Fez-skaberen Phil Fish er tilbage i vælten, efter han har meldt ud på Twitter at folk, der laver YouTube-videoer med andres spil kort sagt er nogle snyltere, der skylder udviklerne penge. Alt andet er kort sagt pirateri, mener han.
"YouTubers should have to pay out a huge portion of their revenue to the developers from which they steal all their content," skrev Fish på Twitter (som gengivet på GameSpot). "[Ad] revenue should be shared with developers. This should be built into YouTube. Anything else is basically piracy."
Det er ikke første gang, Fish skaber kontrovers på Twitter, og denne gang lader han til helt at have slettet sin Twitter-konto i kølvandet på udmeldingen. Tidligere valgte Fish at droppe udviklingen af Fez II, efter bølgerne gik højt på Twitter.
Inden han lukkede sin konto, havde han dog mere at sige:
"If you generate money from putting my content on your channel, you owe me money. Simple as that. If you buy a movie, are you then allowed to stream the entirety of it publicly for people to watch for free? No, because that's illegal. Systems are in place to prevent that."
"But buy Fez, put ALL of it on YouTube, turn on ads, make money from it and that's TOTALLY FINE. And the developer should in NO WAY be compensated for their work being freely distributed to the world. Right. Makes sense."
Fishs udmelding kommer kort efter nyheden om, at YouTuberen PewDiePie tjener millioner af kroner på sine spilvideoer.