(12-23-2015, 05:22 AM)Graeham Wrote:(12-19-2015, 05:30 AM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: Heh. SWTOR. In which every RP, at least as far as I could tell, was even MORE about people trolling for ERP than in the average MMO.
Cuz... that's what Sith are all about. Galactic conquest? Hayell nawh, they just wanna conquer some bootay.Â
And don't even get me started on all the "hawt" Jedi to Padawan "romance".
I'd say that applies to most MMO's these days. There was a time when such things were relatively private and kept behind closed doors - whereas these days areas such as Goldshire and The Quicksand aren't too different to what a lot of 'regular' role-players get up to.
Besides, whilst all the Jedi and Sith 'forbidden love' plots end up being incredibly common it isn't too different to how most romances in FFXIV are interracial despite such unions being frowned upon by many in the canon lore.
Of course if you try to frown upon such things IC you risk being called a 'bigot' OOC or the players involved just choose to ignore any realistic IC consequences or criticism in response to flaunting it.
I understand the appeal, however, but it's a real shame that ultimately it usually just revolves around what the players find hot rather than what would make a compelling story.
Haha, yeah... that... annoys me so much. But it's that way in every MMO, because ultimately even if you separate the ERP aspects from it (which are often a huge motivating factor), player compatibility in terms of scheduling, personality/camaraderie, posting style, appropriate/wanted levels of attention/collaboration, and so on, are also big factors, and a lot of the time players who find themselves feeling like they could really write well together realize that their characters shouldn't be compatible, and they just decide... well, whatever, let's go with it anyway, because we're such buds, or whatever.
In a game like this, though, that seems weird that they wouldn't just grab a fantasia and a rename and make it easy on themselves. Many games don't give those kinds of re-purposing options. Then again, most players get very attached to characters and wouldn't be excited about the idea of changing one around like that.
Maybe that's an idea for your Warren's next discussion topic, since you've he's been doing a bunch of those lately.
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Back to the topic of Star Wars, has anyone else found it odd that in a galaxy of apparently limitless forms of intelligent life, in the films the only main character non-human we've had has been Chewie? Okay, one could argue that Yoda and Maz Kanata might count as main characters, but, I'm mostly referring to the ones that are going on the adventures - and I specifically said intelligent life, so don't even bring up Binks.
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