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MMORPGs - Ruined By Non Role-Players?

Posted by simoniker on from the verily-ye-31337-h7x0r dept.

Thanks to RPGDot for their new editorial discussing why actual in-character roleplaying in MMORPGs is dying out, as more and more 'action fans' are being attracted to RPGs. The article suggests: "When you take an MMORPG apart to analyze what it is, you discover pretty quickly that it's mostly a huge graphical chat room... the role-playing aspect of an MMORPG is nowhere in the [priority] list, which leaves the few poor souls who are willing to do so in the dust, grinding their teeth at the l337 speech they are subjected to." But it seems in-game bugs and glitches make it difficult for even the most hardcore role-player to keep in-character: "It's hard to sustain a willingness to role-play when the mindless android in front of you swallows your shuttle ticket without so much as an apology."

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  1. What's really ruining MMORPGs: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Self-righteous "role players" who feel the need to force other players, who are there just to have fun, into their narrow view of what "fun" is.

  2. Re:Roleplaying Requires Imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks for the input Dungeon Master! Did it ever occur to you that some people don't "role-play" because they don't want to? As they paid for the game, they don't have to - it's theirs to do what they want with no matter how much they piss in your lemonade.

    You say "The quality of role-playing can be measured by how much a person reads." That's nonsense. The quality of role playing is more closely correlated with "how fat a person is" or "how few friends a person has" or inverseley with "how often a person has sex with girls."

    If you're reading or making real friends or playing sports, etc you don't have time to sit in front of your PC for hours at a time pretending you are Lord Kenp2002, you've got better things to do.

    Quality of role-playing as a social barometer? No fucking way.

  3. Re:Moderated MMO's? by dasunt · · Score: 1, Troll

    They are called muds - go to www.mudconnect.com and search through the listings, make sure you check the role-play box.

    Oh, wait, you want pretty graphical pictures? Argh!!!! Wait a second, I have an 'Ask Slashdot' question to submit: 'Why Do the Self Described "Role Players" want pretty useless pictures and a graphical world that basically limits what the player can do?'