Yeah, I think they’ll weather this storm just fine. I doubt they’ll get back many of the subscribers who left, but I imagine they’ll slowly build their subscriber base with new subscribers until it’s back to where it was before they made their mistake. As long as they just keep making fun reaction videos and leave…

For one brief, terrible moment, they got too big for their britches. Going forward, they’ll hopefully remember that their success was built on fun videos of people reacting to things. Trying to turn that into a mega-international-corporate-conglomerate-thing risks destroying the goodwill the fun videos about reactions…

You’re right when you say that they aren’t copyrighting it. They’re trademarking it, which is still pretty bad. And people are going to be paying a hefty price for stuff they could probably find elsewhere. Here’s a quote from the React World FAQ on their website:

You make good points, but what if it never gets to trial? What if the Fine Bros. can simply scare people into changing their video titles with the threat of legal action?

Thanks for setting me straight on that. I learned something new today. It still would be a massive headache for the person being accused, though.

I don’t know.

I appreciate your explanation, but what you’re talking about is exactly what I have a problem with. Trademarking the word “react” for video entertainment purposes leaves way too much room for interpretation as to who is and who is not infringing on that trademark. At any time, the Fine Bros. could claim that somebody…

Yeah, that stuff about people watching their content 100 years from now was unbelievable. In 100 years, technology and society will be so different that YouTube will likely have been long forgotten in favor of something like holographic entertainment that can turn your entire living room into a virtual TV/movie set.…

An excellent indie adventure with a focus on conversations. Patricia really enjoyed the voice acting and music.

I agree that they’ve really shot themselves in the foot. All they had to do was nothing to maintain goodwill and keep raking it in.

As I understand it, Lara is still the only one with fancy hair effects. I think Pure Hair looks more natural than TressFX did in the last game, but it still doesn’t react to being wet. I would personally be okay with turning it off in the Xbox One version for better overall performance if that option were available to…

I’m glad the game runs so beautifully on my Xbox One. Kudos to the Crystal Dynamics team for doing such an incredible optimization job.

They’ll just have to use a different name and logo.

They said that they were going for the “react” trademark because they were afraid somebody else would get it. But what they might not have considered is that nobody should have a trademark on that word in the entertainment space. They’re venturing into some scary territory.

I didn’t know The Witness had 70-80 hours of content. I wouldn’t have expected that. That changes my perception of the game. Maybe it’s worth the asking price after all.

I don’t know much about The Talos Principle, nor do I know its pricing history.

The Professor Layton games have a character-driven story, dialogue, music, multiple characters, and multiple puzzle types. I haven’t seen any of those things in what I’ve seen of The Witness. What would the Professor Layton games have been if you were just walking around with no characters and no music and solving…

QUOTE | “It seems The Witness is the #1 game on a certain popular torrent site. Unfortunately this will not help us afford to make another game!” - Indie developer Jonathan Blow talking about the unfortunate levels of piracy that he’s seen for his much-praised new game The Witness.

It’s going to be a Tomb Raider weekend for me. I’ll be getting back into Rise of the Tomb Raider (Xbox One), and I’ll also be continuing my playthrough of Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (also Xbox One).

Come on, Newegg. Just discount the price. Don’t do this rebate garbage.

Come on, Newegg. Just discount the price. Don’t do this rebate garbage.