Response of Former Developer JAM of Retro Achievements [Mirror]

To see JAM’s developed sets on RA, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube.

Mirrored at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which was one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.

Original Link: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/32715

(Topic locked by RA moderators before anyone could reply.)

October 7, 2025

I’ll add my 2 cents to the current situation about removing certain games from the site.

There is a filter like that on a certain hentai sites. If something is straight illegal, you won’t find it there. First, you agree that you are 18+ or older to enter. Then, if manga has very sensitive content, it gives you a warning, which makes sense. 95% of people just came to see anime boobies and they don’t want to suddenly see guro or scat. And when you see this warning, you have 3 options.

1. Go on the front page.
2. Agree to proceed and watch this manga.
3. Choose don’t warn me in future option to never get such a warning.

100% are happy and everyone could get what they want.

On RA now we have the opposite situation. 5% of users are forcing other 95% to do what these 5% want. Percents may vary but it’s clear that overwhelming majority don’t mind to have recently removed games to be on the site and don’t want RA to act like payment processors recently by forcing censoring and removal of certain stuff from Steam and other platforms. 100% are unhappy. Because you can waste your time mastering something that eventually could be wiped out from existence. Even not telling about deving sets that could be erased the same way. How could I say it’s 100% if this minority got what it wanted? They eventually may lose more than they gained now and get hatred and hate by the majority of players because they caused this.

What could be done on RA? Well, aside from “show mature content always” option there could be another warning about sensitive content. If you click to agree, then you can see the game set as it’s made for mature games now. Plus, an extra option in profile. Something like “Show games with sensitive content”. If that option is disabled, you will see games with sensitive content as “Unknown Game”. This is something about to be implemented and it’s not hard to do. But. These games should be on site as they were for years. And players should have right to play and master these games and earn points for them without worrying how sensitive vocal minorities will feel about it. Especially, after RA publically supported Stop Killing Games movement just 3 months ago. So, it found out these loud words worth nothing?

And I say it out loud. It’s not your business what other players are playing. Feel as you like to feel, judge them if you want but it’s totally up to them. If somebody plays something you don’t want to exist and you offended by it, it’s your problem.

Original Link: https://retroachievements.org/user/tele/comments?page=8

October 9, 2025

In our country internet censorship also started very slowly. Let’s just block some sites with CP and drugs. To protect kids of course! Now fast forward several years. Thousands of innocent sites are blocked. Most famous are YouTube and Discord. A lot of messengers they can’t control are blocked too. If they catch you using VPN to bypass the restrictions, you’ll go to jail. If you call war as “war”, not as “just special operation”, you’ll go to jail. And murderers are rapists who previously were in jail but voluntered to go to the war and now national heroes, same as WWII heroes.

RA was a sanctuary of all shitstorm happening in gaming industry for years and for me personally from the offline issues but not anymore because of recent events. I’m sick and tired of other people normalizing and standardizing the stuff for me. What I could or could not interact with, especially if it’s the legal stuff or if nobody was really asked about it. I prefer to do my own research. If it’s something really really bad then a warning would be enough and I’ll make a decision to continue or quit.

So, if there are still golden tickets left, give me one please. I want to believe.

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