Is YouTube Premium worth it for watching long board game playthroughs and tutorials?

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been getting more into watching detailed playthroughs and strategy guides for Greater Than Games titles like Spirit Island and Sentinels of the Multiverse, and most of the content I follow is on YouTube.

The thing is, a lot of these videos are pretty long, and I often watch them on mobile or while doing other stuff. I’m considering getting YouTube Premium mainly to avoid ads and possibly download videos for offline viewing (especially for longer strategy breakdowns and rule explanations).

For those of you who also follow board game content on YouTube:

  • Do you feel YouTube Premium is actually worth it for this kind of content?
  • Does offline viewing make a big difference when studying strategies or learning complex games like GTG ones?
  • Or do you just stick with ad-blockers / free version without missing much?

Would be interested to hear how others here handle this, especially if you regularly watch long-form gameplay or rules content.

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Just use an app like NewPipe if all you want to do is block ads and download videos.

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I’ve wanted to pay YT for an ad free experience for a long time, because it’s a product I be efut greatly from and it would be fair that I should help financially support it. But the problem is that the Google marketing team’s approach to a premium membership plan isn’t to give the subscriber extra features, it’s to take away features they used to offer and then charge a subscription fee if you want them back.

This kind of approach is textbook bullying and indicative of a company that holds its customers in absolute contempt. So as used to be said of viking raiders from Denmark who offered to stop attacking if you gave them some money every once in a while, “If once you pay the Dane-Geld, you’ll never get rid of the Dane”. Extortion should never be rewarded, it should be forcibly opposed as the villainous tactic it is.

Thusly, I won’t pay for YT’s current Premium service; if the current brand team gets fired and a new brand team comes in to create a new premium service, one that’s actually additive and responsive to customer requests, then I’d be glad to support that.

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