Kylin's advice is quite sound and good. I'll endorse it with this sticker of a shinny and long beard, and give him a crumpet!
Except for the "MMO Hopping" section, which I don't personally think makes any degree of sense. To blame 'big names' dissapearing on the influx of 'new people' into the community is a bit silly. The simpler answers are the most probably correct: If I had to blame their dissapearance on anything, I'd blame the game. Levelling, dungeoning and RPing in-game is probably what they wanted to do in the first place, so they might be doing that. Or perhaps they played and decided that ARR's design wasn't for them.
The bulk of that section seems to imply there's a correlation between having played a lot of games and being a storyline abandoner. This might happen in some cases, but labelling a whole section of the playerbase (those who have played more than X MMOs before, where X is whatever you consider 'a lot') because they might abandon the game is excessive. You don't find out if a person has investment in the game by looking at a list of games they have played: you find out by interacting with them. Talking with them. Playing with them. Learning what they think of the game and the community. By getting to know them, basically.
You can certainly decide arbitrarily to not include someone in your storylines. You have a right to decide who you spend time with, and nobody can force you to spend time with them if you don't want to. But writting someone off only because of their gaming habits is very rude. It's better to write them off because they are conscious and persistent Mary Sues, godmodders or outright nasty people of any other variety.
Except for the "MMO Hopping" section, which I don't personally think makes any degree of sense. To blame 'big names' dissapearing on the influx of 'new people' into the community is a bit silly. The simpler answers are the most probably correct: If I had to blame their dissapearance on anything, I'd blame the game. Levelling, dungeoning and RPing in-game is probably what they wanted to do in the first place, so they might be doing that. Or perhaps they played and decided that ARR's design wasn't for them.
The bulk of that section seems to imply there's a correlation between having played a lot of games and being a storyline abandoner. This might happen in some cases, but labelling a whole section of the playerbase (those who have played more than X MMOs before, where X is whatever you consider 'a lot') because they might abandon the game is excessive. You don't find out if a person has investment in the game by looking at a list of games they have played: you find out by interacting with them. Talking with them. Playing with them. Learning what they think of the game and the community. By getting to know them, basically.
You can certainly decide arbitrarily to not include someone in your storylines. You have a right to decide who you spend time with, and nobody can force you to spend time with them if you don't want to. But writting someone off only because of their gaming habits is very rude. It's better to write them off because they are conscious and persistent Mary Sues, godmodders or outright nasty people of any other variety.
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