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A note about Persona 5 Streaming From Atlus
- Thread starter bomblord1
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That's great.
they actually made sharing possible in yakuza 0's western release, which gave us nugget, so you would have hoped so
sineclamor
Member
It is baffling that someone in the business of selling video games doesn't understand how important twitch can be for your sales.
I assume they are in the process of learning right this second.
I assume they are in the process of learning right this second.
mullet2000
Member
This is honestly one of the most pathetic statements I've ever seen a company or organization put out.
It's not offensive. It doesn't get me angry. It's just...pathetic.
It's not offensive. It doesn't get me angry. It's just...pathetic.
Leafhopper
Banned
Lol
What I will agree with you on is because I watched a stream and lets play of persona 4, I am more willing to buy persona 5 because it was a great experience watching it. Although this means that I will never buy persona 4 because I have seen it already. If someone comes along and does the same for persona 5 and just watches it. I find it hard to believe they will buy it. But I do believe that they might buy the next one. So streaming has its positives and negatives.
Unfortunately most companies focus on the negatives of streaming way too much.
petethepanda
Member
What a frustrating, backwards policy. Locking down streaming would be stupid and shitty, but at least, like, normal stupid and shitty. Blocking players from using system-level features to take screenshots and video clips is just next-level crap, though.
Unless their intention in all this is to pass up free marketing in favor of bad press, in which case, hey, mission accomplished, I guess.
Unless their intention in all this is to pass up free marketing in favor of bad press, in which case, hey, mission accomplished, I guess.
This.
SprachBrooks
Member
Yepfuck 'em.
BRocknRolla
Member
This is terrible. Incredibly dumb and tone deaf.
Yes and that's a nice number, but that isn't how these companies think. When they see those figures they say to themselves "Gee, I wonder how many units would have sold if it wasn't for streaming". I don't know the answer to that, but it would be silly for me to believe that it has no effect at all. Same goes for used games. I love used games and I wouldn't want them to go away but its hard to believe that it doesn't effect sales.
Haha, genius.
this makes it all worth it
King Gilga
Member
lmao, that's great.
P4A EU bullshit was my last time giving them money.
This bs+screenshot restriction basically guarantees that it won't change.
No game is worth paying money to be spit on.
Khrysler Jerikho
Member
These guidelines suddenly make Bandai Namco look like small-fry with their Tales and SRW blocks.
Leafhopper
Banned
You mean the same Sega that went on a spree a couple years back removing any and all "Shining" series game videos on Youtube for some bizarre reason?
JP higher ups for companies tend to treat each region as it's own closed bubble, as if the internet doesn't exist for communicating stuff. They did it before with other stuff.
WrenchNinja
Member
Go fuck yourself, Atlus
Thabass
Member
Yep. I was thinking of buying it. Now? Nope. No longer interested.
bemusedchunk
Banned
Persona 5 is the last Atlus product you will purchase, right?
AwakenedCloud
Member
Can we just go ahead and change the OT?
Persona 5 |OT1| I HIGHLY RECOMMEND NOT DOING THIS
Persona 5 |OT2| YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
Persona 5 |OT1| I HIGHLY RECOMMEND NOT DOING THIS
Persona 5 |OT2| YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
Admiral Woofington
Member
Yes because the Internet won't start mass uploading videos now
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Shit, they blocked streaming in a Kamen Rider game. Fucking Kamen Rider.
I'll never understand Japanese publishers' backwards-ass attitudes towards streaming.
It doesn't affect sales. If anything, not allowing streaming and LPs hurts sales more than it helps.
charlequin
Banned
Honestly almost impressed that Atlus is going to charge forward on a literally unprecedented level of hostility to streaming over this.
I would like to think there's someone at Atlus JP (or, more realistically, Sega of Japan) who in a week, when thanks to this they managed to burn all the launch goodwill from the press for their critically acclaimed game by producing two idiotic and entirely unnecessary controversies, thinks "oh maybe we shouldn't do this next time" and puts their foot down, but... we'll see, I guess.
The number is always equal or lesser to the number it sold with streaming. This type of decision is never driven primarily by money; it's individual executives who want to exert a feeling of control, really.
I would like to think there's someone at Atlus JP (or, more realistically, Sega of Japan) who in a week, when thanks to this they managed to burn all the launch goodwill from the press for their critically acclaimed game by producing two idiotic and entirely unnecessary controversies, thinks "oh maybe we shouldn't do this next time" and puts their foot down, but... we'll see, I guess.
The number is always equal or lesser to the number it sold with streaming. This type of decision is never driven primarily by money; it's individual executives who want to exert a feeling of control, really.
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
I can't believe they actually wrote a blog post to actively threaten customers. Just insane behaviour
Puck Beaverton
Banned
tempted to stream
snow in jamaica
Member
Well, even the game has a hard enough time being consistent with itself as far as I can tell.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Persona 4 got a huge amount of word of mouth from the Endurance Run on Giantbomb nearly a decade ago and this is how you return the favor?
Yeah, it's pretty crazy when thinking about the Endurance Run, and just how much it popularized Persona in the West. But I don't think the Japan side cares much about that.
How do you know it doesn't effect sales? Just using my own personal experiences I can tell you that it has effected sales a very small amount, even if I am the only person in the world who didn't buy a game because I saw a twitch stream. You can't really talk about streaming using blanket statements because its a very complex issue.
Again companies are all about maximizing profits, and if streaming and used games effect their revenue in any way, then I am not going to be surprised that they try to find ways to maximize this profit.
Or know about it.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Maybe they saw how well received the preview restrictions on review copies were for Zelda to prevent spoils and had the bright idea to expand that to absolutely everyone playing the final game.
Your personal experiences mean nothing.
Point to me a single game who's sales dropped thanks to steaming, cuz I can find plenty that had higher sales thanks to it.
CambriaRising
Member
Fuck you Atlus.
Revolutionary
Member
Should have done it on 4/20