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For those of you who are interested, you can see the RTX Retsupurae panel livestream here: http://rtxevent.com/rtxlive/ on Channel 3. It'll be starting in about 20 minutes from now
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Capt. J. Linebeck posted:For those of you who are interested, you can see the RTX Retsupurae panel livestream here: http://rtxevent.com/rtxlive/ on Channel 3. It'll be starting in about 20 minutes from now Doesn't seem like it's happening, as the stream has been offline for sometime now. Does anyone know why?
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Jul 5, 2014 18:14
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RefinedUndefined posted:Doesn't seem like it's happening, as the stream has been offline for sometime now. Does anyone know why? A lil' twitter research indicates they won't be streaming but might be recording.
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Jul 5, 2014 18:14
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Suspicious Dish posted:I lead a very busy life. With the constant rotation of work and school, I barely have any time left for me. I spend that little time on pretty much everything. Playing/watching sports, hanging out with friends, dating, gaming. The thing is, when I sit down to game, I wanna try out a variety of games. That makes it hard for me because if I'm not in the mood to play the game I'm lp'ing, I can't record. So I barely post videos which does not contribute to the growth of my audience. So tell me, how do you balance your real life stuff and youtube. I'd love to know. I've been getting more and more life-busy in the last few months for various reasons and have to schedule time to LP games now. I record up to four "episodes" in a sitting, edit the sound and video the same day and post them over the course of a week. I think my recording schedule and update schedule are a bit more aggressive than most other people I watch here, I'll find a thread a couple months after it was posted expecting it was nearly finished only to find it's four episodes in. I think a strict schedule like mine used to be sort of standard, otherwise I have no idea why I started doing it that way. I've noticed that as my schedule has constricted I have started LPing games I want to play anyways. I was already playing Battlefield 4 all the time at the start of that LP (and still am), and FEAR 2 is a game I wanted to replay for a long time. Same thing with the first two Red Faction games.
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fyi that was just an unsourced quote from /r/letsplay http://www.reddit.com/r/letsplay/comments/203yo8/how_do_balance_real_life_duties_and_lping/
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Jul 5, 2014 19:24
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kidcoelacanth posted:A lil' twitter research indicates they won't be streaming but might be recording. It was recorded. I am kinda beat for some reason. Talking to people in person is hard!
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Jul 5, 2014 19:58
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I hate to be the one to turn the discussion back to Darksydephil but well: loving SERIOUSLY?
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David D. Davidson posted:I hate to be the one to turn the discussion back to Darksydephil but well: What is special about this couch?
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Jul 10, 2014 04:36
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apparently after he did a tour of his new place he showed that he had his couch set up in kind of a weird way and people were commenting on it and that is how Phil chose to respond.
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Nihilarian posted:This is a thing? People are talking about DSP's couch? I keep reading "couch" as something else and it's terrible.
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Nihilarian posted:This is a thing? People are talking about DSP's couch? According to the comments, he set up his sectional couch in the middle of the room instead of along a wall so that it's in the way regardless of which direction he enters or what he wants to do.
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Jul 10, 2014 04:46
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David D. Davidson posted:apparently after he did a tour of his new place he showed that he had his couch set up in kind of a weird way and people were commenting on it and that is how Phil chose to respond. So Phil moved? I... I never even got to say goodbye... 
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Well viewing his content from such a close proximity made you sick. So now that he's gone i guess now you can get back to doing that "watch all his LP's" thing you were doing eh? 
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chitoryu12 posted:I keep reading "couch" as something else and it's terrible. There's a "Couch Street" in Portland, Oregon, and that's how you pronounce it. The way you keep thinking. Why? Who the gently caress can say. I'm FROM Portland and I don't even loving know, so...
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Dr. Buttass posted:There's a "Couch Street" in Portland, Oregon, and that's how you pronounce it. The way you keep thinking. It's named after a guy named Couch that pronounced it that way about a hundred and fifty years before "cooch" was a thing.
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Dr. Buttass posted:There's a "Couch Street" in Portland, Oregon, and that's how you pronounce it. The way you keep thinking. Actually if I skimmed past it I saw "crotch".
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So Awesome Incarnate, who was mentioned waaaay in the beginning of the thread, the dude who made a big deal of being the Having stumbled checked out some of his Final Fantasy X HD Remater videos I don't get his deal at all. He specifically states, his "playthroughs" are commentary-less, but he STILL puts in the facecam. In the wrong aspect ratio. And checking his past broadcasts, he usually seems to try and play through games in one sitting, if they're less than 24 hours to beat, apparently.  But yeah, it's probably the secret TwitchTube cabal who's keeping him down, not the hours and hours of unedited, no-commentary, scarecam "LPs" of JRPGs and daylong playthroughs of Deadpool and Watch Dogs... What still boggles my mind is how he managed to spend tens of thousands of dollars on doing this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABzXSClRtog Oh...
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quote:. And checking his past broadcasts, he usually seems to try and play through games in one sitting, if they're less than 24 hours to beat, apparently. Well, at least we know that he has nothing better to do with his time.
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Jul 11, 2014 11:53
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Holy poo poo this guy is a chode. "I didn't sell out. I got promoted so I make lots of money so gently caress it, gonna play video games and hang out with my girlfriend, now check out my sweet gaming pad at my parent's house (but I'm not lame I'm really pretty cool since I'm just helpin' my dads yo"
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Burton Vs. FEAR of not getting any views.
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Cr1tikal's videos are extremely hit or miss but I found that this one had some funny moments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoftImSXgmI
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watho posted:Cr1tikal's videos are extremely hit or miss but I found that this one had some funny moments. When Cr1tikal is "on", his videos are hilarious. I really enjoyed his Sumotori video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ag82wNXjYA
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watho posted:Cr1tikal's videos are extremely hit or miss but I found that this one had some funny moments. I want this game so bad.
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Blind Sally posted:When Cr1tikal is "on", his videos are hilarious. I really enjoyed his Sumotori video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ag82wNXjYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEqhzMVWYtk This is probably my favorite non-infomercial video of his.
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There's something about Cr1tikal's voice and delivery that I love. He's just one of those people I've never subscribed to, but check his channel every now and again for a good laugh. Some friends of mine from my church mentioned something about starting a Let's Play channel. I checked them out, and they're just typical YouTube faire. Seems like they just go for ~10 minute episodes, and generally just mess around. Their commentary isn't that great, and yeah, they're just starting up, but I don't really forsee them changing the formula up much. One thing that really bothers me, though, they have a little translucent bar on the side of all their videos that is more distracting than anything, where they link to what I guess are what they feel are the highlights of the video? Worse of all, the option for "hide video bar" seemingly does nothing. (if you care to see) I plan on giving them a few tips here and there, hopefully they'll consider a few things.
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Roar posted:"OH NO THE BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL HAS ENTERED THE FRAY" e: watho posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEqhzMVWYtk i am literally crying not even the generic loving meme "i'm crying" tumblr bullshit, literally tears this is the best video Roar fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Gamasutra has an article up about the ethics of paying YouTube LPers to play games (let me know if the link is broken, I can't get there on my work computer to check). The writer gathered comments from people with sizable followings and asked them to state whether it was OK for a game company to offer financial incentive to LP a game. The weird thing is that though it was far more likely for someone with over 5000 subscribers to be offered or have taken publisher money to make content about a game they were just as likely as people under 5000 subscribers (of whom only about 2% surveyed had taken any money from a game company), both groups split about 60-40 saying that people shouldn't take developer money. Of those who said that it was OK to take that money a common response seems to have been "only if it is disclosed that there was some form of payment." I don't really know what to think on this one. Many publishers have PR wings that push for YouTube coverage. EA stepped into it a couple times last year after a promotional campaign on Battlefield 4 leaked showing EA offered YouTubers extra cash for making videos showcasing Levolution in some of the multiplayer maps. I've never seen the general YouTube crowd as anything but mercenary; publishing videos hours after a game comes out, cross promoting themselves and begging for likes/subscribes to increase their rankings. Why is Publisher Money a bad thing to them?
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Lazyfire posted:I've never seen the general YouTube crowd That's because it doesn't exist. YouTube is a video hosting platform, not any one community. They aren't "generally mercenary", because there's no "general" about it. For someone with a well-paying job who does LPs on the side for fun, like me, taking publisher money is probably an annoying process of invoicing and contracts, I would be letting my viewers down, and I would feel pressured to restrain myself to not saying anything bad about the company who's paying me. A lot of hassle for selling out, with no real gain. I'd say that's a good portion of those people. Not to mention that if you're building an exciting game, like one of the recent popular Kickstarters (Heart Forth, Alicia, SUPERHOT, A Hat in Time), simply sending them a beta out of courtesy will suffice. No need for the paycheck.
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Lazyfire posted:Why is Publisher Money a bad thing to them? Two reasons; 1) Doing your own thing vs being told what to do. 2) Being viewed as a sellout and corporate shill.
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Link didn't open for me, but I feel big name LPers/Critics on YouTube dislike publisher money because it compromises their reputation, and makes them appear as a sell-out. This is especially true for critics. TotalBiscuit brought this up during the XB1M13 controversy, where Microsoft and Machinima were trying to offer pay incentives for not saying bad things about the XboxOne in this video, and I think he sums it up nicely: Disclosure is important. That's why so many blogged about XB1M13, because it specifically prevented that. If you ARE being paid by a publisher to cover a game, you wanna let your viewers know. Not many like people being dishonest to them, and it's potentially a great way to lose a lot of viewers and support. A publisher boost will help in the short run, but viewers and ad revenue (and perhaps merchandise) is more long term. That said, I feel most LPers/critics will only cover games they're interested in, or fits the 'gimmick' of their channel.
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The internet just hates promotion. A lot. I've read a couple stories about game developers getting turned on by Reddit and such in the blink of an eye just because they had the gall to announce that their product was for pay rather than free. I definitely think disclosure is important, though this is more true of reviewers like TB than it is of LPers. But I think a lot of it is that they simply realize the reality of the situation that the internet will mulch you if you dare to participate in promoting a business or product.
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I think a lot of the promotion of games is pretty subtle on YouTube. Things like EA's promotion campaigns were generally not well known for some time, but in recent months EA has required people disclose that the videos eligible for money from them are being put on YouTube as part of that program, most noticeably with videos of Battlefield: Hardline's beta. There's a really good chance that there are a ton of people getting copies of games or getting offered money to do some videos for games. It seems like the kind of thing that large publishers would do instead of startups or smaller houses. I could see 2K paying people to do Borderlands videos, but I don't see anyone paying for PAYDAY 2 videos in the same vein.
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Suspicious Dish posted:That's because it doesn't exist. YouTube is a video hosting platform, not any one community. They aren't "generally mercenary", because there's no "general" about it. I think I agree... I'd just add one sort of caveat is that there is a notion of a "general" YouTube LP audience and content provider. People like TBFP, Game Grumps, Northernlion, etc. have a sort of established "these are what my videos are, this is what you can expect from this channel." But there's also a large group of people just out in the ether who have a somewhat generalized notion of what LP is (something like "you just play games and talk over them, right?") and calling that "general" or "default" is useful in describing that large group? Maybe? I don't know. I have these pie charts...
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I personally think that people get pissed when they find out an LP:er is sponsored because they feel used; used by the LP:er to make money from a developer just so they can sell their video games
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Actually, do people consider giving a free game to LPers to be "promotion", even if it's no strings attached? It is called a "promotional copy" after all.
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Suspicious Dish posted:Actually, do people consider giving a free game to LPers to be "promotion", even if it's no strings attached? It is called a "promotional copy" after all. I think people are angry at LP:ers getting free games just to get them to promote it extra hard and not mention anything bad about it; which I can agree is incredibly poo poo but it's practically just like watching an infomercial on TV
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Depends on the person probably. There are some people that will probably whore out an opinion for cash. There are others that would probably still say what they want even if they are doing a paid promotion. Trust is pretty fragile in the internet. Rent it out for a few bucks and might lose it completely.
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