Amazon Games claimed to Asmongold in a statement on Tuesday that they intend to reinstate the video from Video Game DataBank that they filed a copyright strike against this week, which reported a player progression bug. The strike initially looked like an attempt to deplatform a creator for criticizing the company. According to Amazon, the strike was a mistake, and they meant to DMCA a gold-selling ad instead.
The creator reported a crafting progression bug to Amazon Games support this week and linked to his video about it. Rather than getting the bug issue resolved, however, he was hit with a manual copyright strike from Amazon. Strikes have the potential to get your YouTube account banned permanently.
In response to the strike, Video Game DataBank made a video about it, expressing his anger and frustration at being punished for trying to help out Amazon, and promising to never report on bugs again, lest he lose his channel. That video picked up speed on Reddit and with endemic gaming publications, leading to influencers like Asmongold spotlighting the issue and putting pressure on Amazon to fix the situation.
According to Asmongold, Amazon claims the copyright strike was purely a mistake, and that they intended to DMCA a gold-selling ad that was placed on the video. He went on to claim that "Amazon did nothing wrong" despite them making a mistake that could have potentially destroyed the YouTube channel of a New World creator.
As of writing this article, the video is once again available to watch on Video Game DataBank's channel.
