Official Starcast Podcast Thread - Page 8

On June 01 2012 08:03 StarCastShow wrote:
Jacob, if you think for one minute that we haven't reached out to other players than you are mistaken. We have invitations out to countless potential-guests at all times. I can't stress enough how hard it is to get guests as an independent show, I can't just call up pro players and have them come on. Tara was on for a multitude of reasons, the most relevant being our mutual friend Matt (who runs the Seattle Barcraft) recommended her and we thought a discussion of how modeling and StarCraft work together would be interesting radio. We don't have people come to us very often (actually this was a first), so we welcomed the idea of a new guest.

Guest invites tend to snowball LzGaMeR was our first player-guest so naturally he recommended other EG players. We haven't had luck with scheduling as far as other teams are concerned. "Busting our asses" would be putting it lightly on the subject of how much time and effort we put into finding guests. So if you didn't enjoy the interview with Tara then you're right, that is you're opinion and I disagree with it entirely. I had a really fun time in our interview and thought she was a lot more than a "silver league model with big boobs" as you put it. If the "thousand more deserving people" had expressed interest in coming on StarCast then we would more than likely have them on.

Doing a consistent weekly show has challenges that come with it. The bottom line is I do this show out of my own love for the game and the people surrounding it. I also have a full time job to deal with because for all the time I do put into StarCast it makes me ZERO money (actually costs me money). So please understand that we do try, VERY hard, to get new guests on the show. For example we could not find a guest for tonight, so Kyle and I are flying solo. But sometimes it's nice to kick back and do a more casual cast with friends of the show (i.e. LivinPink and Brightside).

I really do appreciate feedback but I can't help but feel you don't fully grasp an independent cast's reach.

-Garrett

On June 01 2012 09:04 iNcontroL wrote:
another thing to consider jacob is shows that have people on it that aren't "as famous" don't tend to get any attention. It's a nice story to tell that you try and focus on the unknowns and up and comers but those people tend to draw a smaller crowd. If you are a show that is considered smaller but trying to grow you can't take risks like that.

All in all it's unfair to criticize THIS show for not going after the unknown people when you probably should be in threads for bigger shows like a SOTG, LO3 ITG etc.. and tell them they owe it to the community to try and give back to those less fortunate so to speak.

Just my 2 cents.

On June 01 2012 11:10 weishime wrote:
It's a bit crazy to think that some people are more deserving to be on an independent show that others. You could say some may be more relevant or able to give more insights but just saying he deserves it is weird. EG guys being on the show probably has to do with them being the most out there when it comes to marketing their players. Other teams don't do it half as well and that is a bit tiring because while loving Incontrol's voice I'd want to hear from the lesser known players. Keeping a show focused on popular / top players will mean all opinions and thoughts are just from those view across a bunch of shows which can lead to repetitiveness if you listen to multiple shows in a week since they will cover similar events.

Also you are saying you know what is relevant to the community but you seem to forget Garrett and Kyle are too and maybe they might have an idea what is relevant to it. They started the show because they loved SC2 and had/still have? zero high level game knowledge. They come at topics from a scrub level player perspective and that is what makes the show different to say SOTG where you have 4? high level players joking around and being questioned by the host. This variety is a good thing because not everyone wants to listen to the same 2-5 people across 4+ different podcasts in a week and the forum thread doesn't devolve into a massive ball of hate on balance because of something Kyle may say about Terran.

btw you use "I" way to much in your writing and sound pretty narcissistic because of it.

On June 08 2012 09:19 Misanthrope wrote:
It's ridiculous to advertise a "Day9 interview" as if that's the point of the show when it CLEARLY isn't. It's "StarCast, with a Day9 segment eventually". Why not label it correctly instead of blatantly false advertising? Oh yeah, because almost no one watches or listens to this podcast, so why NOT pull a stunt to get some viewership for once. I guess you have nothing to lose, except the respect of potential repeat viewers who notice your shady tactics of course.

On June 08 2012 09:19 Misanthrope wrote:
It's ridiculous to advertise a "Day9 interview" as if that's the point of the show when it CLEARLY isn't. It's "StarCast, with a Day9 segment eventually". Why not label it correctly instead of blatantly false advertising? Oh yeah, because almost no one watches or listens to this podcast, so why NOT pull a stunt to get some viewership for once. I guess you have nothing to lose, except the respect of potential repeat viewers who notice your shady tactics of course.

On June 16 2012 01:12 StarCastShow wrote:
I had a very short amount of time to talk with Day[9] and I wanted to be respectful of that. He had to get back to casting. So trying to sit down and really drill deep into his brain is kind of hard to do in what was supposed to be a 10 minute interview. Plus the guy does a show damn near every day. So there is a high chance of overlap in topics he will probably discuss.

Every other interview we have taken questions from our forums and here on TL because our whole mantra from the beginning of StarCast was "involve the community." Currently we try and mix topical/current event questions with more personal ones as well. What ballsy questions would you prefer to hear asked? Feedback is awesome, just try and give constructive suggestions. I can't do much with "grow some balls."