homurat replied to your post “Like, beating a dead horse here, the fact that some devs think let’s...”
lol alot of capitalist business owners hate the idea of not having complete control over game advertisement. theyre afraid lets players might say something bad about their game (which wouldnt be an issue if they were proud of their games lol)
The issue is presented like that a lot, but silencing critique isn’t exactly something they have authority over and isn’t the sole reason so many of them crack down on LPs and the like.
I’d argue like 60% of it is them being assholes trying to silence critique by crying wolf about copyright, which is unjust and an abuse of copyright meaning it’s something they outright CAN’T admit or else THEY would get in trouble.
The other 40% is more in line with how companies like Nintendo seem to be doing things (still stupid, dumb, bad, and backwards) and that would be the company fearing opinions/bad words/talking points etc that aren’t in line with their image might become associated with their product, which is just fucking stupid.
It’s like saying someone can’t hold a dvd while holding a coke branded product because the movie featured pepsi- that’s not in your control, that shouldn’t be in your control, and no one in their right mind would ever think the person is someone speaking for the movie.
And I’d be the first to admit that the free advertisement argument isn’t 100% accurate strictly because advertisements today are inaccurate lies blatantly false advertising games because it’s 2018 and no one cracks down or enforces those laws anymore APPARENTLY (okay maybe that bits irrelevant and I just wanted to say things) and because advertisements are by nature controlled by the company who owns the product (that bit is more related to the topic at hand)- but the concept of free advertising isn’t game exclusive and has existed for fuckin’ ages.
MERCH is free advertising- hell it’s PAID advertising where a fan buys your stuff and then walks around wearing and showing off your stuff.
Huh, why’s that sound familiar?
A fan... buying your game.... and showing off your game..... hmmm.....
Now of course that’s just the positive stuff, the neutral and negative stuff is critique (something they legally can’t censor but hey legally positive is critique as well so huh whatdya know) but whatever.
It’s more blurry than I put it. Obviously what constitutes critique and what constitutes, well, not critique is blurry in today’s age- for instance most LPs wouldn’t ever call their work critique they would call it transformative which is FUCKING IS WHICH ALSO MAKES IT UNTOUCHABLE EAT A FART COMPANIES.
Bleh, it’s a topic talked to death and I haven’t added a thing to the conversation beyond expressing my unending annoyance and occasional rage at the end of game publishers thinking someone sharing their experience with a product (such as an LP or review or clip or screenshot) is worth dedicating tons of man hours and money towards stomping out and preventing, the asshats. Literally any sale prevented by these videos was a sale you weren’t going to get in the first place because
A: The person was never planning on getting the game and was just wanting to SEE the game.
B: The person is savvy enough to seek out information before a purchase so if this video didn’t exist they still wouldn’t purchase until a source of trustworthy information arose which in itself would have convinced them to not buy.
lol. Every other instance was someone enjoying the product in their own way so just fuck off. (directed to the metaphorical publisher/dev not you, none of this was negative to you, I’m borderline asleep as I type this so I really hope I didn’t stumble and start making the tone messy towards you fuck no that ain’t the goal here lol)