(10-21-2013, 01:12 AM)Bentii Wrote: Your first point is a really debatable.. I find that the community is acutually fairly spread. One of the most common reasons people think there is no RP is because they have character that wouldn't normally go up to people.. they expect other RPers to just walk up to them and RP, which is a nice thought true, but very few follow through... no one ever take the initiative to actually search for it... I have experianced this on serveral MMO's. People say "Oh this is a dead community, there is never RP.." But for some reason.. I alway seem to get RP when I actually try to find it... I take the initative and search for it and 90% it takes me less than 5 minutes, even without a guild... not wait for some random person to come up to me... You say your community is very, very small.. but honestly the amount of rolepayers are decently dispersed... It's the roleplayers themselves that make it seem small...
If a role-playing community is thriving and well, you shouldn't have to always seek RP to find it. I agree there are people who sit back and complain that communities are dead because they refuse to put in the effort or take the initiative to find or more their own RP and they expect RP to just fall into their lap, but that doesn't change the fact that the role-play still is small. We're a minority. Not everyone who plays the game is a role-player. Heck, I didn't realize how small the MMO RP community was until I came to Balmung and realized that I knew 1/3 of the people I've met from my previous MMO.
Quote:For your third point I just want to say that your statement is untrue... when the game first came out to purchase the servers, Balmung and Gilgamesh, became immediately unavailable. From my experience on the server Faerie, I found a good community of RPers on that server... in fact they were the one's that led me to this site... And quite a few of them had to move because no one wanted to take the time to consider another server... after anyone mention it is completely shot down... and then someone has to post a video that came out in beta (It was posted on Aug 10, 2013)... not when the game actually was available to purchase (Aug 27, 2013)... that video is outdated from my understanding.. thus conversation is outdated... no one expected for the servers to be so crowded... not even SE... so I don't see why there cannot even be a discussion on this matter...
If the RP communities on the other servers are healthy and fulfilling, then why did they have to change servers or coerce other people to join their server?
Why split up the RPers when we could all be in one or two places? More role-players in the same place means more role-players and more characters to interact with, more diversity, more RP FC's and LS's to join, more influence on our server, more likelihood you can find a group to fit in with, etc.Â