QOTW: 12/12/10

I like the idea of QotM. If people were given two weeks or a month to submit you might get more and better submissions. But when there are only from Monday until Thursday the submissions are super rushed and the majority feel it. Although we do have the insanity of some of the better videos, even those feel rushed to meet the deadline. I would like the concept to continue, but in a different format.

Ironically, this was the best Question of the Week in a long time.

" @Rox360 said:

" Hm! Hm. Looking at this giant ass video, it's clear that a lot more people have the time, gear, willingness and ingenuity required to do this than I thought. Maybe our answers have never been the problem. Maybe it's just that, like that one guy said, the questions have sucked lately.
 
I'm also going to echo the requests for a longer timeframe. That won't just help the people submitting their stuff, but it'd also make it easier for the GB crew to come up with worthwhile questions! One every other week, or one question per month sounds good to me.

Some of those videos were amazing lol.... 2 in particular. 

" I was sold at pew pew finger lasers, keep it! "

I would say give people more time to answer and ask better questions.

" I was sold at pew pew finger lasers, keep it! "

So glad I wasn't the only one who responded OR who said to keep it. 
But hey, even the ones saying to get rid of QOTW were actually really good.  I guess it's only natural that quite possibly the last QOTW would be one of the best.

@ZachariahMessiah 
"This is going up on IGN, right?" - the funniest thing to ever come out of this feature. So, so good.

it was all worth it for the highlander reference

"

" @Rox360 said:

" Hm! Hm. Looking at this giant ass video, it's clear that a lot more people have the time, gear, willingness and ingenuity required to do this than I thought. Maybe our answers have never been the problem. Maybe it's just that, like that one guy said, the questions have sucked lately.
 
I'm also going to echo the requests for a longer timeframe. That won't just help the people submitting their stuff, but it'd also make it easier for the GB crew to come up with worthwhile questions! One every other week, or one question per month sounds good to me.

You're kidding yourself if you think these people responded just to participate in QoTW. They sent their videos for one thing only; to say "No".  

So... what was the answer?

" Had no idea there was this much division on the topic. How about all those that voted "No" simply stop watching, commenting, etc. and those that are enthusiastic about it keep the submissions coming? Those kind of in the middle, like me, will patiently wait for a question they are interested in and put something together. But again, a less imposing deadline, more manageable "questions", and maybe an actual question here and there might make things easier. Guess we'll find out what the verdict was tomorrow, but I hope it continues in some form.  And while we are whining about awesome things that once were, what the hell happened to user questions in the bombcast? That segment is typically less than 10 minutes long now, shoehorned in after talking about DSi releases. You guys used to ask general community questions in each episode, or at least read a good handful of things actually pertaining to the industry. Now its just, whoever wrote the most random thing will be answered, the rest can just forget about it. Makes me sad each and every week. "

The first question of the week video I've watched in about a year and a half, and the first one I've watched all the way through since maybe the second or third question of the week ever. What's that say? I don't know. But it's worth thinkin' about.

" @Kraznor said:

"And while we are whining about awesome things that once were, what the hell happened to user questions in the bombcast? That segment is typically less than 10 minutes long now, shoehorned in after talking about DSi releases. You guys used to ask general community questions in each episode, or at least read a good handful of things actually pertaining to the industry. Now its just, whoever wrote the most random thing will be answered, the rest can just forget about it. Makes me sad each and every week. "

 This trend has been going on for a long while now, I think it's sad as well. :/ "

Unduly harsh folks.  No thank you would have been sufficient.  

That last one was pretty great... 

So what now?

sheesh the GB community is a bunch  of weirdos!

I do agree with the 3rd to last one.  Some of the questions are just too demanding to make something worthwhile out of.  Especially when you have 4-ish days to do so.  

I was 100% no, until the Highlander thing.
How about a question of the month?

Why not just do 1 long video a month highlighting user videos? or do a question of the month or biweekly questions? you don't give us enough time to make videos a lot of us work and go to school

" Had no idea there was this much division on the topic. How about all those that voted "No" simply stop watching, commenting, etc. and those that are enthusiastic about it keep the submissions coming? Those kind of in the middle, like me, will patiently wait for a question they are interested in and put something together. But again, a less imposing deadline, more manageable "questions", and maybe an actual question here and there might make things easier. Guess we'll find out what the verdict was tomorrow, but I hope it continues in some form.  And while we are whining about awesome things that once were, what the hell happened to user questions in the bombcast? That segment is typically less than 10 minutes long now, shoehorned in after talking about DSi releases. You guys used to ask general community questions in each episode, or at least read a good handful of things actually pertaining to the industry. Now its just, whoever wrote the most random thing will be answered, the rest can just forget about it. Makes me sad each and every week. "

Haha Question of the Week was a thing once.

Yes

BRING IT BACK!

Guys I just got back from 2020 you'll never guess what happens. They never brought it back.

Seriously, is that a photo of younger Ben Pack?