Are you going to (or did you) avoid Besaid because of RPing?Follow

I dont mind other ppl RPing. In the other hand, I, personally, dont like to RP.
Maybe if I knew beforehand it was the unoficial RP server, I would make my toon somewhere else. But to be quite honest, I dont really care. If ppl want to stay in character, they are free to do so.
I just wonder why ppl chosed the most populated server to make it the RP server. It will bring a lot of new gamers not knowing it (like me!).

I avoid Besaid because it was voted as the unofficial RP server. Why? I am sick and tired, from WoW mainly, of others making fun of those that RP. To avoid that kind of community since that is the reason I left WoW, I avoided the server.

I am now seeing that the most active english speaking community is on this server and I may remake a character to see how it is. I have been on 3 different servers only to be left alone with no one to party or a good active LS.

I'm new to the game altogether and chose Besaid for the rep of the unofficial RP server. I'll agree that generally I find for more comraderie and politeness from RP communities.. although, we do have our fair share of jerks. Unfortunately, no matter where you go in life or what you get involved into, there's no stark seperation of groups that help you avoid the overly opinionated and those that view thier opinions as fact.

@Bertlit: You left WoW to avoid the RP community? I played WoW for about 2-3 years and bounced server to server. I only found RP to be somewhat embraced on one server (Farstriders). All others I visited, you had people publicly badmouthing RPers on broadcast... tho Moonguard... I perfectly understand why with the way a large percentage there acted. But even on Farstriders, the unofficial 'best' RP server in WoW, most RP was in teams or in out of the way places because of people jumping into the middle of the rp to dance naked or something. Then again, haven't played WoW for awhile now. Has Cataclysm brought the sleepy RP comunities back to life?

@BaseVilliN: I agree on that your comment could be taken IC and while you didn't mean it to be rude, I'm on both your side and that person's because it may have felt rude to that person because you typed it in all caps. I'm assuming this because of how you typed in post. Most people consider text in all caps to be shouting, which in most cultures and situations is considered to be rude. Most people, if they ever accidentally leave the caps lock on or hit it by mistake, you'll see them quickly apologize for the caps. Japanese players definitely see it as rude, and there's japanese players that are able to type english very well. This is why you'll occasionally see someone apologize in the translator if they happen to use the shout channel in game as well. But still, don't let it get to you, most of us don't bite :3

A group of us from my linkshell were doing some leves the other day and for the first time we saw another group RPing openly in /say.
We commented to ourselves in /party about how none of us were RPers and how some of us found it a little hard to understand the appeal, but we were courteous and did not interrupt of complain. We just battled our mobs and moved on.

That is how it should be done.

Edited, Dec 16th 2010 11:50am by Largestill

Edited, Dec 16th 2010 11:51am by Largestill

I'm late to this catagory so I'm playing catch up.....

....I would like RPers if they put some effort into it. Almost all of RP dialect is bland and uninteresting (save for a couple of "erotic" situations I "bumped" into) XD

I made a /pet emote, what have you guys done to contribute? >:O

I never see them around anymore D: I think there numbers shrank to the point that there are only a few secret cults doing their rituals in hidden temples that I've never seen before! :O

But what is RP really these days? You could make the argument that it's amateurs acting, but if you look at the history of RPGs, that seems to be more of a niche addition. I mean look at borderlands... it has RPG elements but I really don't see people trying to RP in it.

To me an RPG is a game with some sort of incremental character development system. I think the role in role playing has to do more about how and what you can do then the acting part.