“This show used to be awesome - enjoyable to listen to, funny, and a great way to relive fond memories of your youth. Plenty of video game podcasts are cringeworthy in how nerdy or bad they are - this felt like listening to your buddy from childhood talk about gaming.
As the show has grown in popularity it’s lost that touch - and it has nothing to do with Adam running out of childhood memories and experiencing old games for the first time.
Instead, Adam has become the very thing he swore he wouldn’t be - supported by ads and only focused on patreon supporters. It’s ironic listening to him in episode 50 say there would never he ads - now there are an annoying amount.
He also used to regularly engage with his audience through letters and comments. Now, if you aren’t paying him money through patreon, you don’t exist - if you try to send an email or a comment, even a supportive one, you’ll be ignored. Paying customers only please!
It’s totally fine to make money off your creative endeavors. But don’t be inauthentic and act like a man of the people when you only care about people sending you money…you’ve become a corporate/professional podcaster. At least own it.”
UnknCO via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/31/24