RPGWatch - Welcome to RPGWatch!

[Dhruin]

Hello and welcome! After many months of planning and hard work, we are now live.
The current site represents a basic feature set, with more advanced features planned as we move along. In the meantime, choose your preferred skin (you'll find a Light and Dark choice on the menu bar at the top) and join us regularly for the latest RPG and MMOG news and exclusive articles.
More about RPGWatch... (http://www.rpgwatch.com//forums/../show/article?articleid=6)
More information (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?newsbit=2316)

[Arhu]

Are we live? We are live? Hurray! :)

[Corwin]

Yes, and welcome to all our first time visitors!! Hope you stick around.

[Moriendor]

Congrats on the launch of the new site, folks! :) - Going to take a look around now to see what's new. From the bits I've seen so far, well, it's definitely looking absolutely 100% uber frickin' awesome so far... RPGWatch FTW! :D

/wave

[wahwah]

looks promising, I already like it better than the previous rpgdot redesign ;)

[r3dshift]

Hi everyone,

Just read Dhruin's note on RPGdot, so I thought I'd tag along with you lot. I like the new style, it's more... sober? :)

[Cormac]

Greetings all,
this looks much better than the dot (and it's much faster), I hope ye prosper.
And I want to thank Roqua for replying to Dhruin's announcement over at RPGDot, I would not have found the new site without his declaration of love.

[ShadowMoses]

Congrats and good luck, i'll be visiting everyday i'm sure! :)

[Gorath]

Welcome everybody! :)

[dungeoneer]

Great to see you back - i hope the RSS feeds are coming back, too! :)

[r3dshift]

(...)I would not have found the new site without his declaration of love.

True, it was the same with me, albeit Dhruin did hint at the new address, for he said watch out for us :)

[Arhu]

One note regarding the site's layout: As Dhruin wrote above it's possible to use either a light theme (default) or a dark theme, depening on your preference. Just click on the "A" at the top, next to the help menu.

Aside from that, you can separately select a color theme on the forums, including these comments pages. It's at the very bottom left. Lapis Watch is the default blue theme that's used on the RPG site, Amber Watch is the golden theme that's used on the MMO site.

Have fun. Oh, and a warm welcome to everyone! :)

[r3dshift]

Wow, the amber/dark combination is pretty neat!

[Peter Stauffenberg]

Hello everybody. :) I just wanted to post my first message here.:D

[Vindicator]

Good luck with the new site. I like what I see so far... It has a very clean design, and I like the background toggle. :)

[Cormac]

Dhruin did hint at the new address, for he said watch out for us :)

Uh, that went over my head a mile !

[Moorkh]

Congrats guys to your new site - though I'm sure sad to see the ol' Dot go... :(
(Did have a good time there 'till I felt the need to disappear all of a sudden :O)

What happened? Jolt not so friendly or supportive as originally assumed? Can you talk about it at all?

Seems to me there was a lot of good info/data to be found on the Dot (database, user reviews) - will you somehow port this stuff over, will you start over from scratch or will you leave the games database thing to dedicated sites such as MobyGames or Underdogs?

Anyway, looking forward to whatever the Watch turns out to be. Good luck!

One tiny thing: Using the 'dark' interface (I couldn't resist), blue user names on forum posts are barely legible.

[Shagnak]

Wow, the amber/dark combination is pretty neat!
Agreed.

Congrats on the move guys, well done.

[Hurion]

The new site is great! It started to go down hill when you guys joined jolt, I'm glad you started a new place. GL!

[Hidden]

Great Site, but I get no confirmation mail on hiddenx@hotmail.com

Should I change to my other mail provider ?

[Arhu]

Great Site, but I get no confirmation mail on hiddenx@hotmail.com

Should I change to my other mail provider ?

Please check your spam folder at hotmail. It was probably just filtered out (more info (http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?p=838#post838)). If there's really nothing there, yes, you could try your other provider.

[HiddenX]

The other provider worked - I am back :)

[Jaesun]

Congrats Dhruin and Co. Glad to see you back as an independent site.

[Cm]

The site is great and it is nice to be able to go from the forums to the newspage in a flash. As this is the team that made RPGdot what it was, I know RPGWatch will be great, if not better!

[txa1265]

Congrats on the new site!

[Amasius]

Congrats and well done. I really like the dark theme and the site is fast! Keep up the great work and keep me informed. :)

[shaf]

Hello Everyone,

I've lurked on rpgdot for years and checked the site daily. The site is much faster, the dark theme does look better.

Shaf

[roqua]

I actually copyrighted the name rpgwatch and I should get a share in all the profits this site makes.

[Karmakaze]

The site looks good and SOO much faster. To be honest, i'd follow you guys anywhere..

I only lurked at RPGDot. Guess it's time to come out of the shadows.

[Zinfan]

Congratulations on your new site. Looking foward to spending time here

[Ammon777]

Im very happy to be here. I used to read the RPGdot forums for like 2 years, then I became silent and just read news on MMORPGdot for a few more years. I was silent (didnt use forums) because im just so damned busy playing MMOs.

In any case, this new site is great, and im thrilled that you have separate section for MMORPG news. I will be visiting the MMO news section daily multiple times to get the latest MMO news. Thanks a lot for your efforts, this site looks great.

[Melvil]

Good to be here, happy to see so many familiar names, btw, I was a village leader on rpgdot, so um, can I have my title back :D

[Corwin]

I actually copyrighted the name rpgwatch and I should get a share in all the profits this site makes.
Sure mate, so long as you're willing to pay your share of the costs for the next 20 years which is how long it should be before we make a profit!! :)

[Korplem]

I like the new site guys. It's certainly sad to say goodbye to the Dot but it's nice to make the transition with familiar names.

[Jaz]

Glad to see so many familiar names here this morning :).

[Frau Bishop]

Nice place you build. Hope to read lots of interesting riddle and puzzle game news!

[Ammon777]

Glad to see so many familiar names here this morning :).
omg its morning already?!? i just got outta bed!

O.O

[Glorian]

Congratulations!
I was confused at first, but when I found your new place I was happy again!

Keep on rocking, mates!


Cheers
Glorian

[Ammon777]

I have to admit, i was worried there for a few seconds, too.

But its all good.

[Neo]

I have to say that this site looks really good. While the Dot has a dark and closed site and forums, RPGWatch actually has a real open and light forums.

I won't be so inactive as I am on the Dot here, neither will I be as active as I used to be at the Dot. Expect me to visit every day :)...

Good work, Dhruin, Corwin, Jaz and the rest of you!

[LostHawk]

Hello,

Like many others I just moved from your old websites.
The RPGDot team is my first (mmo)rpg news source I check every day and that will not change of course.

Thank you for the daily work you do for the rpg community and I wish you the best with this new site which is now my new homepage :)

[titus]

hi all you guys, total new comers and the one who followed from rpgdot.
most will already recognize or will do so soon enough :p
When I heared of a move I didnt even think about, i just knew i had to follow

[Maylander]

Hello lads, here I come, tagging along as always. Like the new site and its style, very clean and fast, altho the speed might change in time if it grows to RPGDot size.

Happy to be here, and I wish everyone involved good luck. :)

[Briosafreak]

Goody, it doesn't crash my Aero on Vista like RPGDot.


Now off to get an avatar...

[Wulf]

Even in it's infancy the site has a magnetic attraction, it's clear, fast, bright and beautiful. There's a feeling of 'revolution' in the air - that feeling of newness as the new pheonix rises from the ashes.

"Well done" and "Good luck" to RPGwatch admin's and members for the future.

[Unregistered]

Awesome! I've been hoping for this day ever since RPGDot got screwed over. Congratulations guys. :)

[Arahael]

Congratulations to the team!! Good luck!!

[Rendelius]

I think I was the one most shocked to see the team moving from RPGDot to a new site (and I think the team knows why *g*). Well, I think all things must either end or change after some time, and while I am sad to see RPGDot barren and empty now, I want to wisn you all the best for RPGWatch. As others said before: it's the team that makes a site interesting, and I am sure you will once again set standards on the net.

I'll be a regular visitor like I have been from the beginning :-)

[Illuvatar]

Weren't you the original founder of rpgdot Rendelius? I remember that I did some newsposting for the frontpage year's ago (around 2000 I think) and at that time you were quite active if my memory serves me correctly.

I never was very active on the old fora, but lurked almost every day!

[mogwins]

Hi all,

Guess it's time to change my daily routine then! This site does load a helluva lot faster. Congrats on your independence!

M.

[Greymane]

Good Luck! (Long time mmorpgdot lurker)
Guess I'll be lurking here now. I like less clutter in the layout and quicker response is always a big plus.. oh, and keep up the news, that's why I really come here!

[Kawika]

Sweet Sassy Molassy, this is a purdy site! :cool:

[LordRac]

Congrats on the new site! The speed improvement is most welcome. :)

[Ubbax]

Hail, hail, looks like the gangs all here... most of them anyway and I'm sure the rest will find their way over in time.

Love the new site; clean, fast, bright, Legible, nice layout. Love the Tab switching hope it's expanded on. The quick auto-toggle for color schemes is handy.

I've been visiting and reading the old Rpgdot since its inception and was dismayed to see Jolts lackadaisical attitude the last few months toward the site & staff begin the sites spiral into degredation. I think the only thing thats kept it going were the community forums and wealth of information. I'll regret what I'm sure will be the inevitable loss of information the site contained, however they've lost the best resource they had going for them, the Staff.

Best wishes to the Staff here on your new site.
Independence, I'm sure it will be an exciting ride. I've got my ticket lead on :)

Ubbax

[HumblePie]

I was lost but now I am found. Bring on the RPG goodness...

[Ragnar]

Nice and fast...just the way she like it.

Oh...sorry....wrong subject.

Nice going ppl...the site ripps!!!

[redman5427]

Congrats on the new site, everything looks fantastic here! Good to see Rend posting. Maybe you could add a feature for guest reviewers to post an article once a month or so.

[Corwin]

We actually have a guest article ready to post and we do plan to make the site much more interactive in the near future, so guest pieces are definitely part of the equation!!

[Dhruin]

As Corwin said, we have plans to make the site much more interactive when we can finish that development. User Reviews is something we have/are discussing.

In the meantime, if someone wants to contribute, they are welcome to PM me. I can't promise what we will or won't publish without discussion and meeting quality standards and so on, but the door is open for a conversation. :)

[orteko]

Damn, i'm glad i happened to check rpgdot one last time :)

The new site is already light years ahead of the design rpgdot was squished into - and a helluva lot faster to load as well.

Still a few rough edges, but I anticipate all will be well with time :)

[Sem]

Good work, guys!
The hint in the leaving post on RPGDot was great.

[darklord]

Well the new site looks interesting, I'm missing the game database where you can find everything about every game though. Hopefully that's something that will be added with time.

Oh and yes this is my new homepage, no point staying with RPGDot!

Looking forward to the future of the site. :-)

Daniel.

[abbaon]

Fine, but I'll only ever think of the site as BlinkingWatch.

[Corwin]

Ah, someone remembers!! :)

[Rendelius]

Here's the story why RPGDot once was called BlinkingDot :-)

It started out as a small personal website on Xoom for a RPG project two friends of mine and I were doing (Legends of the Seers). It was meant to talk about the progress of the game. Because there wasn't much (the only thing we ever finished was my procedural landscape modeling and the display engine), I started to report about general RPG news as well. I moved the site to its own domain, and I named the domain after one of the "monsters" in the various Angband variants (dungeon crawls in ASCII, later with graphics): The Blinking Dot. I think when Garrett joined me in posting news (adding his great database of RPG games), we decided to change the name to RPGDot.

Blinkingdot, by the way, went online in Summer 1999 :-).

[Calis]

Good luck with the site, fellas. Independence is always best. I should know; I used to work for a decidedly non-independent RPG site (GA-RPG). Against my better judgement (and against the advice Rendelius gave me at the time) I stuck around even when eUniverse decided to start messing around with the structure of their gaming-related web publications. The entire thing fizzled.
Even though I'm not involved in RPGCodex much anymore, I'll say that doing an independent broad-coverage website was a far more fulfilling experience. (even though I got some cool things out of working for GA-RPG - such as free games as well as a trip to Larian a while ago). It's a pity that Rendelius' vision of an independent network of RPG-related websites turned out a tad too ambitious... a lot of other networks with similar initial ambitions have croaked over the years. Either their quality gets compromised, or they croak.

Anyway, I'll be interested to see how the site develops. I'm guessing the editorial standards will stay the same, as they are still subject to Dhruin's reign of terror.

[Cm]

I am amazed at the membership numbers already. I think it hit 200 before the first 24 hours passed. :) And so great to see everyone here. ;)

[Myrthos]

Anyway, I'll be interested to see how the site develops. I'm guessing the editorial standards will stay the same, as they are still subject to Dhruin's reign of terror.
'Reign of terror'? I haven't been able to notice Dhruin doing anything remotely like that. If there is any terrorising to do I'm always volunteering for that job ;)

[Calis]

I'm a firm believer in not putting in smilies when something is obviously tongue-in-cheek. :)

[darklord]

I notice the leaving post is gone from RPGdot, people won't know where to come now?

Daniel.

[Unregistered]

Maybe all the regulars should put a link to RPGWatch in their Dot forum profiles (as "homepage" or in your sig). A more neutral post "good RPG links" with RPGWatch at the top might also suffice.

[ElastiZombie]

Congratulations! Always nice to see a fresh new site, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I'll be glad to contribute in my own little lurking way. Best of luck!

[Momotaca]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My congratulations also. I had to shift my favorites so the "new" best RPG news site is on top in my list. I also am saddened that Dhruin's farewell post was pulled from the RPGdot news items. I can only take that as a sign of dissatisfaction from the remaining RPGdot staff (if any).

I don't know, and don't care to know, what inner office politics brought this about. All I do know is you have my best wishes for success.

[Stahlklinge]

Congratulations for this fine new site :)

[Cm]

I think Jolt pulled the thread, not any remaining RPG staff. But the word is getting out. ;)

[Corwin]

There are NO remaining staff at the Dot!!

[xSamhainx]

Viva la Revolucion

[x-dANGEr]

I'm here, I'm here.. !

Sorry it took me a couple of days, but this is the earliest I heard of it!

Let the discussion begin!

[chevalier]

Good luck with your new venture, guys. It's a pleasure to hear you're on the right track again. Hope to be quoting you soon. ;)

[RiK]

Good luck to you!!

[Gabboflabbo]

Well the new site looks interesting, I'm missing the game database where you can find everything about every game though. Hopefully that's something that will be added with time.


I always loved that Games database and having all the interviews/reviews/previews/ss/videos was awesome!

[Corwin]

It will return; give us time!! :)

[Unregistered]

There are NO remaining staff at the Dot!!

How come all the articles from here are copied/cloned/whatever back a rpgdot?

[Corwin]

As has been explained in several places, we are doing that for a couple of weeks as part of an arrangement to allow us to use much of our old material from the Dot. That gives Jolt time to decide what they wish to do with the Dot as well.

[Hedek]

Some of you might remember me, I used to be part of the RPGDot staff several years ago, before the redesign too (and participated a tiny bit to it). Needless to say even though I barely had any time to spare for computer games anymore, I kept being a daily reader and always appreciated your work.
Thank's for all your doing for all RPG and MMORPG fans out there! Keep it up! And gratz for the new design, it's so much better!

Hedek (currently back to playing AO after a 3 years as Ninamay RK2)

[txa1265]

Greetings to you, Hedek!