Its shocking to see that MS a US company tells gamers to only upload their game footage only on youtube and twitch, you know websites owned by americans what a coincedence.
I wont support their protectionism policies in anyway anymore, is it just gives me more reasons not to buy their games and consoles.

I'd say they have good relations with those   2 sites. Google and twitch probably agreed to give them a slice of the pie.

This is not want we meant by taking cues from Nintendo!

Lets Plays do more marketing for videogames than any TV ads. Microsoft should be paying THEM to advertise their content, not the other way around!

Any youtube thing is weird. It's all very middle ground and not quite one way or the other. No matter how much you argue that it's free advertising or anything else, doesn't mean it's not hurting a developer if people prefer to watch a game being played so they don't have to buy it. Yet, the 'free' advertising does work, I bought BL2 based on youtube videos (I bought it used so a bit of a waste in reality but still :P).

There is an issue with this though, it's the 'free' part. People are making money from other people's work. No one would stand for a youtube video where someone read out a book they bought chapter by chapter and had adverts on with no money going back to the writer. Would people argue 'But they've bought the book, what is the problem?'. The problem is this person is making money from someone else's work not their own.

All Nintendo did was ask people not to put adverts on their videos, right? Yet people took this and no videos at all. Not sure if this has changed since but this is a great policy. That PewDiePie or whatever his name is is currently making millions a year now on his videos. I wonder if any of the developers of the games he plays makes nearly as much, I'm not talking about the big company like MS, just the 1 or 2 developers who wrote their indie game.

It is a fact that the Xbox One is trailing the PS4. However, this discussion is irrelevant of that. Again, unless you're trying to tell us that more open YouTube policies is something that would help fix the Xbox One's sales battle with PS4? Please, go into some detail on how this will actually affect console sales and what MS could do differently. Would allowing people to name their YouTube videos differently result in 2, 5, 10 million more Xbone sales? Just curious. I laughed because the connection makes no sense. This isn't going to change Xbone sales at all. People can still upload YT footage of games, they just have to name them differently.

Idk anything about your various other negative MS threads lately but I'll be sure to not go and look for them.

This is my line of work and it 100% is relevant. Youtube has already greatly helped the xbox one. Most big gta and cod youtubers stuck with the xbox one.  That was huge free advertising for Microsoft.  Millions of people look up to these guys. You can keep laughing at facts all you want.

And halo has died a death on the youtube scene. News like this is putting off big youtubers even thinking of covering the game.

@poster above

Many publishers actually pay a lot of youtubers to cover their games. So some of them are smart enough about the situation. 

Cars have development costs too, you know. Either way, we seem to have a fundamental difference in the ways we think, and this discussion will not bear any fruit should we continue it further. Have fun on your slippery slope!

Someone should put together a list of every Xbox One scandal since the reveal up until now. I bet there is quite a few.

Actually they take 65%. I'm a YT partner.