Wyrdness said:
DerNebel said:
Let's players usually either buy their games themselves or they are send to them by the companies exactly for marketing purposes, which makes the entire analogy mute.
That's exactly how advertisement works, even in other fields, and it works the same way for pretty much all other publishers as well, only Nintendo somehow feels that someone advertising their game for them is something that Nintendo should be paid for, when in actuality, at least in the big cases, it should be the other way around (like companies for instance pay for product placements in big movies).
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Only Nintendo? I've had videos flagged by Atlus, Sega, SE and a host of other companies, Nintendo are just the only ones people choose to focus on. End of the day it's their product like it or not they're entitled to anything you try to make off it even if they take all of it, I find it hilarious how people also throw around advertising in these arguments when these videos have little to no influence in that matter.
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And here your whole argument crumbles down, what a load of bullshit. Online exposure and Youtube matters a ton for games, which is something nearly every publisher has grasped by now, so much so that nearly every publisher has embraced it as well.
Also I said "pretty much", sure there're other examples of similar things happening here and there, but you'll probably be hardpressed to find another big games publisher out there that literally tries to take a cut (or everything) from the ad revenue of every video that features footage of their games.
So sure, they might be legally entitled to it, but that doesn't make it less dickish, especially considering that the things driving the views with these videos are primarily the personalities with the games being secondary.
