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(08-07-2013, 03:39 AM)shotgunbadger Wrote: That's kinda a weird analogy. The point of the split in the comics was LA needed more heroes because, ya know, comic world, crime all the time and usually involving crazy people in spandex with death rays. Ah but see it isn't a weird analogy because as I mentioned there are going to be roleplayers there whether or not we were there. and they will have to deal with the more trollish communities.
You wouldn't be 'depriving' anyone if you stayed with the RP community, Gligamesh isn't in a crime wave or being invaded by Skrulls. What is being deprived is the place already having a community that's already a minority, all this does is split it up and make it even harder to meet and such. It's kinda weird to compare a split that's mainly boiled down to 'there will be high level people day one I don't like that' to an altruistic world protection cause...
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During beta phase 3 when was actively telling the community that there was going to be rp on the server I got lots of tells from guild leaders telling me that they had members who were interested in roleplaying. Many of these guilds were not roleplay oriented, but they wanted to keep their members on the server and didn't want to lose them because they couldn't provide roleplaying because they had a different focus. If you played in Ul'dah during the end of beta 3 you would of seen ads by guild called Tempest as they kept spamming chat. This guild would be one of the ones I was talking about. A non rp guild who are Gilgamesh bound who had people interested in roleplay. How do I know this? Because one of the members of the guild tried out rp with me and some friends of mine during Beta 3.
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I've also gotten PMs from Redditers for their community not to be stereotyped. Guess where? Here, lurkers on the forums from the link I posted above. If you check a voting thread done by the Reddit community that's been circling the net (its even been posted here) a very high number of them are interested in trying out roleplay for the first time. Do you think that would just stop if nobody from the RPC rped on Gilgamesh? Probably not, but you'd have a hell of a lot less mentors around and veteran roleplayers letting the new folk who want to rp for the first time know that roleplaying is cool. Many of these people don't want to leave their respective raiding/socializing/pvping/crafting/etc/etc guilds, but there is interest amongst these folk to rp regardless, again many of them for the first time.
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And then you have the folk who are coming here who want to rp on a non legacy server. Regardless of how anyone feels about it people are going to go where they want. People have minds of their own and their choices are there own. Trying to convince them over and over again about how nice the pool is in one place just eventually becomes like the sound of a broken record after a while it can be just annoying. So its just about respecting peoples positions on things and not being too pushy. Some will go to Gilgamesh and absolutely hate it. Some will go there and love it, but why not let adults be adults and respect their decisions regardless? And if something great is made then nobody loses out in the long run because a bigger community is a better one. Think about it like this. If enough roleplayers are around and making enough noise SE might decide to just say "you know what, we promised these guys a rp server, lets just make one already and those that want to go there get free transfers". Wishful thinking I know but I think Yoshi is a reasonable guy if perhaps shown that there is a reasonable enough demand. And I am more than sure that he also would think of us as a roleplay community across his game. Not just a single server. *winks* as it should be.
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I mean I know this won't necessarily be a perfect solution for everyone, but I'm sure for many it would be a fantastic thing indeed.
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Read the link above and the ones I have earlier in this thread to see what I'm talking about.
*posted up wrong link its fixed now, lol embarrassing! lol*
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