Guild Wars 2

I can only give anecdotal evidence, but the last few times I’ve set foot in DR or the Grove I’ve heard RP happening (I’m on TC), and that wasn’t the case right after the megaserver hit the cities.

My own guild is getting more active in in-game RP again. We recently did a scene in Rata Sum’s port and most if not all of us showed up without needing a taxi, so we were getting grouped with our guild.

One griefer did show up and eventually get persistent enough (we were laughing at his lack of anything else to do with his life, but he was spamming our chat up with his custom sexually nasty emotes) that we shifted our locale to finish the scene. That’s compared to the zillions of griefers that flocked to RP pockets right after megaservers began.

So, anecdotally, it’s improving.

Side note: How awesome it would be if, per someone else’s suggestion, vines became the GW2 “Dhuuming” of those banned. And if a flurry of reports of harassment got an ANet person to vine the person right there after a quick review of the chatlog to verify. /dreams

I joined TCRP specifically because of the Megaserver issue, so I’ve occasionally seen rp in DR. I’d like it if they made it so you could flag your account for ‘rp’ so that the system would sort you with other rpers before anything else. I ran into another guild running a huge cross-zone rp event but getting everyone in the proper overflow once they zoned in was frustrating – and they easily had 50+ people in their group.

I’m not in a giant guild. We seldom have as many as 10 online at once. We do make our own RP, though, not so much randomly joining other scenes.

I haven’t properly roleplayed in GW2 for ages, such a shame! To my pleasant surprise (I’m from Piken Square), I actually encounter roleplay fairly regularly in the open world while prancing around with my alts. Like many others I think it’s a shame that there’s no RP tag for the megaserver (yet?), but based on what I’m seeing it actually looks wau less bad than I thought.

There always seems to be people RPing in the bar near the crafting stations in the Black Citadel. Just this afternoon I was watching ten minutes of two guys trying to out “tough guy” one another with lots of “X glares threateningly at Y” “oh yeah!? Y glares even more threateningly at X” while doing some leather working.

darkace.8925:

There always seems to be people RPing in the bar near the crafting stations in the Black Citadel. Just this afternoon I was watching ten minutes of two guys trying to out “tough guy” one another with lots of “X glares threateningly at Y” “oh yeah!? Y glares even more threateningly at X” while doing some leather working.

Most hard-core way to glare. I’ve seen this too, it’s pretty funny!

Yeah I’ve rp’d with the TCRP people exactly once, but I joined the guild so I’d have a better chance of being filtered into an rp-oriented mega server. I am hoping it gets better.

I’ve never roleplayed, but the megaservers are making it hard to learn exactly what it is and try it for myself

I try not to roleplay actively anymore. I learned that lesson on my first game, and it caused a lot of headaches later on when people found out who I was. I instead scribble little snippets about my characters now and then, and somehow every character I put time into in GW1 has their own lineage down into “present day Tyria”. Somehow.