From what you’ve noticed, what opinion do you have which is least shared, or even actively disliked, by other people around you?
WoW’s Humans and their lore are interesting and some of my favourite in the setting.
I will forever stand on this hill.
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It turns out that the opinions in this post were not unpopular, my bad.
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That Arathi-RP doesnt make any sense and that their lore is bad.
Not just that they have less lore tied to them than Xallytoes back in her knife-form but also that the lore we have on them suggests that there would be plenty of reason for Arathi to never leave Hallowfall as long as they are cut off from the empire.
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That Stormwind isn’t actually that bad for roleplay.
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That certain aspects of Horde RP (mainly orcs) attract players with a strange machismo vibe/mindset.
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Very much this. I lead an Argent guild, and Argent RP thrives when people can actually do armistice RP.
When they fall into the full neutral friends category, it begs the question why Argents are even needed when people can cooperate without the neutral party brokering for it.
When they fall into the full conflict category, they tend to become so insular and isolating that it is impossible to involve them in any RP setting where Argents are involved.
I think a lot of people, especially in the latter category, completely miss the nuance of having their character put into a setting they hate (working with the enemy or at least refraining from attacking them on sight) for the sake of duty or serving something they believe is more important. “Begrudging alliances” RP is very engaging and offers so much opportunity to explore a character in a setting where they are uncomfortable and stuck with choices they dislike.
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Child RP is a valid form of Roleplay.
Unfortunately I realized very late that what I meant by that back then is that teenager disciples/trainees/students/apprentice is fine and provide an excellent blank slate to form a character.
What others understood is that I approved of the cookie munchin, babbling and barely intelligent creatures they were disproportionately exposed to.
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I know it’s technical nitpicking, but ‘teen/YA’ I feel is a label that sidesteps the… well, what you highlighted, yeah.
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there’s a number of people on this server that shouldn’t engage in roleplaying for various reasons
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Not every hub or public event needs to cater to everyone. People should be more conscious of attending what makes sense for their character to attend rather than attending for the sake of FOMO.
Events themed around a racial cultural thing get watered down when people from other races show up in troves and drown out the original premise, and so end up doing a disservice to everyone involved.
I am not arguing in favour of always racially segregating all RP; a few humans in attendance to a night elf cultural festival who have a reason to be there (they were already in the area due to other events, they have an appreciation or interest in engaging in night elven culture, etc.) is not going to ruin an event. Draenei, dracthyr, demon hunters, Eredar, etc. attending a medieval-styled human tournament with knights, nobles, jousting and balls are going to ruin the atmosphere—they always, without failure, provide commentary about how dumb the thing is, unlike their duty which they are currently neglecting by being there.
There’s nuance to it, but as people yearn for more race-specific RP and engaging in their cultural traditions, the only way to foster that RP is to actually attend these things as the concept they’re catering to, and being mindful of the cultural traditions that are being celebrated in the event.
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There´s a portion of Horde community that views Horde as being canonically this big club of friends that love each other and are so much better at working together (insert Vol´jin Diesel saying “family”) than the Alliance which shouldn´t even really be a faction in their eyes as the races there hate each other and have no reason to work together. They have this view so ingrained within them that they will outright create fantasies of Horde being the greatest friend and ally ever, completely ignoring that Horde has been through two civil wars and even when it hasn´t been in the state of conflict within itself, there were cases of “lesser” races being relegated to slums, guards from one race watching over the capital of another to ensure they don´t turn on the Horde (again) or blackmail being used to gain support of another nation within it.
They are just as damaging to the vibe of their faction as people RPing human supremacists being the norm within the Alliance or dwarves hating elves, except they get nowhere near the attention the RPers within the Alliance get.
No, orcs and Forsaken aren´t natural best friends, they´re outcasts that need to work together. That doesn´t mean they can´t become close to each other, nor that there aren´t races which share similarities and are close to each other (even though the “stronger race screws over the weaker one” happens among them too), but they aren´t singing kumbaya.
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I mean yeah, I’m sure we can all agree that is the case with for example some of the deplorable stuff that goes down in places like Goldshire.
Hard to say your opinion is unpopular when you’re that vague.
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The Light is the most boring thing in WoW.
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Since you said Unpopular WoW opinions–
We already have lightforged warlocks, just open every class to every race now.
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I think we had this thread before, long ago.
And my unpopular opinion of that time was that warcrimes during rp-pvp campaigns were often done just for cheap shock-value rather than actually advancing a story. ( Granted the amount of RP-PVP campaigns has certainly gotten less).
As for an unpopular opinion about RP now… that it is not bad to stick to one toon and you don’t need a gazillion alts.
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A lot of Argent Dawn’s problems would be resolved if people played or read through the lore before they make or talk about a concept, rather than just read a line of it and autocomplete the rest based on misperceived vibes.
The amount of times I’ve seen someone just get out scot-free after saying some heinous stuff in a community Discord group without anyone saying even a peep because they know the moderators are more uncomfortable with confrontation than homophobia is disconcerting, and I am sure that more hubs in Argent Dawn would have a larger, healthier population if the online communities surrounding them weren’t led by people who preferred a quiet community to a kinder community.
Horde Roleplay as a unified community doesn’t exist. It’s different ones in a trench coat called Orgrimmar, and calling it Horde Roleplay is as confusing as calling Stormwind Roleplay ‘Alliance Roleplay’ because once or twice they decided to do a market event in Moonbrook.
Lordaeron without the undead factor isn’t more interesting than literally any other kingdom with Stormwind being a thing, which is just human Lordaeron if it actually had any lore depth beyond its ruling family, Stratholme, and the Silver Hand, and most ideas that it would be otherwise are fed by non-sensical headcanons written by listening to Blackrock and Roll in repeat a little too much; and the idea that you can just undo the Third War just like that takes the only wind this section of the lore has out of its sails.
A ‘reclaimed’ Lordaeron would just be a more boring blue and white version of Stormwind that would make little sense to begin with, given how most of the people of Lordaeron -died- and are the dead and undead that inhabit it, and Lord Lightshield might need a zerg spawning pool to inhabit it with Lordaeronian humans, given how the Cataclysm effort to invade and colonize the Plaguelands had the Alliance pulling conscripted farmers and militiamen from Westfall with how few living Lordaeronians in the Alliance there were left.
The Arathi can make for a more interesting backstory for the Arathorian Empire if it’s revealed that its dissolution was far more violent, with the Arathi being the descendants of Imperial Loyalists that escaped the collapse, but their execution would’ve been much better if Hallowfall was filled with the remnants of their presence in the Isle of Dorn, rather than hundreds of NPCs that don’t talk about the Empire, at all. Just a sign that they exist, so that their future inclusion isn’t without precedent, but without being an entire mini-civilization down in Plato’s Cave with a weird de-facto vow of silence.
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Actually, I think I got an actual good unpopular opinion of modern day RP now.
Not every zone or concept needs an effing Discord for it. Especially not because, as Wraithwood says, all too often those in charge of said Discord show they aren’t suited for it.
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Human paladins aren’t actually that bad generally and the meme needs to get off it’s high horse
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At least here it hasn’t gotten to the point yet where almost every other public event has its own Discord server, instead of keeping them to a public forum thread / AA post / within bigger Discord servers. It just doesn’t make them feel quite so public anymore!
Edit: This comes from being surprised by how common event discords are on the other side of the pond. But maybe that’s also because the roleplayers there bounce more between the two US roleplay servers for events.
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