R.I.P. RPG REVOLUTION

author=Rast
Well, it was fun while it lasted but it appears iEntry has finally stopped giving a damn and let the site die

That's not new. In turn, however, the staff on the site also stopped giving a damn, because iEntry gave us less than two damns, and the whole damn site was decreasing in activity, and now it's shut down. Dammit.

There were some invaluable game threads, resources, and articles on that website! Hopefully there is a way to get to those things again so they can be accessed in the future. RRR was where I started in like 2011, which is the time I'm assuming it was already past the start of its decline.

How unfortunate :(

author=Feldschlacht IV
That's unfortunate. Are the old members scattered to the winds, or are they gathering somewhere else?

I think most of the former staff moved to RPG Maker VX Ace.net, but as Rast pointed out, they are here and in HB.

They were the first community I ever truly felt at home with. I was a member of a few other boards and rmxp.org, but none of them made me feel as welcome as RRR (granted, I was an idiot on rmxp.org in particular).

To give you all the scope, being a mod at that site at one point, when the former site owner, Rydin, sold the site to iEntry, controversy stirred over the company's somewhat ambiguous policies. Namely, that any work that's posted within their domain belonged to them, or something. It probably wasn't really the case, but it scared off a lot of the talent who used to post resources and stuff, and since that whole load of drama, very few members would actively contribute anything to the site or the community. This lead to a decline in the amount of forum activity, and even when we made efforts to try to bring it back up with some events, very few people participated.

That was just the first blow, the second came, as Rast mentioned, from the fact that we needed to directly consult iEntry for every change to the main site. We needed to iron out some bugs with the front page, but iEntry would rarely, if ever, respond, and our complaints often fell on deaf ears. RRR was one of the few RM communities that allowed you to host a profile for your games, similar to this site, so not letting us edit the site's code was a big deal.

Years went by, and the staff as a whole was pretty much ready to give up on RRR. Kaz, and a few others in particular moved on to manage the aforementioned RMVXAce.net, and that's pretty much when I left as well, though I took some glances from time to time and was proud to see that some members of the community were attempting to revive the site... But now this happens.

Overall, I really can't say RRR has just suddenly died, it was suffering a slow and painful death for some time now. Shame to see it go down this route, though.

author=Ratty524
That's not new. In turn, however, the staff on the site also stopped giving a damn, because iEntry gave us less than two damns, and the whole damn site was decreasing in activity, and now it's shut down. Dammit.

While it may seem that way, the staff never did stop caring. Jonnie, kaz, and myself still feel like part of our team died, although to be honest, it's been dead long before iEntry finally pulled the plug. The problem was, we were limited in our tools to do anything about it when we knew it was dying.

Kaz and X-M-O both tried relentlessly on a number of occasions to gain the keys to the main site. They had ambitious ideas about cleaning up the main page: creating blogs, adding more game engines, shaping up the game list on the primary site to be more like RMN with user options... all sorts of great ideas to get people to stop by... and iEntry not only refused them access, but refused to even budge and do anything for the main site.

Maybe iEntry didn't feel there was any value to the site anymore once RMW came around and people started to jump ship. Also keep in mind that VX.net went through a sort of mutiny with iEntry around the same time and a lot of staff were cleaned out, so maybe iEntry was tired of trying to run both sites and ensure loyalty in their staff and members.

Regardless, though, iEntry didn't do a damn thing, but to say the staff didn't give a damn either is a bit unfair. Kaz tried until the bitter end. Even with the recent downtime (prior to the site turning off), kaz tried to reach out to iEntry to get them to fix it.

Only time will tell if the same fate befalls VX.net.

Damn. If I'd known they were going under I would have grabbed up as many of their games as possible (and probably had a 'grab a game or two' contest/event thing so that their backlog wasn't lost). They had some of the golden oldies that are now no-where. ;.;

iEntry is the pinnacle of scum. Say what you will about my past gripes, but in the end, the real garbage of it all is iEntry. I doubt rydin, the person who started that whole mess would read, see, or even care about this, but I'll say it anyway; I hope you're proud of yourself buddy.

Welp, this makes RMN the only RPG Maker site I still frequent that hasn't closed down then! Granted I wasn't too active on RRR, but I did visit. Guess it joins Don's Forum, Gaming World and War of the Magi in the grave of deceased RPG Maker sites of yesterday that I used to have a soft spot for.

author=Rast
I can't really blame Rydin for it. It was my understanding that he didn't have time to keep managing the site and that fueled his decision to sell the it when iEntry offered.

Aye, and from what I can remember he was offered a decent sum of money as well - five digits I think? Would any guy in their early 20's have done any different? I certainly wouldn't have.

RM IS DYIGN