blossom wrote:For me personally, it's not about a lack of belief in whether they achieved a certain score. I'm sure most of these scores are legit. The problem is this genre has a lot of potential to be collaborative, and to deny the public to see these top tier strategies might be compared to a scientist discovering the cure for cancer and then not telling anyone about it. I don't quite buy into the idea of strict copyright laws in Japan, either. If that were the case, why do you have Japanese streamers on Twitch?
I definitely see where you are coming from Blossom, I also like the idea of more openness with public video sharing, for the sake of a more informed player base and ability to learn. The good news is that, overall, I think that is the direction we are going. In DDP, for example, we are getting more 700 mill vids being shared (which I've found really useful, actually) and I hope this trend will continue.
I know that the topic of the Japanese players not sharing their videos is a really contentious topic, especially in today's standards of practice (where hiding strats really isn't a thing common anymore, I even remember people keeping certain secrets in fighting games back in the day). But what I really like about Plasmo's article is that he does try to explain the mindset of why players haven't shared video replays publicly, that isn't them trying to directly spite western players or anything like that.
So yeah, a super interesting topic. Also, from what Araska reported, the copyright issue point that Plasmo writes about does seem like a legit concern. In my interview with Araska, I wondered if JHA would be open to the idea of including links to videos in their official scores list, and here is what Araksa said:
"I think it is not a good idea. In fact, JHA is just a non-profit organization, but they are inheriting some kind of authority/fame from Gamest and Arcadia. If they want to keep this position, they have to keep strict legal requirements.
I think that uploading game replay videos is mostly harmless in the recent social situation. But, strictly speaking, it contains copyright infringement and asking for permission for each old game is impossible, so they won’t touch such a thing."
