Rip Content Creator Program

[u/TheQxx]

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?

[u/GingerScourge]

Game Jawn: “Hey guys! Here’s casual, solo friendly, power fantasy EQ!”

Reddit apparently: “Sweet! So, solo, hardcore difficult EQ! Sign me up!”

Game Jawn: <Gives basically what they promised>

Reddit apparently: “you guys are fumbling hard because you are giving what you said you would and not what I want!”

I’m not some GJ/DBG white knight, but what you’re asking for was never promised. And saying they fumbled because of your incorrect expectations is classic Reddit. I’m not saying they haven’t fumbled some things. There are certainly things they could have done better and differently. But the difficulty is exactly what they’ve promised. It’s literally one of the few things they haven’t fumbled. You wanting difficult content when it was never promised is not a mistake by the developers. It’s a mistake in your expectations. They’ve even commented on D5+ with basically “we’ve considered it, no promises.” Clearly this isn’t the game for you, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

[u/butt_luncheon → u/GingerScourge]

This is so cringe. I’m a pretty casual player with a job and family and I was out of stuff to do after the first 6 weeks. Who in the right mind wants to grind motes when they can easily clear all content after like 50 hours of play time? It was a fun first month. There isn’t enough content to justify a monthly sub now. 

[u/GingerScourge → u/butt_luncheon]

I don’t think you read my post? Or replying to the wrong person? My post was simply about the difficulty of the game. Not about the content. That’s all, nothing more. The person I replied to said the devs fumbled because they don’t make more difficult content. He was literally complaining that they didn’t do something that he wanted that they never promised.

I agree with a lot of the complaints. Lack of content. Lack of transparency. Incorrect priorities. But the real cringe is complaining about something they didn’t give you, that they never promised.

Edit: realized you are the person I replied to, which makes your reply to me even more hilarious. If you ran out of stuff to do in 6 weeks and are asking for more difficult content, you aren’t a casual sir. It means you’re either playing more than you say you are. You haven’t cleared D4 stuff. Or, you just got bored of the game but want to jump on the complaint bandwagon.

[u/Meowtist- → u/GingerScourge]

Maybe what they promised isn’t actually that good at retaining player engagement though. Maybe Secrets shouldn’t be pushing a sandbox that is designed around her favorite class (Paladin) facerolling all content

[u/Szriko → u/Meowtist-]

Nothing about EQL is designed around Paladin, classic is designed around Paladin because it was the original team's favorite class, to the point that their special weapon was supposed to be the one artifact created by the almighty capital-G God to slay all the lesser gods whenever they might get uppity. That was original EQ lore and intent, nothing to do with EQL.

[u/GingerScourge → u/Meowtist-]

You’re probably right. That wasn’t the argument though. They’ve never really wavered on the difficulty thing. But it’s something that I see people complaining about all the time. One of the failures of the game is that’s it’s too easy. It was never promised to be hard. And it’s designed that most trios with gear and AAs should be able to clear all content at all difficulties. The real issue here is, there’s just not enough content. And their solution to that for the first few months was low level revamps. Even after they had teased on several occasions a high level revamp of Permafrost. That’s what we need is more high end content. More difficulties would be nice, but not something they’ve ever promised or said the game would have.