Garrett and Kyle look back on a year of Final Fantasy 14 content creation. A personal peak behind the curtain at GG.
0:00 – Thank You
3:26 – Streaming FFXIV
5:58 – Streaming MSQ
11:14 – When Did FFXIV Click
18:13 – The Videos
23:32 – FFXIV Community
32:48 – Looking Forward
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Here's to another year~! And the best has yet to come!
Thanks for the great content. Looking forward to Hilda topping the wall of waifu.
garret's hair is a quantum object, it changes each time you look away.
Thank you so much!
It has been such a joy watching you play through FF14 this year and hearing your thoughts! I'm vicariously re-living the journey through you 😄
The dynamic the two of you have in your videos is fantastic, and I'm excited to see what you'll experience in the future. Watching your video with Jessie Cox was a kick as well, lol.
I hope you have wonderful holidays with your loved one, and look forward to next year!
I love the idea of a yearly reflection, id love to do something like that. It’s very wholesome and its been great to see yall go through the MSQ almost as slow as me.
Soaking in the game so slowly really does give a completely different vibe. It let's you sink into the game so much more than powering through it. Heres to another year in this great game! Take care fellas
Wonderful video! Thanks for letting us be along for your journey through FFXIV. The videos are wonderful. The topics and discussion make me go back and revisit using the new game plus part of the game which I'd never really explored. It's been a joy to watch the channel grow and to see the community show their true spirit for the game we all love with it's myriad ways of playing. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!
I think it also helps that the game isn't designed to pressure you to play every day.
Even Yoshi-P says you can go play other games if you want and come back when you are ready.
I think the community really reflects that with how the community is supportive of you two taking breaks when you do.
Been following the journey since first few videos, been a pleasure. From reactions to deep dives to speculations, loving the content guys. Really hope you both are able to carve out a nice for yourselves stay relevant after msq is caught up.
Watching you guys is fun because you guys are having fun! Here's to year 2 of FF14!
Thank you for the constant stream of content this year!
Grinding Gear's weekly video are such a good content example, I watch it first because I'm curious what you all think about FFXIV and now because I just really like the editing, the conversation, you both analyzing the game (learning a lot from you both!).
Never thought I'm going to say this but we have to thank Blizzard, you both got so much experience in content creating with Blizzard, and now all the best practices for both making video and streaming is from all those years!
I'm glad playing FFXIV fits both of your daily life, it's one of the thing I love about the game, it's just there welcoming and not going anywhere! Also you both enjoy it together and it's such a good game to play alone or with friends! The game helps highlight your friendship.
Once again thank you for the good year! Cheers for next year and hopefully you both able to meet each other irl again soon!
GG!!!!!!
"It'll all be here when you get back." is the B I G P L U S of this game. The amount of stress this alleviates from people is amazing.
Love the channel! Great to watch you guys grow! One thing I hope is that you guys consider what yall will do when you finish MSQ. It's sad to see a lot of content creators finish MSQ and seem to have no plan for afterward.
We all think back to the campfire scene.
i mean, at y'all's current pace, you'll be done with Endwalker before the NA fanfest, and probably caught up with all the patches. You may be a patch or two short. The length of each expansion has gotten longer and longer as they've gone on, so Shadowbringers was long, but Endwalker is longer. You will definitely be caught up by the time the Japanese FanFest happens, and that should be the one where they start talking about the next expansion.
One of my favorite things of the last year is the sound of Kyle dialing in one of his voice effects. It's almost like the sound of a record player spinning down to a stop, or sometimes the THX sound.
As the only streamer I almost religiously tune into, I can confidently say that you guys and the GG community have been a crutch for me through a rather emotionally and mentally f'd up year. Your dynamic has been wholesome, the content and people in the discord have been my go-to whenever I've got a depressing or tiring day at work. Even the discord community has effectively been a second home for me, and not just for ffxiv reasons too (even if that is a big component of the discussions I participate in there). TL;DR, this is my way of saying Thank you, and you guys, and the GG community are awesome.
Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones, and see you all on the flipside!
Before I subbed with you guys a couple months ago, I was already watching you both since like late December. At first I was just curious then slowly i saw myself looking forward to a new video every week! They say we FFXIV players live vicariously through streamers like you both. Quality content. Good dynamics between the two of you. The unapologetic individuality. It was all too good. Then it hit me, you both reminded me of my best friend and I back in the day when we did fun and amazingly new things! In a sense it was nostalgic watching you both if that makes sense. And I cannot wait to see where GG is headed whether it be with FFXIV or something else. Cheers to a great year of bromance!!
my only concern is you running out of content when you catch up with the MSQ. Honestly, FFXIV content creation and your channel is amazing, but its not a long term thing
It's such a delight being a part of this community, even though I spend most of the time lurking. Every stream it feels like a giant party, just everyone getting together to have a fun time, it really feels like a big party and everyone is there to celebrate this game and our hosts. I love the hide and seeks at the start of each stream, and the shift towards immersion has been such a wholesome and fun thing to watch everyone get on board with (kinda biased as an RP'er myself)! I almost cried seeing the holiday card. Here's to another year of building memories!
Ah, yes, it was awesome seeing these really early clips without the cameras. XD
Also, love the clips of Kyle Dad with his son and Garret's graduation! Those are awesome cubed.
Thank you for joining our community and brighten it more with your content. I genuinely hope you continue talking about it when you caught up. I look forward to your videos every week <3