Rooster Teeth / Achievement Hunter / Let's Play / Funhaus / Inside Gaming - The company was resurrected.

[pephickshigh]

one is an ex-drunk who cries when forced to count how many times he said the N word

Well when you word it that way it is pretty fucking funny.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Hell just give me an occasional video of them talking about some of their favorite/hardest achievements with accompanying video clips. Or pick a game and say "The first person to get X Achievement wins", it'd solve trying to figure out challenge ideas. Then again I have no idea if they care about achievements at all anymore.

You know what would make an interesting show is a race series similar to GO! but requiring slightly less creativity. Instead of "here is a general challenge now GO!" it could be "Be the first person to complete this level/challenge/achievement/game".

 

[Korpon]

If anything, the one thing I miss from AH is their original purpose, achievement/collectable guides. I thought they were pretty well done and I followed a few of them back when they used to make them. I miss Fails of the Weak as well, I always used to tune in and watch each new episode. That series introduced me to AH back in 2011-2012 and it's sad to see it be pretty much forgotten.

I remember back around the time Ray left, Michael responded to a Reddit post of someone mentioning the fact that they don't do Achievement guides anymore, and he replied along the lines of: "No one cares about achievements anymore" which makes me wonder why they never bothered changing their name.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

You know what would make an interesting show is a race series similar to GO! but requiring slightly less creativity. Instead of "here is a general challenge now GO!" it could be "Be the first person to complete this level/challenge/achievement/game".

They did that a couple of times, but it would be interesting.

What I thought they should have done was VS, but instead of having an order of challengers, make up a spreadsheet of every possible combination and have match ups at random, with the challenger being decided by a coin flip. That way, if the next challenger, or the current champion, is busy they can just move on to two people who are available. And you don't get boring videos where Ray or Jeremy always win.

I remember back around the time Ray left, Michael responded to a Reddit post of someone mentioning the fact that they don't do Achievement guides anymore, and he replied along the lines of: "No one cares about achievements anymore" which makes me wonder why they never bothered changing their name.

Brand recognition.

 

[Burt Ryan]

You are right on the money. Gavin at this point is the one that I would say has the most expertise in Halo achievements, so he would likely be the best person to go in and figure out how to easily or quickly obtain ones in the new Halo just from having so much experience with the MCC, but could you ever imagine trying to get him to do it? The problem is that, behind the scenes, these people are not fit to run or be part of a decidedly corporate channel. They treat the entire thing as if this is just something they do for fun instead of a business that needs certain commitments even when you don't feel like it. There is a balance you have to strike, but RT is almost wholesale in the realm of 'for fun only' while pretending that being a functional business only requires having 'LLC' at the end of your name.

Times like these make me wish for a bubble pop so that all this streaming / YouTube extravaganza would just die already, and all these idiots are forced to take regular jobs.

Well when you word it that way it is pretty fucking funny.

RT should make a movie about it.

 

[Sexyphobe]

I remember back around the time Ray left, Michael responded to a Reddit post of someone mentioning the fact that they don't do Achievement guides anymore, and he replied along the lines of: "No one cares about achievements anymore" which makes me wonder why they never bothered changing their name.

It's funny he says that while websites like Trueachievements and PSNTrophies are still as strong as ever. Nah they're just lazy, or burned themselves on piss-easy ones.

Compared to the hyper autists on websites dedicated to achievements, AH cannot pump up guides even remotely close to fast enough.

.... Can confirm.

 

[Random Internet Person]

There is a balance you have to strike, but RT is almost wholesale in the realm of 'for fun only' while pretending that being a functional business only requires having 'LLC' at the end of your name.

That LLC thing is only important for the legal shit that comes with putting on RTX, making RWBY, and distributing Death Battle.

 

[Disc]

You're not far off. Here's the Let's Play Channel:

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And the Achievement Hunter channel:

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If you change to "Most viewed" all the videos are from years ago.

A bit late, but let me append some old viewcounts I looked up from June 2020:

This prompted me to check all their channels.

RT: Aside from RT Animated which gets ~300k, nothing gets over 100k
RT Animation: Really kinda sad to look at.
Let's Play(which is their straight-up videogaming content) consistently passes 150k on even the worst performers and near 500k with the best.
Achievement Hunter (which is everything else, including - perplexingly - the animated videos for Let's Play) mostly hits 100k with a few small exceptions.

Seems like Geoff and co are the actual breadwinners, on youtube at least.

Everything's cratered to about 1/3 of their June 2020 values. RT Animated isn't getting far above 100k, and not even consistently, and all their other videos are lucky to break 50k.

Trying to find that also reminded me about the new joint venture they're going to be folded into, which is going to come into place some time this year. If I was RT, I'd be sweating hard.

 

[Burt Ryan]

Funhaus is 7 years old. And they died age 5.

 

[CptnSnshn]

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Funhaus is 7 years old. And they died age 5.

I've never understood why they needed a company there are people out there who do the same in their bedrooms.

 

[Two-bit]

InternetAjay, a youtuber I follow made a rundown of the history of RT's rise in popularity and current downfall. It's nothing new and you've all pretty much heard it before if you've been following this thread. But it's still an interesting piece to watch as a summary.

 

[CptnSnshn]

InternetAjay, a youtuber I follow made a rundown of the history of RT's rise in popularity and current downfall. It's nothing new and you've all pretty much heard it before if you've been following this thread. But it's still an interesting piece to watch as a summary.

I hate this dudes ugly ass face.

 

[Two-bit]

Well to be fair, he is a pajeet. So he's already got that going against him in the gene pool.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

InternetAjay, a youtuber I follow made a rundown of the history of RT's rise in popularity and current downfall. It's nothing new and you've all pretty much heard it before if you've been following this thread. But it's still an interesting piece to watch as a summary.

Frankly that video barely covered anything and really glossed over a lot of shit. I'd like to see someone come in and do a Knudsen style breakdown.

 

[Random Internet Person]

I'd like to see someone come in and do a Knudsen style breakdown.

Some might be waiting for the cratering and immolation to come to an end. That pr the more infamous parts are still surging. We still have RWBY and Death Battle after all.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Some might be waiting for the cratering and immolation to come to an end. That pr the more infamous parts are still surging. We still have RWBY and Death Battle after all.

Yeah that's true but I feel like they're going to slide until they just kind of... no longer exist. I think the cratering and immolation are done, what's left is a burnt out husk that will shamble until it is dust, unseen by the rest of the internet.

 

[CptnSnshn]

Well to be fair, he is a pajeet. So he's already got that going against him in the gene pool.

He could just not be on Camera, I mean fuckin' look at him.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Yeah that's true but I feel like they're going to slide until they just kind of... no longer exist. I think the cratering and immolation are done, what's left is a burnt out husk that will shamble until it is dust, unseen by the rest of the internet.

Probably, but as long as RWBY and Death Battle are still things, RT will still have a heartbeat, however faint.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Probably, but as long as RWBY and Death Battle are still things, RT will still have a heartbeat, however faint.

Unless Warner rolls them up into some other studio. Or takes all it's lame dog studios and rolls them up into a new studio. I've heard rumors that may be happening sooner than later.

 

[woowie queen]

considering that the warner - discovery fusion thing is closer and closer, no word on the future of rt?