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Would it be a bad idea to delete your RMN game profile, and then put up another one, but completely remade once you've finished said game?
VVBlastFuryVV- 10/09/2016 07:36 PM
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LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
CloseYeah, I personally think it's a very bad idea. The development history is important even to people who are seeing your game for the first time. The people who've noticed and subscribed to your game care about being able to find it easily, and about being notified of each new change, and about seeing how far your game has come. That's why you have a page before your game is done in the first place.
If you don't want any of the comments about the unfinished game on your final game profile, then don't make a game profile at all until you're done. Making a second profile later completely defeats the purpose of making the first profile for the unfinished game.
If you don't want any of the comments about the unfinished game on your final game profile, then don't make a game profile at all until you're done. Making a second profile later completely defeats the purpose of making the first profile for the unfinished game.
Yup, LockeZ is right, don't do it, if you want you can completely change the CSS and/or the description, but I'd keep it for the comments and subscriptions. Also it's not fair on Libby if people, throughout a game's life, make multiple game pages for that game, it's lots of work checking it through the queue.
Only if it's something you're remaking after releasing it like five years ago, haha. Otherwise I agree with the above -- the dev process is interesting and adds to the game's legitimacy.
VVBlastFuryVV
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Good ideas here. The only reason I was thinking of doing so is because I released a demo of my game 2 years ago, (though it's had some bad moments) but a LOT of the story and characters have been completely remade, and it'll probably take a while for me to fully implement everything into RPG Maker, considering I'm really busy nowadays and wanted to release the game as a whole rather than demo after demo, then start actually revising and revamping from there based on what people say, if that makes sense.
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
Game pages are a bad idea IMO
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
They encourage idleness, rather than devout prayer and service to Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
author=Sooz
They encourage idleness, rather than devout prayer and service to Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Arem- wait...
I think it's also not allowed.
Edit: or rather, in my opinion, it shouldn't be. Essentially a user can cut themselves loose of an unfavourable review by hiding their current one and creating anew. I don't think that's very ethical.
Edit: or rather, in my opinion, it shouldn't be. Essentially a user can cut themselves loose of an unfavourable review by hiding their current one and creating anew. I don't think that's very ethical.
author=CashmereCat
I think it's also not allowed.
Edit: or rather, in my opinion, it shouldn't be. Essentially a user can cut themselves loose of an unfavourable review by hiding their current one and creating anew. I don't think that's very ethical.
I've seen at least one instance of this happening. So I guess it's allowed, but frowned on? I don't know.
Edit: Okay, Cash's edit was not there when I clicked Quote, and I didn't see it until I posted. Cash, you might be the only user on RMN that ninja'd your own edit into someone else's quote.
Edit: Okay, Cash's edit was not there when I clicked Quote, and I didn't see it until I posted. Cash, you might be the only user on RMN that ninja'd your own edit into someone else's quote.
Haha! I won RMN!
Alright, here's the thing: If you've got enough changes done that you might as well call it a completely different game it is allowed, HOWEVER, there are pros to not doing so.
As people have pointed out already, the history behind your game is an important part of it. Also keep in mind that everyone who has subscribed to your game or commented on it or reviewed it or made media/etc for it will now be lost until they find the new version, and not all of them will find it.
That said, there's no need to delete the old page completely if you do end up making a new one - you can always link back from the new one to the old one and let people see how it evolved to become a completely different game, as well as try out the old demos so that people see the difference and compare.
There's pros and cons with both ideas. Frankly, I'm in the don't do it camp, but it's not against the rules and others have done it before when their original idea transformed into something else completely.
As people have pointed out already, the history behind your game is an important part of it. Also keep in mind that everyone who has subscribed to your game or commented on it or reviewed it or made media/etc for it will now be lost until they find the new version, and not all of them will find it.
That said, there's no need to delete the old page completely if you do end up making a new one - you can always link back from the new one to the old one and let people see how it evolved to become a completely different game, as well as try out the old demos so that people see the difference and compare.
There's pros and cons with both ideas. Frankly, I'm in the don't do it camp, but it's not against the rules and others have done it before when their original idea transformed into something else completely.
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
7382
The reason why you'd want to do something like this is to get your game bumped onto the front page for doing next to nothing. I've done that a couple of times with games that I've completed.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Adding your new download and getting two people to leave comments does that anyway, unless it's Release Something week.
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