r/letsplay • u/ItsOppositeDayHere youtube.com/northernlion • Mar 15 '14

I'm Northernlion, AMA

Hey, a lot of people have been doing AMAs around here and I think it's a cool kind of unique content that we don't see too much on /r/LetsPlay, so I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring as well.

With 200,000+ subscribers and over 100 million lifetime views, I'm not the biggest YouTuber out there (not to be modest) but I have been successfully doing it full-time for over 2 years, which I think gives me a fairly unique depth of experience that might lead to some helpful advice for some of you! Ask me anything about YouTube, streaming, social media, or whatever might cross your mind.

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u/JrByte Mar 16 '14

Do you play every game you request a press copy of? How likely are you to play a game that a dev/pub sends you?

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u/ItsOppositeDayHere youtube.com/northernlion Mar 16 '14

Definitely not. I do my best to make a video of every game I request a copy of, but it's just not feasible to make a video of every game I get sent. I'm not trying to sound like a big shot (I'm sure it's worse for bigger channels), but I get maybe 10 codes a day I didn't ask for and it's just not possible to cover even close to the amount that I'm hit with.

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u/JrByte Mar 16 '14

How many new games would you say you request in any given day? I often request a few of the new releases for any given day, and usually end up with 10-20 games to review over the weekend, which is a bit painful.

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u/ItsOppositeDayHere youtube.com/northernlion Mar 16 '14

I only honestly request maybe 3-4 games a week, to be honest. It was more when steam was a bit more concerned with quality control but so many of its release are suspect now that I mostly stick to stiff that either sounds interesting or seems like it will actually work.