Friday, August 21, 2015

Various Official Rockman Websites Have Shutdown


Here's a bit of a head scratcher for you: Capcom Japan has reportedly pulled the plug on individual Rockman websites. These include:



Only a pair of outlets survived the purge: the official Rockman portal and Rockman Unity.  It should be noted these two are regularly updated. The four that got the ax haven't seen any significant updates in 5+ years.

Now, this could simply be Capcom cleaning up the brand's web presence; relegating the franchise under a smaller umbrella. The disheartening bit about that though? Those four pages represented their individual series, some for over ten years. I fondly remember checking out ZX's page in the days leading up to the first game's release, rocking out to looping tunes. It's a little sad to see them go.

Anyway, I'm sure this is nothing to panic over. There is no evidence of anything "sinister" going on behind-the-scenes. We'll keep an ear out, of course. In the meantime the WayBack Machine exists. You're free to revisit these pages anytime.

Source: CapKobun (thanks, MidniteW)
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16 comments:

  1. PreacherDudeRoxAugust 21, 2015 at 11:55 PM

    Sad day.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 22, 2015 at 12:52 AM

    Meh, just a cleanup. As far as I know, we didn't loose anything (but I'm not sure, what was /ryusei/?).

    You forget the most important one of the survivors xD http://www.capcom.co.jp/smartphone/rock-xover_jp/

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    1. AnonymousAugust 22, 2015 at 3:09 AM

      http://web.archive.org/web/20141221003349/http://www.capcom.co.jp/ryusei1/

      I used to visit this page just for the music :(

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    2. AnonymousAugust 22, 2015 at 7:14 AM

      Ryusei was Starforce.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 22, 2015 at 1:12 AM

    In some ways, I can see why. They were old pages that were likely not going to see another update. But in the same light, I don't really like the feel I get from this. Maybe it's just because I've grown too used to Capcom of Japan pulling the plug on a lot of Mega Man-related things. Even sadder still is that the Rockman portal doesn't seem to mention these other series, so the representation is literally just no longer there now. (Aside from X, but that's it.) Sad day indeed.
    - Dr. Jerk.

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  4. Riela MarcellisAugust 22, 2015 at 6:37 AM

    I see nothing wrong with it, probably they get very little traffic and they are not worth keeping alive, after all those series are dead or finished.

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  5. AnonymousAugust 22, 2015 at 4:06 PM

    This image, is it from RockBoard? I haven't seen it before.

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    1. ProtodudeAugust 22, 2015 at 6:50 PM

      Soccer

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    2. AnonymousAugust 23, 2015 at 4:55 AM

      I see. Thanks. There're still Rockman games out there that are new to me :)

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  6. AnonymousAugust 22, 2015 at 4:15 PM

    Used to check the exe set every few months hoping against hope for a little update.

    This makes sense. I'm surprised it didn't happen years ago, actually.

    Could even be a good thing! Maybe they're consolidating for a big centralized relaunch? ;O

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  7. gutsman004August 22, 2015 at 6:16 PM

    Seems like a streamlining process more than anything. I'm sure Capcom doesn't want 432 different Mega Man pages so a little clean up is necessary. Back away from the ledge everyone. :p

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  8. AnonymousAugust 22, 2015 at 10:17 PM

    Oh crud, is there any assets that we hadn't pulled yet, like those HD battlechip images from the NT Warrior site?

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    1. AnonymousAugust 23, 2015 at 12:27 PM

      way back ma sheeeen.

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    2. AnonymousAugust 23, 2015 at 1:54 PM

      Do some searching on Mega Rock's blog. He's ripped everything: http://megarockblog.blogspot.com/

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  9. AnonymousAugust 23, 2015 at 2:56 AM

    Oh man this like the end of my childhood how sad to see something that was a huge part of my teen years go.

    Hopefully this means nothing or hell i would love if they actually did something with the zx series lke zx3 or a megaman game not some collection.

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  10. Rockyou78August 25, 2015 at 2:47 AM

    Great News. Super Adventure Rockman website is still alive!!!!

    Also, WHAT HAPPEN with the Rockman Perfect Memories website, I can't enter.

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