"Making Videos of Games is Piracy."

DTryPleX · **"Making Videos of Games is Piracy." -** 07-02-2010, 09:18 AM

I lolled so hard at this: http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/0...mes-is-piracy/

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Makers Visual Arts (having just released popular lolicon title Kudo Wafter) and Aquaplus (White Album) are warning players that uploading videos of their games to sites like NicoNico Douga constitutes copyright infringement and that they face years in jail and huge fines for unauthorised distribution if they disobey company demands that they cease uploading.

So what do you think, pro or...FAIL?

07-02-2010, 11:07 AM

I'm so glad my country isn't butthurt over piracy.
Probably because my country never produces any =|

jimmydorry · 07-02-2010, 02:44 PM

Fail. Games tend to propogate/get sold, when people know of them. Stopping that has the direct knock-on effect of reducing game sales.

Darkchao45 · 07-02-2010, 07:54 PM

/facepalm

So no more youtube walkthroughs huh?

gamerman191 · 07-02-2010, 07:57 PM

Well people will do it any way so nah

UnknownFact2 · 07-02-2010, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by jimmydorry

Fail. Games tend to propogate/get sold, when people know of them. Stopping that has the direct knock-on effect of reducing game sales.

this. they are dumb.

Rokunaya · 07-02-2010, 11:38 PM

In a visual novel, it doesn't really matter if you're the one clicking, as there's no real gameplay. In Japan, it's pretty notorious that some people just watch the game off sites instead of buying it, thus saving money. This is not going to hurt their sales at all.

DTryPleX · 07-02-2010, 11:40 PM

I don't see the fun in not being able to make any choices. Although if there's no choices I usually don't find them as interesting so I wouldn't buy them to begin with. But it's like watching the outcome of a video game like (let's say Mass-Effect) over the internet, just look at all possible outcomes and sorts of gameplay so you don't have to buy the game?
Then where's the fun in shooting and talking to characters in game to find out stuff that you would've never thought possible?

Of course there's not that much actions in visual novels but for me, it's the same thing.

Rokunaya · 07-02-2010, 11:56 PM

Well, some people are poorer and don't care enough; and with the visual novel scene being a huge piracy fest in the first place, whiners by people who don't even buy their games are not going to get through to makers at all, for damn good reasons.

DTryPleX · 07-02-2010, 11:58 PM

Nothing gets through in the first place, "Pirates" or not. The industry is generally just blind and deaf to the costumer if you ask me...

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Emashu10 Guest	07-02-2010, 11:07 AM I'm so glad my country isn't butthurt over piracy. Probably because my country never produces any =\|

jimmydorry ლ(º_ºლ) Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Stalker?	07-02-2010, 02:44 PM Fail. Games tend to propogate/get sold, when people know of them. Stopping that has the direct knock-on effect of reducing game sales. [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] ( Click to show/hide ) [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

gamerman191 Narutard Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Wherever I am	07-02-2010, 07:57 PM Well people will do it any way so nah "He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious." -Sun Tzu "There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." -Niccolo Machiavelli

Rokunaya Otaku Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: I DON'T CARE	07-02-2010, 11:38 PM In a visual novel, it doesn't really matter if you're the one clicking, as there's no real gameplay. In Japan, it's pretty notorious that some people just watch the game off sites instead of buying it, thus saving money. This is not going to hurt their sales at all.

Rokunaya Otaku Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: I DON'T CARE	07-02-2010, 11:56 PM Well, some people are poorer and don't care enough; and with the visual novel scene being a huge piracy fest in the first place, whiners by people who don't even buy their games are not going to get through to makers at all, for damn good reasons.

DTryPleX I'm Blue, you mad? Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Lolicon Land	07-02-2010, 11:58 PM Nothing gets through in the first place, "Pirates" or not. The industry is generally just blind and deaf to the costumer if you ask me...