Everyone is sharing their greatest video gaming accomplishment, and I most certainly can't let an opportunity go without sharing mine! The big moment came 2.5 years ago and has drastically altered my every day life ever since.
It came in a mobile game of all things: Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes. It's a collection based rpg game that requires very little active time, yet somehow manages to occupy a whole lot of my time. While most people who play this game are in it to collect their favorite Star Wars characters and/or play out simple battles, I spend most of my time "theorycrafting". It's not enough for me to use the same tactics as everyone else. I want to do something different that know one else has done before. That's not exactly easy in a game approaching 100 million downloads.
I'd had a few small moments early on. I never did anything to rock the game, but I managed to accomplished some minor feats that had never been done before to anyone's knowledge. Eventually my guildmates convinced me to start my own Youtube channel to show off some of my feats. Let's just say I owe those guys big time now. The very first video I published generated over 20,000 views. The team I created exploited a loophole in game mechanics and eventually led to an entire faction getting nerfed. And then I did it again. And again. I eventually gained a reputation for outsmarting the developers and the testers. Raids that were designed for an entire guild to use multiple teams on were falling to a single squad.
But none of those were my greatest achievement. Or at least it wasn't my personal favorite. That came in February 2019, over a year after I started my channel. That came with the release of fan favorite C-3PO. He had just been released, and the devs were already in the process of designing their latest set of nerfs after I used him to break a raid (see above).
At this point I was determined to get into the Game Changers program (a group of Youtubers who had early access to content for the purpose of promoting it). So I decided I should try and play nice with developers. I went to the them and told them that I already knew how to break the raid next, and that my plan was originally to release it as soon as they fixed the latest mess I had created. Instead I wanted to give it to them so they could save face and fix it beforehand.
Mostly the devs ignored me. Eventually one told me I was full of it. I submitted the exact team I would be using. They said it couldn't be done. I asked for them to give me test server access with the latest patch before it went live and I would prove it to them. They had no interest.
So I proved them wrong. Immediately after they released the patch to fix my latest raid exploit I did exactly what I told them I would do. Using that exact team I once again exploited a mechanic to break a phase of the raid. In doing so, I created my first (and only) 100,000 view video on Youtube:
Wow, the quality of that video is bad! But it's my pride and joy. The fact that such a low quality video got over 100k views shows just how great of a moment it was. Not only to break a raid, which doesn't happen often, but to call my shot, get told it couldn't be done, and then go do it anyways.
That was a defining moment in my gaming and Youtube career. I've since published over 100 videos and turned Youtube from an occasional thing into a full blown dedicated hobby. It's actually what's led me to Hive, as I set out to find another game to cover and have been introduced to Splinterlands. Only time will tell if that video was the peak of my career, or if the best is still yet to come!