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Devolver Digital: YouTube told us we can't advertise the Shadow Warrior 2 trailer....
- Thread starter John Bender
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Corpsepyre
Banned
What? When did this start happening?
Brian_FETO
Banned
Youtube = demon's rights activists
YianGaruga
Banned
..so now we're posting this so that the internet does the advertising for us!
I think they mean "monetize" when they say advertise
I think they mean "monetize" when they say advertise
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
That doesn't make sense. It has to be a mistake or misunderstanding. There's some incredibly graphic content on Youtube.
Yeah some people don't seem to get this. Advertising does not equal uploading.
They mean Youtube won't give them banner ads, show it before other videos, etc.
But it isn't?
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
I'm Google certified in Google Adwords and while I'm not 100% up-to-date and have never done any campaign for a video game, you can set your advertisements to only only show to users who are over a certain age (and tons and tons and tons of other specifications in demographics). I don't know the specifics of the campaign that these developers set up so maybe they made a mistake, or maybe indeed it's not possible even if you set the demographics right, there may be tight rules against graphic content.
OminoMichelin
Member
Kung fury's cop-cut-in-half scene didn't stem any controversy as well, right?
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
It wasn't real YouTube, why do you care?
This. Come on guys, use your brains.
I'm not saying their reasons make a lot of sense.
Just it seems like a lot of people seem to be taking the tweet to mean "Youtube told us not to upload this trailer" which is clearly not what they meant.
TheOohChild
Member
...ok? Youtube has the right to choose who can advertise on their site.
sensui-tomo
Member
They can't use the footage as a comercial/advertisement because it has gore and its for all access (not redbanded aka age gated), it'd be like showing it on tv, They're not saying they cant upload it, but they cant have red banded trailers/comercials because.... well duh, or else i want my condom commercials to have sex featured (and dont bring up sex vs violence... thats not the debate)
This
sensui-tomo
Member
Ditto, I remember the kung lao fatality always being shown in a comercial, but it breaks away before we actually see anything.
Exactly. If they applied for a "general gaming" pre-roll, then you'll have this violent trailer play in front of a family-friendly 3DS title.
You can obviously upload violent content on Youtube; you just have to mark it as such. This just seems like they missed a checkbox by accident.
There's also likely ESRB regulations, not that they matter if they don't have it submitted for whatever reason, IE console versions coming later.
And yeah, IF games like MKX were showing ads with ripping organs out through mouths or wherever then I'd call shinanigans, but if the ads were (relatively) clean then it really doesn't matter if the game has unspeakably horrific atrocities for whether or not it can be advertised, as long as the advertisement is clean and perhaps warns the game IS very violent. And it really would be kind of unfair if you found it disgustingly violent and had to watch it before whatever funny cat video it was you wanted to see.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
There seems to be some confusion here.
They can post the video.
They cannot have the video autorun as an advertisement because it is too graphic to be forced on people.
This seems reasonable to me. I never saw MKX fatalities posted up as ads.
They can post the video.
They cannot have the video autorun as an advertisement because it is too graphic to be forced on people.
This seems reasonable to me. I never saw MKX fatalities posted up as ads.
The Citizen Kane of Games
Member
Seems Youtube cares less about indies than big bad 'Warner Bros Inc.'