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TehWarsmith
Novice Member
Joined: 12/20/06
“Grey Knights never count on dying. We’re not very good at it.” |
1/25/07 12:08:36 PM#21
Bah! Bah, I say! Come to Steamwheedle Cartel. We've got an excellent RP community and guilds.
“Everything’s standard pattern! This is the Imperial fething Guard! Standard pattern boots, standard pattern mess tins, standard pattern bodybags! I’m a standard pattern infantryman, you’re a standard pattern no-neck, and any second now my standard pattern fist is going to send your nose bone back into your very sub-standard pattern brain!” – Sergeant Ceglan Varl |
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1/25/07 12:17:57 PM#22
I have never tried RP in WoW but I can imagine that it is impossible. Not because it is a bad game, but because there are no enforced RP rules on RP servers and then you always got some odd thousand out of a million who like to piss RPers off.
RP demands enforced rules and Blizzard don't keep that much mods on one server 24/7 to monitor that. Don't know any mmorpg that does. Neverwinter Nights 1 persistant world dedicated servers were the closest to great online RP I've tried so far. |
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TehWarsmith
Novice Member
Joined: 12/20/06
“Grey Knights never count on dying. We’re not very good at it.” |
1/27/07 2:54:33 PM#23
Yep. No enforced rules. Blizzard doesn't give a damn about us. There are very few roleplayers compared to non-roleplayers. Plenty of people who enjoy annoying us.
And yet we keep on going and having a blast. What does that tell you? “Everything’s standard pattern! This is the Imperial fething Guard! Standard pattern boots, standard pattern mess tins, standard pattern bodybags! I’m a standard pattern infantryman, you’re a standard pattern no-neck, and any second now my standard pattern fist is going to send your nose bone back into your very sub-standard pattern brain!” – Sergeant Ceglan Varl |
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2/04/07 8:37:15 PM#24
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Ourelius
Novice Member
Joined: 3/23/04
DAOC beta tester,WOW Alpha tester. |
2/13/07 5:38:04 AM#25
Wow is now out for a long time and at start ppl used to be freindly but after getting spammed by 1.000.000.000 NOOBZ, AND THE FACT that EVERY SINGLE QUESTION is answered 100.000.000 times online in web , we feel like noobs are only lame players who want everything served without any effort in front of them. Fact is its an rpg in case of that everybody has its own role in a battle group. fact is also that wow ofers great ammounts of dungeons and raids which can be finished successfully only with 5-40 ppl playing harmonic with each other being able to use their char AT LET LV 100% Althought i have only a lv 70 Char (Hunter) EVERYBODY in a raid is not only aware of his own role but as well as any other, you know the do and donts. I can only tell the only way to gt sick of wow is to spend at leas 1 month playtime on it ^^ I too shall be brought down by death. but until then let me win glory. |
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Astropuyo
 Novice Member
Joined: 1/30/07
I lose more stars than a hollywood speedball convention. |
2/16/07 8:34:36 PM#26
I am an avid rp'er , will always be to an extent regardless of how gooney my friends think it. I started on silver hand during release, Rp was sub par. What do you expect it's wow. Went to shadow council, and the rp was semi decent. Still it wasn't rp in the sense of how I feel rp was. I gave the $$@^#@ up and moved to malfurion so I could play with my friends, rp is about as dead in wow as anna nicole smith. /watching too much family guy 
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3/13/07 1:31:19 PM#27
I have to say I think when you get into it the bunch in WoW are a nice lot if you can find a small group of friends that agree with what you want to do, but otherwise.... I'd rather avoid WoW like the plague now it's in the state it's in, Blizzard practically do NOTHING to help the roleplay in the servers, roleplayers have posted dozens of topics in the suggestions board and they have all been ignored, even whine threads about getting whatever class nerfed are answered before they're locked, it's pathetic, there was one CM who actually seemed to care about roleplay called Vaneras, but I have no idea where that guy is now since Blizzard just ignore roleplayers completely and have stuck on that RP tag on a few servers to bring in some extra customers.
I really recommend people just leave WoW if they want roleplay.... Some communities seem to be alright on Darkmoon Faire and Moonglade (i've only visited them really) but Argent Dawn is just some twisted mutated creature that Blizzard are using shock pads on to keep it alive, I bloody hate it. If you ever try getting even a small amount of roleplay on Argent Dawn you'll be flamed for it, if you try and get the community together you'll be slandered for it. The few friends I have there who are still playing I honestly wish they'd at least pick another MMORPG to be honest, they're nice folks, but they just don't bother to roleplay anymore regardless of how much they're asked, persuaded or pestered, if you try setting up a guild a lot of the time the effort put into roleplayed will be half-arsed and your members will go offline for ages because they can't think of anything better to do than grind on their mains. I've even been stabbed in the back quite a few times by some of the people who I thought were friends on that server which is really pathetic since it's only a game in the first place, in case you were wondering it was with alts. on the server forum. It's just really..... well like I said pathetic, I miss my carefree roleplay that I could have when playing pre-nge SWG, heck I miss the roleplay that i could have on EQ2 when I first tried it, even THAT was better than this load of crap.... yeah I ranted, but that's something i've been wanting to get off my chest for awhile, I hope Adellion will be as good as they say personally because I may go to that. -an angry ex-WoW player Tolen Quoting people doesn't make you clever, in fact, it makes you all the more stupid for not bothering to read the quotes you post in the first place. |
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8/20/07 6:46:30 AM#28
Mmh.I just gave up and cancelled my account. Among the big list of reasons on the cancellation form there is one choice with RP in it: "Too little role-playing content". When I choose it, a predefined answer comes up, which states that Blizzard has taken it's hands off the RP content, so that the RP community would develop naturally. Yeah right.. Bah! They wouldn't have had to create the content! They just could've provided the in-game mechanics for us to do it.. (well.. and of course enforce the RP behaviour. But they didn't even put up an RP popup window with "I agree to these terms and I really am a role-player" checkbox, to ease the burden. They just put some text in the chat window that is really too easy to ignore, even by accident.) |
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9/03/07 12:20:21 AM#29
this topic is like an Oxymoron. There is no RP in WoW. Besides NE's cybering each other.
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9/19/07 4:26:21 AM#30
I went from level 1 to level 30 (friend went from 1-60) on The Venture Co RP-PvP server. Sadly all my friends quit or are not as active as they once where (college,work,senior year, etc etc) I kinda wish WoW had a better community (or atleast I wish I could find a server with a somewhat nice one) 
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9/19/07 2:32:35 PM#31
I played on Earthen Ring for more than a year... there were great peeps there i must say. But first i'd like to state my firm belief that RP is not just something you do to excuse l33tz0r stuff.. you can't blather Thee & Thou to cover up you "PWNINg some n00b" , the RP is sposed to be in the very thing you do. Having said that, I've done some amazing RP in WoW, exploiting the only good aspect of the game, Graphics, in the only location fit for RP... Stormwind. Infact I love cities... Im gonna buy Warhammer Online just because the game's got the most fascinating city ever.. Altdorf... fumes-cluttered air, grey, oppressive and sad.... inquisitors and religious tension... gothic atmosphere.. it's gonna be fantastic |
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9/25/07 12:52:32 PM#32
I'll say it now, I played WoW for two years on the Argent Dawn server and NEVER have I seen a roleplaying community disappear or dissolve so quickly when roleplayers are usually the ones to stick around a game the longest from my experience, at the beginning of release the developers did actually seem to be doing something about enforcing the rules on the server and if there were l33ts around it was like other games where it would be just the odd idiot or two. It all started to completely go to hell on the second year, when the nerf patches were coming in and people were running out of content to play through, more and more l33ts were appearing deliberately trying to harass roleplayers and annoy them for no reason and TBC is where it finally hit, the roleplayers became non existent at that point, major roleplaying guilds that I had known and were friendly with went completely and the decent roleplayers either left or joined raid guilds and completely abandoned roleplaying. As far as I'm concerned, roleplaying can die in WoW, instead of storylines and adventures, all I saw after a year were l33ts, cyberers and arrogant raiders, all people who wouldn't give a flying fuck about the community they were in, it's sad to see that it turned out that way, but roleplaying has no place in that game anymore. Quoting people doesn't make you clever, in fact, it makes you all the more stupid for not bothering to read the quotes you post in the first place. |
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9/25/07 1:14:44 PM#33
Something I observed several times is that when a bunch of servers went down, and a few RP servers were up, the RP servers would be flooded with snots intent on disrupting RP activities on the RP servers. Creating toons with obviously non-RP names (some were sexist and racist) just intent on being disruptive as much as possible. I once tried to look for a group on Greymane in an RP sort of way ("seeking adventuers to help me slay a foul villain") and got flamed for daring to type anything but "LFG Morvin 29". WoW's community really is lacking as a whole, but I can recall people getting dissed for using "May the Force be with you" as a parting phrase in SWG, which had a much stronger RP community than WoW could dream of. CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested. Once a denizen of Ahazi |
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9/29/07 6:15:04 PM#34
Originally posted by Sardokan RP'ing has been rather good to me, to tell you the truth. When I was playing I found myself and RP guild, and we had some really good times RP'ing it up. It even went so far as going on to the server forums and RP'ing it up on there, and the transitioning it to ingame sessions. It's really hit or miss really. I got lucky I guess, the RP guild I was part of was a major guild withing the server, and we had great leaders who would set up RP battles and scenarios (ie: One of our guild leaders set it up that he was kidnapped by the Alliance and was injected with "the cure" that changed him from undead to human! It was awesome!!! The whole "story" lasted for months, and I got really into it.) |
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Stellos
 Novice Member
Joined: 9/15/06
If you're going to stick it out there, don't be afraid if you get it cut off. |
10/03/07 7:09:02 PM#35
RP is not typically seen in young players. WoW = youth. If you want to RP then don't play games that tailor to kids. You are better off playing UO or D&D, something that attracts older players. Not to say you can't find RP in WoW, it's just not typical. God I hope WAR doesn't get a ton of kids like WoW! |
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10/03/07 11:50:17 PM#36
Originally posted by Stellos I think it'll start off with the older crowd (The people who know about the Warhammer Universe), but then due to popularity kids will start to filter in. Hmmmmm. . .kind of an obvious statement on my part though. heh! |
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LouiseK
 Apprentice Member
Joined: 6/04/07
Im sorry, i cant help it - Im socially retarded. |
10/04/07 6:43:30 AM#37
Originally posted by KillerJimmy That about sums up my experience of them. I tried one out of curiousity but i was making a serious attempt to play along, but there seems to be more people shouting off than in the non-rp servers. I didn't meet a single rp'er in the several levels i played. I just presumed that they would keep themselves to themselves and be at higher levels. I met a lot of nice, friendly people in WoW but there are always the assholes. I don't think it if fair to make generalisations on the whole WoW community... I met a lot of nice people, its just that the assholes tend to be louder and speak on behalf of everyone.
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Stellos
Novice Member
Joined: 9/15/06
If you're going to stick it out there, don't be afraid if you get it cut off. |
10/04/07 11:15:42 AM#38
Originally posted by arcusangelus
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10/06/07 10:14:06 PM#39
No such Thing as roleplay in WoW
Its just a grind match filled with net kiddies.
I advise you just try a proper MMO. "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." |
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10/07/07 5:18:48 PM#40
Originally posted by METALDRAG0N Small problem: Give me a good RP (non-PVP) mmo that is not a grind-fest. "Of all the things wrong with today's RPGs, 2D characters on a 3D background is the worst." |
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