(05-07-2014, 11:24 AM)allgivenover Wrote:(05-07-2014, 08:48 AM)Ignacius Wrote: I mean, FFXIV doesn't even have dedicated servers for RPers.
Maybe that's the sort of thing I would think should be added later if it can't be added now (as well as a fantasia-potion sort of thing).
While fantasia potions are a safe bet at this point dedicated RP servers are never going to happen. This style of role-play that we enjoy is an entirely western cultural meme - one that's very niche in the west even and always has been - that is virtually absent in east asian cultures. It ain't happening.
Fortunately after having spent so much time in Japanese and Korean MMOs I long ago figured out that the lack of dedicated RP servers doesn't inhibit role-play in any noticeable way beyond causing tiresome arguments around launch time regarding which server to mark as the unofficial RP server.
It very much inhibits it. Â On Moon Guard on WoW, especially back in its heyday, I could literally do a bar crawl around the bars in the major Alliance towns to see what was going down. Â Everyone was RPing because we all knew where to start our characters and what forums to go to. Â We could also report people for griefing us (and yes, I have actually gotten tells from people whose friends I got banned for dancing naked on tables, so Blizzard really does do something about griefers sometimes) and I knew that, even if people on those servers weren't RPers, they were on our territory, not on theirs.
That's probably a major reason why I'm still RPing in WoW, still going to play it when the new expack comes out, and don't know that I'm really that impressed by RP options elsewhere. Â In WoW, we have a place to go that I know, for sure, will be inundated with potential random RP, especially when people have addons like MRP advertising them as roleplayers. Â You can't make that assumption about everyone on Balmung or Gilgamesh. Â It's almost Yahoo IM Forum-like.
