Streamers RUINING Games?

Is Adam's shirt on inside out?

It should not be the streamers responsibility to avoid playing parts of a game. People should act like adults and realize that if they watch a streamer play a game, that they haven't, parts could be "spoiled" for them. The people watching need to be held accountable for their actions, and not get mad if some part of the plot is "spoiled".

I watch a streamer play a game to see if it is a funny game or if that game is something I would play they do their thing either way if I risk getting spoiled I should of known that coming into a stream it seems that Atlus is kinda uptight but hey more power to them I mean sure some people want to see someone they enjoy play a game no matter if it's crap or a new game that I might get some spoilers from watching... I watched BrownMan/ aka Ray stream new games all the time I feel like I am entertained more then I would be spoiled on story aspects... Persona 5 might be your big game but you can't possibly think people are not aware that going into a game of Persona someone is streaming cause they might be there for the streamer I definitely would watch someone play it all the way through cause I enjoy them streaming  

I don't get it, but then again I don't care about spoilers. Hell, when I know I won't play a game or watch a movie for a while I activally seek out spoilers.

Ok, so this is primarily about story-heavy games. I assume their mentality is: 

1) people want to know the story

2) people can get the story by buying the game and playing it OR can get it for free by watching it online.

It's a reasonable concern to consider. The devs and writers might be legitimately concerned about spoilers, but we all know that anyone watching these streams are opting into it themselves. No, what really matters here is what the publishers care about, and it all comes down to one thing: 

How many people are actually watching these streams INSTEAD of buying the games? 

I don't know the answer, and it's nearly impossible to determine it. But they THINK they know better, and that's what's causing these kinds of restrictions. It's interesting how many parallels can be drawn between this and game piracy (with the whole, "how many pirates would actually buy the game if they couldn't pirate it?). What's happening now is just another flavor of DRM.

Personally, I don't watch a stream of a story-heavy game before I play it. I'd much rather experience it, given the option. But that's easy for me to say, since I have some expendable income.

To be clear, I am not a fan of this policy and I think there are a lot of good arguments to be made however, "You are messing with my livelihood" is utter bullshit. To say that they don't have the right to control their IP in any way simply because you are making a buck off of them is absurd. You pay the IP holder absolutely nothing in the way of royalties and monetize a video of you engaged with said IP. You add commentary and then try and claim that it is so original that they deserve nothing from you? Now arguments could be made on how much and I certainly think that there it a lot of added value in that commentary but it is still their IP. 

We as gamers are extremely fortunate that the people in the industry are as accepting of our culture as they are because our industry is run by people who, for the most part, are gamers themselves as opposed to other entertainment media such as TV and movie. Take something like Theater Mode. Even though the commentary is by far the greater part of any given show, there is still licencing and some small amount of the profit goes back to the creator. Up until now we have gotten away with a pretty sweet deal but I think that will not last forever. Eventually a compromise will have to be made.

Too bad the term fair use is broadly and vaguely defined. 

Look I was damn right. Persona 5 blocked the live stream by ATLUS. This is why you don't live stream or pre-order the game. I just avoid buying Persona 5 game just like avoiding purchased EA games, Activision Blizzard games, CAPCOM games, Ubisoft games, Konami games, and the other games from different video game publishers. ATLUS is like their parent company, SEGA. Remember Batman: Arkham Knight game? The PC version is broken after the first launch. But PS4 and Xbox One is now (nearly perfect) fixed after the launch. But for PC version, no. Still not working and taking too much ever to fix the patch issues. Now, I'm still not buying ATLUS games since 2012 due to reasons.