After months or even years of debate, and a Gamescom where I finally changed my mind, we are today announcing the Gamersyde Youtube channel. You'll find there all our videos within minutes of them being online on the main site.
Update: Youtube has closed our account without any explanations except that we broke the community guidelines. We'll try and contact them but knowing Google there is little chance we'll be able to appeal. Oh well...
First, and by far the most important point. This is no way changes what makes Gamersyde what it is: The quality of our videos. Absolutely nothing changes, we've been making sure for almost 10 years now that we have the best video quality for gaming videos on the net, and while you won't get this on the Youtube channel, you'll still get it on the site as it has always been.
There are two reasons for this channel to exist. The first one is that (sadly) many people on younger side seem to think that youtube is basically the only place to watch videos on the internet, and while I find it sad that they do not get to enjoy these videos as they should be seen, I'd rather have them see our content with the proper Gamersyde attribution than without it.
That's the second point, we noticed during Gamescom a rather alarming number of our videos being posted on Youtube. Some with proper attribution, that's more or less acceptable, but quite a few went and removed our logos and watermarks and posted the video as their own. And within these few, one individual in particular went as far as to contest our removal request from Youtube, claiming that he was basically doing us a service by posting videos from such a crummy site as ours on his popular Youtube channel. And while we certainly are not done with this person, it was quite a blow for us to see such an attitude.
So there you have it, our own Youtube channel. I can't say I'm thrilled, but at least I've done this properly and shouldn't take any of our rather limited time. Enjoy!
All comments (36)
"This is no way changes what makes Gamersyde what it is: The quality of our videos."
Thank you
I would suggest to make a comment + link on each posted Youtube Video to make clear, that the video quality on the main homepage is better.
EDIT: ok, you've already done that ;)
its crazy to hear how long gamersyde has been around, been a member since 2005 - guess for the launch of current gen systems. Only place i go to for game trailers etc, great site and keep up the great work
its crazy to hear how long gamersyde has been around, been a member since 2005 - guess for the launch of current gen systems. Only place i go to for game trailers etc, great site and keep up the great work
i´ll use the channell to check some of the videos from my ps3. Thanks for the great work, Blimblim and the rest of the crew, hope everything keeps going great, you really deserve it.
Good decision in not allowing comments, it's not worth it.
Best of luck with this!
But I'll obviously stay with the site for the real HD quality and occasional 60FPS goodness.
Haven't been gaming much -if at all- for the past few years, but I still frequent this site on a daily basis...it's sort of burnt into my daily routine...can't really help myself, haha... :P
But just wanted to voice my support and wish you guys the best!