RPGDot is Dead

[Jason]

<a href="http://www.rpgdot.com/">RPGDot</a>, the original home of our <a href="http://www.rpgwatch.com/">RPGWatch</a> pals, has decided to <a href="http://www.rpgdot.com/index.php#59183">pack it in.</a>
<blockquote>Whilst we have had great fun updating this website for the last couple of years the time has come to say goodbye.

We hope that you have all enjoyed the news and features posted over time and that we have kept you up to date with game news, issues and developments.

We wish you all the best for the future, and remember to visit Jolt for your daily news, features and discussion about all things gaming!</blockquote>

 

[FrancoTAU]

I seriously thought they were dead a long time ago. It seems like these small but solid niche sites never realize it's all about the talent and not the brand name. ESPN or Gamespot can fire the whole team and get away with it.

 

[Blind Eye]

Crap

Damn it. I go there all the time for all the RPG news goodness. Why you giving it up.

 

[Shannow]

I seriously thought they were dead a long time ago.

Yep. Around the time I couldn't reach articles anymore because of pop-ups, banners, ad-links, etc.
After RPGWatch opened up, I never tried to go back. I'd just assumed they'd closed the site...

Damn it. I go there all the time for all the RPG news goodness. Why you giving it up.

While I have no idea how RPGdot was these last few years, RPGWatch provides the same service without drowning you in commercials. You could try that.

 

[Blind Eye]

Sweet. Thank you.

 

[Ismaul]

About time.
Hopefully the good content that's left there can be brought back to the Watch, where it belongs.

 

[FrancoTAU]

Unfortunately, I think Jolt or whoever still owns the rights to all the archived RPGdot stuff. So that shit is lost to the RPGWatch guys forever. No offense though, they're the best reader's digest for RPGs out there but their original stuff is mostly just okay.

 

[Texas Red]

I stopped visiting RPGDot once I repeatedly kept getting this huge black square that blocked everything from view. Tried getting back after periods as long as years and still the black ad thing. Fuck it, I went to the Watch.

 

[fabrulana]

When the original team went over to RPGWatch I didn't see the point of reading both so I never went back.

 

[Xi]

Covering a dead genre was never a lucrative business plan anyway.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

That's what happens when you get into the web news bizness 4 deh buck$.

I seriously thought they were dead a long time ago. It seems like these small but solid niche sites never realize it's all about the talent and not the brand name. ESPN or Gamespot can fire the whole team and get away with it.

I think the problem centered more around Jolt's new regime. RPGdot lost the purpose behind why it was founded and so split to keep its independence and the original vision.

Congrats on the move!

If I may ask for one thing- now that you have the freedom of being an independent board again, please do not let these forums descend into the madness that they have over at RPGCodex. Please keep RPG Watch respectable and creditable!

Thank you!

2006 had some fun times.

 

[inwoker]

I seriously thought they were dead a long time ago. It seems like these small but solid niche sites never realize it's all about the talent and not the brand name. ESPN or Gamespot can fire the whole team and get away with it.

The codex would be dead too if Vault Dweller decided to leave... oh wait

 

[Hory]

The codex have plenty of everything - the good, the bad AND the ugly. Lots of ugly actually!

 

[Deleted member 7219]

RPG Watch is good for RPG-related news, Kotaku is good for games in general.

 

[FrancoTAU]

Actually, I just remembered that I discovered this place from an RPGDot post. Sniff.

 

[Lumpy]

I seriously thought they were dead a long time ago. It seems like these small but solid niche sites never realize it's all about the talent and not the brand name. ESPN or Gamespot can fire the whole team and get away with it.

The codex would be dead too if Vault Dweller decided to leave... oh wait

Dead, huh? Then why was DarkUnderlord the first to make an FPS review for the Codex? VD never had the talent to do that. I say good riddance.

 

[Morbus]

Yall need to find a decent browser that's what. I use Firefox, but even in crappy IE7 i don't get any ads of that sort... What are you on? IE5.5?

 

[Relayer71]

When the original team went over to RPGWatch I didn't see the point of reading both so I never went back.

Same here.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

I remember rpgdot had the worst website design known to man, it was just too fuckin horrid.

 

[Ismaul]

You mean worse than the codex? Because from where I'm standing, the Codex is pretty damn ugly. But we're not here for the pretty graphics.

 

[Zakhal]

Rpgdot was a slow site. It took ages just to open a single forum post.

 

[Pr()ZaC]

Bad news for the RPG World, nevertheless...

 

[Mareus]

I really loved it how Oblivion had the highest score right next to Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate 2 there (Top 100 RPGs list). That was still in the year 2007, and later it got all messed up. Wish the codex had something similar where all those Oblivion fanboys could come and give it a perfcet 10/10 LOL

 

[Gorath]

Yeah, you really need to try such a top list to understand where its problems are.

 

[Saxon1974]

One feature I liked on rpgdot was they had an upcoming RPG release dates list, and I dont see this on RPGWATCH. Is this available somewhere else?