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A couple things:

First off, the LA in LARP most likely means "live action"; in other words, real life. What you see in the game isn't really LARPing. This is.

Secondly, just because I don't understand or care about what the people at the adjacent table at the restaurant are talking about doesn't mean that I should be harassing them. It's not vulgar, indecent, or intrusive, so what's it to you? If you want to talk absurd spam, try checking out Whitegate's shout channel.

Frankly, no. If there aren't rules for others on what/how much can be in /say, why should there be for roleplayers?

Most rpers are pretty courteous about not using /say excessively in busy areas such as the AH, etc. And if they are, many would respond favorably to a simple polite /tell asking them not to spam in such a crowded area. However, no one responds well to rude /say or /shouts back.

I feel that rpers get a bad rep all around, which is unfortunate. They have every right to exist in a mmorpg. I know you said you're frustrated and venting, but try to see it from the rpers' perspective. It's not acceptable to harrass someone for playing the game in their own way, especially if it is not directly effecting you.

I am sorry for your friend and hope he doesn't get banned over what sounds like a small incident. Hopefully, any future problems can be resolved in a better way.

Edited, Apr 13th 2009 10:04am by Humaisna

If you act like an ***, then you'll probably get banned. Pretty simple.

I'm curious what your friend said that got him banned now.

Howdy. I just want to ask if we're genuinely being blamed for your friend's misdeeds? Roleplaying in /say in an entirely far off and secluded corner of Qufim Island is considered spam that requires both sexually harassing talk and flooding of text to combat this 'spam'? Who on earth are you, Glenn Beck?

Even in our excessive numbers (Something like 12 of us there), it is practically impossible of us to achieve the log speed of a packed city. Our linkshell has had somewhat of an open policy that should someone be interested in joining the living world we call Vana'diel, they're more than welcome to do as much as join the community or simply acknowledge their fellow Adventurers.

People like your friend is why we can't have nice things.

If you're not with me... then you're my enemy!

People seem to have a basic misunderstanding as to what roleplaying is and what sort of people do it that honestly sort of confuses me. Roleplaying is far more accepted in Europe, both online and off, so far as I am aware. (If I'm wrong, please, EU players correct me.) This stigma it has seems to be a uniquely American phenomenon so far as I can tell.

Why is this though? People seem to think several things about roleplayers that simply aren't true. One, that they're social outcasts who hide in basements to pursue their activity. From what I've seen, many active roleplayers tend to be creative, outspoken, and social people. There are, of course, the dregs of the barrel but isn't this true in every pursuit? You have people who enjoy football then you have meathead jocks. You have upstanding, moral people and then you have religious zealots. You have confident people and then you have @#%^s. You have people who enjoy games, and then you have Koreans. (I know, joke in poor taste.) Should all be judged by the extremist minority?

All this to say that I think most of the bad rap roleplaying gets is from a fundamental misunderstanding. In most instances of roleplaying I've seen, both online and off, people tend to speak in pretty modern English. It'd sound both stilted and awkward to reel off Victorian era English, especially since most modern speakers would butcher it terribly. Go read Canterbury Tales if you want an idea of how burdensome it'd be to actually try to speak that way.

In our particular linkshell, Canta Per Me, I think my character is the only one who actually speaks very formally and many of the other characters think him odd and make fun of him for it. Yes, as several posters have already noted, it sounds pretty damn silly to modern ears. As to our members? We have a chef, a medical researcher, a graphics design artist, a primary education teacher, an insurance risk assessor, and several college students. I may be wrong but this doesn't sound like the outcast dregs of society to me.

If you'd like to spend all your time turning that +4 gear into +5 gear for marginal improvements in your merit party parses, hey, go for it. I'm active in a HNM shell and no slouch in a group myself. Performance and giving it your best can be fun, but realize you're just as silly for pouring all your time into cranking out bigger numbers in a nonexistant world as we are for enjoying its story.

Edited, Apr 16th 2009 11:30pm by Hecatoncheire

Stereotypes exist for two solid reasons.

1.) There's a hint of truth.
2.) People are inherently ignorant.

What you have done is take a common, and quite ancient stereotype and blanket it across an entire subsection of gamers. Then again, that's what a stereotype is. As a (laughable concept indeed) professional role player since the First Great Dungeons and Dragons scare the idea of the pimple-faced, Ye Olde English Speaking, fast food flipping role playing nerd accounts for about a quarter of the current role playing population, and from my knowledge, NONE of the people on Lakshmi. The sad fact is, we've flipped the image around as one of endearment. Of our roots. Just like Black Americans and their various forms of "*****" and we queerosexuals and our use of "***". Just look at Stephen Lynch and his song "DnD".

Unfortunately, there are people who take this image as fact. Because it mustbe true.



Frankly, your's is still deflating. All you've done was prove that you're a 'smart guy' (Also, I do hope you recover. Being a retired combat medic, abdominal work is quite the *****), when I had called out out at throwing such stereotypes around while falling under inversely proportional stereotypes yourself. You claim to care nothing for story and view game performance preferable over fun; while simultaneously decrying people who prefer fun over performance.



Sounds about right.

I Cant believe i had to make an allakhazam account to defend myself :/. First of all, i did not get banned! /hurray. However, i did get suspended for a week all over something that could have easily been solved by both parties. Now let me start by saying Yes i was wrong in spamming during your "Event" (I dont know the proper name). Now why did i do this? When my friend and i were leveling in qufim, we were duoing mobs all over, kinda just running around. When we came towards the cliff, which is not as secluded as say the tunnel to Behemoths Dominion, I was sent multiple tells telling us to leave. Now had they asked nicely, i wouldnt have had a problem. Also, im not going to blist 12 people talking in say when they can easily have just blisted me and we would have gotten along our marry lives. Now i dont remember names but one member was basically "Yelling" at me, which i thought rather humorous since its a video game. I dont GM people because i feel that there is nothing someone can do to me in game that cannot be solved like grown-ups I.E. Blacklist. I guess the only thing i can say about this whole ordeal is if you RP, Keep it to /p and /l. If every linkshell / Party went around talking in say only, it would suck to play the game. SE made different chats for these situations.

P.S. I Didnt spam anything that would be concidered offensive, i spammed "BY THE NINE DIVINES YOU DID IT!". If you dont know what that is, its from Elder Scrolls OBLIVION. I just wanted to feel like part of the gang :P

P.S.S No i do not believe in paragraphs.

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If they asked you to leave before you started spamming, assuming you were just duoing without otherwise harassing them, that's no bueno. If you started it, then blame falls on you. Either way, the obvious way to settle this is Rock, Paper, Scissors.

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