(08-07-2013, 10:37 AM)Annaveil Wrote: I'd also like to point out (and back up Teardrop) by saying that I don't see any of this cliquishness that keeps being referred back to. :/ In fact, I've never known for an entire RP community to be so horrid that it shuns new players. I've known guilds to be elitist, but those guilds have never been the poster child for roleplaying communities. Not to mention, Gilgamesh (or any other roleplaying server out there) won't be immune to elitist guilds.I have to agree with Annaveil. This is exactly how I feel.
All in all, people have the right to choose where they want to go. I suppose it just seems like most of the arguments for Gilgamesh have been arguments against Balmung. When in reality, I have yet to see any of these so-called problems that are apparently exclusive to Balmung roleplayers.
I haven't played with folks from Balmung yet, but RPC stands as proof to me that Balmung isn't comprised entirely of exclusionary, elitist jerks. In fact, I've yet to see evidence to the contrary. Is this entire website just a pretty face?
I once did leave the Thorium Brotherhood RP server in WoW for a while because of some nasty rumors that were spread about me (I was a young and stupid roleplayer at the time). Though I only left Horde-side, and this was back when the community was about 20 people. I came back a few months later to a much larger community, with the people who scorned me being all but insignificant to the flow and progress of that community as a whole.
No server in any game I've ever been on has ever had enough bad people on it to discourage me from interacting with others on the entire server. You have a few bad eggs anywhere you go, and you just deal with that. You make a new guild when you want to make things fresh and give like-minded people a place to thrive. Splitting the community over three or more servers doesn't help anyone. It cuts each server off from valuable members, and pretty much encourages competition to "recruit" newcomers to this site.
RPC's staff, sorry to say, has encouraged that behavior by endorsing two servers. I know, I know--it's fair and good of them to be endorsing both popular server options. The "competition" was just bound to happen though, in this environment.
Again, I'm not knocking people who go to Gilgamesh for any reason, but if your reasons for going to Gilgamesh have to do with preconceptions of or bad experiences with Balmung players, then your choice seems pretty extreme to me.
Honestly, I find the idea of going to Gilgamesh to RP and progress with large Internet community populations more appealing than going there because Balmung roleplayers were mean to me.