News
Moving Away from Company Provided Trailers
Cordova, TN; August 15, in the year of our Lord 2016--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is acknowledging a reality that some of our
readers have already noticed. We also want to explain why this
new direction is being taken. If you have any comments,
thoughts, or objections to this please let us know. Family
Friendly Gaming has been moving away from the company provided
trailers. You know what I am talking about right? Companies
create little videos and let gaming media outlets copy them or
link directly to the companies Youtube account to see the video
the company made. These are things like announcement trailers,
release trailers, developer diaries, and more. So what is wrong
with them?
Actually there are a couple of things. The first is the majority
of these trailers are actually just advertisements. In fact
there have been numerous times when a company paid for a trailer
to be on television channels during certain shows. They would
then come to gaming media outlets and ask us to pay for all of
the work of publishing their video on our website. Some even
bragged it was the advertisement they paid for on television.
Talk about a backwards standard there. They pay a TV station and
then expect us to pay to run it for them. The companies are the
ones that benefit from these advertisements. Historically we
have lost all kinds of money on them. To make matters worse
there are companies that monetize the videos we upload. So they
give us the video and then expect to get paid for it on our
channel. Never mind any of our costs. We are just here to make
them money. That is the attitude they express with that
behavior.
We have a lack of control and oversight to these videos.
Recently a company decided after we had hosted their video on
Youtube for a year, they asked if it could be removed. They did
not pay one cent for the costs of our uploading and hosting the
video they gave us. Nor did they provide any payment for their
yo-yo removal of the video. In fact they lied to Youtube and
claimed we violated their copyright because we could not remove
it fast enough for them. High Horse Entertainment cost us quite
a bit of money. If a miniature gaming company like them is
allowed to act so unethically and immorally what is to stop
other gaming companies? Why should we spend all kinds of money
publishing their trailers when they might come back and decide
to cost us even more money because they want to hide an early
trailer from the public domain? Or what if they stab us in the
back like High Horse Entertainment did and cost us even more
money with a copyright strike? Their behavior does not make us
want to help them out in the future.
Too often the company provided trailers are lame. Their greed is
apparent in their trailers as well. This is something that turns
our stomachs. We have also heard from numerous viewers on our
Youtube channel that you enjoy the videos we make. We have come
to realize something – our videos are better and more
informative than the company provided trailers. We are in there
playing the games. We let our viewers see from start to finish.
Successes and failures are a part of the videos we produce.
There is only so much money and so much time. We feel it is
better to focus on the videos we do, and pass on the company
provided advertisement trailers. Ads that they refuse to pay us
for, and they expect us to pay them.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming