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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Irvine, CA
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Unfortunate.
Tough decisions for the company and tough situations for the employees and those laid off by this restructuring. Realm Works is still valuable and useful tool in a very niche area of DM campaign management (to my knowledge). Plus, those who have utilized its potential have invested a lot of time in it. The grim reality looks like RW will not develop further officially. However, I would like to see how the community could continue the potential it still has. Plus, what about the opportunity of trading RW databases? Some people have done an excellent job in building up rules and private gameworld databases. Is there any opportunity to share that content with others? |
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At this point is anyone even a little bit surprised? It's been almost 7 years of next-to-no communication, user created solutions to functionality gaps, and in-jokes about missing promised features.
Being unable to make a product like this workable in 10 years (since development started) is testament to either terrible design decisions, terrible project management skills, a complete lack of willingness to resource the project properly, or an inability to admit that the product wasn't going anywhere a long time ago, or perhaps a combination of all four. If you couldn't give it the resources to make it work, that should have been (and I suspect it was) clear a long time ago and your customers deserved to know long before this point. Seriously. 10 years, and you walk away with initial promises unfulfilled. Poor form. Boo. |
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I think as well that it's a bit of overreacting it's not like our life or job depend on it.
Many IT Projects still fail now adays... vor various reasons. Join the (unofficial) Realm-Works IRC Chat: #realm-works on the Rizon Network (https://wiki.rizon.net/index.php?title=Servers) -> Browser Client: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net |
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Location: Greater London, UK
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I guess you already know that there is a tool which can be used to eventually get you to the web, via create realm export, run tool to convert it to HTML, upload HTML files to web site.
Farling Author of the Realm Works Import tool, Realm Works Output tool and Realm Works to Foundry module Donations gratefully received via Patreon, Ko-Fi or Paypal |
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In the kickstarter (almost 7 years ago) they claimed to have been in development for 3 years. |
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I have a lot of things I'd like to say on this point, negative and positive.
The one thing I think is worth saying, with all sincerity and honesty is this: Rob, regarding your health issues, you've been in my thoughts, and I'm glad you're well now. |
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The data he entered can still be exported if he should choose to do so though. |
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