Kinda lost at the moment...

I'm not a gaming channel so I don't quiet have that experience, but I think it's best to play a long game along with little short games during the process of said large games. You'll still get comments on people wondering why you stopped playing the longer game, but it will lessen because people won't just know you as the person who plays that one game, they'll see you as a rounded gaming channel. But that's all I've seen from observing other gaming channels in the past. Honestly though do what makes you happy or your content could suffer.
 
MintApocalypse said:
I'm not a gaming channel so I don't quiet have that experience, but I think it's best to play a long game along with little short games during the process of said large games. You'll still get comments on people wondering why you stopped playing the longer game, but it will lessen because people won't just know you as the person who plays that one game, they'll see you as a rounded gaming channel. But that's all I've seen from observing other gaming channels in the past. Honestly though do what makes you happy or your content could suffer.
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Thanks for your response! I get this advice a lot, which makes me more confident every time that I know what to do!
 
xingcat said:
Here's the problem, I think. If growth is the thing that makes you happiest, then do what makes your channel grow. If you're making videos because you love to make videos, then do what you like and find ways of getting the audience to appreciate what you do.
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This is a brilliant comment, and I would love to touch more on this.

If your interest and enjoyment comes primarily from receiving something in return (in this case channel growth via subscribers/views), you're always binding your happiness to something that can be volatile, which will unfortunately make your happiness volatile. I personally believe that if you focus more on giving your viewers, new or old, something that they can enjoy, invest time into, and find value in, you'll set yourself up in a much better position to be happy rather than rely on taking in something in order to be happy. You have an abundant amount of subscribers that already shows that you're doing something they enjoy. If you can channel your happiness in simply doing something that you find can be valuable for your viewers and simply be happy for being able to deliver that value, the rewards will come no matter what you do. Best of luck!
 
PictureFIT said:
This is a brilliant comment, and I would love to touch more on this.

If your interest and enjoyment comes primarily from receiving something in return (in this case channel growth via subscribers/views), you're always binding your happiness to something that can be volatile, which will unfortunately make your happiness volatile. I personally believe that if you focus more on giving your viewers, new or old, something that they can enjoy, invest time into, and find value in, you'll set yourself up in a much better position to be happy rather than rely on taking in something in order to be happy. You have an abundant amount of subscribers that already shows that you're doing something they enjoy. If you can channel your happiness in simply doing something that you find can be valuable for your viewers and simply be happy for being able to deliver that value, the rewards will come no matter what you do. Best of luck!
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Thanks for your response mate. I totally agree, and am starting to experiment a bit more with editing, and how to increase retention. I've also decided to delete all of my live streams from my channel, and make highlights in the future. Not sure how much "Overall Channel Retention" affects things, but IMO it makes it look neater anyway when there's not random 2H videos thrown in.
 
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