This is such a common misconception and it irks me every time I see it repeated. I think it’s loosely based on the Band-aid and Dumpster stories of their brand names becoming the common term for their product thus threatening their trademark.

It was an absurd if also necessary step—you have to defend your trademarked terms legally or you risk losing them

...of course I believe in Fair Use...

“If this guy’s company (and it is a company, with full time employees as he talks about in the video) was just offering up reviews over publicity stills like sites like iO9 and such have to do, then they’d certainly have an argument that it’s ‘unfair’.”

In this little fantasy, 2000 people have decided not to buy because they deemed the silent, voiced-over footage enough. What number of people went out and bought DVDs or other merch because of the reviews?

See, that logic fails because official companies that are promoting said products will put those same scenes, with the proper audio to boot, up on a hype clip on their official YouTube channels. By your logic, that would be hurting their business because nobody’s gonna want to buy the DVD boxset now that the clip is…

Sigh. Literally every single point you have made is wrong because you fundamentally don’t understand how any of this works. Let’s go through them.

I assumed you were referring to people involved in this one situation from this one article that we are both commenting on. I literally just wrote this in my last post. This has already been established. Read better.

She never told him his comments were making him uncomfortable and he wasn’t doing anything too inflammatory to begin with. This is a non-issue.

Man, Bunny sure does have a strange threshold for what’s considered letting the world know about. The entire exchange read like an awkward and intrusive questionnaire triggered by an equally awkward comment, but it was hardly anything newsworthy.

Geez.

Oh f this chick. Seriously. You don’t get to seek out a guy with comments about bdsm, transition into how you like sex art and then suddenly act uncomfortable with a conversation YOU initiated and are PERPETUATING.

In what world is that a travel?

P4G was released four years after P4. P5R will be released three years after P5.

P4G came out four years after base P4; Persona 3 FES (which seems like the better point of comparison here given that P5R is on the same platform as the base, and judging by the similar variety of new content) was released only a year after P3 (and is widely considered the definitive version of P3!) - this isn’t that…

I would suggest that the mods are actually a part of the artistic endeavor of the game, now, especially given its meta-narrative components. The game gets rewritten in canon by a character addressing the player, and now the players are responding in turn by doing a kindness to those characters and trying to make their…

In what reality are we living where Itch.io gets an entire section in this article yet GOG isn’t mentioned a single time?

There’s three things that could be going on.

100% correct. The bible is the claim, not the evidence.