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(08-05-2013, 10:44 PM)Averis Wrote: I'm very much "live and let live." I think in a couple weeks we'll all be playing and this won't really even be a concern of ours. But when things settle, and the honeymoon is over, and we come back to these forums to talk about our adventures, I can only imagine that this will crop up again when a new player joins and we'll all look at each other and go, "Why did we split our community up again?"Isn't it obvious? Some people want the split, for the split's own sake. Whether you think that's good, or bad, it is what it is.
Now, this next bit is directed at everyone poised to make Gilgamesh their new home:
I think our real concern now that many of us are invested in Gilgamesh to some extent, is how to make the best of things there. I made a Gilgamesh show yer rp pride post on the official forums, and it degenerated into mud-slinging so fast I didn't have time to find a hose. There is very real animosity waiting for us there, and we need to do something about it.
I think we need to do something no one expects, or maybe even wants. We need to be inclusive and welcoming to the very groups people here are worried about. Reddit has a roleplay community, you know. They're as excited about this as we are. I think we, collectively, need to take special steps to show all of these new players that we are not the stereotypes they are dreading having to interact with - that we can be good in raids, that we respect how other people want to play, and so on...
But most of all, that we're something they can appreciate and have fun with beyond event-crashing and nasty tells. These guys - they're the future of Gilgamesh, and we're the minority. I think - no, I believe with absolute certainty - that the success of our community on Gilgamesh depends on integrating well with the server's other inhabitants, with the intent of dispelling the stereotype of the gameplay-incompetent, lecherous, isolationist RPer. (If you need evidence of how strong this stereotype is in the minds of non-RP'ers, you need merely take a quick look at the thread in my sig.)
How will we do this? We need a new kind of etiquette. We need to be open about our events, and we need to make them fun for casual observers and drop ins. The private-party exists to be crashed. Open doors, good humor, and an unflusterable sense of purpose cannot be crashed. When twenty or thirty randoms drop in just to see what we're doing, we need to have an attitude in our response to them that says "You have every right to be here; you do not break our immersion by being here, and we can improve yours. We are fun, and not a burden."Â
In short, the easily-offended, elitist, isolationist roleplayer has got to go.
When some trolls mobilize to crash events (and they will), we need to be able to laugh about it. Not ha-ha you're pathetic laugh, but genuine, bouyant, I think it's all good laugh.
If we can do that, and respect how they want to play, they'll have the opportunity to look at RP in a new light. And if they do that, we'll have new recruits and new friends to tell tall tales with.
Yeldir's Wiki:Â
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index....r_Melfusor
Gilgamesh! Show your interest and RP pride in the official beta forums:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Test/th...RP-server. (Mind the trolls!)
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index....r_Melfusor
Gilgamesh! Show your interest and RP pride in the official beta forums:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Test/th...RP-server. (Mind the trolls!)