Posted by alexandra_k on November 5, 2018, at 22:45:43
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM » alexandra_k, posted by beckett2 on November 5, 2018, at 21:19:59
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> > > I'm not saying this is a great skit, and it plays to US audiences, but fwiw: https://youtu.be/kG7szS15O8Q
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> > Aw, my country is not allowed to watch Saturday Night Live.
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> Must be copyrights?'the uploader has not made the video available in your country'
I don't know if that is copyrights, or quite what that is.
I have been thinking about computer games, recently. About how people play computer games and upload videos of themselves playing computer games on Youtube. It seemed that for a while, there, some computer game companies really did not like that, at all. Then.. Started to come around to the idea... Would send copies of their game (pre-release) to certain people precisely so they could stream 'let's plays' for Youtube for the publicity.
Now there is this thing 'Twitch TV'. It seems that it's a live thing. There is a live chatstream so subscribers can help out the player so everyone doesn't need to watch them get stuck / miss things that are obvious to everyone else.
Presently, people stream live on twitch and then upload to youtube later... But I imagine the time will come when the Youtube let's play (the persistent video) will go away / not be put up at all, but instead you will have 749 (or however many people) live playing the game.
That way... You can see enough of the game to decide whether or not you want to purchase it... But not so much of the game that your hankering to play it goes away. Particularly when games don't actually alter much on the basis of player decisions / choices and / or when you find a player whose inclination is to do pretty much what you would do were you playing the game then watching them play... Kind of removed the urge to play games.
I'm actually lazy these days... I prefer watching other people play games rather than playing them myself. But this is only becuase of persistent stream youtube. I can watch them when I want at the place where I want. If there was only live feed on Twitch... That doesn't do it for me, at all...
Only the odd thing like Rimworld where everyone wants to play their own game. Because choices really matter... And there's so many different ways to play...
Anyway... That was a thought on copyright.
I guess it means... I'm surprised that game companies (most of them) allowed such extensive streaming of their game. Maybe it really genuinely did not negatively affect sales. I suspect that is right, actually, and I'm not the average game player, at all...
Pretty freaky how Fallout whatever it's called automatically turned everyones microphone on in game without permissions...
I'd be most worried about that precedent.
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