Re: RPG Maker Hentai Games
I'm gonna go ahead and share my frustrations with all of you, if you don't mind. The problem is, I can be communicative, and I've noticed the people in this section will listen, but only as long as what I said is on the recent most page. After that, my words are short-lived. So I don't mean to suggest you people are blind to what I say, but it will be forgotten upon the waves of masses flocking to this section.
First of all, this thread is a hassle to maintain. Every day, I come back to the hentai section to view every last post, and the new threads take up the entire first section. This thread, on the other hand, gets 3-4 pages in just a day, almost on average. And because of the nature of the thread, it's very disconnected, and it's hard to keep on top of what is connected to what. I really don't like pruning this thread, especially considering it's not even along my tastes in this section.
On top of that, this thread should never have existed. At first, it seemed like the RPGmaker games were a small market. On top of that, we didn't even have tags for such games. So, every new RPG game went into here. Then it grew beyond critical mass. This seemed to breed confusion, as games that had RPG elements but weren't RPGmaker specifically were posted, then people started using this thread to request things, despite us having a hentai finder thread. After that, people just started posting whatever they wanted. And it was damn near impossible for me to check if they were truly RPGmaker games that belonged. Apparently, it's now even grown to be the community hub, where people come by and say happy new year to each other. Ya know, despite the fact this is the hentai section, and we already have a community hub, that you people are actively separating yourselves from.
At this point, we have RPGmaker tags. And every time I see a new thread with that tag, I have to search every post in this thread containing it's English name, Japanese name, and DL number, and then look at every few pages after every single post I find, to see if any posts are connected to it. And then I take all those posts and merge them into the new thread, separating every piece of the game into one thread, it's own thread, like it should be. If posts address multiple games, I have to edit and chop up those posts. Now this is far out of the way to make sure any information that has already been posted can be found, but even I can miss things, and if I do strip this thread entirely, I'm betting there will still be many leftover posts without a home, or a way to figure out where they go.
Besides that, one of the problems with this method is people not being specific when they make new threads. So the new focal point of the game starts off on a shoddy post with low information. Another problem is that even though there will be a new thread, people in this thread won't search for the new thread and will post new relevant information into this thread, AFTER I've moved everything, negating the point of me moving it all.
This method has proven to be too slow as this thread continues to grow, not to mention the fact new games are still being posted to this thread every day. I would want to find a way to inform you all, but as I said before, it's going to be forgotten at some point. And just locking this thread, which honestly is the most practical solution, is going to cause a bit of uproar in all of you, because it will still take time before every game has it's own independent and informative thread, and because it'll be taking away your proverbial hentai water cooler.
I want you all to know that I am thinking mainly towards the end goal, and am trying not to annoy people at the same time. But in the end, I will end up annoying people because this thread will be deleted. And on that day, my smile will be at it's widest. And if you all really cared about getting your RPGmaker games, you'd be happy too. I can only hope you all see that.