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• Nintendo now claiming ad revenue for YouTube Let's Play videos

• Ironic_War_Criminal 16/05/2013

  Actually, since EG are probably too cheap to have a SA account, here's a counter quote from Ry Soderberg, the creator of Elevator: Source who posted it on Something Awful's LP forum
  

  It kind of bothers me that people are justifying doing a let's play as strictly a way to get money. That's kind of the natural progression of something once it gets popular enough but it's still disturbing all the same.
  
  I am, as a game developer, kind of pissed off that someone out there can make more money by recording themselves playing my game than I actually get from making it in the first place. I know some popular youtube channel did a playthrough of Elevator: Source and generated roughly $500 in revenue from their video. I have gotten $0 from making the game. I don't care how much time, care, or effort you put into your videos, devs put in exponentially more generating it. I can count the number of years i've shortened my life doing inhumane shit to myself just so I can create some dumb little game and share it with everyone I know, and yet someone out there sees it as a means to get his bills paid because lp is a way to make a living now apparently.
  
  I feel like doing a let's play is better served as a hobby that can sometimes lead to an unexpected amount of money. It should not be a way to make money.

  Idiots yelling rape jokes on youtube should not be paid more than developers, anyway. Reply +9

• Ironic_War_Criminal 16/05/2013

  It's somewhat hilarious how people are painting Nintendo to be a huge bad guy.
  
  The problem with the Lets Play concept is that it's a derivative work of a copyrighted product. Technically, you should be getting permission for these things if you want to make money off them. And people are getting annoyed that Nintendo are stepping in and saying "Hey, those copyrights are ours but we're going to be nice and just take the advertisement money. You can just do this as a hobby if you like". And people are getting mad because "HOW DARE THEY TAKE AWAY THE RIGHT FOR US TO MAKE MONEY OFF THEIR COPYRIGHTS!". Uh, you were in the wrong here. The fighting game community have to get licences off publishers for tournaments for broadcast rights. Hewlett International had to secure broadcast rights for anything featured on Gamesmaster or GamesWorld (All of them gave it for free since it was publicity, but legalities always abound. And dealing with the Stamper Bros being annoyed because Dominik Diamond made a crack about their mugs one time) The BBC has an agreement with the industry regarding showing things for criticism and had a licence agreement with Sega and creative assembly when they used Total War as part of a history based gameshow.
  
  Nintendo's just stepping in with the professional response to a subculture starting to make money off its product. If you want to make money, respect the legalities of it. You can't just use a song you don't own to make your own videos and profit off them and this is the videogame industry catching up to a subculture they missed the last few years.
  
  But then as the originators of Let's Play said themselves.
  

  DO NOT TAKE LET'S PLAY VERY SERIOUSLY.
  
  It won't make you rich or famous or popular to members of your preferred sexual orientation or gender. Your reputation here, good or bad, does not translate to the real world. You should be here because you have a funny, silly, or just plain good idea you want to try out or even just because you want to show people a cool game they missed.

  So stop taking it seriously dunderheads.
  
  And the retsuprae videos of the reactions will inevitably be hilarious
  
  PS. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2634792 for hilarity. Reply +8

• Capcom expects Lost Planet 3 and Resi Revelations to sell 1.2 million

• Ironic_War_Criminal 09/05/2013

  @Caimbeul
  
  Capcom seems to have learned quicker than everyone else about the decline in software sales during the switchover to a new generation and to forecast more achiveable numbers rather than the obscene numbers they were coming up with last year. When even COD and FIFA were down this year. You start bringing down your numbers sharpish or else you are setting yourself up for squeaky bum time next FY statement.
  
  Mind you, the nerd brigade going ballistic over them posting that DmC had "solid" sales on consoles was hilarious to see everyone try play Michael Pachter worse than Michael Pachter and claim its a loss. Capcom saw the writing on everyone's wall and brought down the forecast each time when they saw sales declining (And likely fired the idiot who forecast 5 million). Posted a reasonable number eventually after reading the market and hit the target. And there's no mention of a loss either. It's a fiesta for hilarious comment sections fill with mad nerds. Reply -4

• EA acquires Star Wars video game license

• Ironic_War_Criminal 06/05/2013

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• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon review

• Ironic_War_Criminal 30/04/2013

  We need more guilty pleasure games that are endlessly earnest in their stupidity like this and 50 Cent: Blood In The Sand. Reply +2

• Extensive Skullgirls patch finally coming to XBLA

• Ironic_War_Criminal 24/04/2013

  Actually EG. It's two characters being decided by backer votes as they made that stretch goal. Reply 0

• SNES classic Earthbound headed to Wii U VC, system update due next week

• Ironic_War_Criminal 17/04/2013

  @X3Entente
  
  Earthbound roms are sketchy due to the piracy protection on it and many people have played through it with anti-piracy measures on, which meant harder enemies, less HP and the game hardlocking and deleting save games before the final battle. It wasn't fixed in Roms till 2005 or so and many sites don't distribute the fixed version (Some even distribute a trained version with cheats to counter the anti-piracy measure). And even patched versions can go haywire on you depending on your emulator config.
  
  So it's a crapshoot on if you are getting a broken shithouse or one of the best SNES games emulated that you won't figure till the end of the game. It's not a game that you can easily emulate and one reason why emulation isn't perfect. Reply +1

• Injustice: Gods Among Us Wii U delayed a week in the UK

• Ironic_War_Criminal 15/04/2013

  Now watch Captain America punch a shark in the Injustice launch trailer below.
  
  Don't cross the streams, Jeffery. Reply +16

• Castle of Illusion remake unveiled for PSN, XBLA and PC

• Ironic_War_Criminal 15/04/2013

  Ex-Rare composer Grant Kirkhope is doing the soundtrack for this game as well.
  
  https://twitter.com/grantkirkhope/status/323861486038577152 Reply +1

• The next Xbox will be fully integrated into your TV via a cable box connection - report

• Ironic_War_Criminal 11/04/2013

  @The-Jack-Burton
  
  You're posting on a videogame site. You are already a mindless bleating sheep. Reply -8

• Ironic_War_Criminal 11/04/2013

  @The-Jack-Burton
  
  Been doing Eurogamers job better than Eurogamer, anyway. Reply -10

• Ironic_War_Criminal 10/04/2013

  @Baihu1983
  
  Because the gaming community is full of morons who will take the insipid ramblings of an idiot on twitter as the complete gospel truth about a next generation console while a leak which while clearly aimed as damage control, is very still very plausible that it is real information due to Microsoft's history of using selective leaks to reputable sites as damage control, is posted by a very reputable site for leaks gets ignored because it breaks the clickbait narrative of websites.
  
  And the community ignores it because it completely shatters their narrative on the console and they can't face it. As you can see with the amount of posts ignoring the leak here because you are going to get negged to death for ignoring the narrative that the console is the "always online kinect box abloo bloo".
  
  http://www.vgleaks.com/microsoft-xbox-roadmap-2013/ Reply +3

• Microsoft creative director dismisses "drama" around always-online consoles

• Ironic_War_Criminal 05/04/2013

  While they neither seem to confirm or deny what the world's greatest Creative Director said this morning, the fact they haven't just flatly denied it is a worrying sign.
  
  Yes. We should totally expect that a company will completely reveal plans before a product launch quietly to keep a few nerds quiet before the big glitzy product launch.
  
  Put the tinfoil away, son. Reply -9

• Ironic_War_Criminal 05/04/2013

  Is the comments section still broken and people in it still morons?
  
  Yes? OK, Carry on then. Reply -13

• Ironic_War_Criminal 05/04/2013

  Whiny Dev on Twitter + Shitty journalism + Easily duped nerds who jump to conclusions = Broken Comments Section
  
  Or the website intentionally crapped itself because it saw what the Wage Gap article comments section became yesterday and committed suicide before it saw more awful posts. Reply -8

• Ironic_War_Criminal 05/04/2013

  @darkmorgado
  
  Uppity nerds taking everything you say as 100% conformation and looking for a flame war and websites looking for clickbait will somewhat do it to you.
  
  We should rename Games Journalism to "Games We believe fucking anything that some designer posts on twitter and a bunch of nerds will eat it up like dogs eating their own shit" Reply -12

• Ironic_War_Criminal 05/04/2013

  I'm not sure whats more pathetic. That EG reported this or thousands of people online are taking a twitter meltdown as a 100% conformation.
  
  No wait, the wider community is just being shit again. Reply -19

• Peter Moore weighs in on EA being voted the 'worst company in America" for the second year in a row

• Ironic_War_Criminal 05/04/2013

  EA tries to hide behind bandwagon of LGBT gamers
  
  Moronic retards of 4chan, Reddit and Eurogamer attack LGBT gamers even though they don't want to be associated with EA.
  
  Congratulations videogames! You undoubtedly have the shittiest businesses and communities of all media! Reply -12

• The video game industry's gender wage gap is worse than you think

• Ironic_War_Criminal 04/04/2013

  @Ansob.
  
  If there's one thing the MRA's hate more than fedora shaming, it's dem womens DARING to go near their precious videogames and by god they will shitpost on every website till the "Feminazi's" go away and cry constantly because of their "Freedom of speech" is in peril when that freedom of speech is creeping over underage girls in MMO's not wearing much. Reply -2

• Ironic_War_Criminal 04/04/2013

  @MegaPigeon
  
  unlike literature or film, there's not any kind of significant academic presence that could tear their arguments limb from limb, so they pretty much get to say whatever baseless crap they like
  
  Because the sort of people who would love to do that sort of analysis also get attacked by the same Reddit/4chan morons who hate feminism so much they have to angrily post in comments section about the "Feminazis" for daring to analyse videogames deeper and not coming to the conclusions they want to hear.
  
  All you are crying for is the echochamber you want and not someone elses. Reply -3

• Telltale nearly scrapped The Walking Dead's Clementine a week before recording

• Ironic_War_Criminal 02/04/2013

  Doug was my brosef for life and could fix things and teach Clem cool things while Carley couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. I stand by my choice. Reply +8

• Telltale Games details new series The Wolf Among Us

• Ironic_War_Criminal 28/03/2013

  @lukejones
  
  It's the point of TWD, dingus. The destination is the same but everyone has a different journey through it, so you can compare and contrast with your friends how you approached different parts of an episode than they did while also reaching the same goals. They never said there was going to be completely open ended gameplay with vastly different outcomes. Just that your choices will have some effects on the story. Reply +2

• Ironic_War_Criminal 28/03/2013

  Fables up to issue 50 was great, then it went into rapid decline and then Bill Willingham started to have a meltdown because things were more popular than his comic and started being an egotistical shit (Including a famous meltdown at Venture Bros. fans because they showed up for a panel after his and instead of selling the comic to them, he went on a massive rant about how he was being disrespected as a creator).
  
  And the Jack Of Fables spin off is skin crawlingly awful on top of that.
  
  I'm hoping Telltale work their magic on this and Willingham's contribution is simply to sign off on it. Otherwise I would be very, very worried. Reply +1

• Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel review

• Ironic_War_Criminal 28/03/2013

  At least the first one was hilarious and had a "No single fucks given" mentality to the proceedings like having a conversation about who the best Wu-Tang Member is in battle and distracting enemies when flanking by Salem yelling "LADIES, LIFT YA SHIRTS!"
  
  And fist bumping. Lots of fist bumping.
  
  Man, the original Army Of Two had no right to be as entertaining as it was. Up there with 50 Cent: Blood In The Sand for sheer guilty pleasure. Reply +6

• Hideo Kojima announces Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

• Ironic_War_Criminal 27/03/2013

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