I have no objections to this.
The game devs are the real content creators, and they should be rewarded fairly for that.
The streamers are basically just running their mouths whilst playing some game. These social media "influeners" or "celebrities" are making a generous income off the backs of the hard work put in by the designers, artists, coders. People with real talent.
Needing a license to stream strikes me as pretty reasonable - with the caveat that people not monetising their streams should be exempt - only the people absolutely raking in the money via Twitch (etc) should be asked to make a contribution.
We all know that some of these streamers are making thousands of $$ every month from basically playing vidya. I can see why the studios would feel a bit hard done by.
I've often thought this tbh. Just because the class clown got a capture device and microphone and is uploading to YouTube doesn't really make them worthy of generating revenue off the back of the effort put in to making the game.
It used to be people would promote a game as a thanks to the developer and share it with fans. Now typically it's just a vehicle for self-promotion and income.
I notice though, that there are more and more "baked in" ads within the actual videos , Linus Tech Tips is one of the worst for this, but easy enough to skip past.
Should content creators be bypassing Youtubes ad system though that's the question. They pay for the cost of hosting the service so why does Linus get to sell ads on his videos when YT see none of this money?
I personally think Linus is a bit of an annoying twerp, he's been very good at building up the channel as it is now, but the way he goes on about Linus Media Group and being CEO etc anybody would think he is owner of some huge conglomerate. He also admitted to being a bully at school which I could quite imagine.
Ah yes, Steve. I see him with his stack of papers and can't skip his vids fast enough, they're literally just 40 mins of a guy reading off a script with a rather holier-than-thou attitude. If he had a bit of personality it wouldn't be so bad but his voice has literally made it possible to hear the colour beige.
It does make you laugh. These cutting-edge tech presenters, literally just some tech fanboy who regurgitates facts from the internet in some pretentious fashion and gets adored by a load of other lesser tech fanboys like he's some professor of science.
The whole Nvidia RTX launch was sickening to watch as well how they'll lavish cards upon these tech channels for free and yet the viewing public couldn't even buy them for real. The way things have become now it's all so fake and built on media hype.
