A question about LP's

[JustAnotherConsumer]

No, I'm not talking vinyl.

 

Just an open question from folks who know Obsidian: Is it likely that they object to people doing Let's Play videos?

 

Honestly, the legality is very grey, there's a more basic question of: does it bother them at all?

 

I've done a few already on their older titles, and given the new brouhaha over intellectual property, so I'm sort of rethinking whether they're appropriate.

 

I'm fully willing to take them down if anyone objects.

[Tigranes]

I don't recall anybody throwing a fit about LPs, of all things, unless anyone makes $ off it.

 

Obsidian's pretty reasonable, I don't see any problems at all.

[sorophx]

you should ask the publishers, not the makers. Obsidian gains from LPs

[WorstUsernameEver]

I've seen tons of LPs of Obsidian games, so I find it very unlikely that either them or the publishers would complain.

[JustAnotherConsumer]

Presumably Atari for NWN2 and LucasArts for KOTOR2?

[WorstUsernameEver]

Presumably Atari for NWN2 and LucasArts for KOTOR2?

 

Yes.

[George Ziets]

Personally, I like LP videos. They're a little bit like focus testing - they give me an idea of how players are experiencing our games. I can't speak for our publishers, though.

[Irrelevant]

Here's two guys playing Fallout: New Vegas for an hour. I think the way they play the game is probably how other people play(Not the fact that they are playing together but their expectations)

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They got their partner account through IGN.

[Nonek]

I decided to get NWN2 after seeing the scene with the ghost dragon (Nolaloth?) in a let's play, absolutely despised the first games campaign so I was a little wary of commiting so many hours of leisure time to another neverwinter game. Fortunately I found the whole experience utterly enthralling, if a little rough around the edges and found the purchase of the two brilliant and innovative expansions to be a foregone conclusion.

 

For a little glimpse into style and mechanics they're utterly priceless for me, reviews are rarely accurate and the story and atmosphere are almost never featured in pr material.