Gyle Cast: Ben Adds Commentary to Replays of Supreme Commander Forged Alliance Forever on YouTube. | 034

“I guess if you’re a gamer, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
You come back to a game that you love. Maybe it’s a game that you
shared with your mates and had some really good time… and it
stopped. I felt like ‘I’m going back and check that out really
fancy,’ and it wasn’t that it had gone and I didn’t actually know
that the community have banded around to rescue the project and
said something up and I was blown away.”


Gyle Cast is a YouTuber that reached over 8 million views through
replays from Forged Alliance Forever. He garnered over 30,000
subscribers and already established his name in the FAF
community.


Mobile Legends, Call of Duty, Fortnite Battle Royale, Minecraft,
League of Legends, DOTA 2, and Apex Legends are some of the most
popular online games now that changed many lives. Many people
gained popularity through these games and streaming their plays
through different social media platforms. It has been a trend to
many people over the years, but for Gyle, it’s different.


Gyle has been uploading replays of Forged Alliance Forever which
is a standalone real-time strategy video game that was released
in 2007 by its producer Gas Powered Games (GPG). After GPG ended
its support in the year 2009 and when they shut down multiplayer
backend GPGnet in the year 2012, the FAF community tried to take
over the support of the game. Gyle is one of the people in that
community who loved the game and decided to help the game live
longer by screen recording replays of the game. He uploads the
recordings on YouTube for the community to see and encourage
other people to play the game and keep it alive.


“Maybe I could transition to another game, but there’s no
guarantee of that and when FAF dies off, when the great people
who work behind the scenes to keep it running keep the serve
going to keep balancing the game and keep it, I really need that.
They’ve had enough — there’s no one else coming through, no
youngblood wanting to take it over there, then my channel is in
trouble. Like that’s it. That’s mine. That’s the entirety of my
existence and it’s held up by the work that everybody else is
doing behind the scenes.”


Despite having his own family, Gyle continued his love and
support to the game. He never stopped doing what he’s been doing
for years. He continued, although there are a lot of online games
that he can try on and upload on his YouTube channel, he
dedicated himself not just for the game but for those people who
work behind it.


Gyle did not only helped the game to be alive but through this
game, he was able to connect with different people. He was able
to be part of video game projects, and he was never out of the
FAF Community due to his contributions. The game helped him build
a more significant community around him, with people wanting to
learn and watch the game. He made connections that were never
there in the first place.


Going to Gyle’s personal experience, the game became his moving
on buddy after ending a long time relationship. It kept him busy
during his moving on process and was able to cope up not thinking
too much about this painful event of his life. It was more than
just a game for him.


Gyle’s huge advice to all people having doubts about sharing
contents online:


“ Just put it out there and see what happens. At the end of the
day, no one’s going to come after you with a knife. Trolls are
out there. It’s just about growing a little bit of a skin
filtering out the bad noise and then working out what you know,
what’s driving people, what they’re enjoying and try to give them
more of that. Just don’t listen to the trolls.Listen to the
people who like your stuff and focus on doing more of it.


In this interview, Gyle shared his why and his constant support
to the game he always loved.


Gyle’s story is inspirational and this episode is definitely
worth a listen!


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