Streamed one hour of footage and was hit by a three-month ban. Also got his Super Mario Odyssey videos taken down.
https://twitter.com/chinesenintendo/status/922649088822087680
https://twitter.com/chinesenintendo/status/922649088822087680
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Hong Kong-based YouTuber who streamed Super Mario Odyssey early banned for 3 months
- Thread starter Sylverstone
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Apparently YouTube. I don't think the NCP is available in Hong Kong.
Expected. Nintendo loves to whack people with their ban hammer. Honestly, good for them. It sets a good precedent.
Wow, I stream using Restream to a bunch of services, low key as I have barely any followers. I've had Mario today and been ploughing through it for about 7 hours and I was thinking about streaming it, but decided against it as I just wanted to settle in and enjoy it.
... How glad am I that I did now?
... How glad am I that I did now?
This is expected to be honest. You're taking a risk when you stream unreleased games like that. Use a burner account.
I find disciplinary behavior to game leaks to be perfectly fine. Imagine you work really hard and pour your time and effort into a game you really want to surprise people with and then someone goes and posts videos of all the secrets you have kept hidden on purpose.
It's not okay to leak, but I guess we all know once games are out there in the wild the leaks will be inevitable anyway.
Oh no doubt. The streamer probably should have waited for the official release.
I agree that snapping down on streaming is pretty reasonable. You are definitely benefitting from it directly. However, I am the opposite for announcement leakers and early copy impressions.
Nintendo is probably in the right to ban early streamers and announcement leakers though. It is their product after all.
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I understand taking the video down, but outright banning seems a bit much. What if YouTube was his only source of income?
Early copy impressions are perfectly fine. It's just that posting otherwise embargoed spoilers all over YouTube not.
Oh yeah those. Totally agree. The early streamers/walkthrough people who just run through the game as fast as possible to upload. Leaves a bitter taste honestly.
Also, don't you just hate it when YouTubers just blatently spoil stuff in the video thumbnail? Honestly the worst part of surfing YT in the days after a launch. I was somewhat spoiled on Persona 5. Hopefully won't happen for SMO
It has already happened to Odyssey. I had a part of the game spoiled due to thumbnails.
That sucks. If you don't me asking, vaguely, what part was spoiled?
Also how do we use tags on mobile?
Edit: Edit functions work great though so there's that.
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Test, I do not enjoy Pineapple pizza
[SPO-ILERS] is the tag you need to use. Wrap it around the text you want to be not spoiled.
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If it was his job, he should have been more responsible. Nintendo clearly stated there was an embargo, and he broke that. If he was employed at a game store, he probably would have gotten fired. A three month ban is lenient in comparison.
he should have been more careful regardless making Nintendo games before and after release is essentially suicide if you want to make it a living. Also the embargo doesn't hold people who didn't sign it accountable does it not? as long as he didn't get it early personally and instead got it from a local store. i know of a couple people who got AC,Wolf and Mario early because it was in stores. If that's the case which is almost impossible to determine unless he or Nintendo say that he received it early. Still think its dumb af that Nintendo can control who gets banned and who doesn't on a platform that they don't even own.
