Confirmation bias at work.Â
All it takes is for some long-standing and/or well-known member of the RP community to walk in the room and suddenly the chances of the person you're currently RPing with ditching you to go roleplay with Mr. Famous go up drastically.Â
But the brain doesn't process that, because those qualities aren't visible. The brain only sees "Lv 50" and assumes that the reason Mr. Famous is getting all this hot RP action is because they're level-capped. Truth is, their level is merely a consequence of their having played the game long enough to clear content on at least a semi-regular basis.
I've experienced this phenomenon from all three angles: the person being ditched, the person doing the ditching, and the person someone else is ditching someone for.
It happens. If you're new and hanging around in a RP hub like the Quicksand by your lonesome, be prepared for it to happen A LOT.
All it takes is for some long-standing and/or well-known member of the RP community to walk in the room and suddenly the chances of the person you're currently RPing with ditching you to go roleplay with Mr. Famous go up drastically.Â
But the brain doesn't process that, because those qualities aren't visible. The brain only sees "Lv 50" and assumes that the reason Mr. Famous is getting all this hot RP action is because they're level-capped. Truth is, their level is merely a consequence of their having played the game long enough to clear content on at least a semi-regular basis.
I've experienced this phenomenon from all three angles: the person being ditched, the person doing the ditching, and the person someone else is ditching someone for.
It happens. If you're new and hanging around in a RP hub like the Quicksand by your lonesome, be prepared for it to happen A LOT.
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