Japanese Devs being Japanese. I'm sure much like Atlas with P5 it's a toothless warning.
After their parade of clusterfucks and overbudget neverending dev nightmares, they should be fucking happy people still give a shit about their portfolio.
Clueless insulation.
Atlas asked people not to stream and spoil past a certain date so that later twists and such wouldn't get ruined. This is asking streamers not to try to make money off of streaming the music of KH3 or other such things. The article outright says a number of people are streaming the game already and nothing's crunching on them yet.
1.5 + 2.5 has the same warning. You can find it in the game selection screen.
I've read comments of people saying it was added with a (recent?) patch.
Ok seriously, what’s the point of the streaming hardware if nobody consents to you using it.
Fuck you squeenix I’ll stream if I damn well please.
Sounds like a great way to garner lots of negative exposure to me, so go ahead, keep digging your own graves through such stupid actions so that others can take your place.
Huh it's almost like developers don't want people experiencing the entire game they made that took 2 years plus of development time
If you count watching your game as experiencing the entire of it, then you should be making a movie, not a game. In Atlus case this argument holds even less water since a lot of the content of Persona is in side conversations that the player chooses to engage in a playthrough. If somenone wants to spoil themselves watching a streamer, it's their choice.
You'd still be experiencing all the main story beats for free and the streamer could potentially be doing a 100% run
As if Kingdom Hearts even had a tangible story to begin with.
It doesn't matter if the game is story-driven or not. Comparing watching the game to playing it is completely asinine.
Why would I play a game when I've watched the entirety of it
It's don't stream for just the music outright. Which probably also means if you're playing its soundtrack while not playing the game, your account will probably be sent a DCMA warning. Getting a number of these on twitch will get you permabanned FYI.
The wording on streaming it for commercial purposes is a bit vague. I don't think they want to limit people who do streaming full-time, as it's their primary income source, but it's quite hard to tell.
If anything, I'd wager this being on a very strict/complicated copyright issue against Walt Disney and Square Enix. We know disney are very very tight on their own content, but this hasn't been an issue for any video game they've done in the past to my knowledge. Maybe because this is the biggest game franchise they profit from
It's been there for as long as I've had the game. I didn't get it on release, but not long after.
i watched a full lp of Yakuza 0
http://puu.sh/CDuBB/6d9f012149.jpg
wouldn't have bought it, or Yakuza Kiwami, if i hadn't. a game isn't a movie. you don't experience it solely by looking at it
Watching a playthrough definitely removes some incentive, like the narrative and learning process, like a spoiler in both story and gameplay, but it is by no means the entire experience.
No less, a lot of people watch for the streamer, an added entertainer and personality.
Additionally, albeit unrelated, Epic Game Store is relying on influencers to market, instead of a discovery system. So at least analytics have reasons to believe that watching leads to buying.
so you're saying you're never going to buy a game ever again because youtube exists and you can get the experience for free?
For real, some games are just too enjoyable to view, Yakuza 0 I got 180 hours in, and never beat it cause the game at its core is fun as shit. I stopped playing it cause it's DRM kept crashing my PC.
Because watching a game is not the same as playing it? I can't tell you how many times watching an lp of a game convinced me to go and buy it. Meaning they gained sales from the lp. And I know this doesn't only apply to me because I see the same thing happen from others in the same lper's community all the damned time. In fact, from what I've seen, you seem to be the exception and not the rule.
This sounds like something an out of touch parent would ask if they saw you on twitch one day and then on the game you were watching the next day...
Really though there's a difference between playing a game and watching it in most cases. Unless you're watching a walking simulator or you care only purely for the story, than you're always missing out on a core aspect of the experience by not playing the game yourself. especially in a game that has multiple paths/choices.
I've been watching Re2 streams because I'm too poor to afford buying a brand new game right now.
Chances are when I have the money I will but it anyway, because watching a game and playing it aren't the same thing.
I've done it a bunch of times, so I dunno, for fun? Fuck me, it's video games, come off it.
That is, quite clearly, a personal thing. As others have already said, just because you find the idea asinine doesn't mean others do. Most of the games on my Steam are only there because I watched streams of it and decided it was fun, ESPECIALLY if I had seen a majority of the game. By seeing a large chunk of a game, I'm reassured that the game in question is consistently good, rather than starting well before quickly falling down a cliff into realms of absolute dogshit.
That just means you never had the intent of buying it in the first place. It's the same reason why pirating software isn't lost sales.
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