Microsoft's New YouTube Policy - A Step Backwards

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fireburn95 said:

IkePoR said:

Those 40 men aren't all named Bob Cratcet are they?  No, they get paid for their work.  And I'll let you in on a little secret: they see maybe a cent of the money made from game sales.  

LP's are basically free advertising with greater success than a commercial.  

So? Even if they are ads, they are still made by Microsoft, or published by them, they took the initial financial risk to fund the game, they deserve the money when someone watches an entire playthrough of the story. If we cant filter out who buys the game because of the exposure, there's no wrongness in requesting a split of the royalties.

There's an argument here that multiplayer/open world games are exempt from this. Well, sure minecraft relies on youtube to sell minecraft, but they still have 100% right to request money for every video uploaded, because it's their game, that the devs are actively working hard at. Mojang has to pay the employees, pay the light bills, pay for their childrens education. They made a game so that consumers can buy.

How can free advertisment possibly be hurting your business?  Ad's cost a lot of money to create; LP's are free and reach an audience more inclined to give a damn and actually buy the game.  Any finacial risk they took in making the game is made back in sales, any sale they lose from people who watch an entire game on youtube was a sale they were never going to get anyway.