(04-17-2015, 12:53 PM)Wymsical Wrote: I'm only slightly exaggerating. Some of my acquaintances gave me a lot of crap for coming back to FFXIV specifically for Au Ra (and astrologians.) I played a Miqo'te before and even now we've had people saying some very harsh things about the Au Ra females that have implications for anyone who want to play them. I know it can come off as childish sniping but it's a long-time frustration over my entire MMO participation. If you're playing a 'cute' or 'pretty' race, there's always a significant portion of the roleplayer population that's rather dismissive or condescending toward you.
There's plenty of it in this very forum. But I really don't want to be combative. I suppose I'm just a little bitter. I do apologize.Â
S'cool. I'm used to being the point of contention, so I respond under assumption most of the time. Sometimes that backfires.
It's not really anyone's fault, though. As has been referenced, the name of the game with Auri is going to be "immigration." We know there's a lot of people wanting to play the new race, and it's going to be kind of daunting for, say, the Quicksand to go from Original Five Races to suddenly (hypothetically) 40% Auri the next night. It's not that I don't expect people to have good backstories, but it's still going to be a bit tiring to be introduced to yet another unique-but-similar concept. It's pre-judgmental, but it happened a lot with the lore-stated-player-contested miqo'te population. Do a shot every time someone is 1) the last of their tribe or 2) a Nunh. Congratulations, you are now dead.
I say this as someone RPing intimately with people using that EXACT CONCEPT, and as someone married to one of those dastardly miqo'te dragoons. It's not a conventional set-up, and the story works for me, so... Isn't that the important part?
I've said it in another person's thread asking for help getting a foot in the community. Perfectly nice roleplayer, very kind and very enthused. The challenge was that they were yet one more quiet but shy miqo'te male hanging out in a populated place. That, sadly, isn't enough to warrant recognition. So you need to stand out. And this is complicated by the fact that we're about to have an influx of same-race-different-background folks that will all have to stand out from one another at the same exact time. I don't envy anyone changing on the first day.
If anyone wants to be mad about it, you've got your choice of targets: Everyone else playing the same race, everyone not accepting them, yourself for buying the hype, and SE for railroading the background.
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