Cosy Bath-house life sim Spirittea has hit the ground running.Our Josh loved it, and the game has already made over $1 million in revenue, attracting 150,000 players across the platforms. But just yesterday, publisher No More Robots’ founder Mike Rose landed himself in a spot of bother, when he said something that was construed as suggesting that YouTubers shouldn’t be paid for their work.
We covered the story over in news, but to summarise, Rose tweeted that he didn’t feel comfortable paying YouTubers to cover his game, calling it “weird and icky and disingenuous.”
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There’s a good chance that a lot of YouTubers didn’t want to cover the game because they weren’t confident there’d be interest in it (hence asking for payment), but the irony is that now the game has landed and made a bit of a splash, chances are that YouTubers will be looking to play this trending new game in droves, and they’ll be doing it without asking for payment from the publisher, because the content should pay for itself via YouTube, Twitch, and whatever other outlets they stream it on.
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