There has been some bad news about Rage3D circulating over the last 24 hours. Apparently it seems that most of the Rage3D staff has left the site. The reason behind it is the lack of activity and support by the two owners. I must say that Rage3D has really disappointed me in the last few years and more so recently. I remember Rage3D as a big ATI support site with a lot of useful information, big forums and tools. But recently even we(NGOHQ.com) have more to offer. Rage3D is not functioning like a true ATI support site (They even have a huge Nvidia advertisement there) because of the owners.

Recently we’ve heard rumors that most of the active staff has left Rage3D. The site is owned by two partners but the main operators are Mark “Ratchet” Throne and the other staff. They write the reviews and do the work not the owners. So from the rumors around Mark and the other staff were unhappy due to lack activity from the owners themselves, and left. So basically this means that you will no longer see a lot of activity on their site and that’s really bad news. Especially when there aren’t many ATI fan/support sites out there !!

It’s rumored that some of the staff have tried to buy the site from the owners but the owners have refused. Personally, I think this is a shame! Since the owners are not doing much to keeps the site running, except of counting the advertisement revenue.

Maybe the owners forgot but Rage3D is a registered trademark of ATI/AMD and they can easily pull up their domain by contacting the registrar. I honestly think that Mark has worked really hard on the site and he deserves to run it. If not him then there is one or two sites that deserve to have this honor (we would LOVE to have this honor) it is really sad to hear about Rage3D. We truly wish the best to Mark and his colleagues!!