An Open letter to Matthew Patrick

Dear @MatPatGT,



I have something to talk about. Something that I am frankly kind of afraid. Something that probably many people are afraid. I'm afraid you are become overly commercialized and advertised. To put it very, very bluntly, it feels like you are becoming the Geoff Keighley of intelligent video game videos. Allow me to give a little bit of a back story. I am a pretty old watcher of your videos, coming in around the "Adventure islands, A Philippines Vacation" video (and now that I am looking at it,that video is from three years ago). And ever since then, I haven't missed a single video. When I first saw that Gaijin was joining, I was skeptical. I didn't know if you could have two different videos in one single channel. But low and behold, I was pleasantly surprised when I found out Gaijin was freaking awesome. And next thing I knew, Ronnie was going onto the channel too. I was really pumped, and the hype was not missed place, because he was, and still is, awesome too. At that point, I felt like I was in heaven. We got Gaijin talking about culture in video games, Ronnie doing... Ronnie things... and we got you! You, Matthew Patrick making these awesome intelligent videos! Before I continue, let me tell you why I loved you guys. Whenever you made your videos, something about those videos, you could feel. You could feel the love, the time, the effort, baked into those videos. People like Gaijin and Ronnie still have them in their videos. The love is still there, but it feels there are a lot less in yours. Around the point you released "Metroid morph ball is LAME!", something felt odd. I couldn't get rid of this nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right. And as more videos where released, this feeling strengthened and intensified. I tried to ignore it, but it just kept getting stronger and stronger. And then, I realized what it was. The love, time and effort you had in those videos where fading away. Even though Ronnie does an amazing job with effects and visuals and stuff (and he deserves some cake and video games because of it), there wasn't as much love as there was before with your original videos! In your "Draw my life" video, you said that your old editing software didn't even have support for moving video, and things where essentially GIFs or bitmap pictures that you moved every two frames! There was a certain air of quality of quantity in those videos. Anyways, back to the story. The next point that felt odd was first Crossover episode. When I saw it, I thought "Hey! Matpat has a new partner!? That's awesome!", but after watching it, I felt that I was a bit ambivalent about if I liked it or not. It certainly was a good show, but I just didn't feel like it was up to standards with all your other videos. Chalk it up to personal tastes if you will. After that, I saw the "Are SMITE's Goddesses TOO SEXY?" video, I thought "Hmm, isn't this just like that Jontron video where he plays SMITE?". And even though I can't remember if your video on SMITE was sponsored by Hi-Rez, it certainly felt like it. Then, there was Smash History. I am not a big Smash player, but I watched it anyways. I wasn't too interested about it, but you can also chalk it up to personal preference too. And now today. 3/30/2015. The release of your new video, Reality Check, is what prompted me to write this. The entire editing didn't feel like what your channel was all about. Sure, the episode was really intriguing, entertaining and full of great content, but the whole style, editing want format just isn't like you. You don't normally make this type of video. I honestly hope this is a phase, but if it isn't, I will still be watching. Either way, I am still going to be here. I am still going to be watching your awesome content.



From someone who will be here to the Bitter end,

Ken_the_epic.

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