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Our Favorite Dick is back, this time with more judgment and even more greed. Ever press the share button on your PS4? you should go to prison. Twitch streaming? more like Twitch stealing. you fucking robber. anyways, here is the article, spoiler alrent, major douche baggery is inside. 

 

Controversial developer Phil Fish, who abruptly cancelled development of Fez 2 last year over a heated Twitter debate, has once again raised eyebrows on the social network, claiming that YouTubers are 'stealing' from game developers. 

At the beginning of a series of tweets captured by GameSpot, the developer wrote: 

"YouTubers should have to pay out a huge portion of their revenue to the developers from which they steal all their content. [Ad] revenue should be shared with developers. This should be built into YouTube. Anything else is basically piracy."

He went on to add that: 

"If you generate money from putting my content on your channel, you owe me money. Simple as that. If you buy a movie, are you then allowed to stream the entirety of it publicly for people to watch for free? No, because that's illegal.

"Systems are in place to prevent that. But buy Fez, put ALL of it on YouTube, turn on ads, make money from it and that's TOTALLY FINE. And the developer should in NO WAY be compensated for their work being freely distributed to the world. Right. Makes sense."

Afterwards, and perhaps in response to a surge of negative comments, Fish wrote "Nevermind" and protected his account. A search of Twitter no longer appears to show the account, which would be included in search results even if protected, possibly suggesting he has deleted it. 

What Fish does not appear to have taken into consideration is the fact that YouTube allows for ContentID match and copyright owner monetisation - a policy which has proven controversial for Nintendo who last month announced an "affliate program" to share revenues with YouTubers. 

It was revealed earlier this week that PewDiePie earns a staggering $4 million annually from his YouTube gaming videos. 

 

source: http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/22658/article/phil-fish-says-youtubers-are-stealing-from-game-developers/



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i guess he managed to forget that Games arent playable on Youtube. you can watch a game all you want but you cant play it unless you buy it, and thats kind of the point of games. even if he does have a point, he is simply being greedy, this is basically free marketing and this is the best form of "word of mouth" there is.



He has a point tho.
Games like league of legends, dota, counter strike, CoD and so on all gain popularity and publicity with twitch and youtube.
But games like Beyond: two souls, The last of us, The walking dead: telltale and so on all lose revenue because of these walkthroughs.



How is he wrong? If you're making money off of someone elses product they have every right to claim a portion.



This is stupid, and Phil Fish is a douche, but Fez is great.



So it is happening...PS4 preorder.

Greatness Awaits!

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Sony has a controller with built in piracy. No wonder the PS4 sells so well.



If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.

bananaking21 said:
i guess he managed to forget that Games arent playable on Youtube. you can watch a game all you want but you cant play it unless you buy it, and thats kind of the point of games. even if he does have a point, he is simply being greedy, this is basically free marketing and this is the best form of "word of mouth" there is.

It's when he realized that you will get the most out of his games by just watching.



If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.

Phil Fish. Proving he is a moron time and time again.

its free advertising for his game.

Indie games need as much publicity as they can, and content creators like TB give huge sales boosts to indie titles after doing a vid on the youtooobs



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Phil Fish and Nintendo crossover incoming? I believe it.



DamnTastic said:

He has a point tho.
Games like league of legends, dota, counter strike, CoD and so on all gain popularity and publicity with twitch and youtube.
But games like Beyond: two souls, The last of us, The walking dead: telltale and so on all lose revenue because of these walkthroughs.

just because a game has a strong story does not mean watching it is enough to experience the game. TLoU is a very, very weak example too, it has a deap, intense and fluid gameplay. might as well saying watching mario is just as the same as playing it.

as for Beyond and Walking dead. dont you make your own choices in those games? then watching them takes away A LOT of the experience.