Guild Wars 2

Honest question. I’d really like to know. THANKS

If you didn’t know, you have to be part of a network to monetize guild wars 2 youtube videos. I think this stifles the growth of the community. Just look at league of legends… anyone can monetize those videos on youtube and that game is MONSTROUS

Does anyone have any insight to offer on this subject?

This is the wrong forum, but the brief answer is MONEY.

I know Youtube sometimes may prefer networks because they are often have more viewers, span across numerous games, and are often more professional than a random gaming vlogger, but I have never and, as far as I am aware, there is not anything in writing that -requires- a youtube partner to be part of a network.

If you consistantly have a lot of viewers and are interested in becoming a youtube partner, i.e. making money, then they won’t shove you away because you aren’t in a network. Though, I do know that Youtube isn’t a fan of monetizing gaming videos; they much prefer vloggers.

That being said, you need a license to monetize on games. Based on what I’ve officially heard in the past, ArenaNet has given them out to very few peoples – one of the persons being TotalBiscuit. They did say that they would further explore allowing more people to monetize on GW2 videos, but that won’t be for some time. This was in a post made by a staff member on these forums.

So they are just biased..

thanks for the reply

“Biased?” What is that even supposed to mean? Yeah I guess they want to protect the monetization of their IP so that makes them biased… that totally makes sense.

I guess you didn’t read the thread or are incapable of reading. They gave TotalBiscuit and a few others permission but not anyone else.

If you don’t know what biased means, try Google.

I like how someone necro’d a month old thread and now this is an Issue.

MMO forums.

Ya I searched on Google, found that thread and posted, then made a more specific thread because the other one was a bunch of BS that was stated to defend their preferential treatment.