LOQUE'S PROFILE

Ya, I guess I said I didn't want to stir up anything but I also didn't really help with that. Sorry.

Thanks TFT - I'll keep a candle burning.

LockeZ - you raise a good point about security concerns, but it would still be more simple to censor the sensitive data in the backup than for them to set up and pay for an archive server (email addresses, passwords, user IP, and PMs are they only bits of sensitive data I can think of that wouldn't have been available to the public when the site was online anyway, and censoring a few tables and rows in a database backup really isn't that hard).

author=LockeZ
There aren't really circumstances you don't understand.

Ummm, how about:

author=LockeZ
The people there went to a hell of a lot of trouble to get people like you to leave them alone.

Or:

author=LockeZ
they are actively hostile to the game dev community,

That seems like a couple of important circumstances that I didn't really understand before I made this thread. Of course they're not going to help me if the whole reason GW stopped existing was because they were trying to get rid of "people like me." But you act like I should have already known this before I started a thread asking for information about it.

I'm also curious how you get the impression that I feel entitled to anything from them. Perhaps I naively assumed that there was a corner of the internet where a forum admin could be interested in, I don't know, helping someone - not because that user should be entitled to anything but because maybe the admin wants to be helpful. I really don't see how it's entitlement to ask someone if they would do you a favor.

If what I was looking for was the unnecessary hostility that I remember from GW then I would thank you for helping me find it.

I'm not sure why you decided to make assumptions about why I asked if there was a backup. I never asked if it would be possible for them to host an archive server (lets be honest there's a lot about that site which I think many people are glad is no longer online), and I am not interested in these backups purely for nostalgic reasons. With GW gone I lost things that I had made (tutorials, screenshots, articles), and I'm sure I'm not the only one who wishes they could login to their old account and download the screenshots that they had uploaded, or the posts they made, or the tutorials they've written.

I'm also not under the impression that an old admin from GW would undertake some herculean effort to get this work back to me. But if an administrator from GW did retain a backup and they were interested in sending it to someone it wouldn't take much effort at all to upload a zip file of the backup somewhere and shoot me a link.

But it seems like you're telling me that there are circumstances that I don't understand about why GW shut down and that for some reason the old administrators want to distance themselves from their role in helping people learn about programming and game development, and you're probably right that if there was a backup they probably wouldn't send it to me. But if I can find out how to contact one of the admins from GW I'm going to ask anyway.

In case anyone finds this thread looking for some of this stuff, I just found this archive of a few of the tutorials and articles:

http://leafo.net/gwtemp/

I don't mean to stir anything up (because from what I gather there are things to be stirred up), but I'm genuinely curious what happened.

The only thread I could find about this on these forums was this one: http://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/1022/

Which gives me the impression that something bad happened and that a lot of crap was stirred up, but no one in the thread explains what happened. Why is gamingw.net now called Salt World? What happened to the old forums as I knew them back in the day? Is there an archive anywhere of the forum online or does anyone possess an archive personally?

I used to make RPG Maker games and was pretty active in the forums back in the day - but I haven't been active in the community at all for nearly a decade. There are tons of screenshots I've posted, or friends I made (whose old usernames I've mostly forgot), or tutorials I wrote, or threads I thought were interesting and would love to revisit. Is there no way to do so anymore?

I'm looking for an ancient game, likely RM2K(3) (likelier RM2K), set in New York City, or perhaps same nameless big city, wherein you have to go out and get a job to earn money to furnish your apartment. It was a pretty big game, even though I only ever played a demo, and it included some cool unique features like the apartment furnishing system. Anybody remember the name of this game?