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DerNebel on 02 September 2015
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Xxain 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).


But the product placement is a pre arranged deal. LP's are not.  

YouTubers should NOT be able to make a living off other peoples products. Free products for a certain amout of LP's? Sure, but making a living...No

There are more than enough game companies that actually seek these pre arranged deals, especially if you're making a living out of this then you're likely with a network .

Also what is your argument here other than that they didn't make the games? The Let's Players are still putting work into them and there's clearly a demand for that type of content, so why shouldn't they live off of making these videos? With the crushing majority of publishers actually embracing youtubers and streamers you can be pretty sure that they don't see any negative and much more positive effects in Let's Plays, to then say that those Let's Players should not be able to make money off of that reeks of nothing but one thing: jealousy.