i’m gonna pull my usual trick out of the hat and say “we’re going to have to agree to disagree.”
After all that, I’d say Horde RP is at its greatest.
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I’unno man, Ogrepoweres was pretty good compared to say, War of Three Corners. 
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Sure you are. But, you’re wrong. My small-time guild attended several RP-PvP campaigns lead by the PCU in the past. Even when we could only put forward as little as two people we were welcomed, treated courteously, interacted with, and eventually welcomed into the fold where we’ve been happy ever since.
In contrast, these nebulous “other communities that organise in secret” did the complete opposite. We were pushed to the outer rim of interaction in favour of those under the banner of the leading guilds. We’ve had groups, in our pre-PCU days mind, get up and walk away from us in absolute silence when trying to interact with them at these events and continue on. We’ve volunteered to lead events in campaigns only to have the majority of the attendees rescheduled to another nearby zone to join in some RP-PvP with no consultation.
The PCU have been organised, helpful, welcoming, and are not too big for their boots to spend a little time with smaller, quieter backwater guilds like RV. That is an invaluable attitude in an RP community and after sticking our collective necks out to try and make in-roads in the community for two years we’ve finally done so.
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I personally enjoyed Ogrepowered too, but let’s not pretend it didn’t have any problems. The sleep over prisoner RP got out of hand and was frankly dumb. My character was good at capturing people and dragging them back and undermining their faith in the Alliance by offering an honest Horde perspective to everything they’re accusing us of. One GM confessed that they don’t believe in the Alliance’s cause anymore; the Horde in the campaign weren’t the monsters they were lead to believe. And in light of all the war crimes Alliance RPers were committing, they started to believe that perhaps the Alliance were the bad guys.
and then some dudes were playing sleep over and it undermined the whole point of the previous progression
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Tbh mate I enjoy most camapigns I go to. But they’re all plauged with issues, prisoner fest did get silly though. The last stand on the last day was just…mwah, though, just loved it.
Three corners is what got me into RP-PvP, I loved it a bunch.
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So according to your personal experience and anecdotes, you’ve found that the community you’re currently in has provided a more positive experience for you than communities you were previously involved with.
And I won’t take that away from you, I’m glad that you’ve found somewhere where you enjoy yourself and you’re having fun, after what sounds like a negative experience in other communities.
But your experiences don’t speak for everyone. I mean, it would be unfair for other people to say “PCU is bad because I had a bad experience with them and anyone who disagrees with me is wrong,” wouldn’t it?
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I didn’t say it was wrong to be beheaded, but more bummed seeing how it was the next day.
Personally if I were in that situation, I’d rather come to an agreement with the other party on how to proceed after said decapitation. If to parade around with the head and hip-thrust at the face, or to bury it under three feet of cement to make sure the guy doesn’t reassemble.
Oh, no doubt about it. But personally I don’t trust the other player challenging me to be a good sport about it, so I just avoid stuff that involves fighting other players. I’m more of a social butterfly after all and prefer beating up monsters.
I personally didn’t care for it. The one up emotes on the forums over how people were personally slaughtering hundreds of the enemy forces single handedly off screen with their ww2 bombers got really old really fast
Otherwise cool campaign but the constant one upmanship got stale
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The Horde community is divided, but they’ve all had good and bad moments. Campaigns set up by PCU? Very enjoyable many times. I feel like I am in a real battle provided there are no lolling gankers about! shakes fist angrily I’ve yet to see anyone in the wider community do such on a better scale. They do good jobs, but seem to lack the flare. But lets not forget to give credit to the community outside the group. For example, Rogmasha’s version of Saurfang’s Mak’gora brought over 500 hundred people together to experience the event. It felt so alive and just absolutely amazing in such a different way the PCU, in my mind, has yet to accomplish.
All in all, the community is healthy, but tense. The PCU can feel a bit like North Korea to some: isolationist, feels it needs no others due to self reliance and holds a bit too much pride in that to the point of arrogance. Not saying it actually IS, but it is an impression some people can get.
The outside community can also feel very sparse with little meaningful interaction. People may not wish to be disturbed when they do their own thing and get very harsh about it, and things can feel very disjointed. They feel unwelcome and keep wandering around, looking for a place to stay.
All in all, we’re all just as bad as eachother in the end, but also just as good. But we must remember that both of these factors are part of the overall community. We all need eachother, even if we don’t need eachother all the time. When we come together and do big things, that is what makes RP worth it. That’s my view on not just the Horde community, but also the entire roleplaying community.
And for crying out loud, to make it clear this is not a personal attack on anyone specifically. Some people may take it that way, but it is not. If you can’t handle criticism of any kind, even when it’s meant to help improve, then I think said people need a bit of a break.
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Also like, mans bombs in Elwyn? No thankyou. The whole thing was out of place. Just invading Redridge would have started the 4th war early.
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not to state the obvious but u can always talk about the fight in whispers and decide ‘hey i want this for my character if they lose’
in the kingdom of the blind … the one-eyed man is king
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Sounds odd since nobody shared his views on things
The Mana bomb definitely wasn’t the PCU, btw. That can be attributed, 'uh, elsewhere.
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You could do that and obviously I don’t know the exact circumstances of this particular case, but as someone who had one of his characters decapitated by an orc before I don’t see the problem with it being kept as a trophy. If it’s something fitting for the character to do, why shouldn’t they present a trophy of a kill they are proud of? We have several items and mounts in the game that include trophies like that.
Ye I know. Don’t worry, was just one of very many silly things that went on.
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I did some napkin maths and this is completely inaccurate
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Show your work for the class.