RPG Maker forums deleting 14 years of community content with no backup planRPG Maker forums deleting 14 years of community content with no backup plan

Gotcha Gotcha Games announced on June 11 that the official RPG Maker forums at rpgmakerweb.com will close permanently in December, wiping out 14 years of community-built tutorials, guides, and troubleshooting threads dating back to 2012. The company is launching RPG Maker Maker as a replacement but has confirmed there will be no archive, migration, or backup of existing content. Hobbyist developers who relied on thousands of searchable threads — where users documented solutions to niche engine problems in precise detail — are now racing to scrape and preserve what they can before the shutdown.

RPG Maker's official forums are going offline in December and taking 14 years of community tutorials, guides, and troubleshooting threads with them. No backup. No archive. Gotcha Gotcha Games is replacing it with something called RPG Maker Maker but isn't moving any of the old content over. Hobbyist devs who spent over a decade documenting solutions to obscure engine problems — the kind of stuff you find at 11pm when you're stuck — are now scrambling to scrape and save what they can before it's gone.