Changes

Intro:  

Welcome to the Legend of the Innkeeper.  We’re glad you could join us for our 76th episode.  

This week we are talking about…

 

Changes

This is our first ‘official’ episode of 2016 and with this episode, we have a few changes that are happening with the show. As you already noticed, we have a new voice on the show and one missing. If you didn’t listen to last week’s episode, the combined episode with Hero Power, we talked about one of the major changes which is that Ariannwyn is going to take a step away from the show. As sad as that might be, we have someone new that is going to take over her spot.

Introducing, SquishieDragon!

SD: Background, Hearthstone experience, Questions?

Squishie’s Twitch Stream – http://www.twitch.tv/squishiedragn

Survey

We’re super excited about these changes because of what we heard from you, the listener. At the end of 2015 we hosted our very first Listener survey. I have to say we really got some great responses. I want to first say thank you to those of you who took a few minutes to answer the survey. The information you provided us will prove invaluable as we continue into 2016. It helps us better understand what you want to hear and how we can be helpful to the community.

Speaking of the survey, I want to just cover a few results from the survey that I thought were quite interesting. I’m not going to cover every question, since that would take up most of the show and I don’t think it would be all that entertaining.

Many of the questions were just your thoughts about how we can improve the website and the quality of various aspects of the show. I thought it was interesting that we scored really well in the content and hosts categories and not so good in the Video Quality scores (for the Twitch stream). I don’t blame you on this and we’re working to fix that but we have some physical limitations that we have to work around in the future. We’re at the mercy of our ISPs on that front. What I am also surprised by is that we got pretty good scores on Length of Episodes. Only 1 person gave us a poor rating on that.

I asked the following question. What do you like MOST about the podcast. For the most part, the answers were pretty much the same. Down to earth, easy to relate to, friendly, etc. Here are a few of the comments:

I love that you don’t go over the casual players head with a huge amount of “jargon”, and I’m actually able to learn things

I really enjoy the casual friendly and family atmosphere of the podcast. I really enjoy how you look out for us casual hearthstone players. Each person brings their own special touch to the show. I never miss an episode. Keep up the great work. Great job team.

Some great input and comments. I also asked the question, What do you like LEAST about the show. And we got some great responses. I also want to say I appreciate the honest comments. It helps us avoid the more painful parts of the show.

Some of the more common responses, were:

Talking about other games, Heroes of the Storm, WoW, etc.

Also numerous mentions about Ariannwyn  and how we should leave her alone and let her talk! Haha.

Here are a few more:

Tough question. Kind of like asking a parent who is their least favorite child. I’d like to hear more e-mails and calls on the show. I’m sure the reason you don’t have many is not many people send them in, but I think it would be nice to have a larger portion of the show devoted to this. I’m a big fan of The Instance podcast and Scott Johnson does a great job at involving his listeners. I’ve even had a couple of my e-mails and voicemails read on his show and it’s pretty exciting when that happen...