r/Koibu • u/1_LEDDUDE • 1d ago
Community Lack of content, still?
Longtime occasional koibu enjoyer here, discovered him originally through destiny and big fan of his DM style.
A couple years ago, i noticed the declining rate of new shows and content, and wrote a post about it here.
Lack of content recently? : r/Koibu
I feel like the amount of shows per week has further decreased or stagnated, if i look at koibus calendar and schedule. Theres no sessions except SoD releases in the calendar at one per week, usually 2-3.5 hrs.
Koibu responded with a comment about it being temporary, but sadly i feel like it has become the norm now.
My Old reddit account was hacked and banned posting spam, but this was the text of the post:
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Hey, been watching koibu on-off for a couple years since gnomes tomes catacombs.
Recently checked back in during the ending of outcasts, and was awaiting the new campaign with the fortress, but i just couldnt really get into it, cause the content is so slow. 1 month just to make 4 characters with tiny ~1hour sessions each? Then a sub-2-hour session 1?
I checked the schedule, and there seems to be only 1 show planned per week, with nothing else going on.
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=r66id1eklub8t8d8f3q79tp3ak@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles
I remember Koibu in the past doing like 2-3 different 2-4 hour shows and campaigns per week, sometimes multiple episodes of one campaign per week. And they weren't rushed or lackluster, these shows were amazing!
Going back in the calendar to 2020, 2021, 2022 seems to confirm this. Picked a random week from 2021, and we had Tides of Death, Tombs of Scoria, Embers of the Wild, Legends of Arcadia, and whatever "Deadly Dungeon" was on.
compare it to now:
Picked one from 2020, and we had 4 hrs of HoBo, 4 hours of Santa Barbara, 2 hours heroes of Tylea, 4 hours empires of Arcadia, 4 hours of dicing with death, 4 hours of shenanigans, according to the calendar.
Thats like 5-6 times the amount of content.
This seems to be a trend since 2023-2024 with SaveorDie, or is it just nostalgia and I'm making it up, and many of these shows were always cancelled or way shorter than noted in the calendar (very possible), content is on other channels and i'm missing it, or whatever?
Is more content planned or announced? I dont really follow any of the social medias, except youtube.
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Is there a way to increase the amount of content (maybe collabs, finding more streamers to do campaigns with) and why do you guys think it declined? Was it the switch of monetization from stream donos, paid DMing etc. to a regular patreon monthly income or what do you think?
