that's pretty damn good for a 1 week event.

yogscast's jingle jam was a month long and raised a little over 1m

edit: granted, the demographics are vastly different from what i can tell

Ej_

47656 Posts

January 09 2016 14:17 GMT

#749

wow I came home right after the only Ratchet run ended :/. Used to be a huge fan of this series. Was it any fun?

Mataru

Norway356 Posts

January 09 2016 14:23 GMT

#750

On January 09 2016 23:17 Ej_ wrote:
wow I came home right after the only Ratchet run ended :/. Used to be a huge fan of this series. Was it any fun?

Ratchet run was really good. You should catch the vod.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45058 Posts

January 09 2016 14:26 GMT

#751

On January 09 2016 23:09 malcram wrote:
that's pretty damn good for a 1 week event.

yogscast's jingle jam was a month long and raised a little over 1m

edit: granted, the demographics are vastly different from what i can tell

Yeah but this will be the first recent AGDQ or SGDQ that hasn't raised more money than the previous year's, which is a bit sad. And it's not even close, really.

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

January 09 2016 14:36 GMT

#752

idk what the curve is like, i imagine there's a massive upswing on the last day tho...

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45058 Posts

January 09 2016 14:41 GMT

#753

In the past there has been a massive upswing on the last day because the last few games have been crowd favorites like Super Mario 64, Zelda OoT, and Majora's Mask. Unfortunately, those are all over now, so it's up to TAS runs, killing/ saving the animals in Super Metroid (always good for donations), and FFIV. The viewership peaked at 200K several days ago, but it's only been at around 100-150K recently.

malcram

2752 Posts

January 09 2016 15:06 GMT

#754

good ol' CRASH

Ej_

47656 Posts

January 09 2016 15:37 GMT

#755

On January 09 2016 23:23 Mataru wrote:

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Ratchet run was really good. You should catch the vod.

thanks, watching it right now, idd a sick run, so much tech there :o

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

January 09 2016 15:49 GMT

#756

please keep going

Antisocialmunky

United States5912 Posts

January 09 2016 16:42 GMT

#757

Its been a weird GDQ, its felt slightly off this year. I can't really place a finger on it. Maybe its the fact that they ran out of donations to read at one point and that a lot of the donations were $100+ instead of the usual constant torrent of $5-20.

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES50585 Posts

January 09 2016 16:45 GMT

#758

On January 10 2016 01:42 Antisocialmunky wrote:
Its been a weird GDQ, its felt slightly off this year. I can't really place a finger on it.

I get what you mean too, just don't understand why the donations aren't that high this year.

Antisocialmunky

United States5912 Posts

January 09 2016 16:50 GMT

#759

I dunno, maybe the speedrunning hype is over, I dunno. Perhaps it is because PFC is US only and its being more publicized this year. Maybe the big donations are being held off for the last couple games?

You aren't going to maintain that much momentum probably. Also there's no Humble Bundle this year. There's a fairly decent thread on Reddit about this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/3zwi95/could_agdq_2016_fall_below_2015_in_terms_of/

I'm pretty sure they'll pull in at least 1 million this year. Actually, this year feels a little more sellout as well. Maybe that's what's turning people off? It seems to be at the levels that irked me personally form last year. I mean, this is a charity marathon, I don't really care about the the sponsors shoved in my face every 15 minutes.