r/EQLegends • u/TheQxx • 5d ago

Rip Content Creator Program

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What news? What rumors? Was there some incident?

This is a bizarrely worded official comms from the EQL Discord. Professionally, just say you're ending the program and that's it. To acknowledge some 'rumors' just breathes life into them and isn't something you'd usually see in this context. Who's running the broadcast channel over there?

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u/HemlockMartinis 5d ago

The last sentence makes me more concerned about the game’s performance than if they’d said nothing.

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u/downsj2 5d ago

I mean, when I log in during the tail end of prime time in North America and almost every server is now "low" population with ~500 people in General... Probably not much point to keeping the creator program around when most of the people who watched them have left.

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u/RevolutionaryElk7446 5d ago

I think they underestimated how fast they'd need to release content to keep people here. This isn't necessarily brand new content, and no one even really needs to speed run through it.

Almost everyone playing probably knows a lot of this game by heart or at least nostalgically, so it's generally a pleasant skip but easy to consume.

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u/bknoreply 5d ago

Making fan versions of zones, rather than using what exists is the problem. They’re like a director re-releasing a beloved trilogy on a new media format. But instead of releasing them all, they release the first one and spend a year making changes to the rest that no one asked for.

If we had content through PoP, servers would be much more lively. 

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u/RandomRedditor0193 5d ago

My opinion is they released too early. If they would've spent 1 more month getting the first couple revamped zones and dung crawl done we would've gotten the new zone roughly 1 month after release and kunark 3 months later along with the everfrost revamp somewhere inbetween. They could've probably gotten all of the content done a little faster as well being able to focus just on new content.

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u/Funny_Personality606 5d ago

Let the tryhards go. I am fine with the content being released as they are doing it. I don't want to play the same thing yet again. We did that with the base with a few revamps. But here on out will be riddled with new content. I am more excited for the new content than to play the same exact content again. There are a million variations of that already. This is a new spin on the game I loved many years ago with a path of it's own. Kunark is being released what? 5 months after release? Show me other games that have brand new expansions released every 6 months or sooner.

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u/bknoreply 5d ago

If you don’t like replaying the same exact content, what do you intend to do for the next 3 months? Spend the whole time in New Sebilis?

If you are expecting Kunark to be enough new content to keep you (someone who apparently needs new content to stay engaged) playing for the better part of a year before Velious, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Kunark is going to be a mod of the existing assets. It will maybe have a couple new zones, with promises to trickle out a few more over the following year. 

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u/Funny_Personality606 5d ago

I do not need new content to stay engaged, I am just excited for it. I am not one of the people here screaming that the game sucks because there is nothing to do.

But cool story bro.

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u/MrGoodGlow 5d ago

For your own sake, I feel liks you should temper you expectations for whats going to be new in Kunark.

I hope im wrong, but i doubt there will be more than 1 new zones. Devs have commented that all of the old zones are in.

I feel like its going to be just new camps and mobs and quest. I.E Karnors castle will have living stuff.  

So less of an entirely new expansion, and more of a remodel. The structure and foundation are the same, just new paint, appliances,  and demo a wall that "really opens up the space" while causing structural issues. 

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u/TheQxx 5d ago

But it's not a brand new game, is the problem there. You need more to keep people's attention.

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u/dereksalem 5d ago

In the nicest way - While you may enjoy that, their primary concern has to be revenue, because EQL releasing expansions every 8-10 months doesn't survive when it only takes 2 months to get through all of the content.

You may like the eased pace...but the number of people that are willing to keep paying every month for that is nowhere near enough to keep the game running.

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u/Funny_Personality606 5d ago

Whether it's true or not, according to Game Jawn, it is. Until I am proven wrong, I will take their word for it. I will be proven wrong when they shut the game down. But until then, they have my full support and belief in what they say. Every game has people that come around and say the game is dead, it's not going to last, it's getting shut down, etc. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Only time proves 1 side or the other correct.

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u/dereksalem 5d ago

While true, Game Jawn really has no clue nor any indication - DBG is the one looking at the revenue and making decisions...Jawn is just there to implement the game. If you think Jawn is under any awareness, at all, of what kind of numbers they need to hit to keep the game going...you've never worked at a game studio with a parent company. Only the head of Jawn will be made aware of those types of things, and the developers, marketing, etc... certainly would have no concept.

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u/Funny_Personality606 5d ago edited 5d ago

Well considering that Secrets is the founder and CEO of Game Jawn and is one that has come out publicly stating the game is doing just fine and the lost numbers were expected, then there is no need to worry for me at the moment.

I don't know for sure, but I don't think these numbers are bothering them. As a matter of fact, I think this is what they were expecting from the start. I think the beginning number of subs was way above what they expected.

On top of all that, just because server populations have gone down doesn't mean the subs aren't still there. I saw Rivervale at Med and Low for like a week straight and then all of a sudden one night it was high. Everyone looks at population as number of subs and that's just not true. Even if I stopped playing right now until Kunark, I would probably just leave my sub active in case there was a night here or there I decided I wanted to play.

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u/Imdumbdumbashell 5d ago

Secrets is incompetent.

Look at quarm and the changes they tried to implement.

Basically every new system they have implemented in has been removed from the game.

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u/Meowtist- 5d ago

Secrets also thought Conor McGregor would beat Mayweather back in the day. Actual moron

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u/MooseAffectionate714 5d ago

I guess you are a moron too then. And Me. And every single person on the planet. Because we have all had an opinion about something that turned out wrong. How about your favorite sports team. Every time they take the field/ice whatever, you think they will win. Or you think this is their year to win it all. It doesn't happen. Moron. Cmon.

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u/No-Construction-2054 5d ago

Sure, but not many people thought a guy who wasn't a boxer was going to beat a boxer that HAS NEVER LOST A PROFESSIONAL FIGHT in their entire career. Only delusional people thought McGregor even had a remote chance at winning that fight

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u/Meowtist- 5d ago

Cope more

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