Atlus is disallowing Persona 5 Let's Plays.

[kane_magus]

Fans who don't want Persona 5 spoilers (like me) aren't fucking going to be watching LPs on Youtube to start with. https://t.co/9uLyY7rVrD

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 6, 2017

For example, I watch pretty much everything @2BFOfficial puts out... but I wasn't going to watch their P5 LP, because duh, spoilers.

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 6, 2017

But to say that they or anyone else aren't allowed to LP the game at all beyond a certain point is just asinine.

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 6, 2017

It's not like people are holding guns to everyone's heads, forcing them to watch Persona 5 LPs against their will.

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 6, 2017

Of course, I think the "don't want people to be spoiled" excuse for Atlus claiming LP videos is disingenuous, at best.

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 6, 2017

TL;DR version: Atlus is threatening to file content claims on anyone who LPs Persona 5 beyond a certain point, ostensibly because they don't want the game to be spoiled, and I think that's bullshit for a multitude of reasons, even if I had zero interest in watching any such LPs myself.

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Well, that makes it easy enough for me to save 80+ bucks. A shame for Atlus I guess, as I was mulling over picking it up. Perhaps I'll go drop the money on Yakuza Zero or something instead. Although I still have Nier: Automata to play through first.

I often find companies that try to hide their game from fans via legal means are often doing so because they know they have a rotten egg of a product. (Lots of examples of that - like Ubisoft trying to NDA launch day reviews until after the majority had bought the game on launch day. Too late to avoid the game breaking bugs that wrecked the game to pieces.)

So... let them protect their product. I'll protect my cash in response. I can't help but suspect there's a problem with the game later in the game, all thanks to them protecting people from something they don't need protection from. As you said, people that don't WANT spoilers will avoid them perfectly fine on their own.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I'd say that this is probably more of a Nintendo (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/747272.html)-style (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/764432.html) "we just want the revenue from videos of our game, so we're going to content-claim videos of it, even though we shouldn't be entitled to that at all" sort of thing, because they know the game is (or, at least, would have been) a super popular choice for being LP'd, rather than anything about the game being secretly terrible or something. The "don't want people to be spoiled" thing is just their bullshit rationalization for it (which is admittedly more than Nintendo's "because fuck you, that's why" reasons for doing it, but it's still bullshit any way you look at it). And that's actually even worse, in my eyes. Greedy for the sake of being greedy, rather than trying to protect the game, because if there was something wrong with the game, news of that would have already long since come out via the Japanese release last year. (Unless they fucked something up horrendously during the translation process or something, which I suppose is possible, but still, news would come out about that soon enough if true, regardless of whether the game was being LP'd or not, and they'd still eat major shit over it, no matter how much they tried to "protect" the game by disallowing LPs of it.)

Well, as for me, I no longer have a PS3 and still don't and won't have a PS4 for the foreseeable future, so if/when I ever do have one of those again, I'll probably still get the game at some point, but it will only be if I see it at a severe discount somewhere. (Of course, that would have been the case (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/597285.html) anyway, but now I have another reason for doing so.)