Persona 5 developers updated their streaming guidelines, but didn’t fix the big problem
Atlus is walking back its previous restrictions for streaming Persona 5. Where players were warned before not to stream past the in-game date of 7 / 7, the publisher has since amended those rules to 11 / 19, the staring point of late-game content. It’s an improvement that still fails to fully address the wants of the community it’s serving.
Since Persona 5‘s release, developer Atlus has been very particular about what players are and aren’t allowed to share online. The PlayStation 4’s share features are disabled outright. Streamers who played past 7 / 7 did so “at the risk of being issued a content ID claim or worse, a channel strike/account suspension,” as per Atlus. The company’s reasoning was comically simplistic: It wanted to…
