DOES ANYONE REMEMBER RPGRPGREVOLUTION? (REMEMBERING RRR)

Posts

Pages: first 123 next last
Previous Threads:
Does anyone remember GamingGroundZero?
Does anyone remember GamingW?(Remembering GamingW)
----
...Like the other threads, this is probably going to take awhile to get filled out, but I wanted to throw this up anyways, while there's still a few people around who remember what actually happened.

Someone wrote a brief post about RRR's demise back in 2014:
https://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/15662/

I know - like GamingW - there are a lot of members from RRR's community who make up what RMN is today, so RRR's history is something I look forward to hearing about immensely.

Unfortunately, I don't know much about RRR, my visit was relatively brief - unlike GamingW and GamingGroundZero, I'm actually not too familiar with RRR; I only visited the site very briefly around 2009ish while I was training to be a prep chef and the only games I played were Cyon's "Name 73" and "Origin" and RanMaster's "Alex Unleashed" which eventually migrated here over to RMN.

I remember talking to the owner of RRR and wanting to write reviews for the site, but real life responsibilities just sort of took me away from this and it just never really panned out. But other than this info, I really know next to nothing about the site itself or it's community.

...But supposedly there's a rumour - or this is the story anyways - but supposedly, shortly after creating RRR the owner/creator eventually got kicked out his own site?

Is this true? Can someone confirm this? Cause this sounds like a really interesting story that's worth talking about. Either way, I was hoping Nessiah or someone more familiar with RRR: could, fill in the blanks.

So yeah, please share your thoughts/memories of RRR. It's been ten years, so any information is good information. The more info the better! ❤

EDIT: Also, if you guys know of any games that you feel are worth mentioning that came from RRR, make sure to mention them!

Games:
Alex Unleashed
Legionwood: Tale of the Two Swords
Name73
Origin
I didn't really hang out there, but I did post a few of my games. What I remember most is the inane rules around game topics, and how much pointless extraneous information was required that only really fit if you were posting a traditional RPG with deep characters and a long story. I think I mocked it by posting about my characters' eye color, blood type, and favorite shampoo.
Yellow Magic
Could I BE any more Chandler Bing from Friends (TM)?
3154
IIRC, the Owner/Creator SOLD the site to a company called iEntry. Things went downhill from there, though.
Sailerius
did someone say angels
3214
I was the moderator of the project forum for a while in its latter years. It was a pretty friendly community, and I met a lot of friends there that I'm still close to years later. Ultimately, it couldn't compete with RMW, which had official Degica staff and support.
RanMaster was pretty godlike. I remember DarkGaia's Legionwood was really popular on there.

Tbh I saw it as sort of the divide between the 2k3 to XP/VX transition and a "noob community" that seemed leaned on people posting their games without worrying about reputation, standards or drama (though I'm sure its had its share). Me and my friend used to download the worst looking fangames we could find and would riff on them over skype, though really I'd find them on other communities as well. I wasn't really active on RRR that much and it was just part of an immature phase where I had to look down on some other community that wasn't mine.

Kind of a negative impression lol. In hindsight I just think it's sad when a phpbb style forum devoted to RPGMaker shuts down for good. The Degica site is cool and all but it's nice to have more unofficial sites with some sort of independence.
I remember Ocean was the most active member there too and started posting his pixel art tutorials. But to be honest, I barely hanged out in RRR.

I remember posting a set of artwork and it's like 15 dollars for 6 bust up with pose changes and I got told it was too expensive. Then I left forever lol.
Yeah, I used to be a member on RRR for a little while back in the days, but I eventually stopped going there all together because the site traffic there was quite low compared to sites like RMN and RPG Maker Web. And, like Sated mentioned earlier, the front page of the site was a complete mess.

It’s a shame, because some of the users on there were pretty cool people. And the profile page customization page was pretty neat. I even liked how you could upgrade in status after a certain amount of posts made or so. There was even a leaderboard for the most amount of posts made in a day that you could view at any time that you wished. It was like trying to be like RMN in some ways, but it was hard for them to compete against the better functionally – and wider traffic levels – of a place like RMN or an RPG Maker Web.
It's hilarious that they even had a database and review system there, but it was literally rotting on the main site, because their community was 5 % old mommies older than 55 years (those were their staff by the way X-D) and 95 % unproductive kids all doing smalltalk in the forums only ...
So the best of their games were stolen projects from other sites and the rest were 5 minute long VX noob games full of gigantic ripped videos. ^^

Oh, and the fact that "The_Bizarre_Monkey" was one of their top and most popular members, says a lot about RRR ...
Yellow Magic
Could I BE any more Chandler Bing from Friends (TM)?
3154
author=Deacon Batista
their community was 5 % old mommies older than 55 years (those were their staff by the way X-D) a

The only one I remember fitting this description is Kaz, who IIRC was genuinely cool. Wonder how she's doing now...
author=Yellow Magic
author=Deacon Batista
their community was 5 % old mommies older than 55 years (those were their staff by the way X-D) a
The only one I remember fitting this description is Kaz, who IIRC was genuinely cool. Wonder how she's doing now...


...Yeah, I felt like I didn't need to mention this in the topic thread, but I'm going to mention it anyways:

Guys, please try to keep your comments positive or at least "neutral". A lot of these rpgmaker communities have their own share of problems, I get that, but I want to try and present both sides equally, the bad and the good, when talking about these old rpgmaker communities.

Stuff like Kentona's, Darken's and Nessiah's comments are fine, because it shows the tone of the site, it's interactivity, as well as the experience level of most of it's users.

You can still make negative comments, you can even write about negative experiences, but nothing scathing or mean spirited, okay? I don't want someone to get into a fight over this. I'm just trying to gather info here.

RRR had many different members, from many different walks of life, with many different opinions and perspectives, I want to try and capture all of them, if possible.
The only one I remember fitting this description is Kaz

Don't forget "Lyric" or "From_Ariel" ... LOL. ^^

Well, LordBlueRouge, I wanted to say something positive, but since there wasn't anything positive about that community, I just couldn't.
BUT I can help people like Yellow Magic out who want to know how their members are doing now ... Although I don't get the sense of this. I mean, ok, I heard there are even people who like to watch the new Disney Star Wars films ... Must be fun to see how terribly your old heroes have aged and how they all got killed off one after another on or off screen.
Therefore, here you may be able to see how the RRR remnants have aged:
www.save-point.org (RRR graveyard)
I only interacted with RRR when GW was down. I lurked on their IRC for a bit and I remember there was a week I got my RM community fix by being on their forums while GW was having a hiccup. I mostly know RRR from the people who were there who also were on GW. But I can't really remember anything specific.

I have to admit I didn't even know RRR existed into the VX era or even into the "we have legal rpgmakers now guys" era. (Or I guess I just assumed it died with the ientry stuff, wasn't there something about no one having access to update the site?)
Tau
RMN sex symbol
3293
I almost got banned for posting a meme. Them mods were sensitive as fuck, was a nice place though.
author=Tau
I almost got banned for posting a meme. Them mods were sensitive as fuck, was a nice place though.

I wish we would ban people for posting memes.
Ratty524
The 524 is for 524 Stone Crabs
12986
author=LordBlueRouge
author=Yellow Magic
author=Deacon Batista
their community was 5 % old mommies older than 55 years (those were their staff by the way X-D) a
The only one I remember fitting this description is Kaz, who IIRC was genuinely cool. Wonder how she's doing now...
...Yeah, I felt like I didn't need to mention this in the topic thread, but I'm going to mention it anyways:

Guys, please try to keep your comments positive or at least "neutral". A lot of these rpgmaker communities have their own share of problems, I get that, but I want to try and present both sides equally, the bad and the good, when talking about these old rpgmaker communities.

Stuff like Kentona's, Darken's and Nessiah's comments are fine, because it shows the tone of the site, it's interactivity, as well as the experience level of most of it's users.

You can still make negative comments, you can even write about negative experiences, but nothing scathing or mean spirited, okay? I don't want someone to get into a fight over this. I'm just trying to gather info here.

RRR had many different members, from many different walks of life, with many different opinions and perspectives, I want to try and capture all of them, if possible.

See, Deacon is butthurt even after all these years because he got banned from the site for essentially being a jerk to other community members and mods, with a particular love for whining about a perceived reluctance for the community to accept RM2k/3 games on the site. Also idk how you are going to really get a "neutral" opinion on this because the RM community as a whole is pretty much discourse after discourse. :P

But with that aside, I was a mod of the spam(?) forum there for some time during the iEntry phase and a member their since the latter days of Rydin's ownership at the time, so yeah I have some insight, particularly of the iEntry situation as I had firsthand knowledge of what was going on. The front page's project hosting capabilities were a great feature, as others have mentioned, but it kept breaking and we, the staff, couldn't edit it without iEntry's permission. This would be fine if the service rep for iEntry was responsive, but they weren't, so we often went for weeks, if not months of having broken page features that we couldn't fix due our dependency on the new site owner.

What also happened was a major discrepancy between the site users and iEntry's terms and conditions, where it was perceived that noone would own the rights to their resources if posted on any site hosted by iEntry. From what I remember, this wasn't exactly the case, but it still drove away the bulk of our major resource contributes, playing a part in the death of the overall community.

Eventually the site began to slow down in terms of project discussion, people posting projects to begin with, and other things, and the lack of control was getting tiring for the staff so they eventually gave up on it and most of them moved to moderating other forums, namely the VX/Ace communities iirc, and I just sort of low-key stopped going there since I didn't feel like it offered much to me as a developer anymore. Also, as Sai mentioned, RMWeb made RRR completely obsolete as well as many other individually owned RPG Maker sites.

author=Darken
Tbh I saw it as sort of the divide between the 2k3 to XP/VX transition and a "noob community" that seemed leaned on people posting their games without worrying about reputation, standards or drama (though I'm sure its had its share).

PFFT The iEntry fiasco I mentioned, Lyric's departure that lead up to a disagreement with her and the staff over confidentiality, BizzareMonkey's "turth" spamming that lead to his ban (he was legit calm and not very talkative until that point. I don't know what turned him into the psychotic monster he is now), that one mega-spammer who threatened to turn RRR into a porn site and had a personal outburst, and Rydin kicking out a spiteful staff member are still fresh in my mind after all these years.
InfectionFiles
the world ends in whatever my makerscore currently is
4622
Thanks guys for all the past insight.

RRR was one of the first forums I joined and put up Infection back in 2009. I wasn't really involved in the forums at all besides my own game and didn't if at all visit much else of what the site offered. It seemed slow though as a community so not sure if that's just the era I joined when it was dying.

And like kentona, I remember thinking about some of the rules for posting a game thread being ridiculous and reminded me of role-playing on gaiaonline or something lmao
Where you had to list all these height/weight age about your characters.

It's still what opened me up to RMN, so for that I'll be forever grateful. (though I probably would have found it anyways)
author=Ratty524
author=Darken
Tbh I saw it as sort of the divide between the 2k3 to XP/VX transition and a "noob community" that seemed leaned on people posting their games without worrying about reputation, standards or drama (though I'm sure its had its share).
PFFT The iEntry fiasco I mentioned, Lyric's departure that lead up to a disagreement with her and the staff over confidentiality, BizzareMonkey's "turth" spamming that lead to his ban (he was legit calm and not very talkative until that point. I don't know what turned him into the psychotic monster he is now), that one mega-spammer who threatened to turn RRR into a porn site and had a personal outburst, and Rydin kicking out a spiteful staff member are still fresh in my mind after all these years.


Again, I said I'm sure there was drama (every forum has it), but it just didn't seem to concern the common newbie. More of the mindset of like: you post your game and you don't get some elitist person complaining about RTP anime games out of nowhere due to some power struggle over the site direction. There just didn't seem to be any standards or anything particular of how you go about posting a 20 paragraph story idea for your game in the "Design" forum, and that's what it came off to me.
Ratty524
The 524 is for 524 Stone Crabs
12986
author=Darken
Again, I said I'm sure there was drama (every forum has it), but it just didn't seem to concern the common newbie. More of the mindset of like: you post your game and you don't get some elitist person complaining about RTP anime games out of nowhere due to some power struggle over the site direction. There just didn't seem to be any standards or anything particular of how you go about posting a 20 paragraph story idea for your game in the "Design" forum, and that's what it came off to me.

Ah, that was my take of the site as well. I wasn't being that serious.

Aside from being a part of era of over-elaborate game project threads, as kentona pointed out, RRR was pretty chill overall from my perspective. To be fair, though, coming to RMN was the first time I really had to deal with any serious, in-depth critique games and I didn't really get that from RRR.

Not that it was a big contributor to me leaving the site, far from it compared to the iEntry fiasco which lead the staff to give up on the site. I basically treated RRR as a relaxing break that I could go to on the side back when it was active.
I should sell RMN to iEntry
Pages: first 123 next last