Alright, so here's the official news:
The forums aren't going to be revived.
Now, this might seem disconcerting at first, but ironically the mods, admins, and many members are pretty happy about it, considering we'll be able to start anew and be fresh. The topics will be new, relevant, and now that the forums are cleared out, the forums will be around 10x faster. Perfect timing for the release of RRR in just a few months.
So thank you, those of you who hoped to bring us down. Because of your "clever idea" in hacking a mod's account, you've revived the forum, brought back other old members who are returning because of the clean slate, cleared out the forums to make everything faster and convenient for the new members to come, and above all, this incident has has only brought the community closer together.
What you meant for bad has been dramatically changed into something very good. Your poor attempts mean absolutely nothing. And now that you seem connected to ARZO thanks to you_suck's post, we can honestly say that your reason for doing this were utterly pathetic and frankly, we don't even care anymore.
So get over it. You won't be remembered for taking an innocent forum like RZ down. You won't feel good for bringing "destruction." Because, in all reality, you did the opposite. Congratulations.
You wanted to be treated fairly, but these kind of attitudes are going to give you nothing of the sort.
If you think topics make up a community like RZ, you're wrong. It's the users. And relationships made through these boards stretch much further than a couple of posts. Deleting the topics essentially means nothing to us. Because we're bigger than that. We don't depend on a few words to create the strong community that we are. So for you to think you've won by deleting an entire board is twisted and wrong. You've failed.
And for those wondering, no, Ubi did not lie when they said the forums are backed up twice a day, but retrieving the backups are very difficult, and a clean slate seemed so much easier and efficient.
