Persona 5 is by almost all accounts a simply incredible game, but it was one that Atlus were practically adamant you had to experience for yourself. Streamers were threatened with content ID claims and strikes on their account if they streamed footage from after 7th July in game.
This was Atlus’ attempt to try and limit the number of spoilers online for those yet to play the game, but frankly barmy when you consider that the game had been out in Japan since last September. The spoilers are already out there, just perhaps not in video form. However, credit where it’s due, Atlus have listened to their fans and stepped back their restrictive approach to streaming. You can now stream up until 19th November, when the story gears up for the final act, which will still preserve much of their original intent.
They said:
We also want to apologize to those of you who saw the previous guidelines blog post as threatening. We want to be transparent about what we do, and the reason we released the guidelines was to give streamers the right information up front. It was never our intention to threaten people with copyright strikes, but we clearly chose the wrong tone for how to communicate this.
Lastly, we want to thank our fans around the world for supporting Persona 5 and ATLUS. The game is a global success because of your passion for the series, and we’re happy that so many of you are enjoying it.
Source: Atlus
Tony Cawley
Thing is, it’s not necessary at all, not one bit. Everyone knows if they’re going to watch a stream or video of a game then they’re likely to see spoilers. Why block it? It makes no sense at all to me.
Paulo Vinicius Radtke
About time they took action, specially after the Japanese release having footage all over streaming channels and YouTube since the release date. Was kind of silly having to use the cell phone to share screen shots. Even if text input was better this way :).
The Lone Steven
Yeah, this was kinda stupid. Atlus, let me give you some advice. *ahem*
People don’t care about spoilers being a risk on streams. They most likely are watching it for a reason. There are streamers(likely) who do just gameplay and ones who just play the game with their style. Spoilers will occur and saying “NO” to them comes off as idiotic. It’s like telling people to not read books if they don’t want spoilers. Ok, crap example but erm….. darn it, it really ruined my condensing comment.
Streaming tends to help games. Some obscure ones can gain a gathering. Some crappy ones can erm… actually, they are crap and are unlikely to be helped in terms of sales. People will buy what they like and streaming allows free constant marketing.
Or you could just go on about “Spoilers” on the internet. Unless the ELDERS OF THE INTERNET decree that no man or woman shallst share spoilers under the threat of Street Countdown.