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I've been (and still am) out of country for two weeks so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop, but I'd like to point out that summer time typically shows a drastic drop in online-time because people are out and about doing other things.
I'm not going to speak towards the dissolving of Drift, since I think it'd be a disservice to all the other beautiful FCs on Gilgamesh that have made it the RP community that it was, but I think it's inaccurate to say that RP on Gilgamesh is dying by any means. Every RP medium I have participated in the 15+ years of RPing have shown a downward participation during the summer months...be it LARP, IRC, forum-based RP, MMO, Dreamwidth.org games, what have you.Â
Things will very likely pick up once school is back in session--for a good chunk of players are college students, teachers, parents, and so on--at least with school out in the States, there's a lot less reliability as far as "online time" is concerned.
There are still players (and companies!) that are working very hard on nurturing an RP community on Gilgamesh. Whether or not you're a part of one of these FCs isn't really the point, but we're not giving up on making this community great for those who choose to stick around. The truth of the matter is, though--no one FC should be left responsible for keeping it alive.
I'm not going to speak towards the dissolving of Drift, since I think it'd be a disservice to all the other beautiful FCs on Gilgamesh that have made it the RP community that it was, but I think it's inaccurate to say that RP on Gilgamesh is dying by any means. Every RP medium I have participated in the 15+ years of RPing have shown a downward participation during the summer months...be it LARP, IRC, forum-based RP, MMO, Dreamwidth.org games, what have you.Â
Things will very likely pick up once school is back in session--for a good chunk of players are college students, teachers, parents, and so on--at least with school out in the States, there's a lot less reliability as far as "online time" is concerned.
There are still players (and companies!) that are working very hard on nurturing an RP community on Gilgamesh. Whether or not you're a part of one of these FCs isn't really the point, but we're not giving up on making this community great for those who choose to stick around. The truth of the matter is, though--no one FC should be left responsible for keeping it alive.