Satisiun Wrote:1) You can have your private RP, but in effect you also have to sacrifice the ability to interact with other people. Basically, you will use Final Fantasy XIV as a multi-player role-playing game, instead of a massively multi-player online role-playing game, in which only a set number of players is communicated with and interacted with throughout the game, so long as you are playing through the entirety of the game's actual storyline.
Think of it almost like playing Baldur's Gate with several other players at the same time, in that regard.
2) You forsake the storyline, and permit yourself to interact and communicate with the other people in the game without fear of forcing one's own activities involving somehow being the world's amazing, epic savior to us all on other people. It isn't like you will miss out on opportunities of great character development, or even amazing stories or experiences by doing this. Sometimes you make your own.
This definitely does strike me as a very rude resolution to people who would like to do this. There is a third option which you don't seem to want to acknowledge: if an RPer RPs as a character in a canon RP LS, and makes an effort to keep these side activities secret or otherwise not bring them up when they interact with non-canon-RPers. If someone RPs their character in such a way to not bring such matters into question, where is your issue? You'd be choosing to not RP with someone on the entire basis that out-of-character you have decided you don't like their other RP activities
Satisiun Wrote:And one counter-argument I can see being made is, "Well, what if my character never speaks of it?" To that I say ...
... c'mon. Really? You nor anyone in your band will ever talk of the epic, melodramatic, bard's tale-worthy events that you are partaking in? That just won't fly, barring you're a mute.
Not that hard to do. My whole RP LS in XI has managed this. The game doesn't treat you like much of a hero in XI for doing all the things you do, NPCs seem largely unaware of your activities. It really isn't all that difficult. For example, to not discuss the ending of the Rise of the Zilart plotline, we (IC) decided that
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