Not quite happy confessions, but confessions nonetheless.
1. Though I have been RPing for over ten years now, FFXIV was my first experience of an RP server. Prior to that, my RP was always within close-knit communities of me and a handful of friends.
And well.... I confess that my expectations of open-world RP were a lot higher than what the truth revealed it to be. It was a nasty bitter bite to swallow during beta when I entered open world RP and found out it was nothing like I had imagined. Even worse when launch came and I realized things weren't going to change because "that was just the beta!". Oh well... sometimes I can be naive too, I guess.
And mind you, I'm not addressing just the RP community, but the whole open world RP system, as well as the non-RP community. In my naivety, I had imagined open world RP as something close to The Sims, except the NPCs were players. I did not expect things like people jumping on tables, or players running around the streets without IC motive to do so, and so on. It was, again, naivety on my part, an utopistic dream that was sadly shattered >_<
2. Not really a confession since pretty much everyone knows that at this point, but... I roll my eyes and grimace every time I stumble on someone who feels the need to share their romantic/sexual RP-related actions in /em or /s... It's like having a couple kissing next to you and you can't look away (because the chatlog is there). I don't judge the people doing it, but the action, oh I do judge the action much. Eyeroll all the way.
3. I purposely do not visit the house of RPers with Personal Large Mansions because the politic voice in me tells me Large houses are not for single individuals to own. Shame on me.
4. I never log out. Sorry lobby server.
1. Though I have been RPing for over ten years now, FFXIV was my first experience of an RP server. Prior to that, my RP was always within close-knit communities of me and a handful of friends.
And well.... I confess that my expectations of open-world RP were a lot higher than what the truth revealed it to be. It was a nasty bitter bite to swallow during beta when I entered open world RP and found out it was nothing like I had imagined. Even worse when launch came and I realized things weren't going to change because "that was just the beta!". Oh well... sometimes I can be naive too, I guess.
And mind you, I'm not addressing just the RP community, but the whole open world RP system, as well as the non-RP community. In my naivety, I had imagined open world RP as something close to The Sims, except the NPCs were players. I did not expect things like people jumping on tables, or players running around the streets without IC motive to do so, and so on. It was, again, naivety on my part, an utopistic dream that was sadly shattered >_<
2. Not really a confession since pretty much everyone knows that at this point, but... I roll my eyes and grimace every time I stumble on someone who feels the need to share their romantic/sexual RP-related actions in /em or /s... It's like having a couple kissing next to you and you can't look away (because the chatlog is there). I don't judge the people doing it, but the action, oh I do judge the action much. Eyeroll all the way.
3. I purposely do not visit the house of RPers with Personal Large Mansions because the politic voice in me tells me Large houses are not for single individuals to own. Shame on me.
4. I never log out. Sorry lobby server.
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
