The Nintendo Creators Program – which allows YouTube ‘Let’s Players’ to conditionally play Nintendo games under a set of guidelines – is officially undergoing some changes.  Nintendo recently changed part of the program’s guidelines regarding live streaming, which will incidentally affect a substantial percent of the program’s community.  The change – which can be found under the Nintendo Creators Program Q&A section – states that “Live streaming on YouTube falls outside the scope of the Nintendo Creators Program,” according to the newly added guideline.  “You cannot broadcast content on YouTube Live from the account you have registered on the Nintendo Creators Program.”

Thankfully, those that have made a name for themselves live streaming Nintendo games are not completely out of luck, thanks to a few available workarounds.  Instead of committing a YouTuber’s entire channel to the Nintendo Creators Program, streamers can instead register their content on a video-by-video basis with Nintendo.  Nintendo provided a rundown of the workaround, seen here:

Live streaming on YouTube falls outside the scope of the Nintendo Creators Program. You cannot broadcast content on YouTube Live from the account you have registered to the Nintendo Creators Program. If you plan to broadcast content on YouTube Live, you have a couple of options. First, you can broadcast content on YouTube Live from a channel that is not registered to the Nintendo Creators Program. Or, you can cancel your channel’s registration to the Nintendo Creators Program and instead, register your videos containing Nintendo’s IP to the program separately. Videos which had previously been registered through your channel would need to be reregistered individually.”

While the workaround itself can be tiresome, at least Nintendo isn’t completely abandoning its YouTube live streamers.  In regards to the company’s reasoning, it makes solid sense for Nintendo to put at least a minor buffer wall between itself and live streamers, especially given the massive fallout from the PewDiePie controversy, where the  ‘love him or hate him’ popular YouTuber used racist language during a livestream.  Hopefully this will be the end of Nintendo’s changes to the Creators Program, as any more inconveniencing guideline changes could drastically set back the relationship with video game developers and streamers.

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