Comments on: Why Vimeo’s “No Game” Policy Is a Mistake

By: inchoative

inchoative — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:44:07 +0000

Yeah, what he said. Vimeo wants to be an erudite video sharing site for the "artiste". I've notice they frankly discriminate in the way the big channels are edited (like he HD channel) against anything that doesn't fit some "20-something hipster at film school" mold. I've seen, for example, some users with really interesting travel shorts, beautifully shot, and yet they aren't featured.

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By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:40:54 +0000

GameVee has HD videos similar to Vimeo. everyone i know is moving there. WeGame is basically YouTube quality...

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:49:08 +0000

Look…this is a place for people who have talent and not those that have too much time on their hands. Stop complaining…there is other places to post your RECORDING OF GAMES…

By: quirk

quirk — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:50:17 +0000

From what I gathered by actually reading the reasons behind this move, it has nothing to do with copyright. It's based on the amount of resources these videos use up, and how they affect the larger community of users.

In the end, it's a free service by a private company, so they can obviously do anything they want. From my experience there, they always put the user first in their decisions. I could see them doing the same thing if thousands of people started uploading 30min screencasts of filling out Excel spreadsheets.

By: Fraser

Fraser — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:20:32 +0000

There are plenty of other websites out there for gaming videos. http://www.wipido.com is another one of them. Vimeo is making a strong editorial decision for the betterment of the community.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:18:38 +0000

I think what Vimeo is doing is perfectly fine.

Vimeo was not created to share things "with family and friends". It was created as a larger creative community. They want to create a network of creative videographers not screengrabbing gamers.

I agree with Dalas as well, such early comments are completely baseless and any effect will take a while to truly be reflected.

I think this is a smart move on Vimeo's part. There are plenty of other sites to share gaming videos on and I never saw Vimeo as one of them.

By: dalas v

dalas v — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:14:46 +0000

It seems "short sighted" to claim the decision was a mistake so soon after it was made. None of us can predict the impact this decision will have months from now. We're doing what we perceive to be the best for our community.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:18:57 +0000

GameVee.com is a video sharing site specifically for gamers. They do high quality conversions and can also pull Halo 3 films from your XBOX 360 can convert them for the web as well via Grab without a capture card. http://www.gamevee.com

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By: Tim Street

Tim Street — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:56:41 +0000

I've heard that other FREE services have certain/specific content that they don't want posted on their sites as well.

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