RPG Maker is deleting 14 years of community content and fans have days to save them
Dexerto • • technology
Key Points:
- RPG Maker’s official forums, hosting 14 years of community-created tutorials, guides, and resources, will permanently close on December 11, 2026, with no archive or backup available.
- Gotcha Gotcha Games announced the launch of RPG Maker Guild as a new official community platform, resulting in the shutdown of the existing rpgmakerweb.com forums.
- Posting on the current forums will be disabled starting June 18, 2024, giving users only one week to organize or save content before losing posting capabilities entirely.
- The community expressed strong dissatisfaction over the permanent deletion, highlighting the loss of a valuable, decade-old knowledge base and calling for at least a read-only archive to preserve the content.
- A Discord server was quickly established by users to coordinate manual backups, while the forum operator thanked contributors but did not explain why the content could not be preserved online.