Why dont you play on a RP-server?

[Big Thanks]

Is just a superior form of server when compared to "normal" ones.
People sitting on benches
Groups formed up on the streets talking
People gathered up at the stormwind bar
Roleplay-walking players

And hey, if you start conversation in chat the usual reply is not "shut up" like on normal servers...

So why dont you play on one?

(random nice walk on Stormwind garden always cheers me up)

[Biomega]

So why dont you play on one?

Because I don't value the things you mentioned.

It's entirely fine if you do. That's awesome. But other people will value other things. That's why there's so many ways to play the game, neither of which is "correct" or "incorrect" because they're just different, that's all.

I prefer minimum social interaction. I'm happiest when other players limit themselves to functional communication - talk to me about strategy, tell me when you need me to do something, all that. And that's it, really.

And I totally get that many people are not like me, and want different things. That's cool. But I don't point fingers at them going "why do you want to talk about your day you weirdo!" and ask them what's wrong with them because they haven't gotten Cutting Edge yet. I leave them to do their thing, and trust them to leave me to do my thing. And if by chance we happen to be doing the same thing, we negotiate a compromise between both our expectations.

That's how it works.

We enjoy different things. And neither thing is "superior" to the other, as you put it. That way toxicity lies.

[KOUNTERPARTS]

Is just a superior form of server when compared to "normal" ones.

This is not a universal truth. My experience with RP servers have been engagement with toxic individuals who end up sperging out over every little interaction versus the more traditional RP you may be trying to champion.

People sitting on benches
Groups formed up on the streets talking
People gathered up at the stormwind bar
Roleplay-walking players

I'm sure this makes the world "feel more full" but I really don't need this visual to have the world feel "full" to me. Retail WoW does not need the outside world "feel full" in order to thrive, or even to do anything, compared to Classic WoW for example.

And hey, if you start conversation in chat the usual reply is not "shut up" like on normal servers...

This does not happen. If it does on a regular basis, I would have to ask what you or any individual may be actually saying to "start a conversation" because this is ludicrous. People in General, LFG, and Trade (Non-Services) have conversations all damn day on Thrall, Stormrage, and Proudmoore servers (one of 3 highest populated servers on retail WoW).

So why dont you play on one?

Because I don't RP.

Much like PvP, RP is a niche activity in the game and not everybody cares about it. It's like asking why you don't go LARP as a Rogue in real life.

Oddly enough, you fit into that characterization of the toxic RP player in the way you say that RP servers are superior to others, implying that RPers are superior to non-RPers.

[Al Gorefiend]

I don't place any value or sentiment to playing videogames with strangers. I am the one telling you to "shut up" in chat. Keep it to your friends

[Big Thanks]

This does not happen. If it does on a regular basis, I would have to ask what you or any individual may be actually saying to "start a conversation" because this is ludicrous. People in General, LFG, and Trade (Non-Services) have conversations all damn day on Thrall, Stormrage, and Proudmoore servers (one of 3 highest populated servers on retail WoW).

Portuguese servers are very different there is allllllllways that one portuguese telling you to shut up...always we are very "keep to yourself" people in here.

I did once start on trade chat a view-party of the live WoW video where Housing was announced and chat became a Twitch TV spam chat for so long.
Got me pretty happy, lol.

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Because I don't value the things you mentioned.

It's entirely fine if you do. That's awesome. But other people will value other things. That's why there's so many ways to play the game, neither of which is "correct" or "incorrect" because they're just different, that's all.

I prefer minimum social interaction. I'm happiest when other players limit themselves to functional communication - talk to me about strategy, tell me when you need me to do something, all that. And that's it, really.

And I totally get that many people are not like me, and want different things. That's cool. But I don't point fingers at them going "why do you want to talk about your day you weirdo!" and ask them what's wrong with them because they haven't gotten Cutting Edge yet. I leave them to do their thing, and trust them to leave me to do my thing. And if by chance we happen to be doing the same thing, we negotiate a compromise between both our expectations.

That's how it works.

We enjoy different things. And neither thing is "superior" to the other, as you put it. That way toxicity lies.

Oh...thats fair.

I just find it weird there is this "nerd-fantasy" in entertainment movies and anime (ex: Ready Player One movie, SAO anime, a whole anime genre etc) but when it comes to the MMORPG's themselves...people avoid RP servers even tho they fit this fantasy much more.

[vian]

I find RP cringy.

[Al Gorefiend]

Portuguese servers are very different there is allllllllways that one portuguese telling you to shut up...always we are very "keep to yourself" people in here.

I did once start on trade chat a view-party of the live WoW video where Housing was announced and chat became a Twitch TV spam chat for so long.
Got me pretty happy, lol.

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Oh...thats fair.

I just find it weird there is this "nerd-fantasy" in entertainment movies and anime (ex: Ready Player One movie, SAO anime, a whole anime genre etc) but when it comes to the MMORPG's themselves...people avoid RP servers even tho they fit this fantasy much more.

Anime being so intertwined with nerd fantasy is why I stopped trying to make friends with fellow nerds irl
"Omg u never seen a single episode of the last airbender?" No and don't force me to lol.

[Biomega]

I just find it weird there is this "nerd-fantasy" in entertainment movies and anime (ex: Ready Player One movie, SAO anime, a whole anime genre etc) but when it comes to the MMORPG's themselves...people avoid RP servers even tho they fit this fantasy much more.

There is a vast difference between passive media and active media. You are only an observer in any anime/TV show. In a game, you are a participant. That fundamentally changes how you experience the content, and what you value in it.

That's why people are entirely fine with watching sports on TV but not playing sports themselves. These are fundamentally different activities and it'd be supremely strange to go "wtf I don't get it you like watching sharks on TV but I throw you into shark-infested waters and suddenly you don't like it?!"

[Aleksej89]

RP servers are great.
I myself dont RP but the world is a lot more lively and fun to be in on an RP server.

Unfortunately RP servers tend to have a small playerbase.
Which is maybe not a problem for Retail but is a dealbreaker for Classic WoWs.

[Timester]

I cringe on any attempt of RP based on headcanon lore. So, no.

[Ielenia]

Is just a superior form of server when compared to "normal" ones.
People sitting on benches
Groups formed up on the streets talking
People gathered up at the stormwind bar
Roleplay-walking players

Because I don't play WoW to roleplay (I have my weekly D&D group for that) and most importantly, I don't really want to be approached by random people trying to get my attention to roleplay while I'm busy browsing the Auction House, and then be cussed out for ignoring their attempts or giving them non-RP responses such as "I'm not here to roleplay".

[Lolites]

superior form

this will be shocking revelation to you, but not everybody is interested in such roleplaying...
so no, its not "superior" in any way, its more to YOUR PERSONAL LIKING
imagine that, people like different things than you...

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I do. I play on Moon Guard.


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Old World of Warcraft screenshot from 2014 when I was in the Kor'Kron Legion RP-PvP guild on Moon Guard. We RPed as Garrosh loyalists and embarked on military campaigns against the Alliance, such as this huge RP-PvP battle that happened in the Arathi Highlands. There were a lot of Horde and Alliance military themed guilds back then and server wide RP events being organized multiple times per week. Then WoD happened and there was a sharp decline in the playerbase and in RP activity.


2023, I joined a new Horde RP guild that was a part of the Horde Vanguard. The Moon Guard RP server had been hosting a cross-faction campaign against the Primalists. The Primalists in our RP felt far more threatening and imposing than they did in Blizzard's content. In our campaign, the Primalists are such a threat that the Horde and Alliance mobilize their armies and fleets to the Dragon Isles.

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Each Horde Vanguard campaign beings with the Horde army marching out of Orgrimmar to the docks.


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Alliance guilds assembling in Stormwind before sailing out to the campaign.


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Horde Vanguard on their ship sailing to the Dragon Isles.


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Alliance on their ships.


We encounter turbulent seas and spot storm clouds as we approach the Dragon Isles. We receive word that the Primalists have launched a preemptive strike on our fleet. Lighting strikes down gunships with hundreds of soldiers on board. The coalition's forces break up into multiple groups to respond to the many different crises occurring simultaneously.

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Map showing the position of various forces as we landed on D2.

My character joins the D-day landing on the Waking Shores. We trudge inland through the mud under as a pitch black sky punctuated by lightning. We struggle to retain control over our frightened steeds. We stumble upon the dead bodies of our brothers. We become enshrouded in dense mists and can't see more than a few feet in front of us. An unnatural wind sucks the very air out of our throats. We are kneeling on the ground, gasping for breath. Frostbite is setting in on our extremities. A massive storm elemental that we can barely see through the wind and rain manifests before us. We are eviscerated by glass and sand and small rocks. The sheer hurricane force launches even heavy orcs and Tauren back, sending a trail through the mud. We turn around and run for our lives. Squadrons of gyrocopters are hurtling towards the earth and impact into the rocks all around us. A menacing voice booms like thunder through the mountains, mocking the spawn of the Titans...

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DMs giving their mission briefings. The most memorable outting was the one where we had to stop a lava slime from advancing towards the encampment. Our weapons either sliced harmlessly through the slime or bounced off of it. People got captured by the slime and were being burned alive. Fun stuff.


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Another Horde Vanguard RP event. This time we sailed to Silvermoon City, marched through Eversong Woods and the Plaguelands to defend Lordaeron from Rothide gnolls who were spreading disease and decay. The event where we went into the sewers and then nearly got drowned by a sewage elemental was the most fun.


A few months later, the 10th annual Tournament of Ages on Moon Guard was hosted. Event was pretty packed. I was getting 13 FPS inside the colosseum, and that wasn't even everyone there. There were more people unloaded outside. Outside the colosseum, you would walk 10 feet forward and then suddenly dozens of people would load in front of you.

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The last event I was involved in before I unsubbed. Another cross faction campaign set in the Dragon Isles, which was a continuation of the Dragon Isles event from earlier that year. We were hunting an evil Primalist dragon who had escaped from the first event, only for him to acquire a magical artifact that corrupted him with the Void, and then he got killed flying over the Azure Span. He crashed, infesting the forest and making the Western half of the zone into a contaminated wasteland that had to be quarantined. Then the Rothide Gnolles that lived there got corrupted and wiped out the village of Iskaara too. We barely managed to halt the corruption from spreading further while another elite team infiltrated the forest and secured the artifact.

Mod Edit: If you're going to post a large amount of images, make them URLs as opposed to embeds as massive amounts of embedded images is neither mobile nor bandwidth friendly.

[AudibleEscalation]

Is just a superior form of server when compared to "normal" ones.
People sitting on benches
Groups formed up on the streets talking
People gathered up at the stormwind bar
Roleplay-walking players

And hey, if you start conversation in chat the usual reply is not "shut up" like on normal servers...

So why dont you play on one?

Because none of that is important to me when I play WoW.
I'm an old P&P roleplayer (and I still play semi-regularly) but I've never been able to care about RP in WoW or any other online RPG for that matter - it seems so.. artificially constrained somehow. But cool if you enjoy it! Go for it!

[Val the Moofia Boss]

My main issue with WoW RP today (and the reason why I do not engage in it as heavily as I did a decade ago) is that it has changed to something I do not like, which is that you are mainly standing around doing /roll 20 against generic NPC bad guys like Gnolls or Primalists or whatever. Rather than the dramatic faction conflict narratives and wars between armies of players that we had a decade ago.

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Is just a superior form of server when compared to "normal" ones.
People sitting on benches
Groups formed up on the streets talking
People gathered up at the stormwind bar
Roleplay-walking players

I avoided city RP whenever possible, unless it was a meetup location for an organized event that we would be marching out to. Slice of life fluff is boring.

[Big Thanks]

My main issue with WoW RP today (and the reason why I do not engage in it as heavily as I did a decade ago) is that it has changed to something I do not like, which is that you are mainly standing around doing /roll 20 against generic NPC bad guys like Gnolls or Primalists or whatever. Rather than the dramatic faction conflict narratives and wars between armies of players that we had a decade ago.

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I avoided city RP whenever possible, unless it was a meetup location for an organized event that we would be marching out to. Slice of life fluff is boring.

Insane roleplay you did there, on your previous post never participated in one of those in such a large scale

[Triceron]

Same reason I don't go to theme parks to be social, talk to strangers and meet new people. It's fine if that's your thing, but I'm there for the rides.

[WowIsDead64]

My definition of RP is different. It's not about weird rules, I would need to follow.

[NekoOwlAzure]

Maybe I really should.

[Hotmail]

RP servers are a relic from a bygone era. RP within WoW was this experimental thing that never really went anywhere, kind of like the idea of hybrid buff classes.

I never had a good experience on an RP server. Hell, I started my very first WoW character on Shadow Council back in 2006, and even then people were annoying and not content-minded at all. There was this weird homebrewed rule that everytime a piece of Bind On Pickup loot dropped everybody had to pass on it and then discuss who wanted it. What a waste of time.

Really, the question you should be asking is "how are RP servers still alive".