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sc94597 on 04 April 2015
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Aeolus451 said:
sc94597 said:

I have done it before (and I do it often) and I've read plenty of posts online/know people in real-life who have done it before. Most of the time you don't even need to watch a let's play. The cutscenes will be on youtube by themselves with no creative content (and they get plenty of views.) So....

For example, here is all Metal Gear Solid cutscenes. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTqIXZ1jQQ (64,000 views. )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01GJ74X_R4 (Twin Snakes - 340,000 views.) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhGj4oisfU (Metal Gear Solid 4 - 277k views.)

Sure that barely affects a game like Metal Gear Solid, but a less acclaimed and more niche game would likely suffer larger losses from something like this. And sure not everybody who watched the cutscenes didn't play the game, but a percentage of them probably did. Even if they only watched half of the cutscenes they got enough of what they wanted for free. 

The Order 1886 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61TKuj4_Oxg (176k views.) 


You're just showing that people have watched youtube videos about video games. I'm asking if it's exists, to show that people watch youtube vids and let's plays in order to see the story of a game without having to buy or rent the game.

So all 300k views for MGS: Twin Snakes, a game that sold 470k, are from people who played/own the game? Obviously a certain percentage of said views are from people who don't own the game. Especially since that is only one youtube video.