Quote Originally Posted by Sub-Xero View Post
How you gonna get a reward for role-playing? I thought the reward was your fantasy or something. How would SE reward someone for role-playing? You turn on the RP flag and *bam* reward?
There are tons of ways. Literally tons.

There is another game I've played, for example, that had GMs go undercover as newbies. If they ran into a player open world RP'ing they would mark it down.

Later on the player would get a message that they had an item waiting for them - It was a special sword, the most powerful sword in the game, better than the highest level dungeon content could give.

Nobody knew who they interacted with to get it, and there were only 3-4 of them on server, but it encouraged open world RP.

There was another game called Asheron's Call where players could write books in character. Collections of short stories, combinations of reagents for the in-game spells (guides were rare in that game initially) and some books were so popular that they started fetching high prices and some players would manually recreate them, by hand, to sell for in-game gold to other players.

Every year Microsoft would reward a player who had written the most popular in-game book.