I have been a subscriber since they started offering it, and I've been following the site since day one (and the people on Gamespot before that). I am not a person that plays a lot of different games. I never owned any consoles and do not own a TV, I have only ever played games on Amiga 2000 and PC. The last decade I have played World of Warcraft and in recent years Hearthstone, Diablo 3 and Overwatch.
Nevertheless, I used to watch pretty much all the Quick Looks and other videos because I found them entertaining. Over the years some of the quirks have started to grate on me, just like they have on troll93. The fact that they can't look up prices on games before they record Quick Looks. Why do they have to address the fact that they do not know the price during the video? Why not quietly spend the 30 second to look up the price on Steam or wherever on their phone and then tell us? Sure I can go and look up the price myself after the video, but I can also just as easily not watch the video at all and go somewhere else for the same type of content with someone that tells me the price and all the information about the game that I might want to know.
Also the act of playing games poorly can grate on me sometime. I fully understand that it's part of the act to deliberately look away from the screen when the game tells them what to do and then play the game poorly for comedic effect, but in my opinion the only person on the staff who gets away with doing this and still be funny is Vinny. Also if sort of breaks sometimes like in the Chrono Trigger endurance run when 5 minutes after a conversation with an NPC who told them exactly where to go they complained that the game wasn't clear about what they should do next. You can't both uphold this act and then try to seriously accuse the game of doing something that you are doing pretend.
I do have to echo what other people in this thread have said and give great kudos to GB East for their content and just general attitude. Austin is a great addition to the team because he seems so geniune and actually excited and interested about things. He also has niche interests that he can talk about without putting on some faux-ironic facade that people do because they are afraid to be sincere about their interests.
I am still a subscriber and will continue to be one for now, there are premium content that I am still excited about watching, like Demo Derby for example.
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