Guild Wars 2

Wasn’t sure where I should place this thread… Please move it if it doesn’t belong here. With that said, onto the main question:

I heard somewhere that ANet will shut down your stream (IE: Twitch TV / Own3D) if you have enough viewers to make revenue off of it?

I’d like to believe this isn’t true, as it’d harm the game from picking up any real eSport status. Furthermore it’s also a form of free advertisement.

Anyone have any word on this? Or could I get an official statement?

So, you think it’s ok to make money with someone else’s products?

Gehenna.3625:

So, you think it’s ok to make money with someone else’s products?

I know, right? I hate it when graphic designers abuse Adobe’s great tools and make money without paying Adobe. Oh wait…

Gehenna.3625:

So, you think it’s ok to make money with someone else’s products?

ArenaNet stated they wanted the game to be an eSport.

Other eSports, such as the highly acclaimed League of Legends, and numerous other recognizable games like Starcraft, Starcraft II, Heroes of Newerth, World of Warcraft, and a plethora of others, all encourage people to stream their game play and create youtube videos. This works to draw more people into the games.

There are people on twitch/own3d that stream League of Legends, and they have 10k+ viewers.

PS: If it wasn’t for Angry Joe’s Guild Wars 2 review on youtube (a thirty minute video featuring a load of GW2 gaming footage), I wouldn’t have bought this game for me and two other friends. :P

^ this made me laugh

However, people have been making money off streaming games on twitch.tv for a long time now. Some casters make a living doing this. Some are breaking the 100K a year mark through add revenue and subscribers on their twitch channel (via twitch partnership).

Many people think they can jump on twitch and make a quick buck…not happening. Gotta build the fanbase, have entertaining and HIGH Quality cast you can actually see (720p preferably 1080p). Also spending money on a high quality broadcaster software like x-split and having a computer that can encode and capture high quality is also needed.

However…GW2 maybe has 200 – 300 average viewers (just checked twitch GW has 216 (only jumps high when devs make a broadcast on GW2 channel…lol swtor has 246)) out of the few hundred thousand people that use twitch…soooo you/or whoever are not gonna make anything streaming only GW2 lol (since there is a requirement for even getting partnership to make money on revenue…http://www.twitch.tv/partner/signup). Most the big name casters quite streaming GW2 months ago (cause of nothing to do or sPVP is a joke) and went back to their normal games like wow, LoL, SC2, console etc etc So to answer your question…I dont know why Anet would even bother closing those streaming sites and then again twitch TV wouldnt do it unless they were copyrighting GW2 which we all know is a waste of time since its an online game.

Angelus.1042:

^ this made me laugh

However, people have been making money off streaming games on twitch.tv for a long time now. Some casters make a living doing this. Some are breaking the 100K a year mark through add revenue and subscribers on their twitch channel (via twitch partnership).

Many people think they can jump on twitch and make a quick buck…not happening. Gotta build the fanbase, have entertaining and HIGH Quality cast you can actually see (720p preferably 1080p). Also spending money on a high quality broadcaster software like x-split and having a computer that can encode and capture high quality is also needed.

However…GW2 maybe has 200 – 300 average viewers out of the few hundred thousand people that use twitch…soooo you/or whoever are not gonna make anything streaming only GW2 lol. Most the big name casters quite streaming GW2 months ago and went back to their normal games like wow, LoL etc etc So to answer your question…I dont know why Anet would even bother closing those streaming sites and then again twitch TV wouldn’t do it unless they were copyrighting GW2 which we all know is a waste of time since its an online game.

You assume I am referring to myself. I’m not. I stream from time to time, yes, but mostly for a select group of friends.

The reason I made this thread is due to a discussion I had with someone else, and he/she brought up that he/she heard rumors of streams making revenue being closed down.

I decided to post here and ask, as that sounds a tad bizarre to me. Personally, I hope to see more streamers for Guild Wars 2. I also watch streams on break while I’m at work.

Rand.3186:

Angelus.1042:

^ this made me laugh

However, people have been making money off streaming games on twitch.tv for a long time now. Some casters make a living doing this. Some are breaking the 100K a year mark through add revenue and subscribers on their twitch channel (via twitch partnership).

Many people think they can jump on twitch and make a quick buck…not happening. Gotta build the fanbase, have entertaining and HIGH Quality cast you can actually see (720p preferably 1080p). Also spending money on a high quality broadcaster software like x-split and having a computer that can encode and capture high quality is also needed.

However…GW2 maybe has 200 – 300 average viewers out of the few hundred thousand people that use twitch…soooo you/or whoever are not gonna make anything streaming only GW2 lol. Most the big name casters quite streaming GW2 months ago and went back to their normal games like wow, LoL etc etc So to answer your question…I dont know why Anet would even bother closing those streaming sites and then again twitch TV wouldn’t do it unless they were copyrighting GW2 which we all know is a waste of time since its an online game.

You assume I am referring to myself. I’m not. I stream from time to time, yes, but mostly for a select group of friends.

The reason I made this thread is due to a discussion I had with someone else, and he/she brought up that he/she heard rumors of streams making revenue being closed down.

I decided to post here and ask, as that sounds a tad bizarre to me. Personally, I hope to see more streamers for Guild Wars 2. I also watch streams on break while I’m at work.

I edited my above post…

Also twitch would never shut down partnered streams making revenue (twitch gets some of that money to so they would be taking money out there own pockets) unless there were copyright issues or other Twitch TOS violations. Anet cant pull the plug n another sites service.
Also in order to make revenue off games on twitch you gotta be partnered….getting partnership status pulled and having your channel shut down is pretty serious and I highly doubt it would happen unless the caster is playing naughty videos or something side by side to GW2 …which may get more viewers imo…lol

to answer your question..its bizarre and sounds like garbage.

Angelus.1042:

I edited my above post…

Also twitch would never shut down partnered streams making revenue (twitch gets some of that money to so they would be taking money out there own pockets) unless there were copyright issues or other Twitch TOS violations. Anet cant pull the plug n another sites service.
Also in order to make revenue off games on twitch you gotta be partnered….getting partnership status pulled and having your channel shut down is pretty serious and I highly doubt it would happen unless the caster is playing naughty videos or something side by side to GW2 …which may get more viewers imo…lol

to answer your question..its bizarre and sounds like garbage.

I’m aware of the partnership requirements and what not. I hadn’t intended on being partnered. I got a full time job, so I’m not concerned about making revenue off streaming. I was just fishing around to see if there were any official statements made to that end. Doesn’t seem to be, though.

Their stance on YouTube monetization is that it is not allowed under their terms of use, however, they will not purposely hunt you down for doing it. Their stance on streaming should basically be the same.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-for-posting-videos-on-Youtube-others

nightzirch.3126:

Gehenna.3625:

So, you think it’s ok to make money with someone else’s products?

I know, right? I hate it when graphic designers abuse Adobe’s great tools and make money without paying Adobe. Oh wait…

I’m not sure if you ever experienced working in a corporate environment, but using illegally downloaded software is a big no-no and open to lawsuits.

You think NCSoft is dumb enough to let one of it’s child companies do that? No.