When comparing RPG Creator vs EasyRPG, the Slant community recommends EasyRPG for most people. In the question“What are the best beginner game engines for making a top-down JRPG?” EasyRPG is ranked 5th while RPG Creator is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose EasyRPG is:
Game player can run assorted RPG Maker 2000/2003 games out of the box with few glitches currently.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform
Games can be created for any platform that supports HTML5.
Pro EasyRPG's player works with assorted games
Game player can run assorted RPG Maker 2000/2003 games out of the box with few glitches currently.
Pro Aims to be compatible with RPG Maker 2000/2003 games
EasyRPG's editor aims to be compatible with projects made with RPG Maker 2000/2003.
Pro Free and open source
EasyRPG is licensed under the GPL license, with source code available on GitHub.
Pro Some third party RPG Maker patches are supported in the player already
Functionality not present in RPG Maker 2000/2003 such PNG 24 bit alpha transparency, MOD music support and some extra command line interface parameters, such as skip title menu, are already a part of the EasyRPG player.
Cons
Con HTML5 is very dependent on browser performance
Theoretically all browsers should run HTML5 pretty much the same way, but thats not always the case. Something that worked fine on Chrome, for instance, might malfunction on Firefox (or vice versa). And there's nothing the devs of RPG Creator can really do about it, but to hope next Firefox update might fix it. Internet Explorer is not even recommended.
Add to that the fact that exporting to mobile or desktops rely on these sort of stripped down versions of web browsers (Node webkit, Crosswalk, Ejecta) that you pack with your game, and you can have a real headache if you're trying to make your game work properly through multiple platforms.
Con Abandoned
RPG Creator's last release was January 03 2014.