I've always been a bit confused that people have this expectation that RP is just gonna happen, that it's a feature of the game that's not working right.
MMORPGs are a lot like life. Â Think about how many people you talk to on a given day. Â Likely you know them already. Â How many times are you walking in a park or down a street and just start talking to them and sharing your backstory. Â I'd wager that it's kinda rare. Â A lot of people, like me, are very not into being spoken to if they do not know them. Â A catch 22? Â Obviously.
Roleplay isn't that much different. Â I'm not gonna RP just because someone else wants to. Â It has to make sense in the time and space of my character, just like it does in real life.
There are places where people go to comiserate with others, bars, churches, cons, standing in line. Â All those things exist in FFXIV.
I am not super great at RP but it's not because of my social phobia (well, it is a bit) but it's because I'm not super familiar with all the Lore. Â I don't want to jump into some complex discussion of dragoons or Elzen history or whatever because I don't know enough about it. Â I don't do this kind of thing in real life either.
FFXIV isn't as easy for me as TSW or CoH was, but it's not so difficult either.
MMORPGs are a lot like life. Â Think about how many people you talk to on a given day. Â Likely you know them already. Â How many times are you walking in a park or down a street and just start talking to them and sharing your backstory. Â I'd wager that it's kinda rare. Â A lot of people, like me, are very not into being spoken to if they do not know them. Â A catch 22? Â Obviously.
Roleplay isn't that much different. Â I'm not gonna RP just because someone else wants to. Â It has to make sense in the time and space of my character, just like it does in real life.
There are places where people go to comiserate with others, bars, churches, cons, standing in line. Â All those things exist in FFXIV.
I am not super great at RP but it's not because of my social phobia (well, it is a bit) but it's because I'm not super familiar with all the Lore. Â I don't want to jump into some complex discussion of dragoons or Elzen history or whatever because I don't know enough about it. Â I don't do this kind of thing in real life either.
FFXIV isn't as easy for me as TSW or CoH was, but it's not so difficult either.
