(01-28-2015, 12:52 PM)Ritual Wrote: This thread has a good potential of just becoming another hot-pot discussion like ERP, you can have you're own views, but lets not try to enforce these views on others, agree to disagree and move on, because this will just go around and around and won't end until people just tire of the thread until another comes a long.
That's the feeling I've been getting too, actually.
The original basis of the discussion was how one person felt other people should RP their Miqo'te - making use of their ears and tails to identify them as something beyond Hyurs with cat features. It somehow evolved - as such things often do - into people discussing how Miqo'te should be portrayed as a whole, including their culture background since it's always the biggest talking point about them.
Some people will stick closer to lore, some will not. Some will have "legitimate" reasons why their characters don't stick to lore and some won't. Some created their characters for their rich stories and interactions, some just want something pretty to look at while they punch bugs for four hours. These happen across all MMOs, all races; not just Miqo'te.
It's all just how people choose approach the game. You can tut and complain about how everyone else is doing it wrong, but that's just personal bias and opinion. Everyone is deriving their own enjoyment from the game, whether it's through progression, casual play, light-RP, heavy-RP, ERP, or a mixture of the above. The best one can do is just try to find those who you enjoy interacting with and just... do your thing with them.
Unless you're being a troll. That's just obnoxious. </hypocrite>
Seriously, though. The only time I have an issue with how people play is when they try to impose their views on others. Example, the trolls who crash RP events because they think "RP is dumb." Saying how people SHOULD be playing their characters can get rather close to this mindset, and that worries me.
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