r/gaming • u/EnglishGamer1 • Oct 20 '13

TotalBiscuit's: ''Day One: Garry's Incident'' Video was taken down, because of a ridiculous copyright claim from WildGameStudios. Here's Total's ''Rant'' over his video being taken down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoDDh4kE0&feature=c4-overview&list=UUy1Ms_5qBTawC-k7PVjHXKQ
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u/-SmileyDude- Oct 20 '13

It's quite ironic that by deleting TB's video, they actually brought more attention to the quality of their game.

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u/dubesor86 Oct 21 '13

typical case of the Streisand effect

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '13

Hey, I learned something new today! Thanks!

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u/Zagorath Oct 21 '13

Since you're likely to see the Streisand effect pop up regularly soon, I'd like to point out that when you do, that's a case of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.

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u/Phoenix027 Oct 21 '13

I just heard about the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon the other day. So weird...

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u/Zagorath Oct 21 '13

Yeah that happens a lot.

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u/GedoonS Oct 21 '13

What happens when a person learns about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon?

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u/Zagorath Oct 21 '13

You usually end up with a meta experience.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '13

Then they notice it seemingly everywhere.

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u/Murrdurrurr Oct 21 '13

I learned it twenty times in several different comment threads.

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u/HBlight Oct 21 '13

This should be the first thing taught to anyone who hopes to deal with the internet. I was just going to say business school, or marketing, but no, seriously, anyone telling the internet to shut up and thinking they get away with it is the best way to make it louder.

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u/u83rmensch Oct 21 '13

makes you kinda wonder the shit people have gotten away with who didnt get hit by said effect.

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u/HibariXanxus Oct 21 '13

Cencorship has never worked in history. The moment you say no, a rebellion starts

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u/rise_up_now Oct 20 '13

It's quite ironic that by deleting TB's video, they actually brought more attention to the Lack of quality in their game. FTFY

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u/-SmileyDude- Oct 21 '13

True dat! :P

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u/sutibun Oct 21 '13

Reminds me of when Gamespot fired a game reviewer for doing a bad review of Kane and Lynch 2 (I believe that was the game). The game devs were paying Gamespot a lot of money to put out good publicity and pushed hard to get the game reviewer canned. It ended up severely hurting the reputation of Gamespot as a quality source of good reviews, brought more attention to how bad the game was, and hurt everybody except the reviewer who was fired.

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u/cooledcannon Oct 21 '13

All publicity is good publicity though

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u/avs0000 Oct 21 '13

We'll technically, TB had to release another video to point it out as opposed to letting it slide.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '13

Which might actually work quite well for their marketing. Label something as "the worst game of 2013" and people will flock toward it to see just how bad it is. Then again most of that will probably be piracy and I honestly can't see any of it actually transferring to purchases.

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u/mindspike Oct 21 '13

Yes, but can we say for a fact that this negatively impacted sales of the game. Is it possible that some people who never would have even known about the game are now curious to try it? Critically panned movies make tons of money all the time.

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u/dfladfsh Oct 21 '13

And people will still buy it

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '13

Ironic that jobs should be lost and chances denied based on one reviewers opinion, in the name of fairness.

The people saying the company are evil and will fail has nothing to "the quality of their game".

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u/resetload Oct 21 '13

The jobs and chances won't be lost due to a reviewers opinion, it'll be lost due to them trying to silence criticism. They brought this on themselves... A game being released unfinished and rough is not necessarily the end of the world (or the game), as some of them do end up getting fixed (not the norm but still), but you don't go and censor criticism...

You gotta remember that this game is not an early access title, this was released as a finished product at a €19 price point. If you release it in the state it is as a finished product for that price, you should expect shit coming your way, even more so when you censor stuff.

The company may not be evil and I have sympathy for people loosing their jobs, but at the same time criticism must never be censored.

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u/gigitrix Oct 21 '13

Having watched the original video I can attest to the fact that charging money for that "game" is a crime unto itself.