(10-30-2013, 03:16 AM)Kismet Wrote:(10-29-2013, 04:56 PM)Raccoon Wrote: WoD Online will be every LARPer and vampire fanatic in existence. A good portion of which are complete idiots.
To be completely fair, WoD is not a special case by any means. Every online game is going to have idiots, so it should be expected. The WoD MMO will have more than its fair share of idiotic vampire LARPers/fanatics just as FFXIV has more than its fair share of idiotic weeaboos. (Yeah, that's right. I said it.) The level of stupidity in the player base is not going to be any higher than usual. At least not significantly, anyway.
But, just like RP griefers, we can easily just ignore them.
In all fairness, I haven't seen THAT many real weeaboos. I mean, I've seen people called 'Naruto Bleach' walking around, but as far as actually Japanese animation/gaming discussion? It's all been pretty enlightened with a wide variety of tastes.
But WoD is a grimdark vampire fantasy world that has a heavy influence on rebellion and liberation. It was long before Twilight was a twinkle in that deeply disturbed woman's mind. It always catered to angsty teenagers as a way to live out their fantasies of being sexy monsters that don't have to live by arbitrary human laws. That's not to say ALL or even MOST players are angry teens. I think most people who are invested in White Wolf's universe are probably older and more mature.
Table Tops take vastly more effort as a hobby than anime or videogames. The thing is? WoD MMO will be an easy access for people that know nothing about the context or themes, who associate vampires with the 'dark but soft' modern spin rather than the 'classic punk' influence of Lestat that oWoD was made for.
In short, the ratio of 'idiots' will likely be improbably high.
Please read all the above with a soothing, British accented monotone.
