"i dont have expensive tastes" - a man who plays Warhammer

@bulletflight

Ай бұрын

With that blizzard sponsorship he could have bought a few milliliters of Games Workshop paint!

@mandowarrior123

Ай бұрын

Lamborgini prices get you quite a lot of Warhammer.

@Doomroar

Ай бұрын

This is exactly what i was thinking about

@Rincewindl

Ай бұрын

yeah, he doesn't have expensive tasteS he just has one expensive taste :p

@dimwarlock

Ай бұрын

I feel like a "taste" is different froma "hobby" most hobbies are expensive, you need materials to support it. For example: I'm a dude working at a factory in a third world country, I live in a room shared with my brother, I know hunger and my room gets too warm in summer and too cold in winter... but you know what I have? an Ipad to do digital art because I love art, I have imported comic books, art books and illustrations made by artists I admire because I love it, I play videogames even tho they're a luxury overe here... it's part of the hobby and I still know how to save money. Despite that, I can safely say that I don't have expensive tastes, everything else in my life is modest and I'm comfortable that way.

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, you’re first-monitor content. Easily in a small window off to the side.

@SyntheticFuture

Ай бұрын

Josh is "phone propped up on keyboard" third screen content 👀 😜

@manboy4720

Ай бұрын

luckily for josh, i only have one monitor, so everything is first-monitor content!

@zidahya

Ай бұрын

Ah yes, the wonders of 21 / 32:9. What an upgrade for Josh.

@ianblackburn75

Ай бұрын

He's "on the phone while I'm poopin" to me.

@ulgarvorniksen5435

Ай бұрын

The money itself is a trap

Josh should just do a super sell-out video every April fools, then not bring up anything said in the video until next year when he does it again.

@halycon404

Ай бұрын

I am all for this it'd be hilarious. Do the biggest corporate shill video possible once per year, just line up all the sponsorships to all land on April 1st.

@sergentharker7182

Ай бұрын

100% like just sell 30 sponsorships for whatever dog ass company offers money, make an absolutely unwatchable video that's more advertising than video, then go back to normal and never talk about it

@XarantaurTheWitness

Ай бұрын

Josh likes shitposting enough I could see him do this 😂

@DaleStrife

Ай бұрын

Actually good idea

" i don't have super expensive taste for stuff " - a warhammer plastic enjoyer

@ShreddinDwarf

Ай бұрын

Plus mtg enjoyer

As a VOD watcher, that graphic is such a treat

@JoshStrifeSays

Ай бұрын

I don't edit much more, but I try to only add and edit when it ACTUALLY ADDS SOMETHING to the video. Like here for the reference, glad its worth it :D

@air5723

Ай бұрын

I also only watch the KZread channel and appreciate all you do

@raonair

7 күн бұрын

Am I blind? I don't see any graphic

'not everything has to be business' said the man in a suit vest and shirt.

Meanwhile the parallel universe JSH called Dosh Strife Hayes listening to this video on his gilded toilet, wiping his ass with $100: "You have no clue what you're missing. This shit is incredible. Literally and figuratively."

@Slysheen

Ай бұрын

"Dosh Strife Hayes" Have my upvote funny internet bloke

@Cann1bal25

Ай бұрын

Dosh Strife Gets Paid

Thrall: Josh, come home.... Josh: I was alliance.... Thrall: We're all friends now.....

@reeven1721

Ай бұрын

"We're all Alliance now."

@tchilst

Ай бұрын

It’s all Ogre now

@viktorbengtsson676

Ай бұрын

thrall: For just a small sum of RL money you can be horde...

@Spicy_Spores

Ай бұрын

"We don't understand how years of brutal wars and centuries of conflict work within humanoid brains... so we have a """"peace"""" now and all the thousands of wounds wrought over dozens of cultures from centuries of very real conflicts amongst Azeroth from slavery, to mass war r-word are just forgotten and forgiven with no discussions or underlying plots, etc, bc big demon boy bad we gotta focus yall, lmao."

@Shmandalf

Ай бұрын

@@Spicy_Spores That isn't unusual for the horde, though. In Warcraft 3, Reign of Chaos (not even the expansion, the base game) the final mission has the horde allying with the humans and night elves to stop Archimonde. Its been a thing since the beginning, at least as early as 2002. This was long before the events of World of Warcraft and Thrall obviously remembers that sometimes the combined strength of all Azeroth is required to save it from annihilation (he was there when Archimonde almost destroyed Azeroth). It isn't so much of a peace as it is a cease fire while they deal with a much more powerful threat than either faction is on their own.

This integrity is why i watch josh. It's refreshing.

@silvius6244

Ай бұрын

exactly! and yet he maintained the seriousness without denigrating the company behind

@masoodvoon8999

Ай бұрын

sometimes you have to accept that the higher up the rungs of power & money you climb the more idiots, politics, & bs you have to wade through. It's extremely rare that a situation arises where you get a Larian studios. To live you have to accept some BS and support the good people in a bureaucratic organization.

OF for Josh: Josh Strife Lays where he does the same what is he doing here, but laying instead of sitting

@ArDeeMee

Ай бұрын

YES. There are tons of SFW OnlyFans accounts, it is possible.

@D3th10rd

Ай бұрын

Even better, it's just this but the camera is angled 90 degrees to make it look like he is laying down.

@ArDeeMee

Ай бұрын

@@D3th10rd Genius. Work smarter, not harder.

"If you don't stand up for what you believe in, eventually you have to admit you don't believe in it." The man simply does not miss

I was one of those goofy folks that was raised on the old depression-era radio programs even though it was half a century before my time. The thing that always stuck out to me is that the pillars of entertainment and comedy like Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Benny Goodman etc? They all had advertisers, they were all sponsored, but they always made them entertaining. Fifty years after their programs were recorded, it's still fun to listen to them talk about Lucky Strike or Pepsodent because they made it into a skit, a play or a bit. That's what I think a lot of modern KZreadrs don't consider when they take the payday and just read whatever was given to them. If it's dry, if it's just a straight ad, then it tremendously dates their media. If I watch a video a decade from now, will I be cringing at a creator waxing lyrical about Raid: Shadow Legends? I appreciate you caring about the way your videos will be viewed in the future, Josh.

@senismarsenis9678

Ай бұрын

For example I would never skip Internet Historian's or Noodle's ads. They are deranged masterpieces, all of them... top kek state of art ads 😋👌

@ExceedProduction

Ай бұрын

Yeah, memelord ads are a blast

@koltonkulis4763

Ай бұрын

This is what I like about Arlo, a Nintendo KZreadr. He turns most of his Raycon ads into skits. I don't like Raycon, but I almost always watch Arlo's ads.

The most valuable advertising Blizzard could do is just start treating its customers like humans.

@Sephiroso.

Ай бұрын

Clearly you haven't met the average WoW player. They aren't humans.

@wolfulf3339

Ай бұрын

​@Sephiroso. Well seems you are lower than that. Don't look at other groups as lower than your group. WoW is the casual mmo with a hard-core top they don't combine and you find only toxicity where they meet

@gegok42

Ай бұрын

...customers and employees

@tekamer6566

Ай бұрын

@@Sephiroso.as a wow player can confirm I’ve mutated beyond mutual species

@hickory654

Ай бұрын

I'll never forget when a blizz employee told us our yearly sub doesn't even afford their toilet paper.

Did Josh just low-key reference Mean Girls? "I know you can be overwhelmed, and I know you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?"

@lexlanzomusic9508

Ай бұрын

That’s from “10 things I hate about you” not Mean Girls

@merriewicuna5370

Ай бұрын

I think you can in France.

You know the funny thing? I discovered you by watching your old Worst MMO Ever series, starting all the way back with just after League of Angels (so episode 3, I think), and I can 100% corroborate that your videos back then were bangin' back then too. Your video format, comedic inserts, informative gameplay, and ability to craft a narrative are timeless, and can be enjoyed be it 4 years ago, or today, just like you've shot for.

"If you don't stand up for what you believe in eventually you have to admit that you don't believe in it." So much this. I usually say: if your beliefs never inconvenience you then you may as well not even have them.

I am a man of principles and I fully respect you for being that same way. But I’d always be down to watch you play Warcraft

I love that he says this. Dude is genuine asf.

One of my favorite quotes "Principles don't mean anything if they don't cost you something."

i enjoy you because your genuine, you know your morals & that you have a limit and are not false in hiding and knowing that limit. Inspiring. I wish you the best

I am continually whelmed good sir.

At the same time your strategy is a business strategy in itself. You're very succesful, you built a large, dedicated audience that highly regards your opinions. That's incredibly valuable and the fact you're not selling it out to every dogwater mobile games that come along does makes it more exclusive which is how you attract contracts like the WoW one. I'm impressed you didn't take it, wouldn't had blamed you for it but i can see why.

Gigachad GoG showing how good they are without even knowing.

@nhagan001

Ай бұрын

And then they released Cyberpunk and destroyed that image in an instant.

@Stutz808

Ай бұрын

@@nhagan001 Haha yeahhh righttttt

@Sephiroso.

Ай бұрын

@@nhagan001 Well not really. That's the funny things about companies. GOG is owned by CD Projekt Red but GOG is not CD Projeckt Red. So the failures of CD Projekt Red shouldn't reflect on GOG. That's like saying Microsoft failures would also reflect on all the many studios that Microsoft owns when that isn't the case.

@nhagan001

Ай бұрын

@@Sephiroso. that doesn’t change the fact that CDPR went from being the ones decrying bad strategies, to employing the strategies themselves. They proved who they were with Cyberpunk, and what they were was a company only pretending to be for the consumer.

@syrupybrandy2788

Ай бұрын

@@nhagan001 And the biggest laugh is people actually fell for that. Companies don't care about you. Never have and never will.

6:38 It's like taking blood money, or dirty money and thinking using it for something good makes it all better. It's an extreme comparison

GOG is Polish and in Poland, verbal agreement is considered legaly binding, so theres that xD

@derrfes

Ай бұрын

Verbal contract is a contract , but there is always a challenge to prove terms and existence.

@tomassedlacek6714

Ай бұрын

@@derrfes Sure it is, but a good company wont try to breach it!

@Arenumberg

Ай бұрын

Good thing theres no video XD. I imagine if its emails as well. so to say theres no contract when theres written terms is a bit off - intent matters for legality, but I see where JSH is coming from. Its not that kind of arrangement, but I consider him "breaching" by not shouting them out would probably just mean they dont give codes, so its simple enough.

Won me over in just one video. You sir are awsome. Entertaining in the right way.

It’s the Betterhelp and the meal prep ones I hate. All meal prep food tastes the same but you have tons of boxes, plastic, and cooler gel to dispose and Betterhelp has a bad rep.

@TheKarabanera

29 күн бұрын

I still don't understand meal prep ones. Is salad really that hard or long to make? Half f the time the same dishes are "bad for you" and "healthy" at the same time. Betterhelp and so on are bullshit anyway. WIth the help they provide - the best actual help would be to wind down and go for a walk. That would be healthier. Unless you live in a warzone, then it's better to do something productive and keep yourself busy.

2:44 this part about it being relevant 10 years from now is an eye-opener for me. Doing things that can be looked back upon years down the road with a good feeling - be it with content or personal decisions - is likely going to be worth the investment. Also, that bit about not standing up for what you believe in hits pretty hard too...

That Guildwars 2 video got me playing and I've not stopped for 2 years! Excellent recommendation, Josh

Love you mate! I'm with you on your stance on sponsorships, take the ones you want and be happy. I wouldn't judge you at all if at some point you did take a raid shadow legends sponsorship or something like that if you needed the money or used it to do something good with the money. Also, gym room that contains a Warhammer gaming table, best gym room ever!

I remember Jerma caught a lot of flak for being sponsored by Coinbase for his Dollhouse streams. Apparently it wouldn't have been possible without their finance so it's this weird grey area where you can only get this unique experience by doing a deal with the devil.

this level of integrity is why I love Josh

This man is respectable in every way and one of the reasons I continue to watch what him.

6:31 Josh makes a good point here. Since KZread videos are forever, it's not enough to know that the company you're backing is good _now_ - you want to be confident that they'll be good in the future, too. There are a lot of people who got their start on WoW content who would probably avoid being associated with Blizzard at this point.

Love your content and this video! I respect your dedication to keep to your ideals and viewpoints 🙂 You mentioned that sponsorships in videos are effectively permanent adverts. If so, do you feel it would be appropriate to take previously sponsored videos when a related company shifts their ethics/stance? Or should the videos remain uploaded, as they could be considered a 'snapshot' in time, rather than a continuing reflection of a content creator's support for a company? I find that to be an interesting situation, as there's always a risk in associating with a sponsorship. That's especially true if the sponsorship spans across a library of videos over several years.

Real happy for you, we need more people in a good position in life

Im curious about the gamer sups because their is a clip of you saying "its just powdered caffeinge?!" so why the change and taking on the sponsor?

Hahaha lmao love the example of guilding your toilet XD! Never change Josh we love you humble like this

Why did I get flashbacks of Aragorn's speech when he said "Not today." ?

"continue to whelm" should be put on a shirt 😂

Good choice mate, keep on being awesome!

I’d love to see an mmo video of retail wow. But that’s probably not because it’s wow and more because I love Josh’s mmo videos

JoshStifeGains ends up being Josh exercising on top of a game table.

I have a odd question... What is Josh's second monitor content that he watches while he streams? I mean, how unique would it be to see Josh stream, and at the same time randomly react to a video he's watching on the side...

Josh's integrity is a major reason why I and so many others love him. If he started doing game sponsorships all the time for random games I'd have a lot less interest in the channel.

every so often I come and watch one of your videos just to get my faith in humanity back

All ill say is - keep doing what feels right man, you care about your audience which is actually quite rare for "youtubers" nowadays. You respect our time and eyes and most of the sponsorships i see with you never feel super in your face - which is nice. I think im quite like you, if i came into a bunch of money, i don't think my life would change much. Sure id have a really nice computer and would probably keep it updated, maybe id get a nice reliable car and get a house. But i too don't need the gilded toilet. Do whatever is right and whatever keeps you able to make the things that make yourself and the audience happy. The day may come where you need to "sell out" as some call it and take some less than savory sponsorships, but as you said that day is not today. Best of luck Josh, quite a youtube OG id say definitely in the mmo gaming space.

Thank you. I love this approach.

There are certain sponsorships that i know when these people take...they sacrifice some credibility, Raid shadow legends is one example....it is not a good game at all and has all the issues and problems that mobile gaming has in general. However I know how much they can and do offer and tbh in my case would likely be more then my channel has earned in its lifetime

@thrrax

Ай бұрын

I'm actually thinking about making a video showing all the terrible systems RSL has (I've worked for 7 years in the gaming industry, for two major companies, and can spot bad and good designs immediately), and start with "This video is NOT sponsored by Raid etc", and then dump on it with all I got. Unless they pay me a million not to do it. 😂

@EastyyBlogspot

Ай бұрын

@@thrrax The gameplay itself is as basic as you can get and any games that offer autoplay has a problem, but everything around it with the upgrading and getting new characters and the sheer amount of currencies and menus and screen frankly is ludicrous and i know that is by design

@eboethrasher

Ай бұрын

@@EastyyBlogspot I've seen content creators I respect take a sponsorship from them, and everything depends on the situation of the streamer/content creator. Sometimes it is a streamer who has a kid, and in that case, I'm like "yeah, I get it, you've got a family to feed", but some who are only streaming for fun, well, that's questionable. Like I don't wanna see Felicia Day advertising Raid Shadow Legends. Unless she's in a physical commercial for it, as her character from the Guild, cause that would be funny.

@ianover6838

Ай бұрын

@@eboethrasher Do they actually need it to feed their family or is it just a nice bonus for them?

@nekokinds

Ай бұрын

@@eboethrasher i tend to always give people the benefit of the doubt. as long as they aren't someone who publicly flexes/blows money/etc. i assume there's probably something going on in the background that's none of my business, like medical bills. as long as it isn't constant

Kudos Brother!!

Telling a major company with history of shady practices to GFY is the real luxury.

Ngl I enjoy watching old outdated ads sometimes it's the closest thing going back in time. I was watching the Adams family values with my kids that I recorded from free to air tv on VHS (yes I still have a VHS player) way back in the 90's and an ad for KFC chicken loopies came on and man did that take me way back to 10 yr old me 😂

I too am content settling for a lengthy and consistent whelm.

Great. The War Within looks incredible though, I look forward to you playing it when it comes out

we must all continue to live a whelming life

As a long time WoW and Josh Strife fan... we're waiting for the WoW video. I would love to see a Classic vs Retail comparison like Day9 did recently.

If TotalBiscuit was still here, i would love to see a colab video with the both of you talking about what's going on with the current gaming landscape.

I'd actually be really interested in seeing Josh's take on War Within. WoW is having a bit of a glow up lately, be nice to see a critical take.

@aspiringnormie9499

Ай бұрын

Every single expansion we do this. Every time.

@Venoch_

Ай бұрын

​@aspiringnormie9499 you're not wrong :( before this week I hadn't played since a month into dragonflight and I said I'd never fall for the new expansion hype again but I can feel it slowly gnawing at me, to the point I resubbed last week and actually enjoying it a little bit... Gah

@MrFuckingKololo

Ай бұрын

People have been saying literally the same thing before Shadowlands launch lmao.

@Domwyn

Ай бұрын

But we have a little bit of a foundation this time. BfA and Shadowlands were mindlessly hyped but dragobflight Was actually good. It was modest and humble. The setting was goofy but for the first time in like ever, Blizzard is confident enough to Release Player data. And you get like 4 versions of classic for the sub. I aint no Blizzard shill, i hated BFA so much, I didnt buy dragonflight nor shadowlands. But I think we should look at War within a little less sceptical way.

@MrFuckingKololo

Ай бұрын

@@Domwyn I'll believe it when I see it. People have been saying that the new expansion looks good for a decade now and the only time it actually turned out to be true was Legion.

"It's a gentleman's agreement, and they've kept it."

Your integrity is appreciated Josh. :)

1 of the reasons I love your channel is because you stand up for what you value. 😃

the contract is the written proof for the gentlemens agreement.

'You either get canceled a steamer, or live long enough to see yourself become the schill'

Hey, I always put on a link for the GOG store when I review a retro game that's available in their store and they've never sent me any codes! (then again, I also post Steam links)

Hey here's a question: Once the advertising contract is fullfilled on both sides, do you still need to keep the advertising segments up?

Dont sell your soul plz, there is already enough commercials in everything.

I've seen some of those price tags on sponsorships. About 10 raid sponsors into the right savings account would be passive income that matches my current pay. I'd do them if only for future stability.

Run!

A KZreadr with integrity? You are a rare breed.

Would actually love to see Josh play current WoW

If it's a good game, it deserves a praise, no matter sponsored or not.

I was offered 8 figures to do a job once. Sadly, the decimal point was way over to the left of the eight figures.

I have been thoroughly whelmed by this second monitor content

Big mistake, brother. I’m never going back to a non-Gilded toilet.

integrity and good taste, a hard combo to find lol

You're a class act, man!

Did you see Day9's recent World of Warcraft retail beginner's experience guide. It's hilarious and reminded me of many of your critiques.

I usually watch Josh on an in screen window on my ipad while playing Hearthstone!

I have to wonder if the amount of 0s in the contract are what stands behind a lot of content creators saying The War Within Alpha is good. Don't get me wrong, I want it to be good because the delves appear to be good content for solo/duos, and that's something I'd like to do.

@eboethrasher

Ай бұрын

Think about which creators are saying it is good, and think about what those creators have said before about the game. If we are talking about Bellular, Asmon, Tali, Preach, these are all people who have been critical of Blizz in the past and would not lie for $$$. You know Bell wouldn't, he stakes too much reputation on it. All of them do.

@Xariann

Ай бұрын

@@eboethrasher I do agree with what you are saying. I do think though that being 100% unbiased when a lot of money is involved is not the easiest thing. Hats off to them if they can do it though. I have friends in WOW I'd like to do things with again, and if the new expansion is actually good, I would have something to gain. I just hope it will actually be that way.

We be whelming in here

I would love to see your opinion on next expansion of World of Warcraft Expansion! But at the same time I want you to do it on your own terms!

Josh Strife Hayes. The whelming youtuber.

we all have to have desires that are whelming.

i just bought a shure because of you so i can hold it in the cup too

I'd like to see Josh play war within

Wouldn't have expected anything else from you tbh. That's tegridy right there!

He won't have kids? Damn that's a shame. He's a great guy, very educated and smart

4:50 It's me, I'm most people.

Blizzard has done a much better job as of late with WoW. Both retail and Classic’s reception have been largely positive from the player base. I have been enjoying the game quite a lot and would love to see you cover it in the future. That time is not now though. The major glaring issue the game still has is its new player experience, which has been severely lacking as most of Blizzards resources have been spent fixing the end game issues that plagued the game for the last several expansions. Their solutions have largely been successful as retention rates are the highest they’ve been in years. I’m excited to see what the current wow team will do to revitalize the new player experience, (they’ve already said it’s on their to do list) and when it does, I would love to see your honest thoughts on how the game feels.

Didn't know that GOG was chill like that. Knew there was a reason why they've been my favorite game distributor for quite a while 😂

Josh is my favorite just chatting streamer

I would genuinely enjoy you taking the game code for war within from bliz, and then play the game and give us your honest opinion on what it feels like to play with all the modern changes and the industry around it.

Josh is my spirit animal

Much respect

Josh having a gilded toilet is exactly what I believe now.

I honestly think this is commendable, and he's right, sure he won't get sponsership dollars, but he has something more important. His word and a loyal base that sticks it out with him. Integrity is such a thin word in todays age sadly.

rawmeat as a drink flavor is insane and ik exactly who made it lmao

Take it! then you can fund a second war against the Lannisters

OK I have 3 monitors. So now I have the conflict. Witch one is the second monitor?

You've earned my sub. If you are stay true to your words, you deserve many more.