Unless you would rather play on a Ghost Town server where you rarely run into people for non-RP content that the majority of you do.
Only a very small, loud minority of non-RPers ever disrupt RP on purpose. Most of them got something better to do, like a +15.
I do fear, that if we start going down the routes of āOnly RPāers are allowed on this serverā then we become a very isolated, intolerant and arrogant group of people that wonāt want people to even have an interest in wanting to get into RP, let alone come to the server.
Why would I need on server non-rpers when thereās a cross realm group finding tool? HUMMMM-HO.
Because a good share of role players enjoy raiding with a guild, and thereās hardly enough RPers to sustain enough raiding guilds with enough variety in raid times and goals to please those of us who like to RP and raid.
Non-RPers can turn into RPers too. Happened to me and plenty of people who came to this server.
The hostile attitude of some here towards non-RPers is a good way to make sure the community eventually bleeds dry though.
What Becky said.
Nah, Blizz will just merge AD with DB. Itās why I have a very tolerant approach towards people that arenāt Roleplayers YET and why the people that pick up the pitchforks and start harassing them are ironically screwing themselves over.
If Blizzard sees that AD is losing players theyāll just merge it with the other āRP serversā and the initial issue will become much worse. It is in the interest of EVERYONE to be friendly and try to promote Roleplay to people. It doesnāt matter if someone says they arenāt interested, I for one started Roleplaying a long, long time ago because I saw people doing it and wanted to try it out myself.
People need to understand that especially for people with a shoddy grasp of the lore/English/social skills roleplaying is a daunting endeavor and you can easily scare off people by saying the wrong things.
At the end of the day, vehement, aggressive posting will just scare away potential roleplayers and lead AD closer to a merge with other āRP serversā.
yeah, youāre right
a soprano quartet is absolutely integral to the health and wellbeing of a cooking club
True, a role playing server and a cooking club are completely comparable.
yeah they are, i go to a cooking club because i want to cook
i go to a roleplaying server because i want to roleplay
but who will sing???
I disagree.
Also been on a server where OOCers brought more OOCers and they outnumbered the RPers.
So, no they are not needed on the RP server.
Readies popcorn
Did you notice that a few expansions ago they added cross-realm for basically everything?
You can have competitive ilevel without ever grouping with a person on your server
Well, I disagree very very heavily on small but loud minority is probably correct - but think of it this way: if youāre here to RP and there is a section of the population that at best does nothing and at worst griefs you, would you want them there? For me itās a big no
Iāve been RPing in Stormwind lately (I know, I know) and the level of OOC disruption is not great. IDK how actively you RP but I think if you did it more youād have a clearer view of why people are buzzed off
WoW is a game that doesnāt really attract new players in big numbers so at this point Iād rather retain a healthy RP community than endure disruptions because perhaps after a few years one or two of the griefers may extremely kindly decide to RP with us
In terms of what heās trying to say it is. If a [place/medium] is overtly marketed towards loads of [Y] arriving is basically just distracting / disruptive
I think you are posting in the defense of this because you have more interest in PVE than RP - you donāt really care to a massive degree if the RP scene suffers as long as the PVEās good. Iād post the same if I was majorly into PVE too
Thereās this thing called group finder.
Non-RPers GET OUT
I RP daily in Stormwind and I cannot say I find my RP disrupted often, especially considering Stormwind is also a hub for non-RPers. RPers are just as bad in this regard, thereās a certain someone always randomly running around and parking her horse in RP areas, or RPers camping on the roofs with their flying mounts.
you say this like it isnāt a problem
Perhaps youāve unlocked that secret phase of Stormwind that nobody else but people pretending there isnāt a problem cite here on the forums
Itās a hub that has RP realm rules in ever single pixel
Whataboutism isnāt really an argument + I donāt like meme roof RPers either
Agreed, non-RPers should not disrupt RP. Most of them do not, they just leave the mage tower and fly right to the trade district/portal area to go to Uldum. Any that do disrupt RP on purpose (playing the game is not offensive) should be dealt with, of course.
to put a different spin on it; no one in this game does a ārandom dungeonā or a ārandom raidā - they only occasionally do ārandom pvpā, but even that is redundant since skirmishes/arenas/BGs are better for what they are intended
any form of content is easily achievable through the group finder tool; except for one - and doubly so when you revert back to my ārandom xā argument
go figure which aspect that is
and then youāll see exactly why your opening argument is absolutely baseless