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Regardless of whether this is a good or bad idea from Intrepid's point of view, I have one question for you, @Murgo :

If those videos said "Sponsored by Intrepid Studios" at the end, would you still feel reassured by his approach, and lead to trust the game's development? Or would the "indicator of monetary bias" negatively affect your perception of Narc's trustworthyness?

Depending on how that sort of thing affects his audience (I'm not familiar), it may be that regardless of how it affects Intrepid, this could be at least slightly bad for Narc.

Intrepid is already working on setting up a Content Creator Program, which offers many various benefits to content creators like Narc. All he has to do is submit a form saying "hey, I'm a content creator! hook me up!".

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(ref: Official Content Creator Program )

They've already received almost more applications than can handle and were looking at adding a staff member specifically to manage this program a while back. They're still working on getting it off the ground last I heard, but Intrepid is definitely doing their part. If you think Narc isn't aware of it through his research, maybe tell him. Otherwise, though, I think you're set.

I think the main reason you got the responses you did is you started out by asking Intrepid to sponsor Narc, which (in most contexts these days) basically always means money or physical stuff. You may not have meant "hey you guys should pay my specific favorite creator to make videos for you", but that's what everyone heard. Particularly since you never mentioned what kind of support you did mean, it was the only reasonable assumption.