But for real. As someone who ran(technically still does) an RP guild for 10 years, + cross guild groups, etc. The amount of unnecessary ‘pretend’ drama was ridiculous. Some of it I was probably guilty in perpetrating.
I still enjoy RPing but that desire to want to be a focal point and arbiter of everyone’s imagined problems is so discouraging from doing so and I don’t think the climate has gotten better.
Though we don’t have Wyrmrest Secrets and Failzeroth anymore so maybe it has.
Woof, talk about a locked away memory. I completely forgot these were a thing. I remember now how god-awful it was for the community and how many people stopped playing because of it (or transferred).
I was mentioned on there twice. Not for critiquing anyone’s RP profiles or anything but for disagreeing with a whole opposing hate mob/exposure platform and the attitude about it in return. Taking the dated stance of “Who cares what nobodies say on the internet” or some such. In hindsight it probably was the wrong hill to die on( this was about 7 years ago now), but again it goes back to how sometimes getting highly invested in “RP drama” can have you lose sight of serious things to genuinely be concerned or bothered by.
Oh, for the halcyon days of having enough people around to start beef with.
It’s gotten worse, and we have Moonguard Secrets, and the posters are basically all the same people. It’s a high school burn book for the RP realms of Azeroth, and it’s exactly as insane as that sounds.
Forum drama used to be so annoying.
Now I just kind of miss it.
Weird, right? But there was something interesting about coming home from work and discovering like 500 new posts, across several threads (in the old system at least)
Maybe it’s because now you know the forums have had a good day if you find 10 new posts xD It’s quiet these days
Society is more polarised than ever, but the forums are chill now. What happened? XD
Weed was legalized.
The platform formerly known as Twitter, X, has the bulk of what used to be Forum drama.
Took a look at the Storytelling Forum, and it seems that the more passionate users went to, the platform formerly known as Twitter, X.
At least there’s still people here at all, I went and checked my old main server’s forum section and it was DEAD dead, no new posts in like a month.
I know when I think of horde RP killers I think of friendly tauren sitting around a campfire making soup for each other.
Sometimes I think I should dust off my wizard’s hat and try running a guild again. It went well before, until it didn’t (thanks Shadowlands). None the less, a lot of the problems Raton mentioned I just found so frustrating to deal with. Maybe if Blizz can prove through the next few patches the playerbase is stable again, I’d consider it. I used to love helping out with community events and socializing, setting up little pop up things but if I had to go through another Shadowlands I don’t think my heart could take it. Watching what you build just …die, and not for lack of trying, that’s a whole other thing and a miserable experience.
You know, I thought about it, and I realized Horde RP is dying because no one knows how to RP anymore. Players these days just do it wrong, and I did it right, and when I was doing it Horde RP was fine.
BACK THE EFF UP YALL
Silvermoon has elves in it again! Ha
Impossible…
The void (Not Velves, just the whole heccing Void) has reservations.
Murder Row had the usual shady people.
SMC Inn had a group tending to their drunk friend
Some elves by the fountains near the spire
Wayfarers had people and a bunch in the Bazaar
Noone in the Exchange though. Kinda refreshing
About what timeframe was it?
[Inserts “nature is healing” joke here]
But no, really, this is wonderful!
evening, i wanna say about…6pm server till about midnight.
It used to be, but now that’s only the case really when you commit to a guild is the impression I have. Events I assume still exist so I guess on occasion there’s still that. But again, Thunder Bluff? Ghost town now. I’m not sure if story circle is still going or not or moved to MG with my other chars.
It is in fact still ongoing.
I used to run one of the Huojin Pandaren Guilds when MoP came out. Every so often, I still log on to trial characters, trying to trick myself into thinking I have the time to dedicate to RPing.
While there are timeframes that make sense (WRA is a PST server, so don’t expect abundance of RP at 9 AM EST for example), each time I’ve logged in over the last year or two, I’ve noticed that WRA is generally… Far more empty.
While yes, there are individuals still in the Valley of Honor, there’s far less of a population actively RPing. It is almost like an idle simulator returning and checking in every 5-10 minutes to see a post. Beyond that, there’s almost a pressure to type out a 3.5 essay in response to what feels like everything.
By comparison, MG doesn’t seem to have that. There are varying degrees of style and types of RP, and if you’re not thriving well with someone, it’s easy to find another style.
I’ll be blunt: WRA’s RP community is extremely alienating, even when I’ve RPed on WoW for over 12 years. If you don’t comply with the groupthink of (Which I want to emphasize isn’t a bad thing) the RP community as a whole, you rarely find success here. Beyond that, if you’re an outsider, it’s hard to break into WRA, as most of the RP community has long-standing storylines they are already involved in, and unfortunately, as an outsider, you don’t typically fit into being written into the storylines.
MG is essentially the polar opposite of this, and in part, it’s likely because of the law of large numbers. Yes, you still have that exact situation on MG, but it isn’t every situation. You can casually log onto MG and RP a cheese vendor with a story paragraph and get RP pretty easily.
I don’t think this matter of Alliance is more appealing than Horde (though I’m sure it is a factor), but it’s also just based on the accessibility of RP by large, which just happens to be Alliance on MG.