CDawgVA will be playing Final Fantasy XIV for the first time after an extremely successful charity drive raised $1,000,000.
CDawgVA, or Connor Colquhoun, is a Welsh Twitch streamer, YouTuber, podcaster, and voice actor based in Tokyo, Japan. His notable voice acting roles are Reiss Vulfe from Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles and Peak from Honkai: Star Rail. He currently has 1.3 million followers on Twitch and 3.15 million subscribers on YouTube.
CDawgVA and Chris Broad (Abroad in Japan) had been doing “Cyclethons” since 2022 to raise funds for the Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF). In the same year, they were able to raise $310,000 USD and won Best Philanthropic Stream Event at the 2023 Streamer Awards. They also did “Cyclethon 2.0” in 2023, raising $555,000 USD.
On April 1, 2024, the pair continued the “Cyclethon” tradition, this time a 14-day, 1,000 km bike ride from Yamaguchi to Tokyo. They were accompanied by other well-known personalities such as Garnt Maneetapho (Gigguk), Felix Kjellberg (PewDiePie), and Peter Macy (PremierTwo).
The charity was a huge success, raising over $1,000,000 USD. Due to popular demand from fans, he finally gave in and will be playing Final Fantasy XIV after reaching a million in charity. The Final Fantasy XIV stream will be on May 9, 2024 at 11 AM JST (May 8, 7PM PT or 10PM ET) on his Twitch.
CDawgVA had been known to skip cutscenes in video games, even reposting a tweet in 2020 with a video about “when you skip all the cutscenes to get to the gameplay.” He then added, “This is a personal attack.”
A Reddit user shared their opinion about him playing FFXIV, “Streamer notorious for giving no f*cks about story, plays a story-focused game. This is going to go just fine.” A fan then stated that the streamer had been a lot better since he started playing JRPGs and talked about it on a podcast, sharing that he doesn’t skip cutscenes anymore and appreciates the story more.
Another Reddit user said that CDawgVA had started liking playing JRPGs as he could voice the characters. Doing the voice acting brings the streamer a lot of joy when playing these types of games. They also believe that the server would become full as CDawgVA will be playing with Peter (PremierTwo) and Mouse (ironmouse).
Raising over $1,000,000 for charity is an incredible feat, as is completing the 14-day Cyclethon, which isn’t easy. While it’s the fans’ demands for CDawgVA to play FFXIV, hopefully, he’ll also have fun while fulfilling their wishes.