Well, I guess that is his opinion. But, the poll question at the end is going to give misleading results. "Have you lost the desire to buy a game by watching a

Well, I guess that is his opinion. But, the poll question at the end is going to give misleading results. "Have you lost the desire to buy a game by watching a Let's Play Video?" Yes, I have. I can't remember which game it was, but what I do remember is thinking "Oh, dang, that game does not look like fun to me. Glad I just saved some cash not buying it." So, I would have to answer Yes. However, I watch others and have rebought games including Starflight, Ultima 4, and Star Control 2 from GOG because I watched Let's Play and wanted to play it myself again. A lot of the time, I buy my games via Steam, GoG, or the discount bundles. On the pages, they usually have 1 or 2 videos and a handful of screenshots. Too often the video teaser they have is a bunch of fading text telling me that the game has "Over 20 graphics shaders!" and some snapshots of concept art and then half a second of "actual" gameplay which shows an external camera pointed at the player doing whatever to show off the graphics instead of the HUD or how the player will actually be playing the game. Those videos hurt game sales way more than any Let's Play series I have ever watched.