James Scott
Banned
Devs allow it since it's beneficial. They don't want his support after he came out as a racist.That really sucks. It was easy to see coming though. Consumers don't have a ton of avenues to give immediate feedback to companies, steam reviews are one of them. We'll see this happen again. Both good (GTA mod backlash) and bad (this) reasons want to make their voices heard, and this is an outlet for it.
PDP made money off their IP, they made money from him advertising their game to a huge audience. The youtube - developer relationship is symbiotic these days. There's a reason we see a huge emphasis on "influencers" at E3 and the industry, and why devs send out keys to youtubers and twitch streamers to help advertise their game.
This isn't hard to understand