(07-25-2015, 11:23 PM)13uddy Wrote: If people forget there is a person on the other side of a character, then yeah, that is a bit too much.
That happens more often then not, I think, and usually not on purpose.
Another example of this: I started playing GW2 a bit more heavily before HW dropped due to a friend I had known for years wanting someone to play with him. So I did! It was fun and a good way for us to catch up after a long period where we didn't speak due to moving and losing contact with one another.
When we started the MMO, he ended up with a lot more RP then I did, mostly because he stayed at home all day while I had work and obligations on the home front that kept me from being able to spend 10+ hours getting RP. Which was cool, we just did what we could anyways and were happy with it.
At one point his amount of RP dwindled while mine gradually grew. I joined a guild of people I knew from the days before I retired GW2 as a full-time MMO to come to FF. I met some other RPers I wanted to make stories with. Now the friend that had far more RP then myself had nothing but our things (RP wise) to do while I became the one with a lot of roleplay.
After two weeks of this where as we RPed multiple times a week, I kept getting confronted by this friend being upset that I wasn't spending more time with him. It got to a point where he got SUPER specific about details. Such as...
Him: 'You never RP with me!'
Me: 'We just RPed two days ago!'
Him: 'Only for 65 minutes! -_-'
Me: '...Eh?'
It wasn't a bad thing...at first. As the issue grew, he showed he was fixating a lot on the small things to where RPing got less fun and more like a chore to appease an invisible time quota. On my end, could I have spent more time with him? Sure. Looking back on it and given his nature, he probably wouldn't have been content unless all that I did was with him or his RP picked up again so that he had other people to occupy himself with.
Eventually, we stopped RPing. I cut ties after getting the impression his need for RP was more important then our friendship. Do I regret it sometimes? Yeah. He was someone I knew for years after all. In the long run, it's probably for the better.
