Non-RPers Unite!

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

and some of you (roleplayers) take yourselves, this forum and this game entirely too seriously.

strange that people with such vivid imaginations would have such difficulty lightening up

People don't like being picked on over a hobby.

[Issachar]

People don't being picked on over a hobby.

Well when your hobby is notorious for being obnoxious and pretentious...I mean, a good deal of RPers think they're a breed above others, holier-than-thou, or just plain more intelligent. Is it any wonder why people shun you?

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Well when your hobby is notorious for being obnoxious and pretentious...I mean, a good deal of RPers think they're a breed above others, holier-than-thou, or just plain more intelligent. Is it any wonder why people shun you?

It is this impression I receive of FF11 and FF14 gamers toward the other MMO communities.

That somehow their community is more mature, respectful, elite, or intelligent. When really, they're all the same. Good eggs and bad eggs in every community trying to enjoy one of their hobbies. The good lumped in with the bad.

Where gaming is the mother hobby. Playing MMORPGs a subset. Playing FF14 a subset of that. And someone from WoW hears a bunch of FF14 beta testers bashing a game he happens to enjoy. WoW gamer has bad impression of FF14 gamers, wants the game to fail to get back at them.

And then RP, folks who share a common language outside the target language, or other beliefs are subsets of that game's population. And though they have something in common, they're not united by it. Still differences of opinion, conflict, or elitism within each group.

Guilt by association or similarity I suppose.

[Urthdigger]

Well when your hobby is notorious for being obnoxious and pretentious...I mean, a good deal of RPers think they're a breed above others, holier-than-thou, or just plain more intelligent. Is it any wonder why people shun you?

Right, all RPers are pretentious and stuck up. Just like all black people are criminals, every jew wants your money, every mexican is lazy, and every american is an asshole. This is what we like to call stereotypes, and they don't tend to apply to everyone in a group. Or even to the majority of that group in a lot of cases.

[TheVedis]

Right, all RPers are pretentious and stuck up. Just like all black people are criminals, every jew wants your money, every mexican is lazy, and every american is an asshole. This is what we like to call stereotypes, and they don't tend to apply to everyone in a group. Or even to the majority of that group in a lot of cases.

The vocal majority makes you seem that way, thats the problem. Its a stereotype for a reason. And its being proven with every post that bashes anyone who doesnt fully go along with everything RPists are demanding.

[Issachar]

The vocal majority makes you seem that way, thats the problem. Its a stereotype for a reason. And its being proven with every post that bashes anyone who doesnt fully go along with everything RPists are demanding.

This. This times a thousand. I will press this Like! button until my mouse shatters.

[Rydin]

Right, all RPers are pretentious and stuck up. Just like all black people are criminals, every jew wants your money, every mexican is lazy, and every american is an asshole. This is what we like to call stereotypes, and they don't tend to apply to everyone in a group. Or even to the majority of that group in a lot of cases.

The vocal majority makes you seem that way, thats the problem. Its a stereotype for a reason. And its being proven with every post that bashes anyone who doesnt fully go along with everything RPists are demanding.

As a black person I'm hoping you meant vocal minority

[TheVedis]

As a black person I'm hoping you meant vocal minority

by vocal majority i mean the majority of the vocal RPist community


as a community it is a minority of them, but as the ones who are posting, its the majority who are loud and unreasonable(the loudest of them all especialy who bashes everyone who says anything thats in the slightest way not pro RP)

[Rydin]

by vocal majority i mean the majority of the vocal RPist community


as a community it is a minority of them, but as the ones who are posting, its the majority who are loud and unreasonable(the loudest of them all especialy who bashes everyone who says anything thats in the slightest way not pro RP)

oh... ok... just wondering because the term is generally vocal minority...
carry on