation with the admin and forum fans, and eventually after that, the fans who are extremely enthusiastic about the series return. I don't care for the face camera stuff they do more often now. I see it as immaturity and mistakes, which they are entitled to make.
I also see a problem with the over-hype of yogventures, and the extremely slow progress it is making. There are excuses, but they are the ones that made the unrealistic claims with the studio, who over-reached ... it wasn't as simple as they thought, to make a simple game. I've watched the video of it, and the Yogventures soon to be beta is no where near as polished as minecraft was in alpha. I fear for the project, for I think it is a great idea, I also like competition in the market, and Minecraft needs some.
It isn't like I got mad at Lewis' occasional homophobic comments, rudeness, and selfishness and ragequit the channel. I am upset with how they treated fans and admin alike, when they hired some asshat who didn't care; then proceeded to neglect the very thing that got them the massive amount of PR and subs in the first place. I don't hate them, and I think that Notch crap at minecon was bs ... but I just cannot agree with how they are 'handling' their company.
I stay subbed to sips, sjin, and duncan. I do need to give some of the others a look through, but haven't been impressed with either what their channel offers, or something about their personality might have been an initial turn off.
Now that Lewis came out and said it will be a long time before we see any more SoI; it is a step at repairing my view of him and his channel. It is the first sign of respect paid to the fans of the series and the series itself. Being dismissive is no way to rebuild trust. Honesty is.