As someone who doesn’t play pretend nearly the way I used to…
Atmosphere, honestly. It’s just nice being surrounded by people willing to be immersed in the game.
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EDIT: Obviously, I’m just joking. You do whatever you like, man. I personally made the opposite choice: when the daily chores got so great they started to interfere with RP, I chose RP instead. But, whatever option someone likes the most is the right option. It does suck that the game was designed to force players to choose, though.
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Thanks for the replies everyone! I’m pretty sure I feel the same - the atmosphere just seems nicer even if I’m not roleplaying. I thought about moving to a PvE realm if I’m not roleplaying anymore, and the thought alone made me anxious lmao. I know RP servers have their own flavor of drama, but it feels like there’s less toxicity and elitism over PvE content than dedicated PvE servers. I could be wrong as I’ve never actually played on one - just basing this feeling off my experiences with pugs from other servers.
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Nah, in retrospect, you’re probably right. What would have been better to have right now? More friends and connections and fond memories from RP, or trying to catch up on A(rtifact)(zerite)(nima) Power and pugging another M+4 that ends with people being toxic and leaving?
I wasted a lot of time in this game. Makes me sad.
I used to RP on Argent Dawn (US) until around 2014. Roleplay on that server was dying, and while I tried to reignite it, I was only a 14 year old who had way better things to be doing with his time. I quit playing for awhile, and then when I started up again I started on Moonguard. After that, I pretty much just got bored with the story of Alliance, and since Wyrmrest Accord has more Horde RP I ended up up there.
Then I quit roleplaying, and now I’m just on a roleplay server because I enjoy the community here.
I don’t know to what extent I really wanted to RP, but I got tired of trying to talk about the lore and being met by people who didn’t know any of it. Before I transfered over, I’d already written a surprising large amount about Kass and her history. To a degree, I think I was RPing, just in the single player sense.
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While I did come here as a wanna-be RP’er from Argent Dawn US in the infancy of this server, I did become one and had some of my best memories here. I learned a lot of stuff and had some good times.
Even after I stopped RPing, this server was a good place to hang out. There usually was a welcoming attitude aside from the select few constantly IC people, so I stuck around. Even after I sent my main to ED to raid with friends for a time, I still stuck around on WrA.
Now I’m just here to see how it all ends.
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I started on a PVP server… tried a RPPVP server for a while then crashed here when the server opened. I haven’t RP’d much over the years but I always liked the atmosphere and seeing others weaving their own little stories out in the world
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Was an RPer, had a few too many extremely stalkerish moments and sort of fell out of it, plus became a new parent and only had n number of hours to play so I went hard on dungeons and raids instead. Still kind of tried to keep my character profile accurate and a theme going.
Uhhh the thirst mog is evidence that right before the lawsuit I kind of gave up on that too because the story got so pants on head idiotic I was more interested in having a cheap laugh punching and kicking things to death as a failed OnlyFans model than trying to make sure my TRP was okay.
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Why am I still here?
Just to suffer.
More seriously: I’m just LARPing as a stereotypical dragon and trying to hoard tons of gold on my in-game character.
In game, for the few times I do RP… Etam’s a smol tauren (shrunk by a doctored elixir that would “make him the talk of the town”) who really throws himself into his alchemy work at times.
I posted this on a discord of mostly raiders on WrA without RP addoms.
Most common replies were variations on “I followed my friends” or “I heard people were nicer here.”
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i think it’s also worth noting that Wyrmrest and Proudmoore are the two servers where the raid teams you run into will most likely be accepting of LGBT people, so that’s another factor.
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When joining server I join to rp as I wasn’t into M+ or Raiding… still not but yeah. But the little rp I done, rping not for me though I still enjoy the world of rp. Rp severs feel more alive.
Also rp guilds are worst then raiding guilds.
Who? Who said I were Non-RPers?
See, I even got complete TRP3 profile. It wasn’t me!
Last time I join RP even, I was on podium, giving speech on grand gathering of crowd, on the…!!
Take 10 minutes to ponder
…Oh. That was last year.
I also do walk-up RPs. The last walk-up was…
Take 20 more minutes to ponder
…I think that was 6 weeks ago.
Well, work ate too much of my time, these days. Current content progressed way beyond my gears. I tried catching up. Or simply stroll around to chill off. I ended up practically PVE-er with fancy TRP profile.
But, if you approach me in IC mode, I would interact, still!