I get called an Elitist for preferring my guild and the people in it stick to lore as closely as possible. The thing is... we're not that strict when it comes to the murky bits (We don't know everything about the Twelve, we don't know everything about the void, we really don't know exactly how Ul'dah is ran) so it's completely okay to bend the lore around the parts that are... fuzzy. We have a voidtouched THM in the guild, my character been possessed by a voidsent, our guild has stolen Allagan artifacts from nonexistent ruins, raided nonexistent Castrums, Have a 100 year old mages soul trapped in a book. All of these things aren't in lore, but we use Inductive logic to see if it would be possible. If it is, just go do it man. The only time we're super strict is when the lore is clearly written in black and white of what it can and cannot be. That's it.
We're not even mean about it, if you don't want to follow lore - you don't have to. You just can't be in our guild. We've had people whine at us and say it was unfair - since we also do endgame and some non-lore compliant rpers just wanted a slot on our raid team - but we all agreed to these rules and it's unfair to let someone who doesn't follow them in.
I think actual elitism is bad. I've actually seen it, even if this game. I've had people around me believe that if you didn't write a paragraph a response - complete with inner thoughts and feelings - that you were a bad rper. I had to tell them over and over again, it's a different style - some people are into dialogue RP and don't feel the need to get deep into it, and others do. It's just style and has no bearing on how good you are or aren't. I've had some people chastise me for not spelling something correctly (I'm a fast typer and tend to typo) and that made me a bad RPer... for a typo. There are people running around who look for "Good" or "Bad" rpers, because they want to feel superior. Those people exist and they kinda suck... but not everyone is like that. I don't think a lot of them are like that. It takes too much energy too worry about how bad someone else is.
Elitism is gaming: I'm in Final Coil with my guild, and it's really the only time I have a high expectation. Dungeons are generally easy, and unless you're a huge derp I don't really mind much. In Coil though, I expect my team to learn the mechanics, gear up every week, and learn their jobs. I don't really care that much about DPS unless we aren't hitting a dps check - since I used to have a pretty low DPS back in the day and caught a lot of flack for it despite the fact we were clearing, I tend to be more sympathetic to it even though my DPS is really high now.
I do get annoyed wen I get into a farm party for a Primal or something and it's pretty clear someone got in for a carry >.> Like, dude I just say you die 4 times in the first run of Shiva Ex, you shouldn't be here. BUT if it's a clear party I don't mind.
For me my gaming elitism absolutely is determined by context.
We're not even mean about it, if you don't want to follow lore - you don't have to. You just can't be in our guild. We've had people whine at us and say it was unfair - since we also do endgame and some non-lore compliant rpers just wanted a slot on our raid team - but we all agreed to these rules and it's unfair to let someone who doesn't follow them in.
I think actual elitism is bad. I've actually seen it, even if this game. I've had people around me believe that if you didn't write a paragraph a response - complete with inner thoughts and feelings - that you were a bad rper. I had to tell them over and over again, it's a different style - some people are into dialogue RP and don't feel the need to get deep into it, and others do. It's just style and has no bearing on how good you are or aren't. I've had some people chastise me for not spelling something correctly (I'm a fast typer and tend to typo) and that made me a bad RPer... for a typo. There are people running around who look for "Good" or "Bad" rpers, because they want to feel superior. Those people exist and they kinda suck... but not everyone is like that. I don't think a lot of them are like that. It takes too much energy too worry about how bad someone else is.
Elitism is gaming: I'm in Final Coil with my guild, and it's really the only time I have a high expectation. Dungeons are generally easy, and unless you're a huge derp I don't really mind much. In Coil though, I expect my team to learn the mechanics, gear up every week, and learn their jobs. I don't really care that much about DPS unless we aren't hitting a dps check - since I used to have a pretty low DPS back in the day and caught a lot of flack for it despite the fact we were clearing, I tend to be more sympathetic to it even though my DPS is really high now.
I do get annoyed wen I get into a farm party for a Primal or something and it's pretty clear someone got in for a carry >.> Like, dude I just say you die 4 times in the first run of Shiva Ex, you shouldn't be here. BUT if it's a clear party I don't mind.
For me my gaming elitism absolutely is determined by context.
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