ROYAL RUBY • NIGHTCLUB • BEHEMOTH/PRIMAL

[Saefinn]

I apologize for that perception. For my part, I am RP-ing the General Manager of this establishment. My posts represent someone struggling to maintain professionalism amid the frustrating ridiculousness that this thread has become. This forum community fancies itself reddit detectives exposing the evil RPers and all their nefarious plots, when in reality they are paragons of toxicity stamping out anything they don't understand or agree with.

I mean, I call out the judge-y and mocking posts, and somehow now I'm the troll?
Bottom line: it's hard for anyone RPing on any other datacenter to get a foothold, and this tragic display is one of the primary reasons.

I can get the RP can be difficult to get going on a server. I was a part of the original community that tried to get RP going on Gilgamesh and it is where I started out on this game, it's difficult and it last a year before we decided to move our part of the community to Balmung, as it seemed all the people trying to "save" the server spent more time trying to save the server than actually RPing.

The problem, as described by others here that on these data centres people are setting up RP venues for the purpose of making easy money by exploiting that desire for RP for profit. So when you look at something that's overpriced, it rings alarm bells. It's even over priced by OOC standards not just IC, Dzo steak doesn't cost a lot to make, it doesn't cost a lot to buy off of the MB and ICly wouldn't not be worth anywhere near as much.

And needing to spend 1000's of gil for RP each night seems to be a disincentive to RP. If anything, it'd make me want to transfer here to Crystal and get free RP.


I mean, you're free to do it, but it's really surprising me to read this is the norm for RP on other datacenters and it baffles me. I don't get how charging people for RP helps RP on the server.

[Archpoet]

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Thank you for this reply, it definitely adds context, and your history with it appears to be line with my experience so far on Primal. I'm a legacy character, but new to RP, and it is honestly sad. I did not expect the elitism in the RP community itself, but I suppose* I should have. That was short sighted of me.

I cannot speak to the pace of the market (meaning delta over time of the venue prices at the datacenter level), but I can say that a 5-star experience pricing itself at fast food level, from a business perspective is out of the question, simply because it sends the wrong message about the quality of the establishment to potential customers. That being said we are apace in pricing with at least two other high quality venues in the Primal DC.

Those overcritical of this simply haven't researched Primal's RP venue offerings sufficiently.