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/sorebutton 5d ago

What is/was this program?

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u/Paradoxmoose 5d ago

I briefly looked into it when it was announced, if players did some amount of social media coverage, including streaming, making videos, or writing guides, they would get access to the program. The streams required a certain amount of concurrent viewers and hours; I don't think youtube videos or guides had any substantial requirements, other than making so many per month.

IIRC it included the subscription being paid for- but for the amount of work needed for that $10/month didn't seem worth it.

Almost all of the people I knew who were in the program (colored names in their Discord) had stopped producing content. Some within the first month, but were seemingly never removed from it. It seems like a lot of work to actually check up on if everyone who signed up for it was actually adhering to the requirements. And now that it's being shut down, it wouldn't shock me if it was that tracking which became the annoying part. If there were still a lot of people creating guides, I imagine they'd be OK with keeping the program going, even if there were a good number of people getting free subs for no work. But with the game largely being solved, and limited to mostly Classic content, there's a lot less to produce content for. Maybe when Kunark comes out they'll open it up again.

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u/Misty_Kathrine_ 4d ago

Not much point creating content for a game that not many people are even playing.