I doubt they'll differentiate based on levels of production, but I absolutely think some of these continuous Let's Play videos are pretty garbage.
A scripted and edited game critique or strategy video is a different story.
Again, this is through my eyes. Nintendo just wants them pennies rolling in.
Most lets play videos make me want to kill myself. Don't talk over the game you pretentious twat, if you absolutely need to, use annotations.
Let 'em live or die based on their own merits. I know that if I find a narrator/series I like one video from, I'm more likely to watch more from that poster instead of doing a search for some rando one.
i like that Cry fellow playing scary games that i wouldn't be playing anyway. He's pretty entertaining
Some guy at my old job used to be obsessed with the LP videos, and would show me some occasionally. There were some funny dudes sometimes. I would watch them if I knew which ones they were in. I think they did one where they LP'd an LP some obnoxious girl did of Eternal Darkness...
I had to play Deadly Premonition that way since the game was so god damn awful. I watched maybe 20 hr of content.
I don't even have time to play my own games, much less watch someone play them on Youtube. Nintendo is still being assholes about this.
This comes off as petty. If these videos were really making a significant amount of money, I could actually understand it, but they're really not. Most of them were being offered for free. The more popular ones could be making a user maybe $20 a month or something. It isn't worth the bad press.
The way Youtube handles things, in regards to how it figures out which videos are infringing on what, is to compare audio and video tracks. The best way for folks to avoid this is to turn the music down and provide more commentary and just skip cut scenes. The folks who are going to be effected by this are the ones who are just throwing up hour long straight lets plays with barely any commentary and basically just straight here's the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
God forbid anyone but Nintendo profit from their IP. Contrast this with Valve:Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
http://www.valvesoftware.com/videopolicy.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8QEOBgLBQU
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They found that in multiplayer games, players can make better and more valuable content than Valve themselves. So Valve is continually making new ways for these people to monetize their creations and get money from Valve. Some guy made $500k making TF2 hats. Also, they made an interesting way to pay pro Dota 2 teams to play; spectators can buy virtual banners and get a virtual item/reward at the end if their chosen team wins, and said team gets a portion of these banner sales. So a Gabe said a player like Dendi is expected to make around $100k a year just from this - this helps drive player-driven entertainment.