> Lacks explicit HTML5-exporter.
The advertisement says you can export to HTML5, which is right. It makes no difference if you have to choose Windows-Deployment or if you have an extra option "HTML5/Web".

> Windows builds use node-webkit as a wrapper, but don't package/archive the resources like other HTML5 game design toolkits do. Instead it just leaves the assets out in the open.

Merging all resources together with the Game.exe has some performance disadvantages. That's why MV doesn't do that by default. But you can use easy-to-use third party tools to do it like described in the manual.

> Android-exporter just exports a HTML-file (with resources) - it doesn't actually package an APK. Other HTML5 toolkits take care of this for you, but RPG Maker MV doesn't.

> iOS-exporter just exports a HTML-file (with resources) - it doesn't actually package an IPA. Other HTML5 toolkits take care of this for you, but RPG Maker MV doesn't.

No, many other engine do it the same way for technical reasons. There are many free easy-to-use tools to package your App for Android, iOS and other platforms like Intel XDK, Cordova, PhoneGap, CocoonJS, etc. Also, there are many easy ways to share your games with friends just for testing-purposes.

Of course, if you like to sell your game in an App-Store you have to do some additional steps like registering as Apple/Google-Developer, create a certificate and sign your .ipa/.apk, etc. But that cannot be avoided, every developer has to do that steps.

> No fullscreen - just maximizes window. Previous versions allowed you to boot the game in fullscreen by default, but this one doesn't. You have let the user know that they need to press F4.

"No fullscreen" is completely wrong. There is fullscreen pressing F4 and of course you can configure your Game and even the Test-Play to automatically start in fullscreen. This is all detailed in the helpfile.

Windowed mode has letterbox.

If you mean that the resolution is 4:3 instead of 16:9 we have provided the user materials to avoid this. We also have posted in our announcements about RPG Maker channel and plugins to avoid these type of issues from the user end.

The window has the same size as the game's viewport. Of course you can resize it, but thats not a problem but a nice feature.

> Title screen has no quit option on Windows- and Mac builds. Users need to ALT+F4 in order to quit.

To quit a game, just click on the top-right (top-left on OS X) X-Button of the window. If you are in full-screen, just leave full-screen using F4. Alternatively, you can use the standard shortcut ALT+F4 to quit the App. In addition, you can use plugins and scripts to modify the title-screen like you want very easily. So you can easily add a quit-option if you like that more.

It also doesn’t make sense to add a quit option as mobile games don’t have them.


Most of the assets are RMVX-defaults or based on RMVX-defaults.
> They are not from RMVX+ and they are remade entirely for the 48x48 material from scratch. RPG Maker VX ACE is the most popular RPG Maker so it’s very nice and helpful that RPG Maker MV uses similar art-style. That makes it also much easier to port projects from RMVXAce to RPG Maker MV. Of course there also additional resource-packs available for RPG Maker MV and there will be even more in the future. In addition, you can also use your complete own resources, you can change character sizes and even tile-sizes, etc. using plugins.