Comments on: How Vimeo Lost Me

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:26:34 +0000

I stand corrected. $9.99/month or $59.99/year. Your article was still informative.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:08:13 +0000

I know this is a really old thread, but between the time I signed up last year for plus and today, they *DOUBLED* the cost of the Plus account (from $59.99/year to $9.99/month). Hearing what kind of trouble you had with your indie game and the crap you had to deal with, I’m looking for an alternative now. Thanks for the post.

By: Flavio

Flavio — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:43:39 +0000

Well, i won’t go down the path of arguing if games are art or not, i think that in the context it’s quite clear. “Small scale production” covers indie games, sure.

Seems to me the line is traced between profit and non-profit promotional videos, so in my opinion they should enforce this clause to every form of product, not just games, or find another mean of monetization

By: Krystian Majewski

Krystian Majewski — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:36:01 +0000

The “indie” exception cannot work by the way, when is a developer “indie”?

It is true that the term “indie” is ambiguous. But so is the term “artist” or “small scale production” they already use in their Community Guidelines.

By: Flavio

Flavio — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:25:01 +0000

I can understand their point, even if it’s kinda silly in the first place, but if they want to persevere with this policy they should be coherent… isn’t this a “gameplay”? and it’s not even published by the owner, and it’s a commercial product talking about a commercial product.

The “indie” exception cannot work by the way, when is a developer “indie”? You use it implying that “indie” is “poor – can’t pay a pro account” and “makes games for free”, while the Perssons, the Meat Boys, the Blows now have the means (and the intention to sell and be profitable was there since before) but are still to be considered indie.
There’s no middle ground: making a for-profit product – you pay, otherwise you are relieved.

I’m gonna e-mail the staff giving this feedback, and i think that everybody that is sensitive and takes the time to write a comment here, should find the time to express in a few lines to the Vimeo team what he/she thinks.

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By: Jamie Woodhouse

Jamie Woodhouse — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:54:47 +0000

I’ve also been having technical issues, with embedding Vimeo videos. Sometimes on iOS devices, the embedded video just doesn’t play (about 30% of the time for me, and this is on 2 devices). However, the actual video quality with Vimeo, is far superiour to that I’m getting with YouTube.

I’m looking at DailyMotion, as a Vimeo replacement. Quality seems better than YouTube, just hoping they’re ‘indie friendly’!

By: Dave Holland

Dave Holland — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:05:58 +0000

Just to let you know that we have numerous video game developers using us – vidmeup.com – an alternative, fully customizable video site platform with even more features than Vimeo Pro.
Our Plus package is only $9.95 a month and includes unlimited video length uploads, no ads, 2GB storage space per month and unlimited downloads on your domain too if you want.

By: BronzeBeard

BronzeBeard — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:43:43 +0000

Wow, thanks for posting this. I was going to upload my video game to vimeo sometime next week. Guess I’ll just load it up on youtube.