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Vimeo personnel have decided that they will no longer be tolerating game videos to be uploaded at their site. The online video service has specially targeted game walk throughs, strategy game videos, depiction of player vs player battles, raids, fraps or any other video portraying a person playing video game. All the videos which lie in this category will be removed from the website. This rule will be affected from September 1.
The two main reasons as described by Vimeo’s Blake Whitman are elaborated as:
1) Vimeo was created with the intent of inspiring creativity and providing a place to share video with friends and family. The Vimeo staff does not feel that videos which are direct captures of video game play truly constitute “creative expression”. Further, such videos may expose Vimeo to liability from the game creator(s), as we have already seen action from popular video game companies against videos such as these.
2) Gaming videos are by nature significantly larger and longer than any other genre on Vimeo. Over these last few months they have been the single biggest reasons for our transcoder wait times.
Furthermore he says that the decision was not easy on the company’s end and there was a lot of discussion internally. However the company feels that this decision will help them in the future as their resources are limited (why don’t they increase their resources). They also wana channelize their resources in order to achieve their targets.
We think that they should change their strategy a bit and temporarily disable game videos if it is capturing their resources a lot. If they stick to the current strategy they’re certainly gona lose audience. Lets hope for the best and see how things shape out in the coming days.
This is atypical of me, but i actually agree with their standpoint. I mean, I enjoy game videos, but it really isn’t these people’s creativity, it’s other peoples. Plus, if it’s taking out too much bandwidth, I could understand them putting a stop to it. Bandwidth costs money. A lot of it costs more. Would you want to pay for something you didn’t want?
A lot of people think this is unfair, but you have to think: There are other video sites out there. Heck, I’m sure there’s one somewhere that hosts only video game videos. If not, make one. Be creative.
Yeah, I think especially the guys at http://www.roosterteeth.com proved the point that Game Video leads to really uncreative garbage.
I wish more free service providers like this took their responsibility and made this kind of general censor of content based on the tools used.
There isn’t enough room for us real artist that make quality artsy stuff with 8mm cameras. Really, there isn’t.
/Caboose - new technology sucks
I don’t think people really want to see game videos on Vimeo either. Youtube, Dailymotion, Gamespot, Gametrailers etc are probably enough for gaming videos. Plus they are mostly crap that boasts of the FPS, and pawnage ( crap again! ).
This kind of garbage really belongs on Youtube.
Strike my remark.
In the original post they explain that creative works with us of game video footage is ok.
So basically above statement “Vimeo personnel have decided that they will no longer be tolerating game videos to be uploaded at their site.” isn’t true.
(that should say, “videos of game play”, or something)
*mental note to self* Damn, always read the source before rants.
Hey, the Red guys aren’t that smart either ;-D
@Michael J Caboose
“Vimeo personnel have decided that they will no longer be tolerating game videos to be uploaded at their site.”
I think that the above mentioned sentence is correct because the source also says that:
“Starting today, ALL NEW GAMING VIDEOS ARE SUBJECT TO DELETION. Videos uploaded before today will be hosted until September.”
i think game videos are people what look for but they must’ve removed this option because of bandwidth problems, however bad step imho