Well I officially joined in 2002, but I visited the main site a lot before then. My community at that time was rpg2knet, but sort of slowly started using gamingw more. I was a webmaster of a rm site called http://www.blade2k.net around that time aswell. I think it's still going.

Holy cow I remember this website! Classic. They still affiliate with GW! 

Six years today woooooaaaahhh

I joined six years go in 2002, and like most people I came here looking for rm2k stuff. It didn't take too long for me to get pretty bored with the whole game making scene, so I lurked quite a bit in other forums before eventually becoming active across the site. During 2004 I had no internet access, so I was away from here for quite a while. I became active again in 2005, and I've just been browsing around here on a basically daily basis. I've been semi-active in this community, but I don't think I stand out all too much. I have met some good people through here, and I like knowing what goes on with the members here... Checking up on their livejournal entries, chatting on AIM, etc. I've also made some good e-friends here who have helped me out with some things like music production, such as Grin Tree.

GW is a cool place to hang out and it helps take the stress out of my day!

I basically joined to ask you how to make a CBS back in 2002. You told me to read some tutorials and from there I just kept posting. Mr. Y invited me to become content staff. I did that for a while before the FBI accused me of molesting several children and I stopped posting on GW for a few years. Now I guess I'm back full-time. I'm still here because I use RPG Maker 2003, but as soon as I finish my one and only RPG I'm moving on to better things (game programming in java ​).

I seem to remember playing A Blurred Line all the way through in the Summer of 2005 then becoming RPG Maker obsessed. I think I joined in early 2006 to beg in Game and Demo for Lysander to complete his epic.

I won't hold my breath haha.

Well, I started in 2005, just browsing looking for ways to codes certain things in my game.  and I joined in 2006 so I could post...  an  advert/what do you think of my story topic, and got warned for bumping it twice.

I learned a bit of coding in RM2k3, but I also learned a lot more about game design in general, and developing story and other shit like that.   Hell, if I didn't come here I probably would've finished Demon Form by now, but it would be worse than...  well, I don't play many RM games so I don't know who makes crappy ones.

What keeps me here is the community.  More accurately the G&D forum, VG forum, and of course the SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY games of TF2...  that haven't been played for the last 3 or 4 weeks   ​  Oh well.  Besides, I could probably just one day leave, and no one would know I'm gone...  just like in real life 

I joined about a year and a half after I started visiting the site, my sister signed up about 5 or 6 months before me. I didn't really have a reason to stay, but the reason I came back was the reason I first came... rpg maker.

I came here in early 2006 looking (like most people) for RM stuff. Me and my mate were playing around with the program and making a demo so I used to visit the mainsite a lot for tutorials and such. I occasionally looked at the forums, and I don't know why I joined (probably just a spur of the moment thing). I only really became active mid to late last year.

I stayed because I now compose (I used to do it but I was pretty bad) and there's some good projects in the works here, and I've met some cool people on here and such. Even if the site isn't as active as it used to be it's still good fun working with other people on here on songs and stuff (wattup lars). It's pretty much became my main forum hangout nowadays.

I have been here since forever, and I haven't learned anything, and that's precisely why I stay =)
seriously I joined many years ago, when rpgmaker.net died (I remember I had been recently promoted to mod of the art forum in there ;_;)
the I saw that many of the people I knew from there moved here, and I decided to register.
I have learned that I simply wouldn't be able to make a joke with GWhumour if my life depended on it, I learned that I'll never understand what targ means, and that I type too fast and that makes me always make typoes and I never make the time to correct them.
I've met quite a few amazing people around though, too bad many of them have already left the site...

I learned a chode can also be a dick wider than it is long

I've been here since August 2002, and I haven't learned anything haha.

But, I stay here because I made friends with lots of people on here, and just enjoy it here.

Edit: okay, I learned a lot here. I learned who/what Foget is, I learned what targ is, I learned about w ishmoo  (Jesus I am old), and lots of other things.


I can't believe the w ishmoo filter is still here hahah wishmoo

I've been here for a while. I originally joined rpgmaker.net a long time ago and stumbled upon Gaming World. (Which I, for some reason, am convinced was called Gaming Workshop for a short period of time since I remember there being a disclaimer at the bottom saying that "this page has nothing to do with Games Workshop") When rpgmaker.net went down I was all over the rpgmaker communities for a while before settling for GW. If it hadn't been for IRC I would probably never have stuck around. But IRC was the place to get all the information.

GW has taught me a lot about the internet. It's good to have been in for a while since that means I can be plain stupid and get away with it when I want to know what exactly that internet meme I heard about is. Over the years I've been here I've obviously changed a lot, but I don't know how much of that would have happened with or without GW.

Over the years though, most of my previous hangouts have all died out and this is basically the last forum community I'm in. I'm not sure I'm up to the task of getting as deeply involved in another so it's very possible that if GW dies it'll be the last specialized community I'm actively in.

It's hard to believe that I've been here over two years! I'd like to believe I am not the massive dickface I was when I first joined.

i forget everything i've ever learned, daily

OR maybe i just haven't learned anything

also ya i've been here forever, make fun of me please