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The RPGMaker situation is a convoluted mess too, because who the hell owns, publishes and develops the games seems to be harder to follow than the lore of a 20 year soap opera. I THINK it used to be deved by one group and PUBLISHED by Kado? And then after MZ the devs split off onto their own thing which was GGG? But GGG was far worse, stupider and more corporate than they ever were under Kado, which is baffling?
Nobody has cared about anything they've made since MZ. "Unite", the Unity plugin monstrosity was a disaster. They actually shut down the forums for that FIRST, because no one was using them. The only thing that gives the product line any value is the legacy of MV and MZ, and now they're determined to kill that, essentially demolitioning their place in the market. Utterly baffling.
It sounds like GGG is currently at least CLAIMING they're looking into archiving the old forums in some way, so that's something. Discord isn't a long-term solution: Morons that like flashy new things HATE forums, but things like this NEED to be a forum, 2007 style, so that they are SEARCHABLE, both locally and from Google. Even if they DO archive it, it'll take ages for the community to re-form somewhere else, if they do at all. A bunch of people used those forums the way I used to use Itch as well, as an audience to release games, including commercial games into. Now those games just get to get hurled into the void. GGG really, REALLY wants to destroy their own brand and products as quickly as possible.