I'm on the side of 'visibility,' but I was talking with someone else who doesn't buy games at all now and just watches LPs. He doesn't wanna buy the game after finishing an LP either since he feels he got his fill. What's your opinion on this? I don't know if there's any actual numbers, but I'm curious. He's also probably a minority.
Note: I realise sometimes this is a case by case scenario. Some games would be toiling in obscurity if not for the LP community 'showing off' an awesome game that suddenly had a huge rise in sales. After PewDiePie played Skate 3 it actually went back into the top sales charts for the year of 2014, even though it had been four years since the game came out.
However, some game companies also seem to think that LPing certain properties hurts their business and issue game channels with takedowns for infringing content.
EDIT: Recent discovery that I'd missed when I made the thread. I was quite surprised to see these numbers from Toby Fox's poll regarding Undertale:
Note: I realise sometimes this is a case by case scenario. Some games would be toiling in obscurity if not for the LP community 'showing off' an awesome game that suddenly had a huge rise in sales. After PewDiePie played Skate 3 it actually went back into the top sales charts for the year of 2014, even though it had been four years since the game came out.
However, some game companies also seem to think that LPing certain properties hurts their business and issue game channels with takedowns for infringing content.
EDIT: Recent discovery that I'd missed when I made the thread. I was quite surprised to see these numbers from Toby Fox's poll regarding Undertale: