(09-12-2013, 12:21 AM)C Wrote: Hey hey Coeurls! Of course I'd be willing to roleplay with you,. We may be from different branches, but we're held together by the same common threads! I'm C'io Behkt in game, and I'll be working on my wiki page soon now that I've gathered enough data from the game's quests/npcs/stories.
As for why RP is or isn't out in the open world, I don't think it has much to do with people preferring to use Party or LS to RP. Given how new the game and the content is, my hypothesis (and experience) is that everyone right now is throwing themselves at the game mechanics to 1) learn the world (like me) and 2) play the game they put money into (like me).
Something I've learned about the roleplayers of this game is that they are also consummate gamers, so they're very proud of their PVE achievements and very invested in refining/honing the talents that earn them those accolades. Once the initial rush of gameplay slows down and schedules settle, I think we'll see a lot more RP around. I'm already beginning to see it, actually. In fact, I ran into a group of Knights of the Twelve the other day (sadly, I had to go to work, so I couldn't join in) doing introductions on /say, and I'm seeing more -walking- in the major cities and out on the roads in low-level zones. Even the gala last weekend? I've never, in any game, seen such a turn out, which speaks volumes of the vast quantity of people we have out there on the server (3 whole Intermissions full+++)!
So if I was to speculate, those are my reasons for why you haven't found much RP -yet- and why you'll soon begin to see more and more of it soon.
Alllll of this. I'm certainly more focused on crafting right now than I am on RPing... I suspect I'll probably wind up maxing all the crafts to 50 before I start actively -searching- for RP. But, I'll never turn it down if it crops up!
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