(02-16-2015, 06:21 PM)Vulture Wrote:[youtube]ONC52indu4Q[/youtube](02-16-2015, 11:18 AM)Naunet Wrote: You're finding causation when there's only correlation. Balmung is a legacy server and when ARR launched had the benefit of retaining its 1.0 RP community. Gilgamesh had to start from scratch. It makes perfect sense then that Balmung has a larger, more entrenched RP community and is thus seen as the more desirable server to be on from a roleplayer perspective.
The creation restrictions hurt everyone, not just non-RPers. Potential roleplayers and current roleplayers who desperately want to make alts are all harmed by the policy, and that's just not a good thing.(02-16-2015, 04:54 AM)QueenFrejyalen Wrote: Judging people and wanting them to stay out of your "super awesome RPers-only fort" is a bit much.I've had this conversation so many times before in so many MMOs I'm not even angry at the inevitable responses. That picture I posted? I made it in MSpaint 15 years ago when I was playing Everquest. It always goes the same way: I plead for RPers to have a place of their own, I'm accused of being an elitist and having a bad attitude, I say "You'll see, RP will disappear and I'll say I told you so", RPers continue to welcome their own destroyers with a smile, non-RPers vastly out number RPers, RP is relegated to specific guilds, there's nobody around for me to say "I told you so". Rinse and repeat
Elitist attitude is not something to be proud of; it is a harmful ideology that you belong on a pedestal and others are not valued as high as you or your friends are. Â Someone can't contribute as much to the RP community as you, so you think they should be barred entirely or thrown out because that makes them a "parasite"?
It is the patience, understanding, and cooperation of a community that makes it strong - we do not live in times that require a "thinning the herd" mentality, especially in regards to an extra curricular in a game.
We are not blindly accepting non-RPers, we are rightfully accepting them. Â This server and this game were not made for RPers only, and if you're willing to bar "non-RPers", then I assume that attitude will extend to "bad RPers" and "RPers I don't like".
A slippery slope, indeed.
The disturbing thing here is this topics existance is essentially agreeing with me.
People want on on Balmung sooooo bad and most RPers here are already on Balmung. Why? Gilgamesh's RP scene is identical to Balmung and it's much easier to get on right? It's not like the difficulty in getting a spot on the server somehow filters out people that aren't dedicated right? It's rather weird that you're expending so much effort to get what you insist is the same result.
It's not the same and you darn well know it.
EDIT: Oh and QueenFrejyalen, I said nothing of RP quality. Your "slippery slope" is one of your own creation.
