Kate's video link

[Hydrataur]

I started replaying the game and I just got to episode 2 and noticed something wierd. While in the showers, you see Victoria write the link to Kate's video on the mirror. The thing that is wierd for me is that the site is called katesvid.com, which means they created an entire website just for the one video. Why?

[Sanguine]

vid has been removed

[bryrk]

I mean, have you ever tried to write out a full youtube URL? Probably made the website for easy sharing

[Korbin]

If you are better than others you can't do what everyone else is doing...

[klionh87]

It's not weird, really.

Creating that kind of "website" is cheap and easy, it would take...maybe 5 minutes and a few dollars, less if you already have other unrelated websites going (and Victoria strikes me as the kind who does).

It makes for far better sharing than some anonymous url, so if your goal is maximum diffusion, it's a perfectly logical thing to do...

[Sanguine]

Someone has a youtube link or something to the vid?

[HecklerVane]

Originally posted by KLK:

Someone has a youtube link or something to the vid?

The video doesn't exist at all. The website is just an easter egg.

[Sanguine]

Originally posted by HecklerVane:

Originally posted by KLK:

Someone has a youtube link or something to the vid?

The video doesn't exist at all. The website is just an easter egg.

I feel dumb.

[Korbin]

A remake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLDtTaoRUPQ

[Cmdo.Delta]

Guys, the whole site is just a BIG picture.. there was never a youtube video.

[AshHinton]

Originally posted by <.GP}Cmdo.Delta:

Guys, the whole site is just a BIG picture.. there was never a youtube video.

It is indeed a few big graphics and some text, view source in your web browsers.

headerimgebig.jpg
youtube.jpg

Kudos to the devs for thinking ahead and registering the site (registered in jan 2015) and putting a holding page up there. Personally I would have added a link to http://lifeisstrange.com/talk considering what happened to Kate in the game but that is a very minor criticism.

At the moment the domain registration expires in 2019, so its safe for the next few years at least.

[CZBGR Icepick]

There are a lot of broken links in this game.

[AshHinton]

Originally posted by CZBGR Icepick:

There are a lot of broken links in this game.

Other links seen in the game could be deliberately broken, for example using syntax that would never work.

I think the katesvid URL is the one people would most likely try, hence it was registered. Whether it was part of the original game concept or not I'm glad someone did. If it wasn't registered anyone could have purchased the domain later and hosted whatever content they liked at the URL given in the game.

[CZBGR Icepick]

Originally posted by AshHinton:

Originally posted by CZBGR Icepick:

There are a lot of broken links in this game.

Other links seen in the game could be deliberately broken, for example using syntax that would never work.

I think the katesvid URL is the one people would most likely try, hence it was registered. Whether it was part of the original game concept or not I'm glad someone did. If it wasn't registered anyone could have purchased the domain later and hosted whatever content they liked at the URL given in the game.

Syntax? Could you provide an example?

[AshHinton]

If I remember next time I play LiS I will, but also if you know of any examples? by syntax I mean a url or a link presented in a way which will never work.

Either way I think any links in LiS except for katesvid are not designed to work in the real world.

[CZBGR Icepick]

Not possible. The address strings are correct. They just don't exist themselves.