world of warcraft Enforcing RP
11 septembrie 2007
the main entrance of Stormwind. It had been a long day of slaughtering
boars and thinning out the Gnoll population, but it was worth it– he
had a pack full of skins and trinkets to put up for auction. He entered
the House, sticking to the shadows by instinct, and when his turn came,
dealt quickly and quietly with the auctioneer, firmly setting each
starter and buyout price for his goods.
Suddenly, there was a yell from outside in the city: "OMG did you just see what happened on 24? Jack BAuer ROXXORS!!"
Yeah,
personally, I’m not that big on roleplaying, but I can see what people
get out of it– complete immersion in a world where they’re the hero.
Unfortunately for those really interested in it, the illusion is so
easy to break that even on RP servers, Blizzard doesn’t really enforce
roleplaying that much. From what I’ve gathered, the majority of it
takes place in groups and guilds of people committed to doing it right.
So when Patsie asks why Blizzard even has an RP policy
when they don’t enforce it, I can see what he’s saying. And maybe
Blizzard should crack down on non-RPers, just as they’ve cracked down
on gold
spammers and AFKers. What if everyone on an RP server could report
someone with just a right click, and if enough reports came in on that
person, they earned a suspension or even a ban from the server
entirely? You have to think that if Blizzard made a serious effort to
shut down non-RP activity on an RP server, they’d become what they were
meant to be in the first place– servers where everyone actually played
a role.
Then again, people who don’t roleplay are paying their
$15 like the rest of us, and, as Patsie says, there are lots of people
on the RP servers who didn’t join them to RP. But if Blizzard is
advertising these servers as RP, shouldn’t they be taking steps (beyond
enforcing the naming convention, which is iffy itself) to make them so?
