Lost River

While it is all good and dandy for an alternative; I'd rather stay on Balmung; sure the queues are terrible, but it is quite suspect for them to just be so insanely high all of a sudden; and I mean more than even what Heavensward. I don't know, for some weird reason I feel it may be a ploy by SE; even with them calling out the server. *shrugs* Hope you have an amazing time though on Mateus!

Update to my current status. WoW: Moonguard Alliance / WrA Horde FFXIV: Balmung

I love both naming conventions for the Roes, so much I have two of them. But as far as such, I think there is a link that has the naming conventions. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/61152-Roegadyn-Naming-Conventions Hope this helps.

. . . If you would actually read my entire statement instead of just focusing on the start of it, you'd find that I said it is more along the lines of a mature alternate fantasy. It does have portions of dark fantasy, as well as mature fantasy in it. As an overall theme it isn't dark fantasy; but that is a tangent for another day, this is about the whole "Dark" vs "Mature" tags people have put into their party search bar.

Yssen described it perfectly, honestly. *claps* And I love me some Berserk. Such a delightful screwed up world. <3 But, yea, dark and mature role-play, oddly enough tend to go hand in hand. As far as forms of RP, I think over the years like anything, the generalization has come to be a moniker for terribleness, but Yssen spoke the normal roots for these sort of things. FF14 is close to dark fantasy; not fully overlapped yet in many areas, but enough to at least draw that sort of attention. I would definitely call it a mature alternate fantasy setting though, as it does have racism, class discrimination, implied rape, murder out the wazoo (genocide much?) and other things. As for me, I'm fine with any sort of role-play that fits within the subject material.

I like walk-up role-play and tend to tailor my typing methodology to those around. I'm fine with verbose to paraphrase; short to long. But, as others have said, not everyone is willing or wanting walk-up. As well, patience is key and as was spoken previously, it is always best to think if no one responds fully, just assume them as AFK. Also, with those saying that they're not ignoring you; perhaps they're not in an area to be able to notice your character just yet; so there is also that. And group RP is hard to do, the more the channels flood, the harder it is to keep up.

Or one hell of a way for abortions. . . this is all. . *shudders*

I wonder if we'll see new hairstyles again. Or will that be in patch 3.2(whatever) or 3.3?

It is either that or they clearly care primarily for their JP customer base only. Or, as said earlier, possibly said team doesn't speak English well on the GM department.

From what I've seen, Blade and Soul is more fighting game, Black Desert Online is more Dark Souls Action game. I like both styles, just, I do not like traditional fantasy or gender locked classes. Which I know BDO rectifies. . way down the road.

I just don't like PvP forced into my RP; that is my main concern.

I'll have to wait a bit; as it is only in CBT1, I don't want to drop 100 dollars on a 'maybe'. haha. I'm glad both games have upgrade features.

Does Black Desert Online have nProtect or anything like that?

You can use a controller in Blade and Soul. not sure about Black Desert

Update: So far, so fun; only negative to it? It uses nProtect GameGuard, positive? It is a newer non-crash your PC version or eat up your resources version.

I went ahead with the starter pack of Blade and Soul; if I like what I see, I'll get the bigger packs.

I dislike forced PvP. it annoys me.

Well, Black Desert is no longer FTP, it is a BTP game like Guild Wars 2. And the grind is fine with me; which one will have the most RP community though, that is the question. Unless, Black Desert has auto all the time PvP, then BnS for me entirely.

I was given money early for Christmas; I can afford Blade and Soul or Black Desert, which one and why should I go for them?

"Great, all Roes are now Broes." *sighs and hides in her corner, weeping into her tea*

Aww, Miqo'te get some of the cutest head-canon. Sadly we Roe end up getting the "We drink so hard and fight, then we have marriage or something".

Are you telling me I should make my Steel Wolf x Lost River shipping more of a reality, Edgar?

Welcome to Balmung! As a fellow Roe player; it is glad to see someone else as a Roegadyn. We're a dying breed.

With me; being June 17th, I have a lot of Japanese and Chinese (ironicly me being Asian) people in the model and music industry. . . and more importantly, not born, but my birthday is the same time as the boxer rebellion and watergate scandal apparently. lol

Roe love for all! BTW Edgar, Lost and Steel have been shipped together.