What's happening with Adventure Game Hotspot's YouTube channel

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Being the observant adventure gamers you are, many of you will have already noticed that as of Wednesday morning, the YouTube channel for Adventure Game Hotspot is no longer accessible.

We can’t get deep into specifics just yet, and indeed it’s too early to have any definitive answers, but for now we can tell you that the channel has been suspended by YouTube indefinitely.

The issue stems from a series of complaints regarding videos of convention panels filmed at (our very own!) Adventure Game Fan Fair. The reasons given were meaninglessly vague and the complaints completely spurious, and we strongly believe them to have been instigated by a person or persons acting in bad faith. Unfortunately, the only alerts we received from YouTube came all at once in the middle of the night, and by morning the channel had already been zapped.

Even more problematic is YouTube’s highly restrictive appeal process, which makes disputing even patently ridiculous claims like this a major obstacle. (It’s challenging enough just getting to speak to a real person.)

Rest assured we’ll be taking whatever steps are necessary to escalate the dispute as high and far as it needs to go for this blatantly unjust suspension to be overturned.

While our YouTube trailer channel remains active, it’s linked to the same user account so we will not be uploading any new game videos to it until this issue is resolved. (We will, however, still be displaying all new trailers from their original sources on the Hotspot website itself.)

Anyway, yeah, this sucks and we're angry. We do apologize for the inconvenience, but stay tuned as we hope it’s just a matter of time before we put the matter behind us.