A lot of this is stuff I have seen and had experiences with in the past. Though it seems to be with the newer generation of RPers rather then the older ones. I didn't used to come across a lot of the IC/OOC blending and breaking the 4th wall until the last...three years? At least that I could tell. Starting with WoW, though it wasn't very prominent to me on there until the last six months I was in the game. When I left the game was when GW2 had just come out so I went over there.
THAT'S when it got bad. In sooo many ways.
One of my last experiences before I left that game was a previous RP partner asking me invasive questions about what my character had been doing sexually since they separated. It went from being a mostly innocent question in a player-to-player context to them getting very callous when I gave a rather vague answer. Found out later they had tried asking around to people to see what my character had been doing and then came back to me as if to test me on the knowledge. When I got annoyed that they were being rude about it I ended up getting kicked. Well, technically, I left, but I was out of the guild whether I liked it or not. No love lost there.
Another episode was an old RP partner getting mad because I went and RPed with another person without him. Even started harassing me over whispers and in Skype and at one point demanded I screen share with him so he knew exactly where I was. That night I blocked and deleted him from Skype and never RPed with him again.
Now, on topic...
As an FC leader I made sure that the IC/OOC separation rule was one of the first things I posted. Because it is becoming one of the largest problems I see in the community, and because it's one of the biggest complaints I get about other characters. Almost ALWAYS in a romantic context of some kind (so-and-so dated so-and-so and made such-and-such sad, boohoo) and such negative feelings are almost always tied OOC. Almost always.
Though I think, at least on the new RPer front, most people either take things too easy and don't drive some of these points home...or are neglectful. They either don't emphasize certain barriers or ground rules, or let too many mistakes slide without pulling them aside and being nice about explaining why whatever it was they were doing was bad. In the case of this thread, IC/OOC not being separated.
And neglectful in how more often then not there's a number of people who avoid new RPers like the plague because they do NOT have the patience to teach them the 'ways of the world'. Which, hey, I can understand. But we were all there before. We were all new, inexperienced, and started off in some less then eloquent places. *cough*MSNGroupsYuYuHakushoRPGsite*cough*
THAT'S when it got bad. In sooo many ways.
One of my last experiences before I left that game was a previous RP partner asking me invasive questions about what my character had been doing sexually since they separated. It went from being a mostly innocent question in a player-to-player context to them getting very callous when I gave a rather vague answer. Found out later they had tried asking around to people to see what my character had been doing and then came back to me as if to test me on the knowledge. When I got annoyed that they were being rude about it I ended up getting kicked. Well, technically, I left, but I was out of the guild whether I liked it or not. No love lost there.
Another episode was an old RP partner getting mad because I went and RPed with another person without him. Even started harassing me over whispers and in Skype and at one point demanded I screen share with him so he knew exactly where I was. That night I blocked and deleted him from Skype and never RPed with him again.
Now, on topic...
As an FC leader I made sure that the IC/OOC separation rule was one of the first things I posted. Because it is becoming one of the largest problems I see in the community, and because it's one of the biggest complaints I get about other characters. Almost ALWAYS in a romantic context of some kind (so-and-so dated so-and-so and made such-and-such sad, boohoo) and such negative feelings are almost always tied OOC. Almost always.
Though I think, at least on the new RPer front, most people either take things too easy and don't drive some of these points home...or are neglectful. They either don't emphasize certain barriers or ground rules, or let too many mistakes slide without pulling them aside and being nice about explaining why whatever it was they were doing was bad. In the case of this thread, IC/OOC not being separated.
And neglectful in how more often then not there's a number of people who avoid new RPers like the plague because they do NOT have the patience to teach them the 'ways of the world'. Which, hey, I can understand. But we were all there before. We were all new, inexperienced, and started off in some less then eloquent places. *cough*MSNGroupsYuYuHakushoRPGsite*cough*
