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I agree with most of what you say, Sas, but the problem isn't really people who are bad at Rping.
The main problem is people who activly seek it out just so they can say hurtful things to the people who get involved. No one likes being insulted and ganged up on by assholes and that's usually what happens when you are more open about your hobbies on Darkmoon Faire. If we start publically announcing our events, before you know it, we have an entire guild of dickheads crashing it and being complete tossers just for the sake of it for about 2 hours. There's only so much of that one person can take.
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not all of them are, however. We can't avoid the lot of them simply because they tend to be associated with the less savory.
Heh, and yeah, happened upon it just after you'd posted probably.
[Eltharis Sunglaive] says: Sastri...you better not have sex with my runeblade...."
A writer values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. --- Mark Twain
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I used to rp in DMF. I left for a number of reasons, but bottom line, one of the major problems is how people deal with things OOCly. After a while, when people start to take the game seriously and try to turn their fellow rpers against someone due to a perceived rp slight, people start to get fed up and leave. I'm pretty sure that's why a good number have quit, changed characters to hide, or otherwise left.
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I think this is more aimed at all of us who will--either by accident or desire--avoid and turn ourselves against those of different RP preferences or otherwise "noobish" understandings of what it means to RP with others. This is an attempt to lead by example. There will always be controversies on how much we should adhere to the lore provided us when Blizzard itself at times disregards it. It seems at least for many that at least trying to stick to the lore is smiled upon, while completely ignoring any and all bits of it, frowned upon.
I have always considered the lore as a guideline, not as the be all to end all--as I previously mentioned I believe. But if we accept all forms of RP, even those that are outlandishly apart from the lore, we end up losing the immersion that most RPers want. And as a result, that's when those RPers--will avoid those who are disregarding certain key unspoken rules involving RPing with others. That's when they leave the server, or find themselves drowning in the wash of everything that is not this game, this "world" that people enjoy, and have to either bubble themselves away from it, or leave entirely.
On the other end, we have those who refuse all and any attempts to give them the opportunity to expand their RP to others beyond their own RP circle. They get OOCly upset and disgusted, or snarl and bite, which makes those who really do mean well to throw their hands up and not even try to merge the server just a tad bit. It's these walls that have been built over time, by ignorance and pride. And those walls are what can come down, as long as we have patience, and gain trust to those who normally are used to just being looked down upon by the likes of RPers who "think they're better" than them.
No one is "better". No one is "more right." But there ARE universal rules of tolerance and respect for our fellow RPer. When those who RP succubus and sons of lore characters cry out that the other RPers are ignoring them, or avoiding them, then what do they do? They sink into their own bubbles, their own closed RP. And it's these closed circles that is killing this server, I'm afraid. The damage is being done on both fronts. There is nothing saying it has to be that way. And it is our right and responsibility to at least try to stop it.
Those who peruse our realm forums see mostly pve and pvp. Those who visit our server and search for RP barely are lucky to find any of it. The general answer to those questions of "where is the RP on this server?!" is "Oh, it's here. Just well hidden."
It does not HAVE to be. It will only help us in the long run, to gain more members to this server when they realize that yes, indeed, we DO have a valid RP source here. It isn't just a "deadzone".
We may not have quantity just yet. And we may not have quality. But we can have both, provided we take a little time once a week, to see the "other side."
[Eltharis Sunglaive] says: Sastri...you better not have sex with my runeblade...."
A writer values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. --- Mark Twain
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