Let's Play (video gaming)
Let's Play ( to German something like " let's play ", abbreviated LP ) denotes the Browsing and annotating of playing a computer or video game. Usually this is similar recorded a screencast and uploaded to video sharing sites.
Definition
In contrast to solutions is not playing through a game in the foreground, but the individual game experience of the player. This Let's Play is accompanying comments, which additionally gives an entertaining character. Often this entertaining by the moderation character for viewers is even more important than the choice of the game itself
Originally defining element of interactivity with the audience is now no longer being maintained by some Let's players. The majority, however, depends on suggested topics or suggestions of users in the video comments on the portals to actively engage the user in the video.
To create a definition for Commentary format, it has become common that a video is only referred to as Let's Play where moderation is recorded live during the game. Some of Let's Plays are blind played, which means that the player himself plays the game for the first time and thus do not knows the solution.
Apart from the classic Let's Plays, there is still the variant viewers to show certain facts. It will be targeted mostly considered as problematic match sequences retrieved or displayed visually complicated action sequences. This type of showing is called Let's Go (of English. Show = " Show "). Often it also happens that another person with the Let's Player plays or commented on. This type of Let's Playens called Let's Play Together (Let's Play Together = " Let's play together " )
History And Popularity
The term " Let Us Play" came in 2006 for the first time on the website Something Aweful. This forum threads have been created, in which the player with his comments posted provided screenshots of the gameplay. The other forums members could respond directly stimulate it and about what the player should do next. The first known Let's Play in video form with live commentary was started from Something Aweful -user Michael Sawyer on January 5, 2007.
In the following years the concept has grown in popularity and soon established itself as a YouTube upload platform for Let's Plays. Here they now make up a large part of the video views. For example, the well-known for his horror Let's Plays PewDiePie currently the most subscribed YouTube channel in the world. Among the best known representatives of this scene in the German-speaking countries include Erik Range ( alias Gronkh ) PietSmiet & Co., and Valentin Rumia (aka Sarazar ).
Alignment on the number of subscribers:
- Gronkh (about 2.72 million subscribers)
- PietSmiet (about 1.46 million subscribers)
- Sarazar (about 1.17 million subscribers)
Legal situation
The videos initially created mainly by fans are often considered by game developers as free advertising for the product and support of individual creators specifically with test patterns. The problem of possible copyright infringement, however, was mostly ignored so far. Most game publishers provide on demand issued a statement toleration, whereby the Let's Player obtains the right to upload videos of a particular game, and possibly even to monetize. However, this tolerance is not yet legally binding declaration, so that the publishers at any time free to withdraw this. Through a partnership with a gaming network such as machinima or BroadbandTV Network exists a presumption that a legal protection regarding the harmlessness of copyright is repealed because the networks a licensing takes place. However, so far, this could not be officially confirmed, that a personal demand from the respective publishers is the first safer way.
Through profit sharing advertising revenue results in individual cases is now the possibility of a full-time employment through the production of Let's -play video.