(04-22-2015, 09:45 AM)Alothia Wrote: Or if you look at the introduction threads. Back when the game first opened, we'd have threads with 20+ people welcoming them and engaging in the threads. Now, when people post an introduction thread, they're lucky to get 10 posts...and that's very rare.Perhaps this should be taken to another thread as suggested because it doesn't quite jive with the notion of "For certain users over X amount of months who have been here, the atmosphere seems to have changed here" but I wanted to address this.
There was a time that I personally wanted to try and reach out to every. single. person who posted in the Welcome threads that I thought would be great to RP with either by character design or who I felt seemed to be easier for me to relate with/get along with etc., as I know there are certain personalities that I can't be with for too long. It's just bad for me. Or I wanted to post because I genuinely wanted to try and help them if they needed help with a) the game or b) anything else they had questions about.
I will admit to my own faults in that a lot of times, I've always been unable in also putting 3 steps forward which has been mentioned in one of those recent "reach out to others but if you won't have the fortitude,etc. to keep doing it, don't" posts I've seen before so I stopped.
What happened, in my case, is that I posted in a lot of these threads. I told them their character sounded interesting, because they were! For both me and the character I play. Most of them, they didn't really ever say anything again. Some friended me, and then didn't say anything. I could have and should have done more in including them. Set more time in my schedule to do things on my own such as planning to meet them or make my own event with them. But with all relationships, sometimes it might feel as if you aren't receiving anything for the efforts you gave out which for me has always been the first step of "contact me in-game or by PM." In my case, when I never even got that interest it sorta just became a "oh, well, guess they weren't interested in my character or getting to know me so I'll let it go." It became too easy I admit to just give up. I imagine it does go the same way for everyone, people searching for RP or not.
