Guild Wars 2

Tassy.5891:

Charrgirl most RP’ers will argue with each other on what rates as “role playing”, none of them can agree on it so its usually a case of each to their own, an let them get on with it. What we se here is a group just minding their own biz an doing their thing. You can bet they were being screamed at an called all sorts with demands an threats etc, so when that was ignored this sort of thread pops up.

RP is fine. There’s nothing wrong with it and you’d be a real kitten to tell people to stop. The issue here is that it’s not just RPing – it’s a form of griefing because they’re making an event they have no intention of participating in significantly harder for the people actually trying to complete it.

ThiBash.5634:

So I suppose that when you do a dungeon, you’re morally obligated to have every player who asks join in?

Get real. It may have taken quite some effort to setup some sort of special event. And to have it change story or location just because it was in your way is asking way to much. It was their event, so their choice wheter to include you or not.

No, it is not their choice. The game world and that tavern do not belong to them. I don’t care how much effort it took to put that together. He is free to be there and do as he pleases as long as he’s not harassing anyone and he was not doing that. In fact he was there before them. If anything, they are the rude ones for asking him to leave when he didn’t do anything to anyone.

Heya, Tassy.

This is a long thread, so it’s cool if you didn’t get to read all of it.

The issue here isn’t roleplaying itself. Roleplaying is awesome – I do it myself. But the OP didn’t yell at or demean the RPers. He was actually trying to do a little immersive RP with them in order to let them know that they were making a dynamic event harder by being in the vicinity.

I don’t think the game is SUPPOSED to work that way, but it currently does.

If you’re going to RP, great! I encourage having fun in every possible way. But if your fun is diminishing the fun other people are having playing through the game mechanics, then the polite thing to do is move elsewhere.

@tassy:

If they were screamed at etc etc etc, that still doesn’t suddenly warp the fabric of space, time and reality to make two wrongs make a right, they were annoying and all for the sake of being asked to move to a different locale in case they were making the event harder, rather than go to the bother of using their imagination (contradictory as that sounds) they instead chose to claim the op here was a troll and ignore him, the rp’ing is fine, no one wants to claim it’s wrong, the attitude and the responses were disgusting however, so they’re not doing themselves or any legit pleasant roleplayers ANY justice here, and respresenting them badly, and before someone chimes in with “we don’t have to represent the rp community to rp” (insert stereotypical gurl with attitude head bob)
That claim is usually made by the same type of person who would at a moments notice claim they’re a minority and prejudiced and to represent them if it suited them.

@ Tassy.
OP just wanted some help was all, and she just asked in a nice way too.
Not like she barged and went, “Hey can you guys stop rping and come help?” Or asked out of character. I’m sort of a Roleplayer myself, not a good one but I certainly wouldn’t of been rude to her and responded in and out of character like
Rise: Oh I’m sorry. My friends are injured right now so we can not help at the moment
OOC: [Sorry we didn’t realize it or we are too busy at the moment so I apologize but we can’t help OR sure let me ask my friends if we can help.] All they could of said instead of calling her names and be down-right rude.

fair enough. I personally dont really care either way, some RP’ers are what we call “puritanical” an they are probably the msot annoying, arrogant idfiots you will ever find. Some are nice an friendly, an some are…well, some are out there

But no matter how things went down, if they refused to move, an refused to help, then he should have dragged the event to them. (no it isnt griefing) he was “helping them” by making karma available to them without them having to go to it…

All a matter of how you spin it.