Oh come on old boy, I mean I famously use ten words where one will do, but that statement just doesn’t work. It is not called a touch of class at all, class implies a certain amount of refinement, which it is almost impossible to convey on a purely text based platform. With regards posting etiquette, then frankly there are no rules set in stone, bar those that individual forum owners put in place, in this case Blizzard. Etiquette is a very mutable thing, from country to country, an decade to decade. Even so, this situation does not need a suspension of any standard ruleset. It simply does not. If you cannot convey your point within the (fairly lax) ruleset, then that says more about you, than the rules.
Finally the Context is this. 100% of the RP Realms that have now died a rather protracted death, did so because of the influx of OOC players. That is a thing. You have huge amounts of Empirical evidence here, from people, myself included, who were on those servers as they dwindled. If you doubt our own Empirical evidence, then why not try your own, go to one of those realms, see if you can find RP, then look at what tag they have as a ‘Realm type’. See if you can reconcile the two.
I have no idea why somehow people who have been corralled into the last remaining bastion of RP, should -not- feel aggrieved when even that is being stripped away by idiots with mammoths, and toy abuse, even less of an idea (I realise the oxymoron of having less of an idea than no idea) why we should in some way be -grateful- for the presence of OOC’ers on our realm.
All of the other realms are available to these people, all of them, especially now that PvP is opt-in. They have so much choice.
Why come to the one place offering a game to people who have no other choice.
Also don’t bang on about the PCU being behind this, and forming a Hive mind. I’m certainly not on some of their Christmas card lists, but I still emphatically agree with what they are saying. People can do that, you know, form their own opinion.
So do not try to be snooty and say you are displaying a touch of class, you most certainly are not. Good day to you.
