(10-03-2013, 12:20 PM)Raccoon Wrote:(10-03-2013, 12:00 PM)Naunet Wrote:(10-03-2013, 09:22 AM)Theodric Ironheart Wrote: Furthermore no modern MMO is going to employ people to look after role-players - they're not going to ban people for trolling us aside from in the most extreme cases, nor are they likely to ever adopt a firm stance to eliminate character names that are not considered immersive enough.
I know modern MMOs that do just this, though the GMs aren't specifically assigned to look after roleplayers; it's just one of their duties to handle name reports and incidents of griefing. To say they don't is rather disingenuous.
I really don't understand the negative attitude towards RP-labeled servers that so many in this particular community have. I've never seen that elsewhere, and in the MMOs I played that didn't have an officially designated RP server, there was much complaint of wanting one. It's not a bad thing; it is a useful tool to solidify a community.
Most of the MMOs I've been in treat griefers the same way they treat any other harassment -- at most, they get a warning in an email every so often when the GM feels like it, with no limit on how many such warnings they can get. Naturally, this never dissuades them for long. So, in the end, RP servers just serve to paint a target on RPers. It's kinda like a LGBT group, or anything like that, announcing to the general public where they intend to have their meetings, so that protestors and the like can come harass them. You can call the police (GMs), but as long as the protestors don't do anything more than be obnoxious, they can't do anything to them. Same principle.
As for names, that actually gets handled a lot more than you'd think. It's just more obvious in games like CoH, where they were changed to "Generic Hero #", when reported, allowing you to keep apprised of just how many people have been Generic Hero'ed to date by the number by their name.
That's a pretty good analogy! It's a shame, but that's really just how it is. Maybe the GM's want to do more but their hands are tied? That's pretty likely, since I noticed that as time went on the GM's and moderators became increasingly bound by restrictions back in WoW and seemed to be a lot less efficient at tackling the root of harassment issues.
