Phil Fish: Youtubers are Theifs.

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burning_phoneix on 20 June 2014

CDiablo said:

burning_phoneix said:

CDiablo said:

Im pretty sure if you just make good games gamers will buy them.

If I do a review on a Procter-Silex stand mixer, showing off the box, everything inside and do a demo, do I owe them money too? I've spoiled how the stand mixer works, and now that people have seen it in action, why would they go out and buy it. People with this mindset are the same ones working on ways to have each individual watching a rented movie pay a fee.

People that strictly watch videogames for entertainment are a very small group.

That's an incorrect analogy. For the mixer, watching it being used does not give you its primary benefit: Mixing stuff.

I can watch videos of cars all day, it won't transport me to my job.

However, games are entertainment. Some people derive entertainment from watching games, especially very linear games that depend on story such as Heavy Rain or other Point N' Clicks. Some people are only really interested in the story of a game and so on.

Good point, what about game plots on wikipedia and many many other outlets. If you can just read the story, then why play the game? (Well written)Story driven games make up likl %5 of all videogames.

I think we'd both agree that reading a summary of the game's plot is not as effective as seeing the game being played in front of you.

How many games these days have difficulty options described as "Select this if you wish to enjoy the story rather than have difficult gameplay"? Quite a few are starting to do that. Hell, New Super Mario Bros had the option of the game playing itself for you.

Going back to reading the summary on wikipedia....don't we already have this sort of reaction? They're called spoilers.

If your friend goes up to you and says "Hey did you see how they killed Rob Stark in last night's episode of Game of Thrones?" He's spoiled the story for you and reduced your enjoyment of an episode of a TV series despite showing you no images or playing no audio from the episode.

To go for a game example, someone can have spoiled the fact that Aeris dies in FF7 or spoil the twist ending to Heavy Rain, significantly reducing your incentive or/and your enjoyment to playing/completing the game.

I'm not saying that the "LPers give a game free publicity" angle is completely without merit, but Phil Fish (as much as I hate to admit it) has a point here.