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"Should streamers pay game developers and publishers a licensing fee to play their games? We discuss this controversial opinion."
I guess my reaction to this is most like Ian's "eat my asshole," but I have to say that my threshold for not giving a shit about this is way lower than theirs, mainly because the modern video game industry has already done so much other asinine dumbfuckery for the past few decades now that I just can't bring myself to care all that much about any new shit that moronic dingleberries in the game industry like that Alex Hutchinson guy feel the need to say, one way or the other.
But I will say this, there have absolutely been games that I have bought that I otherwise would not have bought if I hadn't watched even a partial stream of them beforehand. If anything, devs should be paying streamers marketing money for all the otherwise free marketing the devs are getting from the streamers (or, you know, consider whatever money that the streamer is already getting from doing the stream in the first place, and just call it even-steven, if they must be tightwads about it).
