In the first few lines, I want to apologize if I’m too wordy and emotional, but this long-running conflict breaks my heart.
So the prequel to the problem, I believe, is well known to everyone. There is PCU and there are some anti-PCU guilds that do not want to interact with anything related to PCU events. And there are a lot of ordinary players, like me, who really do not ask or wonder if a person is from the PCU or not and just want normal and fun RP. I do not want to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the PCU, I want to talk about the harm that the conflict brings.
The problem is that anti-PCU people are RP in law enforcement guilds in Stormwind and the RP militaries in Silvermoon City, and they are ignore crimes committed by the chars from PCU.
Imagine - somewhere in Stormwind, the Defias, or the Scarlets appear or Sylvanas Loyalists appear somewhere around. They injure or kill several characters, take hostages, the inhabitants of Stormwind (not part of the PCU - just ordinary players) react to this, an adventure or detective RP begins, but after that some guard, spy or the military detachment that already was involved in all these events for some time says "Oh, this is PCU! " and leaves from the middle of the event.
And this is repeated every bloody time.
Guys, can you imagine how the ordinary players should feel in all this?
This happens on the Horde too, just less of it. Some of the players in Silvermoon City, for example, Paladins, Death Knights flatly refuse to defend their homeland from the Damned or Sylvanas’ Loyalists, just because the PCU mainly plays for these factions
Can you imagine how stupid it looks and how hard to RP there for players who do not interested in these OOC conflicts?
And one more problem. All this anti-PCU guilds consider themselves to be more correct, anti-toxic, better players than the PCU, but the problem is that they now prefer to play only social games - weddings, birthdays, balls, meeting at Stormwind Keep and xome close events, but do not react to incidents and murders in open RP.
Yesterday in the magic quarter there was a murder of a void-elf and about 3 BLOODY HOURS 10 people tried to call at least one of the guards. (City Watch and City Centry, as I know, were far from the scene). The rest of the law enforcement guilds (Although there were definitely about 20 representatives of the servants of the law and spies nearby) gathered in a nearby tavern a hundred feet from the corpse and celebrated or discussed something. They witnesses shouted and run around. But no servant of law react on that. You know, it took three hours to wait for the arrival of the guards, and I think that all the players who took part in the RP were tired - the corpse, the murders, witnesses and other players.
I know the claims that some guys in Stormwind are made against PCU, but at least a year ago, when they controlled the guards, when a crime was committed, the guards appeared within five minutes, there were constant patrols and it was very fun to play crime RP.
To be honest, many players like me who want to interact with open world cannot just RP normally in all that. It turns out that in order to RP normally, you need to isolate and quietly play only with your guild. It is very sad.
And it seems to me that in case of problems in Blizzard and a general outflow of players, these stupid conflicts should be resolved - otherwise RP on Argent Dawn will become completely impossible. And I think if we want to keep the community, we need to be friendly and ready to RP with each other.
