about 9 years ago - /u/Anet_Goremond - Direct link

Hi everyone,

First, thank you for the support for my own Gw2 Extra Life campaign.

But, really, thank you to everyone that helped out with the many, different Extra Life campaigns that went on this weekend. So many of you shared the links, told your friends, tuned in, and donated. Every bit of it helped. In one day, the Extra Life organization was able to generate $6.3M for children's hospitals!

Specifically, though, I want to thank Kit The Traveler. She tuned in almost right at the start of the stream. I am sure you can imagine that moderating a Twitch stream is not an easy task. Kit just started handling the moderation on her own. She took it upon herself to remind people that we were here for charity. That it wasn't an officially sponsored ArenaNet event, and that therefore I wasn't able to talk about unannounced info. I noticed this, and so I tossed her a moderator tag. I never reached out to her beforehand. This wasn't anything planned. I just figured it would be easier for her to have the tag, and she could wield it as long as she was watching. She stayed the entire 24 hours. And, when she was also in game, she threw up links to map chat. She kept the whole Twitch chat running.

Thank you, Kit. It was a tremendous help to have you there.

Also, I still have one unfinished task from the stream. About half way through we met our goal. So, I offered out to Twitch chat to come up with things they wanted me to do, and I would do them if we managed to double our goal. I agreed to a few things ....

  • A "friend" that I was streaming with suggested I wear the mask from my most recent Halloween costume. Thanks bud.

  • Someone from Twitch chat suggested I dance on the stream. (I chose to do the Norn dance).

  • Another dear "friend" of mine was watching in Twitch chat. They suggested I wear a Steelers jersey. You see, I am a die hard Hawks fan, and I will never forget February 5th, 2006. Also, yes, the jersey is way too small, but it's the only one I could find.

I agreed to do all of these things if we reached the goal. And reach that goal we did! But, we reached it in the final minutes of the stream, and I was delirious from sleep and elated from the excitement. I totally forgot about my promises until the next afternoon when I woke up.

So, for anyone who was watching the Extra Life stream that day. This is for you. Enjoy your .... reward?

Thank you again to all who were involved this weekend

Les

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about 9 years ago - /u/Anet_Goremond - Direct link

Originally posted by mennoophelia

It was such a lovely day and so much fun to hang out with you, Kit and the other devs. I love the fact that 99.9 procent of the people that were there , understood you guys were there as part of the community. And our community is .... awesome!

You are totally right! I hope I didn't make it sound like Twitch chat was full of negativity. The vast, vast majority of people that tuned in were super cool and fun to be with.

about 9 years ago - /u/Anet_Goremond - Direct link

Originally posted by Azhkanizkael

Goremond, you were Phenomenal on Saturday! It was a pleasure to be able to join you on your stream and do some fractals with you! :D

For anyone else, Extra Life is still open for 2015 until the end of the year. Every little bit helps!

Thanks for joining us with the later fractals session. It was a lot of fun. Also, you are right, it's never too late for someone to donate to Extra Life :)

about 9 years ago - /u/Anet_Goremond - Direct link

Originally posted by Blackops606

I hung out for an hour or so while you were doing WvW. Chat was kind of dead and you didn't really say anything but I still continued to watch. It was during your zerg of listening to the commander from RAGE that made me realize one of the things I love about WvW, which is just talking and hanging out with my friends. We do the same thing, we goof around until the fights come.

Thanks for doing the stream and congrats on reaching double the goal!

Thanks for watching the WvW session. Yeah, I was trying not to talk over the commander too much, because he was so busy organizing everything. Guild RAGE did an awesome job tackling the new borderland map.

about 9 years ago - /u/Anet_Goremond - Direct link

Originally posted by Kitstheshouter

I just wanted to say you did a wonderful job. It was a pleasure to mod and watch the devs do something wonderful and important. I'm glad I got to finally see this badass's outfit and sick dance moves.

Definitely not bad for your first time. If you plan on doing this again next year I would gladly volunteer to do it again.

Community is very important and it's great to see devs get to enjoy the game they created. We all did great! Maybe next year we can aim for 10k :)

Gamers can certainly do wonderful things and it's great to show the world how we can accomplish that. -Kit The Traveler

I fully expect to participate again next year, and would be honored to have you involved again. I think, next year, I am going to investigate the team option with Extra Life. I considered it this year, but I was already learning so many parts of streaming for the firs time, and I wanted to minimize the amount of risk I was taking on. I know there are a lot of Gw2ers out there who streamed for Extra Life. Maybe next year we can all rally as one giant team to represent Tyria for Extra Life :)

about 9 years ago - /u/Anet_Goremond - Direct link

Originally posted by Kitstheshouter

I just wanted to say you did a wonderful job. It was a pleasure to mod and watch the devs do something wonderful and important. I'm glad I got to finally see this badass's outfit and sick dance moves.

Definitely not bad for your first time. If you plan on doing this again next year I would gladly volunteer to do it again.

Community is very important and it's great to see devs get to enjoy the game they created. We all did great! Maybe next year we can aim for 10k :)

Gamers can certainly do wonderful things and it's great to show the world how we can accomplish that. -Kit The Traveler

Also, since you mentioned the mask, here is a pic of my full costume from Halloween :) http://imgur.com/JusUXl9

about 9 years ago - /u/Anet_Goremond - Direct link

Originally posted by crod541

Had lots of fun in the small bit of time I was able to join you in Verdant Brink, definitely helped me out with figuring out one of the adventurers by just following along. Hope you didn't mind me sneaking in the SAB boombox while you were getting coffee ;)

No way, perfect time to drop the tunes :)

about 9 years ago - /u/Anet_Goremond - Direct link

Originally posted by qaz0r

Had the stream open in background for whole duration minus sleep break. It was really fun to watch devs playing the game just like any other player. Thank you, it was fun!

And watching us die a lot, right? ;)

about 9 years ago - /u/Anet_Goremond - Direct link

Originally posted by grifflyman

Was supper fun playing WvW with you! :D

You too! And, thanks for letting me host you while I took food breaks :)