RPG Maker forums will be deleted in December with no archive planned
Gotcha Gotcha Games is launching a new official community hub, and the existing rpgmakerweb.com forums will be wiped when the site closes on December 11. Users have one week left to post anything.
The official RPG Maker forums at rpgmakerweb.com are shutting down on December 11, 2026, and nothing is being saved. The closure FAQ posted alongside the announcement confirms there are no plans for a public archive or backup. Users are being told to grab whatever they want to keep before the site goes dark.
The announcement landed June 11 with the launch of RPG MAKER GUILD, a new official forum operated by Gotcha Gotcha Games, the Kadokawa subsidiary that develops and publishes the RPG Maker engines. New account registrations on the old forums were disabled the same day. Posting and account features shut off June 18, Japan time, after which the forums sit in read-only mode until the December closure.
That’s one week of warning before a community of over a decade loses the ability to talk to itself on its own forum.
Why Gotcha Gotcha Games is closing the KOMODO forums
This is a corporate handoff, and the forum content is the cost of it. KOMODO, the Tokyo-and-Honolulu publisher descended from Degica, ran RPG Maker’s western publishing for years and kept operating the rpgmakerweb site, store, and forums even after Gotcha Gotcha Games took over publishing the engines in 2022. Now Gotcha Gotcha is pulling community management in-house to its own platform at guild.rpgmakerofficial.com.
The official explanation in the FAQ is “changes to the community management structure.“ KOMODO posted a farewell thanking contributors for their years of work. Neither company explained why the existing threads couldn’t simply stay online in read-only form, which is the part users keep asking about. KOMODO’s store and product support continue unaffected.
The forums being deleted hold years of tutorials, plugin documentation, troubleshooting threads, and free community resources. Anyone who’s shipped an RPG Maker game knows the drill: you hit a wall, you search, and the answer is sitting in a 2015 thread written by somebody who hit the same wall first.
All of those answers have an expiration date now. Private messages get deleted too.
Fans organize archive efforts within hours
The reaction on the announcement thread was about what you’d expect. “This site is over a decade old, surely it deserves at least some form of preservation,“ one user wrote. Others pointed out that a frozen read-only forum costs almost nothing to host.
A community Discord formed almost immediately to coordinate manual backups, pulling in more than 200 members within a day, with users posting progress reports as they archived sections by hand. The Wayback Machine is getting leaned on hard. Whether any of it captures a meaningful fraction of the forum before June 18 is an open question, and the answer probably depends on how many volunteers show up this week.
Meanwhile, the new Guild forum users are supposed to migrate to launched thin:
Posters checking it out reported days between posts and an RPG Maker section with nothing in it, with the existing activity clustered around Action Game Maker instead.
Accounts don’t transfer. Everyone starts over from zero.
Resources contributors want to keep sharing have to be manually reposted, one at a time, by the people who made them.
If you have tutorials, plugins, assets, or old messages sitting on rpgmakerweb.com, the saving is on you. June 18 is the last day to post. December 11 is the hard stop.
Article compiled and edited by Derek Gibbs (entertainment editor) and the Clownfish TV newsroom.
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Hat Tips:
RPG Maker Forums (June 11, 2026), official “Welcome to RPG MAKER GUILD” announcement, verified for the Guild launch, registration cutoff, and transition timeline
RPG Maker Forums (June 2026), Forum Closure FAQ, verified for the no-archive policy, private message deletion, June 18 read-only date, and December 11 closure date
Dexerto (June 11, 2026), Cande Maldonado’s original coverage, verified for the community Discord backup effort and forum reaction
ResetEra (June 2026), aggregated community discussion of the closure, reaction color only