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Creator blames Let's Play videos for poor sales by skip 03/29/2016, 11:52pm PDT
http://www.thatdragoncancer.com/thatdragoncancer/2016/3/24/on-lets-plays

However, for a short, relatively linear experience like ours, for millions of viewers, Let’s Play recordings of our content satisfy their interest and they never go on to interact with the game in the personal way that we intended for it to be experienced. If you compare the millions of views of the entirety of our game on YouTube to our sales as estimated on SteamSpy, you can hopefully see the disparity. We have seen many people post our entire game on YouTube with little to no commentary.


He's careful to be gracious but really? He can't think of any other reason that gamers might not be interested in playing a game about a child dying of cancer? LucasArts games are still bought and you can watch Grim Fandango on YouTube played with some nasal jackass making boner jokes. Basically, if your first thought on hearing a game is "enh, I'll just watch the LP" you were never going to buy the game. If so much of the experience of your game can be replicated by LP videos, you might want to rethink your gameplay. At least adventure games have the promise of a good plot (sometimes). There's no spoilers for what happened to your kid.
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Indie art games have hit Poe's Law critical mass by fabio 01/12/2016, 10:13am PST NEW
    Fabio has hit whiny crybaby in a diaper critical mass by gruman 01/12/2016, 2:13pm PST NEW
        Ators work better if you wait more than 2 minutes between shitting yourself, pin NT by back 01/12/2016, 3:19pm PST NEW
            Wasn't me, good sir. NT by pinback 01/12/2016, 4:39pm PST NEW
        I think for 14.99 I've got to see some actual defense of the game. by Worm 01/12/2016, 7:24pm PST NEW
            It's like Dustforce, except with cancer by Entropy Stew 01/13/2016, 9:31am PST NEW
    Do you listen to Reply All also NT by Vested Id 01/12/2016, 7:36pm PST NEW
    I bet it is not as good as : by Oom Shnibble 01/12/2016, 9:43pm PST NEW
        Re: I bet it is not as good as : by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/12/2016, 10:30pm PST NEW
            This was in the 1980's. NT by Oom Shnibble 01/13/2016, 5:29am PST NEW
    Creator blames Let's Play videos for poor sales by skip 03/29/2016, 11:52pm PDT NEW
        Bean counters consider everything as a lost sale by Taping kills music industry 03/31/2016, 12:22am PDT NEW
        If your game loses sales from youtube views it must suck. by Worm 03/31/2016, 6:21am PDT NEW
        I guess he thinks LPs are the cancer of youtube. Heh NT by Eurotrash 03/31/2016, 2:06pm PDT NEW
 
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