Guild Wars 2

I myself am not a YouTuber for GW2 (yet!). However, after reading in several different places already about the recent actions taken against those who are – I think it’s a fair assumption to say that a great deal of the GW2 YouTube community, streamers, and fans of seeing GW2 as an E-Sport, disagree with your stance on the current policy of monetization (or more specifically, inability to monetize) YouTube video content.

Here’s the GW2 Official Forum post on the issue

Here’s the /r/GuildWars2 post on the issue

Here’s the Team Paradigm post on the issue

Here’s the GW2 Guru post on the issue

In a summary of opinions, it would seem as though monetization of YouTube videos recorded by users would not result in a loss of money for ArenaNet. It would help spark more interest for the growing desire to see SPvP in GW2 as an E-Sport. YouTube videos are in themselves one of the big reasons why GW2 was able to gain such popularity pre-launch, as it’s free word-of-mouth advertising in a popular domain.

Not that it should be taken as a threat, but many players are deeply upset with the action taken by ANet/NCSoft in regards to the monetization of the videoes, and are even moreso concerned with the future of SPvP as an E-Sport. Please reconsider your position on the subject, or present reasoning as to the decision to tighten the leash on publishing YouTube content!

To any players that agree with this position (or don’t) – put your feedback on the issue here, as well as your support if possible. ANet has made it known in the past that they are willing to alter policies if the playerbase cares enough about it – and this is how it’s done.

Thank you,
-LoreChief

Monetization of videos is bad. I always have to use AdBlock Plus because ads are annoying.

Malediktus.9250:

Monetization of videos is bad. I always have to use AdBlock Plus because ads are annoying.

Really depends on the video. What makes it bad?

I use adblock as well, but I’m able to turn it off to support the content providers I enjoy.

I’m actually extremely shocked that anet is against it. Riot has absolutely no problem with youtubers and streamers, they encourage it if anything.

I got it set to no expections, I dont want to see any kind of ads or even facebook like buttons (I am blocking those, too).

Perhaps i am completely unaware of a deeper issue here. My understanding is that the youtube posters want monetization so they can make money from people watching the video ( from ads im assuming ) . Anets stance is they don’t want people to profit from making videos of the game.
I guess my real question would be , is the money made from monetization really that substantial that it warrants this reaction??

its like 1$ per 1000 views, so its overreacting unless you got 100k views per vid

Well I don’t think it’s too big of a deal. But if this game starts getting into E-sport or something I’d imagine it would change.