Rise & Fall Heaven will be archived on Monday 15th October.
This has been a mutual decision between the staff at RaFH and HG's Exco. If you followed the game's progress at all, you will know that Rise & Fall was mostly considered a failure in the gaming industry. Whilst most of the forummers and staff on this Heaven enjoyed the game, a good online community never developed, and interest naturally dwindled as time went by. Currently there is extremely little activity, both at RaFH and in the Rise & Fall community in general. Therefore, in the interest of better focusing HG's resources and allowing the network to progress, Rise & Fall Heaven will be archived.
Essentially, the site will stay online, but will be removed from the list of active sites on HG's navbars. The forums and download sections will be closed, so that they can be read but nothing new can be added to them. All the existing content on the site (articles, images, videos) will remain.
This has not been an easy decision. I have become very attached to RaFH during my year-and-a-half here, and I'm sure that this is true of the other staff members and many of our regular visitors too. I hope you will agree, though, that this decision is ultimately the most sensible, given the circumstances.
I would like to thank the following people for their fantastic contributions as RaFH staff: Chonaman, Dr Grip, Jaime Medrano, Intrepid, Lysimachus, RTEHistDesign, Elpea and Adder.
I would also like to thank everybody that contributed to our forums and download sections, and even those who just clicked on the front page poll every now and again. Special thanks go to those that have stuck with RaFH and are still here now (I won't make a list for fear of forgetting people, but you know who you are).
The site will remain open until October 15th, and I will be glad to answer any questions you may have in the mean time.
- Wok
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