I'm a fairly long-time lurker of this forum and some of you might have even see me eavesdrop on conversations just to test the waters of whatever's going on since I wasn't around when this "divide" occurred.
As a disclaimer, I definitely don't have enough experience and time spent to know who's at fault,
if it's anyone at all
. Frankly, this sounds almost like Zaros and Zamorak's widely-varied accounts of what occurred in the Empty Throne Room. That being said, I just think that getting angry at another human being over a make-believe character or storyline is silly. I understand there can be valid reasons to ignore people, but I fail to see the point in constantly getting upset over past events - it seems like there's a thread like this (one that eventually gets out of hand and locked by a moderator) every month or so.
I'm not an expert, but I also think the problem lies in the fact that we all have an awesome character design or story that we want to act out, but then get upset once anything flies in the face of that. I know that I personally spent
months
designing a cool Vampyre character, but I've never even attempted to roleplay with him because I feel like I'm too passionate about it. Not every character can be the protagonist, and
it gets even worse when everyone has people that have vanquished some otherworldly god, discovered some new form of magic, or single-handedly held off an entire army of soldiers
. I'm obviously not saying that this is the case for everyone (perhaps its the case for no one), but it's just what I've observed in other roleplays in other games.
I don't know Isaac Stark at all and have
literally never talked to anyone in this community before
, but I think his point is very valid and that constant divisiveness and bickering over an imaginary world has crippled a lot of what makes storytelling and roleplaying authentic. I'd assume other, more-reserved and less vocal people share the same opinion.
25-Nov-2019 07:08:35
