CELES_COLE'S PROFILE

author=LockeZ

author=Celes_Cole
I didn't take it down to hide anything. I took it down because it went "commercial" and is apparently going to be way different and everyone, except for a few, is freaking out about it. I also flipped out because Kentona told me that RMN doesn't support commercial games. I could not find one rule ANYWHERE until I had to search the forums. So I thought he was trolling me.

For the record, it's under "Submission Rules" right at the bottom of RMN, under Policies. Which, you know, is... exactly the first place anyone would look? If you go to "Submit Game" it also gives you a link to the rules before you start typing. So I seriously question this "I couldn't find the rules" stuff. The only way to not find that rule would pretty much be to put a piece of paper up over the bottom third of your screen to avoid being able to see the footer.

The forum topic you mentioned is actually no longer the official place where the rules are listed. But up until late 2011 or early 2012 or whenever the hell the site was overhauled, that topic was in fact the official list of game submission rules. And you can see that, right at the very top, it says "Any submission advertising a commercial game is NOT allowed." And was last edited August 9, 2011. So this is an old rule.

I don't think "everyone, except for a few" is freaking out about the game going commerical. How many people freaked out? I doubt it was more than a few hundred people. If it were 200 people complaining, that would only be a fraction of the people who played it, right? Realistically I'm pretty sure it was only like six people.

You can keep the game on RMN up until the point where it goes commercial, though. Or, well, I mean, you can't any more, because you ruined your reputation and made the staff hate you by throwing a ridiculously melodramatic hissy-fit; I'm pretty sure anything you submit now would be rejected. But if you hadn't done that, you could have left it up. There's no rule against posting games that plan to hopefully change to being commercial at some vague point in the distant future.