Didn't he slam PES myclub as gambling and told his subscribers to stay away from it only to then backtrack after Konami sponsored him? On the subject of backtracking Spoony and TTB who both have a vested interest in the PES/eFootball franchise are no longer critsizing the footage of efootball. What a surprise eh?
Both those claims seem pretty odd to me. What do you mean by "sponsored"? There's not been any statement to that effect by any party, so it sounds like conjecture on your end. In which case, it can't support the conclusion you want to make of it. Incidentally, I'm not sure what you mean by backtracking here. I'm not aware of him in particular defending gambling in games. Perhaps you can point it out. It wouldn't be good if he did.
Second bit: "no longer criticizing the footage" – you mean the leaked footage that he wrote a comment about to say: won't be talking about it, as I'll have something better to talk about next week; i.e., the actual game he'll be playing? If so, that's not refraining from criticism. It's waiting to play something.
I guess we'll see from how he talks about his impressions how far the effect of being given early playtest code has influenced his ability to be objective. But I don't see the point of predicting that ahead of time. (In the past, though, I've thought Barry/PES Universe have been pretty weak when it comes to talking about playtest builds they've had early access to; it's always a worry that people don't want to criticise some party who gives them things early access, even subliminally.)
Spoony Pizzas uses his YouTube platform to both promote PES and make money from it. He monetises his videos and also gets pissy with anyone in the comments who offer the option file to someone else.
He’s out for himself, to make money and shill hard for Konami so he gets early access to stuff etc - again, this will bring in views which equals money.
PES was always about community, kit makers doing it for their love of the game, everyone helping each other find the best option files, comparing Master League journeys and…you know all of this because you’re also a lover of PES.
PES Universe don’t even have the ‘Bronze’ section on their site anymore. No free option files. You pay them or get out of town, they will talk to you like shit. I’ve witnessed it on several occasions. TTB and Spoony Pizzas can fuck off and I’ve got no problem saying it.
The biggest issue I have is the hypocrisy of it all. They complain that people download their option file for free (one guy will buy it and then upload it to his Google Drive for everyone to use) yet PES Universe pay NO royalties to any of the businesses, organisations etc for using their logos, kit designs etc. They don’t even get permission from any of the clubs or companies. Which is fine - but don’t complain when others refuse to pay you for something which has always been community driven and available for the love of football gaming, NOT profit.
First claim: I'm not a big fan of revenue from advertising on YouTube in general. But practically all "content creators" do it, and I don't think it's worth singling out any of them in particular for it, unless the ad breaks are especially common and egregiously placed. Fwiw, that's not simply "making money from [PES]" – it's making money by playing PES and doing something with it (tips videos, reviews, master league series, whatever it is that people tune into his channel for).
Re "getting pissy" – look, it's a long debate and I don't really think the issue of paid OFs is simple and easy to break down. I think I come at it from the other side to Spoony Pizzas, but the arguments he probably believes in (probably something like: "people who put time and effort into something deserve remuneration") are at least intelligible, and don't represent some craven bastardised money-grabbing logic.
If a person already thinks paid OFs are fine and piracy is bad, even though I would likely disagree (especially re piracy point), it's a natural consequence that such a person would get pissy about (in effect) piracy requests in the comments of their videos. It's not some special vice, at that point.
Re "out for himself/shill hard" – oh come on, hardly! He's regularly critical of Konami, both in terms of their marketing/approach and the gameplay of games, builds, patches, demos, etc. The cynicism here is just lazy and unwarranted.
Re PES Universe having no free files any more – didn't know that, and I don't particularly care. I've never given them a dime anyway, and I won't be.
Re "PES Universe pay NO royalties..." to companies and brands – lol what? Is this now an argument in favour of copyright bollocks? You say it's about hypocrisy, but that argument then becomes fallacious (somebody's doing X may be wrong because it's unjustified, but not because that same person elsewhere says X is wrong). It's a neither-here-nor-there point. Moreover, nobody who gave them money in exchange for an OF would for a second have thought that money from the sale goes towards remunerating companies, etc. It's just not part of the implicit contract here.
The stronger point you alluded to there is that it's wrong to sell OFs for profit, and goes against the community-driven values of OFs in the past before anybody charged anything. But that includes a premise you've assumed (that they profit, instead of putting the money into site maintenance, remunerating editors, getting designs for their "content" done, etc.). I don't really know, myself, where the money goes and how it's spent (do you?), but I can imagine it's not a lot really, and a good bulk of it goes to site maintenance.
Aside from that problem, you can bring up community-driven traditions and values, but you have to be very selective about who is part of "the community" in that case. Realistically, there are many different sets of interlocking communities that make up the PES audience, and some of those see nothing wrong at all with paying for OFs; even see it as a good thing. Besides, it's an older practice than PES Universe (didn't Daymos charge before?), and a lot of people simply see a small payment as a thank you to someone for improving their playing experience. It is not, in that case, a practice steeped in the inherently exploitative logic of capitalism, which is where I think much of the hoo-hah around this topic borrows its rhetoric from.
In other words, suppose Konami now withhold the kits from players of the game and start selling them as DLC add-ons – that would be a fundamentally different kind of charge, and one that's genuinely exploitative and worth getting up in arms about.
