So... it has come full circle. You used to have (and likely still have) actual game-reviewing magazines and websites and such getting butthurt and complaining about how they weren't getting free review copies of some games to review. Now you have a developer getting butthurt and complaining because some guy on Youtube won't take his free review copy of his game to review it without getting paid for time and effort to make said review.
I have to wonder how much it would cost this developer to actually have to hire a full-time marketing team to promote his game. I'm guessing it would be way more than $22,000.
(With that said, though, I can't think of a single "big" name Youtuber that would even be worth paying $22,000 to have them review a game in the first place. Not TotalBiscuit or Jim Sterling, definitely. Absolutely not PewDiePie, I don't care how many hojillion subscribers he may have. Not any of the other not-as-big-as-PewDiePie LPers either. Not even Angry Joe. Maybe James Rolfe (but not as the AVGN). If I had the coin to spend, and a game to spend it on, I personally might be willing to pay the Best Friends Play guys to do a review of said hypothetical game, but that's just me. I can't really even think of any other "big" name Youtubers that do games stuff, besides those. [EDIT] That's not to say that there aren't any, of course, just that I can't think of them, because I don't watch them. Game Grumps, maybe? JonTron? Hell, I don't know. [/EDIT] And that's assuming that the LP guys would even want to review a game in such a fashion in the first place.)
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Date: 2015-09-13 11:49 pm (UTC)I have to wonder how much it would cost this developer to actually have to hire a full-time marketing team to promote his game. I'm guessing it would be way more than $22,000.
(With that said, though, I can't think of a single "big" name Youtuber that would even be worth paying $22,000 to have them review a game in the first place. Not TotalBiscuit or Jim Sterling, definitely. Absolutely not PewDiePie, I don't care how many hojillion subscribers he may have. Not any of the other not-as-big-as-PewDiePie LPers either. Not even Angry Joe. Maybe James Rolfe (but not as the AVGN). If I had the coin to spend, and a game to spend it on, I personally might be willing to pay the Best Friends Play guys to do a review of said hypothetical game, but that's just me. I can't really even think of any other "big" name Youtubers that do games stuff, besides those. [EDIT] That's not to say that there aren't any, of course, just that I can't think of them, because I don't watch them. Game Grumps, maybe? JonTron? Hell, I don't know. [/EDIT] And that's assuming that the LP guys would even want to review a game in such a fashion in the first place.)