(07-01-2015, 02:44 PM)Edgar Wrote: Instead, when I show up to the Quicksand, my chat log fills up with conversation. Storytelling. People getting drunk, hanging out with each other, having a good time. The guards talk about how the place has gone to hell, the people talk about how the guards are too bossy, the roleplaying community breathes life into areas that would otherwise be totally desolate because no MMO developer could possibly program in that much randomly generated dialogue to keep things as fresh as they do.
That's what grabbed me when I first came to Balmung, starting my first venture in actual RP in an MMORPG. All the people doing open RP in the world just made it feel so much more... alive. It's not just another person heading off to grind more tomestones or a hunt (though you still see that enough in OOC chat and /shout and such)... there's stories going on, lives being lived. I think it's what makes me so antsy when I'm sitting around not doing anything and start looking for RP - Chachan should be doing something right now, not just chilling atop the roof of some FC house in the Mist.
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