A Little Perspective on YouTube Gaming Content Creation

[DonFerrari]

Conina said:

ZyroXZ2 said:

vivster said:

A couple of things wrong in this post.

 1. You really think Pewdiepie cares about the 10s of dollars he would not be getting from his non existent Nintendo videos? He's just calling out Nintendo for doing something stupid. Many popular youtubers have done so. And if you actually heard what he said, you would know that he was generally speaking and not for himself.

To answer a few of your points:

1. That's the whole point: his whole reason for not supporting it IS because of how little money it's worth based on their so-called "policy".  What an odd thing to care about in his situation (and yes, I am well aware of his "statement").  If a person is becoming a YouTuber for the sole purpose of getting paid to play games, they are missing the entire point of the passion of gaming.

Most popular youtubers don't just "play the game" for the viewers, they are also commentating the game in an entertaining way. Their funny or thoughtful or professional or commentaries / context are the main reason why they gather their followers, the games themselves are only the raw material for their "shows".

It's similar to sports commentators on TV... why do the TV networks hire people to comment football, baseball, soccer games and many other sports? Every arm-chair-general at home or in the stadium give their opinion of the game for free! Perhaps because they are better commentators and/or give better context than your dad on the couch (more entertaining, captivating, articulate, professional, with more background knowledge or whetever).

Well any network that wishes to use teams footage on  their programation to put their comments on top would have to pay the license fee depending on how much of footage they are using...