Update: Persona 5 Streaming Restrictions Eased, Not Removed

As reported by Kotaku yesterday, ATLUS has finally started to get the idea that their recent restrictions on streaming for Persona 5 were not terribly well thought out.  They have not, however, completely removed those restrictions.  Instead, they have simply pushed the limit for how far into the game one can stream up to about the start of the final act.  As part of their press release regarding this change, ATLUS addressed the hostile tone of their previous restrictions:

"We also want to apologize to those of you who saw the previous guidelines blog post as threatening. We want to be transparent about what we do, and the reason we released the guidelines was to give streamers the right information up front. It was never our intention to threaten people with copyright strikes, but we clearly chose the wrong tone for how to communicate this."

This doesn't change much in the way of the larger problems pointed out in my earlier rant, but it is a vague sort of progress.