WOW, THE OFFICIAL RPG MAKER SITE FORUM RULES ARE..... WOW!

This thread is literally why I signed up for this forum. Due to the very same issue that I can't cope with the stingy stiff third grade E rated Disney movie shit. Never been into censorship. So this is my very first comment with my new account. lol

author=Jparker1984

author=IamGilgamesh
This thread is literally why I signed up for this forum. Due to the very same issue that I can't cope with the stingy stiff third grade E rated Disney movie shit. Never been into censorship. So this is my very first comment with my new account. lol

Welcome lol. We aren't a bunch of thugs here, but we just like a looser set of rules. It's more fun that way, right guys? lol.

Blame my apathy.

They're the reason I'm here too. Actually, they're the reason I almost abandoned RPG Maker completely. I was like "holy crap their official face is this toxic?"

The thing is their users were generally fine. Their staff were just absolutely horrible human beings filled with pettiness, completely unfounded arrogance, and this nonsense crusade to hinder community activity.

Their REAL rules are:
-DO NOT, at any time, post on our forums. If you do, you may be banned.
-DO NOT discuss things. Especially games. Saying the name of a commercially released game is copyright infringement and is therefore illegal.
-DO NOT use RPG Maker.
-If you do, then do not put any more than parallel 5 events on your map. Also no maps should be bigger than 50x50 tiles. If you make maps bigger or with more events, nobody's computer will be able to handle the strain.
-The staff reserves the right to copy your friendly answer to somebody's question, delete your post, and then post it and claim it as their own.
-The staff reserves the right to edit your post to make it look like you said whatever the hell we want you to.

Seriously, it pisses me off that I was even there.

author=Dragnfly
They're the reason I'm here too. Actually, they're the reason I almost abandoned RPG Maker completely. I was like "holy crap their official face is this toxic?"

The thing is their users were generally fine. Their staff were just absolutely horrible human beings filled with pettiness, completely unfounded arrogance, and this nonsense crusade to hinder community activity.

Their REAL rules are:
-DO NOT, at any time, post on our forums. If you do, you may be banned.
-DO NOT discuss things. Especially games. Saying the name of a commercially released game is copyright infringement and is therefore illegal.
-DO NOT use RPG Maker.
-If you do, then do not put any more than parallel 5 events on your map. Also no maps should be bigger than 50x50 tiles. If you make maps bigger or with more events, nobody's computer will be able to handle the strain.
-The staff reserves the right to copy your friendly answer to somebody's question, delete your post, and then post it and claim it as their own.
-The staff reserves the right to edit your post to make it look like you said whatever the hell we want you to.

Seriously, it pisses me off that I was even there.

Um... having been behind the scenes on the RMW forums quite often, they don't do half that stuff I can tell you now. Yeah, they're a bit harsher and restrictive with their rules but they definitely do NOT edit posts, nor do they copy/delete posts. (They do hide posts that are inflammatory or break the rules, however, and they may copy/paste an answer that perfectly sums up something that can help answer someone else's question/s, which is fair enough, but they don't delete the initial answer.)

They definitely don't tell you not to use their own product, that's for sure? (I mean, unless you've been stupid enough to let slip that you have a pirated version which is fair enough since they're, you know, the OFFICIAL forums.) They do let you discuss games, and they do let you post in the forums unless you've been banned for something.

I like how "Hey, keep things family-friendly and on-topic and don't say shit that'll start fights" is now "toxic." Bunch of people here who just can't stomach the idea of different subjects being appropro for different venues.

author=Sooz
I like how "Hey, keep things family-friendly and on-topic and don't say shit that'll start fights" is now "toxic." Bunch of people here who just can't stomach the idea of different subjects being appropro for different venues.

Even RMN has its limits, which causes issues when people find themselves over them and then get shocked that OMG THEY EXIST. >.<;

And yeah, they have to be harsher and more careful with their public image because they are official. They can't let some of the shit slide that we do because kids actually visit their site pretty often and they keep it family friendly. It makes complete sense and that's good - it's necessary for a forum to have limitations, else chaos and crazy rules the day.



Rips are allowed in the games themselves as long as it's not incredibly blatant and in-your-face. They don't want to stomp out games, but they also want to encourage people to make games without rips.

I like you guys too much to go anywhere else. Plus game pages omnomnom

I like RMN more because of its community and gamepages (although RMW has some forum features that we really need to catch up on), I think it's a bad look for this topic to devolve into 'wow RMW' sucks, because it doesn't.

Ideally, we want people to cross over from there and vice versa to make the community flourish as a whole, and that's not something we can do via shit talking.