Major Changes In Youtube Involving Let's Players

[Arkhangelsk]

For as many people calling the companies greedy, aren't the LPers just as greedy?

I never watched any channels or follow anyone, and most of the ones I do watch are by people who only did a game or one series. I really don't see this affecting anyone who does it to show off a game they love.

Except the LPers often put in a ton of work making videos and they usually don't make much money to offset the costs.That's why most have other jobs to help them make money.

Do you need someone to pay you to do hobbies?

No,but making LP vids is hard work with little to no payoff.That's why I think anyone who tries to use copy claims to muscle in on Let's Players aren't going to get much money in the end.

Work and making YouTube videos of any sort are two different thinks no matter the time put into them because when it comes to let's plays it's still playing a game, not working. Get a real job and then go back to making the videos and see which is work. I spent hours making videos for fun and no money and lived it and my only regret is deleting my channel. Not once was it work no matter what I did.

I personally enjoy the fact people make money off of others watching them play video games while others been working 80 hour weeks and getting one quarter of what the top Lets plays get if even that. It's truly the biggest joke in today's media age in my opinion. For every one or two good videos, there is 100 miles of crap, and it ruined what was once and enjoyable leisure time activity to me.

You do realize that they don't just play the games and then smack it onto Youtube? Most of the hours of LP's aren't playing, it's video editing, at least for those not uploading complete sessions up directly. But looking away from that, a job is not defined by how fun or hard it is. A job is defined by providing a product or service that returns a profit for you. If you can do that with something, then it's a job. And ad revenue is a huge way of doing so.

Yes, it's maybe unfair in a economic hierarchy way that some slave away at their jobs and get paid next to nothing, while other's just ride the waves and get paid millions. But that is capitalism for you. And I'm sorry to say it, but life is unfair. It's sad that the equation of labor isn't dependent on how hard the work is. But don't come here and say that you would say no to an easy and rewarding job that would make you economically safe for years to come.

Also, if any of the big LP's got "proper" jobs, they wouldn't be able to put out the content. Either the quantity or the quality would suffer, because they wouldn't be able to put in the hours for it to be top notch every upload day.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

If your making a review, fine thats great. But should you get paid for just recording yourself playing a game? What if i made a video of myself watching a movie...would that be ok? Should i be paid just because i read a book over youtube? So yeah, i dont care about lets play videos.

But the whole youtube issue now isnt to do with publishers, its youtube that has banned everything and its up to the specific companies to decide whether to allow certain youtubers to allow to use their stuff.