Well, At Least You Can Still Play Nier: Automata With Music On Twitch
Nier: Automata will still let people stream with audio on Twitch, according to Square Enix’s latest streaming guidelines.
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There’s a bit of a kerfuffle going on at Twitch where streamers are getting DMCA takedown notices for… well, pretty much anything. Games with copyrighted music, voices, and even sound effects are getting taken down with no recourse for the streamer other than to complain on social media, which many of them are doing.
Twitch’s answer has been to simply stream games without any in-game sound on, which is obviously a less-than-ideal solution. However, there’s at least one game that you can still stream with the sound on, and that’s Nier: Automata.
Square Enix recently updated their streaming guidelines for Nier: Automata, and it takes the refreshingly consumer-friendly approach of allowing people to stream the game over the internet. They just have a few rules you have to abide by if you’re going to stream this three and a half years-old game.
First and foremost, you have to put up spoiler warnings for anyone who hasn’t already played the game. One suspects this rule was the direct result of a request from Nier director Yoko Taro, but Square doesn’t say one way or the other.
Next, you can’t add any sounds or music to the game itself, but you are allowed to talk over the in-game sound and music. Streamers are now allowed to rejoice.
One crucial rule stipulates that in-game sound and music cannot be extracted from the game for use in other media. This means there’s no capturing video, taking out the music, and then broadcasting that music separate from the game even if you just want to listen to it.
“Posting only audio tracks and/or music data as standalone content, and/or posting video content with the sole intention of permitting listening to the game’s music,” writes Square Enix, “is not permitted.”
It’s a fine set of rules and ones that I think we can all abide by. Sadly, it doesn’t seem like other intellectual property holders are going to be as permissive when it comes to streaming on Twitch.
Source: Twitter/Square Enix
Link Source : https://www.thegamer.com/nier-automata-music-twitch-streaming/