Comments on: Beware the RP Police http://mu.ranter.net I miss my frames. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:15:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Dr Shad http://mu.ranter.net/design-theory/general-topics/beware-the-rp-police/comment-page-1#comment-85 Dr Shad Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:56:49 +0000 http://mu.ranter.net/design-theory/general-topics/beware-the-rp-police#comment-85 While I hate the RP Nazi as much as anyone else, some attention does need to be paid to the "K3wld00d" problem as well. I can pinpoint the exact moment I began to lose interest in Asheron's Call. I had fought my way through and exeedingly difficult dungeon that was really past my level to get to the treasure room at the end. There I found a number of people 2 - 3 times my level standing in line to loot the chest therin. The most vocal of these was a character named "Fly Bi@tch". The name alone was almost enough to make me cancel my account. The fact that he accused me of try to line jump him merely because I entered the room made me want to drive to his house and slap the stupid out of him. It took a few weeks of play to arrive at that point. WoW, on the other hand, took less than ten minutes before a 30th level character showed up and followed me around killing everything nearby so I could get no XP and repeatedly telling me "Usuk!" In AC I would have responded by outleveling him and then challengimg him repeatedly to a duel. Unfortunately every time I did that, I was put on ignore and no impact was made on the behavior, so I cancelled my WoW account instead. It was dissapointing that this sort of idiot could set the tone of the game and leaveevryone else with no option to immerse themselves in the game. So, while RP Nazis should not be allowed to rule the game, there should be some kind of controls whereby players can select server where they can play the game they want without being turned off by the "k3wld00ds" While I hate the RP Nazi as much as anyone else, some attention does need to be paid to the “K3wld00d” problem as well. I can pinpoint the exact moment I began to lose interest in Asheron’s Call. I had fought my way through and exeedingly difficult dungeon that was really past my level to get to the treasure room at the end. There I found a number of people 2 – 3 times my level standing in line to loot the chest therin. The most vocal of these was a character named “Fly Bi@tch”. The name alone was almost enough to make me cancel my account. The fact that he accused me of try to line jump him merely because I entered the room made me want to drive to his house and slap the stupid out of him. It took a few weeks of play to arrive at that point.

WoW, on the other hand, took less than ten minutes before a 30th level character showed up and followed me around killing everything nearby so I could get no XP and repeatedly telling me “Usuk!” In AC I would have responded by outleveling him and then challengimg him repeatedly to a duel. Unfortunately every time I did that, I was put on ignore and no impact was made on the behavior, so I cancelled my WoW account instead. It was dissapointing that this sort of idiot could set the tone of the game and leaveevryone else with no option to immerse themselves in the game.

So, while RP Nazis should not be allowed to rule the game, there should be some kind of controls whereby players can select server where they can play the game they want without being turned off by the “k3wld00ds”

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