 Hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of Zelda Informer update our bi-weekly show that kind of Flip-flops every other week with my boss man series, which is more of an opinionated Outlook at different things. I'm thinking about Nintendo or video games on the whole Hopefully Zelda we have some Zelda stuff that I have some strong opinions on But this week we're gonna get right back into ZI update Starting off with questions that you guys have about the site or anything going on at the Zelda Informer So this first one comes from Loz Jam says alright, so Nathaniel I know we spoke about this before but I think this really needs to be addressed The Zelda dungeon Zelda Informer merge needs to come back into discussion I think we really need to get into contact with mosses about this as it is a huge concern So I think we really need some concrete information as to what is happening Myself and many others at Zelda dungeon have tried but he has altogether remained silent I do have one more thing however Do you guys potentially need help during E3 from what it sounds like it is going to be very straining on Darren Through this E3 series if you guys need help getting out news I could perhaps lend a hand My resume of course is of everything I have done at Zelda dungeon Just ask any of the staff there as I am always quick and efficient about getting news out within the forums So if you guys need a hand for E3 season, I could see if I could help This is also followed up by a similar question by the disciple of Majora That was a very nice update, but I have to ask have you made any headway into the forum issues? So First we're going to tackle the forum stuff. All right So for those who don't know the Zeldin Dungeon Zeldin forum merge isn't like both sites coming together to merge LZ Jam is talking specifically about the forum merger It was originally planned when the sites were bought by when Zeldin formers bought by masses that they were going to remain Independent sites, but because all the informers forums were kind of relaunched last November that instead of focusing on trying to build two forum Communities, we would just have one forum community between both websites So the idea was that the Zeldin Dungeons Forums and Zeldin formers forums are gonna merge into one giant Zeldin forum of awesome goodness There was a lot of concerns about this mostly from the Zeldin Dungeons side since the Zeldin former side We weren't super active So mostly the people that were on the forums are just happy to potentially have more members that more Zeldin fans that could interact with So there was a lot of concern from the Zeldin Dungeons side because originally the forums were going to merge into Zeldin former Because Zeldin former had a structure or we have a structure set up where our comments are Back end system and our forums were all one account. It was a unified account system. Yes a unified account system something even Nintendo lacks Although we have issues with our account system as well Reality is that it hasn't happened. It was Massey's told me it would happen Like let me think at the end of March after he was done with the Twilight Princess HD walkthrough Which by the way, I believe he's still not done with the Twilight Princess HD walkthrough He could talk to you more about why that's not finished Beyond that It's just been a really slow go of it He's promised me I think two or three different rough estimate dates for the merger to happen I know he supposedly downloaded the Zeldin Dungeons forums and the Zeldin former forums and tried merging them together I was gonna see how it worked privately before he tried doing it live. I don't know if that went well, I really don't have an update about that merger because Massey's himself hasn't given me an update on that merger now every single week I have a management meeting with Massey's to specifically deal with stuff as Zeldin former It features Massey's and Darren since me and Darren are the two managers Payed employees at Zeldin former besides Massey's the owner and We usually just talk about our goings either you know really technical stuff like ad revenue issues If we have an issues in particular volunteer staff member Features we should maybe add or cut from the site The meetings are mostly I feel mostly deal with just Finances to be honest There's been some feedback on other things or for the most part Darren and I are free to do as we please with the Zeldin former and The forums unfortunately is one issue that we don't have a lot of say over at Zeldin former. I Initially spoke out against the merger because I don't think Zeldin former's community should have to interact with the Zeldin community if you guys don't want to Unfortunately Massey's disagreed and he's the boss so he gets what he wants So the unfortunate truth that it is I don't have an update At this point moving this far into him owning both sites It's very clear that the forum merger is not a priority and for use all the dungeon members This may not be a surprise as he said you always have a hard time getting a hold of Massey's He doesn't always respond well or pay a lot of attention to the forums and I apologize I know when I was getting interactive with you guys. I was promising that I would be Available and that I would be able to help bridge the gap Maybe between Massey's and you guys and the Zeldin former community and the Zeldin Dungeon community The reason I stopped interacting on the Zeldin Dungeon forums was just I Didn't I don't actually think Massey's is gonna go through with it And he's gonna watch this ZI update after our staff meeting on Wednesday be like, oh Hey, I do why are you talking about this stuff? Because you guys asked and I know you care and I wish I had a better response for you But I I honestly do not know And this speaks also to the disciple of a drawer who asked about The forum issues because there's other informal forums as of right now are basically unusable You have to reset your password every single time you log in That's not good. So I Don't have any update on the forum issues because it's all on hold until Massey's decides what he's going to do with merging the forums If he decides not to merge the forums, which is my ideal solution Then I'll start addressing the login issues right away but there's no reason for me to work on addressing them if I don't have to If it's all gonna mute point and we're gonna merge into ZenForo Which is the program that's all the engineers or if they're gonna merge you back into Envision Pro forwards I have no idea what I can tell you on that front However, it's obviously one thing we like to use in the boards for where our Zeldin former staff forums where we organize a lot of Projects and we haven't had those in a while. So I started bringing them back. I have a separate venture Called Nintendo pride calm. I will get into more of that later For any Zeldin former members are interested and maybe conversing more directly with me But yeah, so unfortunately, I don't have any updates on the forums The Zeldin former forums are gonna remain broken until I know if the merge is going on or not And I have unfortunately have no updates on the merge at this point. I I would say it's safe to assume It's not going to happen. Just because it's not a priority Unfortunately for Zeldin former members, that doesn't tell you much but until I know 100% for certain Nothing's changing over what the current status quo is sorry So I'm gonna get right back into The other part of ZI update where we talk about things going on at the site now and in the future So for starters E3 is coming up. I believe I have one more ZI update before E3 Yes, June 1st will be the next ZI update All right, so Wait, we'll be June 1st. I don't even know whatever two weeks from today Will be the next ZI update that will be the last one before E3 So I'm gonna go over a lot more specific with our E3 plans then but I'll let you know what we have going on now I have requested of Nintendo for a booth tour an interview with A.G. Eromo or anybody else from Nintendo that we can get an interview with even if it's just so much from the treehouse I you know, I've asked about you know potentially Getting some access to their private area where you can record direct feed footage and audio because I know that Oftentimes even with Nintendo Treehouse, they always have them talking over things And it's really hard to just get a direct feed of the pure audio and you guys want to hear that stuff I know it's important. So I I'm really pressing Nintendo to give us an opportunity to record that for you All of the travel arrangements for myself have been made as of right now I'm only aware of myself Zion and Eric my best friend going to E3 Rod Has not talked to me yet about it. So I assume he's not since the registration period has already passed But I could be wrong My my past I know that mine and my best friend Eric's E3 passes have already been approved We're all set our travel arrangements are great. We're leaving early in the morning on the 13th And then we are Getting back to Wisconsin at our homes around midnight on Friday or Saturday morning So five full days away. It's gonna be hard. We wait for my my three children. It's gonna be tough Gonna be an exhausting trip, but hopefully we have some good times there and I ever car rental So like I'm gonna do some stuff with that. I I have no idea Another thing I want to mention is that we have been focused on a more editorial content at the site I Know that some of you guys are sick of just seeing this post YouTube theories or music remixes And I understand that we want to add some more variety to our content So outside of the daily debates that have also come back. I've been focusing on making sure we have more editorials Now we haven't hired any more editorial writers The two that we have Ray and Alfred are back at it and getting weekly editorials out and I'm really happy for them But we have it. I Want more than just those two editorial so I've been writing more editorial work Which makes me happy because editorial writing is one of my favorite things to do ads all the former even more than these video updates So I'll just give you a tease on my next editorial. I've written two in the last few weeks my next editorial is gonna be based around the idea of Who's all the games are made for and who Nintendo should be targeting with their games? So it's it's gonna be kind of a broad topic I'm not gonna give any hints on what we are leaning towards it You're just gonna have to wait to see time release it that should be coming out sometime this week I've already started on it. I'm sort of gathering some information of facts for it I also want to remind you guys that the final episode of the currents of the former podcast is live It went live last Saturday probably the post or last Sunday, I think I think the post for it I went up on Monday, so you can go listen to it. It's a sad farewell It features all of the people that have been on the cast the most aka our host Adam, Colin Chris and Jake who used to be a regular on the cast or at least a half of the podcast life if not more So the podcast that's episode 87 And it's sad to see him go the whole episode had me crying knowing that I'm not gonna Be hearing from these folks very often that doesn't mean that I won't ever invite them on a future episode of the new podcast but Yeah, and an update on the new podcast as I said last time it is launching on June 1st So there will be a week gap Which is like a transition period so there will not be a podcast next week But the following week we will have a podcast coming on June 1st And we're gonna be releasing it. Hopefully ideally Wednesday morning every single morning from here on out and The first pocket. I'm sorry before I get into any information on that Alfred a one writer editorial writers is going to be a co-host with me So it's gonna be me and Alfred every single week for sure and then the third person is gonna be a rotating staff member We don't have anyone even signed up for our first package yet. So it might be a end of being a special guest You know youtuber HMK or Commonwealth realm or something like that But we are going to be trying to rotate that third slot And I never want the podcast to be more than four people outside of special occasions when we're alive and in person and that reminds me that Two of our first three podcast episodes are going to be Considered the special kinds on that what our normal podcast will be like So our second podcast that we're gonna have a week after June 1st. So June 8th is Going to be focused around E3 and our hopes and dreams specifically for the Legend of Zelda for Wii U and NX what we've been hearing What we're looking forward to I'll give you know what I'm looking forward to most as someone is going to E3 They'll be talking about Everyone else on the cast probably be talking about what they're looking forward to most to see from the like the Nintendo live stream and all that stuff and then the following week is an extra special episode where Alfred will not be on it because he's not gonna be at E3, but it's gonna be alive from E3 We're all gonna be in the same room It's probably gonna be Eric and just to give you a little background on my friend Eric He's coming to help me with camera work his stuff. He does not do he's not really a huge Zelda fan He knows what Zelda is he thinks it's fun. He helped me with try for zero's content back back in last year but he's a he's there for my peace of mind because I'm a stranger in LA it's my second trip to LA and My first one in quite some time. So I just want some familiarity with me But he's gonna be on the cast as kind of a voice of someone who isn't necessarily big into Zelda But he'll give us his thoughts on kind of as an outsider looking at it as a game that could get him into the series And what he thinks about it. So it's gonna be a really unique perspective Not just someone like me who's played every single game dozens of times And then we're gonna also try to grab some other people from the floor You know some other guests. I'm working on some meet-ups of people So hopefully we have a nice group of four or five people of us Maybe either back in my hotel room or at another location I don't know. It's gonna be a live cast and to give you another update the podcast stuff is gonna be one hour long I talked about this before it's gonna be about 30 minutes of just talking about news topics and or Pre-selected topics. Let's say it's a light week in news, but there's a few things I really want to hit on that week We're gonna bring up those topics in the first half hour And then we're going to have fan topics after that and then I'm not gonna tell you what the closing section is yet Because we have to decide whoops decided with the closing section is gonna be excuse me So that's what's happening with podcast By the way, we are taping fan topic submissions right now today You can submit them down in the comment section or you can send an email to podcast at zeldainformer.com and We will take fan topics that way for our very first episode Well and early I mentioned Nintendo Prime it's a side project I've been doing I've relocated our Zeldin former staff there for staff forum purposes because it works. It's functional they don't have to worry about login issues and Nintendo Prime is kind of like a side dish to what I do at Zeldin former Zeldin former is my job It's what I am paid to do. It is my day job I love it to death and I've been doing it for eight years and I hope to be doing it for eight more Assuming the Zeldin series is around for eight more years. I hope it's around the rest of my life but I Wanted something that is purely my own I Don't own Zeldin former. It's a common misconception and there was a lot of Behind-the-seats stuff that went where I used to own the site and then I lost my ownership And I don't I don't want to bore you with those details, but I don't own Zeldin former It is owned by masses who Owns Zeldin Dungeon. He found it is the webmaster owns all Zeldin Dungeon and think Pokemon Dungeon and Gen game and now Zeldin former so he He's kind of the owner and as much as I appreciate Him offering me a little bit a little bit of stability with a regular paycheck every month Although my contract isn't very long I Wanted a project. That's purely my own that I can't get fired from if that makes sense So Nintendo Prime is that it is a website. It's gonna eventually have editorial work on it from me And anyone anyone else any of you guys are interested in writing for it I might dabble a little bit into news on it. I haven't really decided what to do with the news front there It's all ran through the Envision power System and I'm debating on whether I should use their article system or the article system like a WordPress kind of blog thing I haven't really decided there is an apparently a really strong article system with Envision Proboards or Envision power boards that I haven't Fully explored yet. I'm still trying to figure out the details because there's not a lot of documentation on it But either way to tell them to calm is live right now. It's primarily a forum You can go to and talk about Nintendo and not just Zelda anything about Nintendo You can talk about other game systems, too. We have a forum for that Any other topics you want and I'm there every single day So it's a great way to get a hold of me talk to me directly I get more involved with other projects that I have going on there will eventually be like a Nintendo Prime podcast We probably launching that closer to around the time that they're going to have an NX launch event Or unveiling event if that makes sense We'll probably have the Nintendo Prime come or we when I say we I will have the Nintendo Prime podcast probably coming out around that time Because I want to focus squarely to see three years old informers as all the game Nintendo's focusing on Zelda It's time for me to just focus right on Zelda the farmer But yeah, that's Nintendo Prime I do technically have a patreon set up for it if anyone wants to support it But don't worry about that right now I I don't even think it's a project worth your support yet when I feel I'm at a point that it's worth You guys investing in me to bring you more goodness beyond Zelda. I Will let you know okay So that's it for this So is the update you can follow me at an agent You can also go to my my new product Nintendo Prime calm Check us out at zelda informer Darren's been doing an awesome job with our twitter our twitter handle there getting some really funny image posts out Follow us on facebook zelda former on facebook Um Otherwise bookmark zelda former calm. We are here for you Leave any questions or concerns or anything about the site you have In the comments below and I will address them next week or in two weeks from now on zi update