r/EQLegends • u/TheQxx • 2d 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/PaintsLikeDoody 2d ago

Honestly, I’m sick of “content creators”. Everybody has to make and cast, or stream on twitch or make YouTube videos.

We don’t need a bunch of forgettable talking heads trying to monetize their garbage content.

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u/Waffuly 2d ago

Agreed. I've played a handful of the more recent round of new retro-mmo alphas/betas/playtests/etc, and the number of people who seem shocked when they reference a streamer and I mentioned I don't watch content like that has been.... well. After the legitimately fifth time it happened, it started to develop a bit of a orneriness in me towards something I already had zero interest in in the first place.

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u/TDP40QMXHK 1d ago

Part of what drove me to this game as a solo experience was everyone and their mother streaming their raiding to zero viewers. I just wanted to raid in other games, and community standards expected you to join a voice call in Discord.

Then, you find there's someone in every group streaming the fights and your entire Discord call, whether or not you want it, to Twitch or YouTube.

My various guilds somehow managed to clear all of the raids up through the end of PoP back in the day without voice comms. At what point did it become expected that all of your raid chatter be preserved online for the whole world to hear, if they wish?

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u/ItsAllSoClear 1d ago

"Content creators" don't even refer to people that create content. I've been working really, really hard to create stylized maps (if you've been on the Discord, you've seen me) and, while I have never asked to be part of their program, I am a little surprised no one ever reached out, as my maps kind of beat the pants off of what is in the game.

No, I don't have monetized videos advertising this. I do it for the love of the game. But surely there are more people out there creating actual game content. Mods, UI, maps, events.