(08-22-2013, 10:17 PM)F Wrote: This thread makes me feel them feels. I've been through a ton of "guff" with Wow RP, Guild Wars RP, Aion RP, the list goes on and on and it can leave a person a little hopeless after a while. My wife and I have dealt with it so much that one of us would suggest something for RP and the other would dash it instantly with "Man you are going to get crap for that"
On Guild wars alone, we simply made a Norn/Human couple and not even having RPd for a full hour were getting messages about how they could not breed together and other such things. We've avoided many of the MMO RP communities since then as it just felt like people wanted you to conform to the game over letting your creativity shine within the world of a game. RP has never been about rules for me as much as it has been about imagination.
Yeah. It got so bad to a point on WoW that our guild started cracking down on "questionable" RP elements that would draw ire from the lore-thumpers and closed-minded. It was disgusting. At one point, my engineer, also named Corelyn (she's the original - genius with Titan technology - she has an entire massive complex beneath Quel'thalas where she hides. It's taken her YEARS to construct and she's still building lots of it, ICly) built an android construct. It didn't have synthesized flesh or anything. It was, in all actuality, a robot with concealing armour so you couldn't tell -what- it was, though it had an elven frame so it could be subtle. I got guff not from other people, but from -my own guild- because they were afraid of what others would think. It's a sad state that RP has gotten to in WoW. The same happened with my Death Knight, who is really more a placeholder for an undead elven battlemage. But I can't say he's "not a Death Knight ICly" for whatever reason because people are paranoid about Death Knight RP.
...man, am I glad I am leaving WoW for this. This is WORLDS better by comparison thus far. It's so refreshing to see a community so open to ideas, speculation, and, best of all, roleplaying and imaginative freedom (because, really, isn't that what RP is ABOUT?)!
