There have always been Bad Actors™ in roleplaying communities, with the all-but death of every other RP realm EU side Argent Dawn has just imported all of them.
This leads to cliques within the larger community, with some of these types heading up communities or guilds, recruiting new players who are coming in and unable to yet discern between their IC character and OOC selves and taking their GM’s word as gospel the issue spirals out of control unfortunately.
The rebellion in BFA gave some of these types an opportunity to twist the IC lore into a weapon for OOC ‘retribution’; the most amusing part to me is that most of them now don’t even play the game much or at all, and just sit in their discords trying to poison the minds of those who don’t know anything else.
It is a shame. IC is IC and limiting the RP opportunities just hurts the already small Horde community. But I guess that there is no turning back anymore.
The worst types are people that try hounding you on alts thinking they’re hidden.
Then they start preaching “DOXX!!” when you take off their ill-intent alt masks and find out their mains as if it’s fine to just try sniping people behind some low level forum avatar with 1-3 overall posts.
You know what I mean. PCU is large and it is nice that it offers good RP to its members, but the Horde community in total is small and fragmented on top of that, which is a shame.
One person doesn’t like how another person engages in the hobby, or doesn’t like how another person dislikes how they engage in the hobby. They clash over the minutia of the hobby which erupts into a dislike of each other as people.
This happens with all hobbies and lifestyles. Heck, if you go to a bodybuilding forum and say “deadlifting sumo style is cheating,” you’re bound to get at least a couple of people frothing at the mouth at each other as they vehemently agree and disagree with you. It’s just as vicious as any roleplaying squabble.
I have to agree with this. OOC disagreements may be hard if not impossible to avoid, but drama? That’s a conscious choice. Walking away is always an option and it has served me quite well so far.
It aint just the dislike for how people conduct their RP. There are some serious horror stories on this realm of personal attacks and whatnot. And I dont know anymore at this point what of this is real or what is just a lie.
Honestly I do understand it when someone throws something particularly terrible at you, so you feel obliged to hit back. But yes, in general, that’s the best approach - and one I mostly try to keep to.
The RP conduct is the start of it, which leads to the dislike of the other person for their out-of-character attitude, which leads to personal attacks and rifling through the internet for dirt and dox.
I belive that this situation simply stems from the fact that different people have a different way to go about RP and different views on what is fun RP and what is not. Neither have to be wrong, but it definitely does help create issues which split the community further, since these two views are not compatible with each other.
Honestly people need to open a window, crack open an ice cold can of monster energy and just think about their antics. And this is coming from one of the most small time poo posters to ever linger around these forums like a stale fart.
