Hardly anyone really does this, kind of reads like a blind assumption.
The quality of RP hinges on adherence to lore and when people actively stop doing it it’s very easy for a group of 6-8 players in a single guild to completely ruin the atmosphere on a RP hub like valley of honor in Orgrimmar.
There used to be an average of 5-6 guilds there actively roleplaying, they have all left because nearly all members were tired of that one group continuously breaking lore.
People going against lore actively scares off most RPers from a hub, turning it into a desolate place, This then snowballs into new players not being able to find where all the RP is, it’s not in the hubs where they usually expect it, they can’t find anyone and then give up.
As you can probably imagine this is a vicious cycle, a lot of RP realms have died from a combination of people just outright not RPing out the lore or going actively against it as well as an influx of people who either had 0 intention of ever RPing and instead griefed it or never had the intention to even look at the lore and just treat it as secondlife.
The lore are kind of like traffic rules in RP, if everyone keeps to it, you should theoretically never see an ‘accident’. People actively not keeping to lore is very capable of killing an RP server. If everyone starts making up their own rules, there’s carnage and bloodshed and tragedy.
This is by the way true for any roleplay community in any IP
It’s also not like witch hunts are being held or people will just /spit on dark rangers in SW, it will mean that their characters, some of whom they RP as having families that were victimized by Sylvanas or the Forsaken (think lordaeron survivors/gilneans) that simply will not take kindly to Dark Rangers in character
This doesn’t mean that there is some hatred to the other player on an OOC level, it’s just people trying to RP their own characters to their trueest nature, which is what RP is kind of about.
When the response to potential conflict however is claiming you have a personal permit from Anduin himself (which is really really bad conduct in any RP communty in any IP to RP major lore characters, which claiming you have a permit handed to you personally by them falls under) which states that they’re allowed to just go through the stormwind graveyard and have their pick of corpses to raise… (very specific example) that’s when most people get that sensation of stubbing their toe on something really really annoying which often just makes them want to leave the hub where it’s happening (as has happened to Orgrimmar)
The arguement is then that if DR’s start pulling this permit RP then basically most who don’t do permit RP hates with a passion will just ignore them entirely.
It’s not that if you play a dark ranger you will get spat upon. If you really take it apart the arguement is ‘if you don’t stick to the lore people are less likely to interact with you’, which honestly has always been a thing. Mostly because someone who RP’s by the lore is not compatable with someone who does not RP by the lore and vice versa. It’s not out of spite either, it’s just that RPing two characters operating from entirely different loresets is really cbt for both parties
Big text but I hope this explains why this conversation isn’t as black and white as people try to make it out to be. It’s really not ‘oh I am aliance dark ranger woe is me’
Many RPers however would love to interact with a Dark Ranger who actually accepts the facts that there can be consequences to RPing that (just like how there would be consequences to RPing a blood troll) rather then actually just being a socialite in dark ranger skin whose better connected then your average maffia boss.
It was bad enough to have the story told exclusively in books but not in games, if the lore would truely work this way this would be an extra step down from there. It just feels like kind of a cheap, not well thought through ‘Ha, gotcha’ take.
Some random NPC that isn’t Tyrande saing that it’s up to Tyrande doesn’t equal Tyrande accepting the dark rangers back into the fold.
If you ask me why alliance got the dark ranger appearances, the answer is really simple:
- If Alliance wouldn’t have gotten the Dark Ranger appearance, they would’ve had a lot less this patch (remembered dark iron) where Horde got 2 new customizations for races which a lot of the current alliance playerbase racechanged away from.
Look inside yourself you know it to be true.
