MV Dev Cutting Down MV on Steam Greenlight

[MinisterJay]

I was looking at one of the RPG Maker Facebook groups that I admin on, and saw a new member advertising their greenlight. On its ad linking to Steam, it says "Despite being made with RPG Maker..."

In the most recent update, it states: "We all know, that many people had enough of the stock RPG Maker graphics of this engine. Unfortunately with our budget we couldn't deliver a completely unique artstyle..."

Of course I replied in both the Facebook group and the Greenlight page, that I was down voting this project due to its belittlement of RPG Maker game devs.

Looking at a marketing aspect, why would someone belittle the game engine they were using. Examples like this make it harder on the rest of us.

 

[iblamevictoria]

Looking at a marketing aspect, why would someone belittle the game engine they were using. Examples like this make it harder on the rest of us.

They want to get rid of the low expectations that a lot of people have about RPG Maker. It took me a long while, even as an avid user, for me to see the potential of the engine. However, I don't think those sorts of comments work and I think it's generally a scummy thing to say. If someone really were to have low expectations of the engine then it'd just be easier to smash them. I wish people would stop pointing out "Sorry it's made with RPG Maker, I know it's not the best" because then even people who like how their game looks will start to doubt the validity of the game.

Just release games as games folks, not as RPG Maker games. Impress people and nobody cares if the engine that runs it has a bad rep because of the overpopulation of lazy games made on it on steam.

I also think, on the other side, that many people use RPG Maker as a scapegoat to blame when someone's game is very poorly made, but that may be a different discussion.