(09-24-2013, 08:41 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:(09-24-2013, 05:59 AM)ryanxwonbin Wrote: I think it's only fair that we don't act like the game belongs to us, and act as the bullied victims. If possible with a few people, I think we should keep it to party chat. Otherwise just ignore when other players gripe.
When you fall back to party chat, you limit the number of people and you close off from other RPers -- as you're implicitly making your scene private. Additionally, given the blacklist function, there's no reason why they can't avoid that which they don't like. Hiding away from people who are abusive when they don't like you isn't respecting the other player; it's letting the abuser win.
Yeah, I find the use of party chat to be pretty awkward in most situations. I've seen a lot of players out in the game world who may very well be role-playing as they move around, though...they also seemed to be making use of party chat which made me not really want to bother getting involved. In one case they threw me an invite and asked me if I wanted to join in, though after explaining that I'd prefer to make use of public chat channels they seemed to lose interest and wandered off.