As the main person that advocated for the forums existing at all, I am with you. I love having a longform discussion board, and that will never change. But yes, I do want to tie in all of it together - give-aways included.
As Jesse rightly points out, running giveaways on Discord is automated and pretty simple to do. There is a correct path forward, weāve just got to figure it out.<3
Hey guys. Love the show. I check it out every week. This week on Xbox two Jez and rand were guessing the Xbox handheld could launch in 2026 with the console comming in 2027. What do u think the chances are of that happening
Like with anything in life youāre not going to have the perfect solution right away. Also, this is all still largely centered around volunteers so your capacity is limited.
Having a separate patron discord chat for subscriber questions, a patron thread here for questions, and a dummy subscriber-only video on YouTube asking people to comment their questions for next weekā¦ That would cover all the bases, right? Itās just triple the work, unfortunately.
Which is why I think us fans need to put it on ourselves to share Xbox Era as widely as possible. Their works on YouTube (reviews and headlines are something I need to share more of), this websiteās articles, and this forum itself (if we triple the traffic, maybe we can triple the ad revenue)ā¦it all adds up.
I keep forgetting to use my Amazon Prime sub for the Xbox Era Twitch channel āTheXboxEraā. Just did it now. But if 100 people from the forum could do it, that would help quite a bit.
I feel compelled to say all this because I see other initiatives like Last Stand Media raking in a lot of revenue and offering 1/5 of what Xbox Era offers. Iām going to try to make it a point to get three other people to start consistently following Xbox Eraās content by the end of the year.
I only just read this comment, thought to myself I should do the Amazon Prime sub as well. I couldnāt figure it out, so had to search out how to do it. Finally learnt how, linked the two and have given them the sub. It would be nice if it was a reoccurring sub instead of needing to return to do it monthly. Do you know by chance if itās for a calendar month or a month since the sub?
I believe itās a month since the sub and it is a pain because you have to recommit to it all the time and I often forget. I think I went for a year or so without doing it.
Cheers, Iāll set up a reminder on my phone, Iāll forget myself otherwise Iām sure.
Would be amazing if it was recurring on its own, but they know most people forget and donāt use it (saving them money).
Just missing pineapple
Iām not sure if youāre aware but you can install Heroic Game Launcher on the SteamDeck within a few minutes, using the built in discover centre.
This gives you access to all your games on Epic and GOG just like the rest of your steam library, without all that fiddly configuration and browsing.
It also works with online games as it played Rocket League flawlessly (if you donāt already own it on Steam).
I think the reason why there were no names on the Google Docs form was that when I filled out the form, the fields for name and categories were not set up, you could only complete the question field of the form. I know because I tried to complete the form myself.
By the way, can the category field be set up as a drop down menu?
Nick made me get rid of the extra fields and I just put āsay your name, category, and question in hereā and people didnāt seem to realize. So I put it back to a full form.
I can confirm itās working now.
Can anyone else get this to work?
It mentions there are 74 tracks but nothing shows inside the playlist.
Well shitā¦ there is no way to make the uploads public. what a waste.
Only solution I could find, I uploaded everything to the XboxEra discord. I pulled 35 videos suno made that still existed and uploaded all nearly 80 mp3 files I have in the āJesseās Stupid AI Musicā channel underneath āgamingā.
Is it Grubbmas this weekend?
@Shpeshal_Nick can correct me if Iām wrong, but I believe that is the one between XMAS and NYE (28th)