/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

[Anonymous No.]

I'm tired of this cat and mouse shit that the holo's do of playing the same game their coworkers play. It just milks the game until its possibly universally disliked. Why can't cover into licensing agreements that covers a blanket of games under a publisher? Perhaps they could request permissions for multiple games instead of one holo requesting permission and the others just copy homework. Too much?

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>>1903039
They have tons of permissions anon, why would you expect women to be gamers? Watch the fucking holostars are something

[Anonymous No.]

They did. They got licensing for all of Capcom games. We're still seeing everyone just playing read the air 3 and duolingo.

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>>1903039
I don't see why they don't just play whatever they want until they get a C&D. For making a career out of streaming mostly games, they fucking suck. Let's see some StarCraft or some WoW. Maybe some CS or LoL. There's no way Cover doesn't he permissions for even these most basic games right? Games with multiplayer interaction are more interesting because most of the girls' personalities are very bland and not enough to carry a directionless game stream like Minecraft.

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>>1903039
>I have to watch all the streams until I hate them
Just watch your favorite girls and fuck off Twitterfag.

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>>1903342
The taste and preferences of the holo vtuber might also be a factor. Only a few of them have the potential to actually play and finish the campaign mode of Starcraft, and I can't even think of a good candidate for playing XCOM2.

But It would be nice if they can play Serious Sam 4 on a 8 or 16 player survival co-op.

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Haven't you ever thought it could just be a sponsorship blitz?

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>>1903586
Have you ever thought that they were woman?

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>>1903542
With respect, Serious Sam 4 is a disappointment

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you know that antis would mass report them if they played a game that they don't have permission?
for fuck's sake anon we've had this conversation already

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>>1903342
>Maybe some CS
Ame tried after debut but trolls kept joining her game and it must of turned her off from it. Sad really, it's the only FPS I give a shit about watching

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>>1903039
Botan is based and actually plays vidya, so not her

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>>1903656
I'm curious because I'm very late into the game, what are the details? I always assume it's similar technical issues the previous game had.

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>>1903753
Man I fucking hate stream snipers

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>>1903039
Consider the following:
>Most Holos aren't "gamers" in the sense of actually being mechanically good at videogames.
>The ones who are even half-decent at shooters only play APEX
>Games like Papers Please, Uma musume, Kuukiyomi, Momotetsu, Story of seasons, minecraft take absolutely no skill whatsoever so they are easy safe stream choices.
>Undertale genocide (specifically just sans) is the only fad game I can think of recently that would even be remotely challenging and that's still pretty piss easy considering Fubuki can speedrun it but can't 1cc MoF which is the easiest 2hu game.

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>>1903863
>sans
>piss easy
Kanatach don’t look

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>>1903650
they're streamer

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>>1903342
> LoL
Go back

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>every other holo
I only care what my oshi does
Also playing vidya is their work as stupid as that sounds. Of course they will play something that's popular amongst them because they can give feedback to each other and whatnot

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>>1903342
>until they get a C&D
3 strikes and YT shuts down the channel. Then they need to open a channel again and remonitize it but then 3 strikes, its gone again.

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>>1904239
I love Korone and would watch her autistically play old video games always but I'm a filthy EOP so I can only watch clips or enjoy her rambling I can't understand

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Just stop watching Hololive, or add some indies on top of them. They'll start to fade away from being your fav after that. And that's kinda how it should be.

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>>1903342
>I don't see why they don't just play whatever they want until they get a C&D.
We're in the current situation because that's exactly what they did before. Mio almost lost her channel because of Capcom and so Cover's been extra careful since then.

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>>1904352
>>1906250
Kiara plays games that apparently don't have permissions, and she doesn't have a problem by just turning off SCs for the stream. She's still one of the top earners, so it seems like vtubers can afford to do that for the occasional stream. Would add some originality at least.

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>>1905448
Seeth and dilate

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>>1903039
Cover has an absolute fuckton of permissions between Nintendo, Sega, Capcom, EA, Activision, Ubisoft, MS/Bethesda, and the shitload of indies they have perms for. The bigger issue is that most of the girls don't take advantage of these perms cuz they're either addicted to something and spend 90% of their streams playing that (Ark/APEX/Minecraft) or they just play what's hot with the other talents because it gets views and probably a bunch of comments requesting they play it.
At this point the most notable things they're missing are Bandai, From, Atlus, Sony (never ever), chinese pubs (and I don't think anyone watching is too sad about the lack of Genshin or Azur Lane stream), and the rest of Square's titles beyond DQ and Nier

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>>1903039
I would blame cover but there is currently a pretty big list of approved games that only one or two of the girls have played. I think the biggest reason is that very few of the girls are actual hardcore gamers with varied taste of thier own.

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>>1906442
All of kiara's games are permitted and approved, they're just permissions for the english versions

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>>1906575
They have already streamed shadow of the colossus, death stranding, and uncharted. So I assume sony is on board for permissions. I was hoping for a real renaissance of playstation exclusive streams but it didnt happen.

Anyway, for an agency with nearly 50 talents, its amazing how low the game variety is most of the time.

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>>1906780
I thought Ryza was the only game she got through that loophole, what else did they get like that?

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>>1906780
Is that really a thing? Is cover really not smart enough to request Japanese and English permissions simultaneously?
Like why has Gura been able to start Red Dead 2, but meanwhile the only rockstar game the JPs have played is still GTAV? Aki is just now starting a GTAV series in the year 2021.

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>>1906442
Every game that's been streamed since last summer (when the Mio incident happen) has been after they got explicit permissions from the devs or publishers. You can check the video description and it will say something along the lines of "This game is streamed and monetized with permission from so-and-so dev/publisher"

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>>1906894
Sometimes alternate languages are done through different branches of the company which Cover's paranoia sees as another set of permissions. See how EN lagged behind JP on the Sega games, and how Ame mentioned that if she's going to stream English Yakuza it has to be the PS4 version because of permissions weirdness (likely due to Sega EU doing the PC port)

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>>1906894
Permissions are from the publisher, for most games JP and EN have different publishers. In fact kiara could play all the games the JP holos can, she just needs to buy from the japanese publisher. As for why they don't get them at the same time it's because most of the time it's a completely different company, like how bethesta published bully

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>>1903039
>milks the game until its possibly universally disliked.
Good there's 1000000000s of video games it not worth coming back to old shit or playing it more than it needs to be "MINECRAFT" "ARK" sequels are an exception

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Why they dont do more indie stuff? Theres alot of games that have enough laughs for atleast one stream, cant be that hard to email people and ask "can we stream your game? Yes? Ok we send the papers." Or is it just japanese company TM slowness?

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>>1906894
Regional game rights can be really fucky since sometimes there are different publishers depending on territory like how you need to ask Bamco for English Dark Souls but From Software for JP, but sure cover bad

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Quite a lot of them are still suffering from the success that EN brought to JP. Most of them doubled/tripled in a short amount of time. Then those numbers started leveling off and they probably don't realize that it was just always going to happen. So instead of playing what they like they are playing what they think will get the audience. Not everyone obviously.

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>>1903586
Ah yes, the great 2021 Undertale ad campaign.

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Maybe get out of the holobubble to watch something else then.

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>>1906442
Koei Techmo revoked monetization for Ryza 2 because of good old Japanese autism. Kiara was 2 streams in when they told her to turn SC off but because she’s stubborn and based Kiara decided to continue streaming it. Hololive has written permissions for every game they play / program they use (duolingo) because nijiniggers mass report their videos for any reason they can find.

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>>1909452
True, everything they ever do will get reported in any way possible.

[Anonymous No.]

>Permissions

I wonder if they are also just playing it safe for a number of other streaming-related reasons. Just look at the suffering the ENs are willingly putting themselves through trying games they want to stream:
>Content yabs popping up unexpectedly
>Technical difficulties getting the game to work with streaming software
>Unanticipated multiplayer features that can't be turned off
>Music they don't have licenses for
>Simply not understanding the mechanics of the game or not being able to perform well in it (it's almost always a blind playthrough to maximize the reactions)

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>>1903542
>XCOM2
Botan.

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>>1903039
It's almost like most of the girls aren't avid gamers and generally won't try new games unless they learn from word-of-mouth that they're good and worth checking out, literally the same as how most casual gamer friend circles function. You're not bothered by Holos playing the same games, you're bothered by the games themselves, and to that I agree that it'd be nice if they explored their greenlit catalog more thoroughly, but that'd require going out of their comfort zone and that's rarely an option for most of them. You wouldn't be complaining if they all picked up and streamed your favorite game.

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>>1906795
Sony games can’t be monetized so most of Hololive understandably won’t play them.

>>1907737
It comes back to most of the girls not being “real” gamers, they could ask their managers to get permissions for indie games but why bother when they can play what the other girls are playing.

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>>1906442
Kiara has permissions for all her games. It's just that Koei Tecmo pulled permission to monetize their games, so Kiara has to turn superchats off for Atelier Ryza.

[Anonymous No.]

>StarCraft
>WoW
>CS
>LoL