Back in the Day...
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Alexander Morou
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I've been a part of the general RPG maker community since 2000.
Three of my online associates, Rast (Chris Nusbaum), Kindred (John), and Airzone (Mick Ireland) and I, Linguar (Allen Copeland) started the website rpgmaker.net. Which at the time, had nothing to do with RPG Maker made by ASCII. In fact, we decided that it wouldn't focus on the maker, since it already had many fan websites due to Don Miguel's Translation of RPG Maker 95 (which I think he finished from KanjiHack's original?)
The website grew to over I believe a million hits a month, or 25-35 thousand hits daily. In under a year. That skyrocketed the server cost (which were outrageous at the time), and ended up killing the website (on its one year anniversary even), until Chris entered the Navy to pay for the debt he had accrued due to the place. Eventually giving the domain to Bartek Gniado of Gaming World (who used it to redirect to his website.)
It was interesting while it lasted. I joined here after Gaming World turned into a place that played favorites, where a community staff member could publicly ridicule a member (a moderator even) and have no recourse, since their official response was he was just a regular user (never minding that he was breaking rules left and right, but they didn't care much about that).
Three of my online associates, Rast (Chris Nusbaum), Kindred (John), and Airzone (Mick Ireland) and I, Linguar (Allen Copeland) started the website rpgmaker.net. Which at the time, had nothing to do with RPG Maker made by ASCII. In fact, we decided that it wouldn't focus on the maker, since it already had many fan websites due to Don Miguel's Translation of RPG Maker 95 (which I think he finished from KanjiHack's original?)
The website grew to over I believe a million hits a month, or 25-35 thousand hits daily. In under a year. That skyrocketed the server cost (which were outrageous at the time), and ended up killing the website (on its one year anniversary even), until Chris entered the Navy to pay for the debt he had accrued due to the place. Eventually giving the domain to Bartek Gniado of Gaming World (who used it to redirect to his website.)
It was interesting while it lasted. I joined here after Gaming World turned into a place that played favorites, where a community staff member could publicly ridicule a member (a moderator even) and have no recourse, since their official response was he was just a regular user (never minding that he was breaking rules left and right, but they didn't care much about that).
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I started here a while ago after stumbling on to the site. My first account didn't have any posts on it and I made it in order to take requests from people via PM.
I took a break and decided to make a different account, as I didn't feel like going through the trouble to recover my password, as SeaMonkey loads slowly with MSN Live mail. Under this account, I was nearly banned after my first post on Shadow's birthday thread for posting a picture of an Asian guy eating a cooked baby that could have been aborted. I'm not sure if it was. CaptainHoohah hated me D:
I went around being unpopular and hitting on Atemu for a while. Moog came on seen and people thought we looked alike.
Fast forward to now and I just hang out on IRC making Shadow jokes and doing stuff like that d
I took a break and decided to make a different account, as I didn't feel like going through the trouble to recover my password, as SeaMonkey loads slowly with MSN Live mail. Under this account, I was nearly banned after my first post on Shadow's birthday thread for posting a picture of an Asian guy eating a cooked baby that could have been aborted. I'm not sure if it was. CaptainHoohah hated me D:
I went around being unpopular and hitting on Atemu for a while. Moog came on seen and people thought we looked alike.
Fast forward to now and I just hang out on IRC making Shadow jokes and doing stuff like that d
Firgof Umbra
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I don't even know when I got here. It was back before .org.
I lurked for many years. I never posted any of my projects but occasionally asked for help and support.
I only remember that I got to the original community through a webring.
I do remember being confused over whether the website was meant to be a fansite for RPG Maker or not.
I lurked for many years. I never posted any of my projects but occasionally asked for help and support.
I only remember that I got to the original community through a webring.
I do remember being confused over whether the website was meant to be a fansite for RPG Maker or not.
Firgof is the ultimate in lurking.
I remember reaching my first 50 posts and posting about that fact. Heh. That was back in .net days, I think there was a posting achievements thread or something alike back then. Those were the days, I mean we only had 18,000 members when the site went down; 10k was a huge achievement back then.
I remember reaching my first 50 posts and posting about that fact. Heh. That was back in .net days, I think there was a posting achievements thread or something alike back then. Those were the days, I mean we only had 18,000 members when the site went down; 10k was a huge achievement back then.
Man, yesterday I got thinking when someone mentioned Shiroun, there are so many people that I miss from the old days even if nobody liked them or they went unnoticed. I miss everything about the old days even if they were worse. :| Maybe that's just a thing with the Internet.
Ccoa and Erk, while everyone trash talks them, were cool guys. I can't really comment on their ability to run a forum because to be honest I wouldn't know, not being staff then and not paying much attention to management. But they were cool to have around. Ccoa made some really good scripts (for the time), Erk did a lot for the site (hell, his Ultimate Exteriors tileset was the most requested tileset of all time, and probably still is).
Euphony, even though I have a personal grudge based on a warning ( :sad: ), did some really cool shit with the RTP such as his willow trees, train, and all his tilesets. They were so good (at the time) that everyone thought they were custom even though they were just edits, and later on when I realised that fact they inspired me to do all of the shits for my game as custom (er... edits).
And then you've got guys like Andy and Arc. Andy had it in for me (for good reason) but man arguing with him was fun. And Arc, who didn't want to play his game (or just hug his little orange haired face to death?)
And jesus, the days of Lord Gradient were really cool. When nobody knew anything about RPG Maker, and it was a coolcats club; RMXP.net was the premium site purely because nobody else knew RMXP existed. Before several hundred fansites spawned off.
Even people who majorly annoy like Punk, Illustrationalism, Syphonmax, Despain. It was fun when they were around.
That is not to say that the site is not fun now, for it is; it's just fun in a different way, because there are different members. It's just fuck-awesome that a lot of the old guys are still around, and that some are coming back.
Ccoa and Erk, while everyone trash talks them, were cool guys. I can't really comment on their ability to run a forum because to be honest I wouldn't know, not being staff then and not paying much attention to management. But they were cool to have around. Ccoa made some really good scripts (for the time), Erk did a lot for the site (hell, his Ultimate Exteriors tileset was the most requested tileset of all time, and probably still is).
Euphony, even though I have a personal grudge based on a warning ( :sad: ), did some really cool shit with the RTP such as his willow trees, train, and all his tilesets. They were so good (at the time) that everyone thought they were custom even though they were just edits, and later on when I realised that fact they inspired me to do all of the shits for my game as custom (er... edits).
And then you've got guys like Andy and Arc. Andy had it in for me (for good reason) but man arguing with him was fun. And Arc, who didn't want to play his game (or just hug his little orange haired face to death?)
And jesus, the days of Lord Gradient were really cool. When nobody knew anything about RPG Maker, and it was a coolcats club; RMXP.net was the premium site purely because nobody else knew RMXP existed. Before several hundred fansites spawned off.
Even people who majorly annoy like Punk, Illustrationalism, Syphonmax, Despain. It was fun when they were around.
That is not to say that the site is not fun now, for it is; it's just fun in a different way, because there are different members. It's just fuck-awesome that a lot of the old guys are still around, and that some are coming back.