Consider this an official statement from the remaining true RPG Townies.
The RPG Town has been around since 2001/2002 when Kamau set it up as an addition to his website, the RPG Palace. In the RPG Town anyone could come and discuss real life problems, movies, RPGs, RPG Making and Kamau's RPG Maker game, Legion Saga. I joined as fresh faced 12 year old (I am 17, soon to be 18 now) that had just discovered RPG Maker 2000. I had no idea how to use it, I knew little about forums, the Internet, the lot – it was brand new for me but through the friendly carefree atmosphere, the Townies back then showed me how to use the programme, how to act on the internet and helped me countless times with boss battles and puzzles in commercial RPGs.
That was the atmosphere that I remember the RPG Town for. This carefree place that the deserters claim existed – none of them were actually there for it. They all caught the tail end of that golden era. Through Kamau's and the other staff member's hard work, the RPG Palace and Legion Saga shot to fame throughout the ever growing RPG Maker community and the Town's member-base increased. To meet with these demands the Town went through upgrade after upgrade and became a mainstream forum. Sacrifices were made, and one of those sacrifices was the carefree attitude that we all had known, we were now a big part of the RPG Making community and we had a bustling forum and bigger responsibilities to go with it. However, Kamau pulled out of the Palace and staff members took over, the Palace changed hands and underwent many face lifts until Maxy took over (and paid for the domain) and it is what it is now – a site that could be great if we had dedicated staff and forumers.
However, the deserters have taken it upon themselves to recreate this fantasy forum but, in reality, a quick glance over the topics and replies and you will see that they have created a piece of internet filth similar to that of KaKain and Lolipop. Surely we are above this dirt? We all have a common interest – Role Playing Games. Do we not deserve to have a forum that we can have sensible, and of course sometimes humorous, discussions without stooping to this level of Internet barbarianism?
The deserters will never be coming back. It is at the point that we put our foot down and stamp out the rotting weeds from below our feet. I see this betrayal as a cleansing of the RPG Town. Out with the lazy Townies, who rarely contributed, did nothing but squabble and complain despite the administration's efforts and sacrifices. Now we are left with a handful of dedicated members who will bring the Palace back to its glory days. Discussions are going on behind the scenes, and let me tell you, the Palace and the Town can and will be great once again.
I implore you, the new Townies, to stick around. Post, contribute and help us make this place the best damn forum ever.
Hitler out.
Are you kidding me Ricky? Yeah some of the people who "defected" weren't all too mature about it, but this kind of thread is one of the problems. You're taking it upon yourself to speak for everybody while at the same time trying to foster this elitist attitude.
On the note of the old town. I was there. I was there when you were, I remember Crash Coarse, I remember Koopa Troopa Flya Man, I even remember the guys like SuikodenMad and Cereal Hunter. I remember Psygon and his issues with the administration, I remember it all and I know what kind of atmosphere was there. While "The Town" will never be the "RPG Town", it was more or less formed to be care free like the old community, but no where did I state it would be like the old community. I'm sorry if the aura given off by the other forum gave you this impression, but that's not my aim for it.
Also, why do you keep referring to people as deserters? You act like everybody has some sort of obligation to this forum and dear God if they went elsewhere damnation to their souls. I've let people taste the other forum with no strings attached. There are no obligations to stick around or even post. Isn't that how it should always be?
a quick glance over the topics and replies and you will see that they have created a piece of internet filth similar to that of KaKain and Lolipop. Surely we are above this dirt?
Okay Ricky, you're doing it again. You're playing the too cool for school card and that's the exact opposite of what you should be doing. I might have been a dead beat admin during the last few months of my service, but I'm going to give you some advice because I'd rather not be biased against this place.
Drama kills forums. Elitism kills forums. Dividing the member base kills forums. You're pretty much hitting all three of those with on fell swoop. Get yourself together and take more responsibility instead of writing a self-gratifying manifesto. You really sound like you don't want the deserters to come back, but what if some decide "The Town" isn't for them? They will want to come back and simply stamping them out for trying out new things isn't just bad, it's irresponsible.
Then again, what would I know? I guess the fact that I contributed hundreds of resources, wrote and created many of the pages on the main site, influenced the design you still use today, as well as spending countless hours crafting the forum and keeping us alive in the earlier days isn't enough to merit your outstanding medal of "township." I made the biggest sacrifice of all and never asked to be glorified for all the work I did in return. Here's to hoping for another great year at RPG Palace.
Fuck you.