Isaac Jacobi Wrote:That's just melodramatic. No one's being pushed out, people are being invited in. The reason for unification makes sense. It's written plainly in the game's lore: You come together, you live. In an OOC sense? Who /doesn't/ benefit from this? Who looses out on a greater organization working toward a common goal? Sharing resources?
I think the issue you're running into is that the case against an in-game unification of players is just kind of flimsy. There's a ton of check marks in the "Pro" column, and one tiny mark being "Sometimes, I don't agree with stuff" in the "Con" column.
That being said? Once again, no one is making you sign on. No one is making anyone sign on.
Eh...when you look at me and my issues with the community, I'd have to disagree with your position regarding the whole "no one being pushed out" part.
However, I feel that a restructure would be best planned for 2.0, and made to take into account the plethora of new features in the game. Such as dueling, which can also serve as a proper conflict resolution system, as opposed to simply RPing it out and it ending up with two people still upset at each other - though RPing it out to a conclusion is doable provided both parties had it planned out. (This is, in my opinion, one of the problems that continues to periodically rear its ugly head in XIV)
On the other hand, I'm also more concerned about whether or not linkshells/free companies will talk to each other more often in 2.0 than they have in the past. I'm talking about inter-guild events, story arcs, etc that take into account multiple parties, instead of just one or two.
The key to people understanding one another is consistent, regular interaction, regardless of the setting. You can't "know" the person or groups if you've interacted with them a handful of times with limited progress.
The biggest pitfall as I see it with 2.0 and the RP community, is seeing the same shtick repeated as what we had to go through in the first eight months of the game. That could lead to another "isolation" of the community by grouping, if left unaccounted for.
