--People that are now doing 1x1 have created MANY RPs in the past open to everyone.
--People doing 1x1 are some of the nicest people I know.
--We are not forming "cliques" or 1x1 because we don't want to be inclusive, we just want to FUCKING ROLEPLAY with people that won't abandon us
What resulted in this unfortunate circumstance?
--New writers coming in and creating roleplays only to not start them or abandon them after one post
--New writers joining roleplays and abandoning their characters to the point where there are no characters left
--Old writers that are notorious for abandoning RPs still doing the same shit - abandoning every RP they join
What goes into creating an entire Universe?
--Hours of graphics work
--Hours of plot creation
--Hours of CS creation
What do players put into creating CS/Characters?
--Hours of Character development
--Hours of relationship development
--Searching for the perfect FCs
--Banging our heads over concepts and everything else
What happens when an RP fails to take off because of new players (sometimes old players) not posting or abandoning after one post from a GM perspective?
--Hours of work down the drain
--Disappointment
--Faltering trust
What happens to players that join RPs that never start or are abandoned by a New GM after one post?
--Hours of hard work lost
--Disappointment
--Faltering trust?
What's the common denominator in why there are so many 1x1 and small group 'cliques'? New writers. The revolving door of RPG. I'm sick of this community marginalizing and placing blame on us, of whom are some of the MOST active roleplayers on this site. Of whom have created tons of content only to have our trust in people broken time and time again. The problem is not US.
These are the reasons there are these things:
--RPG is a revolving door where new writers dump their creativity and abandon us
--Staff doesn't respond to things
--Staff has some passive-aggressive undertones in chat that is unwelcoming
--Staff passively-aggressively responds to help/pleas from their members
--New and old players that have a fleeting five-minute interest, creating CS they never intend to use anyway
--RPG has issues like poor nighttime/early morning performance (that is a really big issue for some people)
--Forum RP is a dying venue, and none of the above helps with anything.
--Staff refuses to look internally for problems and consistently blames non-Multiverse writers for things
--If we didn't have PartiallyStars, we'd have no advocate for Non-Multiverse players.
Go blame someone else for RPG issues because it isn't us, your LOYAL and ACTIVE RPG members that are nearly posting EVERY DAY or WEEKLY! We might be doing 1x1 or forming so-called 'cliques', but NOTHING that you are doing is helping, either.
Sure, my post is aggressive, but you know what? I don't care because I think I speak for a lot of us.
Sepokku wrote:Yeah its truly unfortunate but Lonesome said it best when she said
"So, when new people join the site there is no longer a community of active RPers making group RPs for the masses waiting with welcoming arms, there's just the clique at the top in their own little world and then all the small groups of veteran players RPing in 1x1's/discord/whispers or failing to ever start a group RP after posting it.
New players try to start group RPs, but no one in the clique joins because again - they're in their own world only talking to each other, and those splintered off really aren't paying any attention to the few group RPs that pop up. So the new players leave pretty quickly and write the site off as dead...."
How about taking some FUCKING TIME TO SPEAK TO US and get to know WHY we have gone this route rather than blindly placing blame on us? Maybe look at all we have ATTEMPTED TO DO before saying we don't do anything at all to contribute. Stop deflecting blame and place it where it should be placed.