(07-10-2016, 07:33 PM)ExAtomos Wrote: Arg... that really sucks.
While I certainly understand the reaction, I do wish that lalas wouldn't be painted with the same broad brush. I mean, what can I do to change attitudes? :/ I RP Ralin with the same thoughtfulness I do all of my characters, but to not be given a chance? ._.
(On my old server, I changed my gameplay main from midlander to lala for about half a year. Had someone, a friend at that, spam the disgust emote at me whenever he saw me from then on. I've had folks on Balmung talk about hurting or killing my lala alt and joke about how I can't possibly hurt them back. It's funny the first time, but gets old fast. I've definitely been on the receiving end of some lala hate. lol.)
Unfortunately I know the hate. Â I used to play both blood elves and pandaren in WoW, and both were on the receiving side of a fair amount of player bias.
The best thing that I can suggest doing? Â Is honestly just start slowly. Â Make friends with people OOC, and reassure them that your lala is not the same as others. Â Then, roleplay with them in public. Â People will see that, and honestly? Â It will stick in their brain. Â They may not put you on their friend's list or anything, but chances are they will at least think twice the next time they run into you. Â Which is at least a start.
But in the end, and here is where the jaded cynical side of me speaks. Â You just cannot change public opinion easily. Â Or even effectively. Â There are too many lala out there who are perfectly content to play the creeper. Â And there are too many out there to play the troll. Â Until the ratio changes, to where the majority are not creepy little trolls? Â Then yeah, the hate will not change. Â And right now? Â Lalas are creepy little trolls, by a wide wide WIDE margin.
