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(02-01-2015, 11:29 PM)Nyagi Yhistarok Wrote: Three things:
1. You roleplay the main scenario? Well, that's neat, but I can't and I don't think anyone else that takes the lore seriously, can take your character seriously.
2. Are you using a video with particle effects as proof behind your statement? Not every dot in the sky is a person, and the video is a generic representation of the few Warriors of Light that become the Blade of Light. It's not like SE has the resources to custom create a CGI version of each character with the myriad of custom armors and races they can play.
3. Having the Echo does not make you a Warrior of Light. In the Battle of Cartenau, that was just a bunch of people from each of the Grand Companies that came to fight the Garleans. If you're going to refer to videos as evidence, take note that in the video that places in the opening credits (that's pressing down three times on your PS3 controller by the way and then pressing the 'X' key) it'll play a video showing the battle and everyone save for the few Warriors of Light (I think they showed, hmm, one black mage, one warrior, one paladin, one white mage, and one bard.) and the rest were pretty much dressed to the nines in company gear.
That's the problem with using game representations through events and videos as evidence for your claim. They can't accurately depict -you- in that setting they depict the main protagonist and general fillers to convey certain events, of which the pictures you linked show an event that was just to express something that otherwise would be indescribable. The main hero, banded with his team of Warriors of Light, used their aether to banish the Ascian from a scion's body. Nothing more. And no, Lahabrea did not repetitively possess Thancred over and over in a queuing lobby so that everyone even to this day can claim, "I saved him. I was a Warrior or Light. I used the Blade of Light." that's a game mechanic to allow everyone to experience the same content that if we're roleplaying and making the world seem real then only one, okay at most, eight people in the entire world could have actually experienced.
Ok, I'll try to answer these without taking too much space, since in the end, what others think of what my RP LS does is of little to no matter to me, long as we're having fun (and, since we keep the RP in /ls channel, we don't hurt others either).
1. Why? You didn't really explain that statement. There is no point in the game where the Warrior of Light (or Blade of Light, whatever you call it. I'm not talking only of those from 1.0. The adventurer becomes a Warrior of Light in 2.0 too) is said to be just and only one. I don't even remember any cutscene where the NPC said "I'm sorry I have to send you there all alone, but only you can do it.". The instances would be for single player if that were the case, and I like to believe the cutscenes do not show other players (and in some instances they still do) just for the sake of hardware easiness.
2. Yes, EVERY "shooting star particle" in that cutscene IS an adventurer who received the call. It's what the cutscene is meant for: to show that you are not alone in the crusade to aid Hydaelyn. The crystal is not talking just to you. And those people don't have to have met the Archons either to receive the call as far as I'm concerned.
3. The group showed in the Battle of Cartenau cutscene are just iconic. Not only the derplander's party are the Warriors of Light. All those who played 1.0 and acknowledge its scenario have been.
To end it, I don't know what impression people have of us MSQ players, but I assure you that we do not do it for the sake of being special or look down at others. In fact, and I'm speaking just for my group, we have the policy to not mention MSQ-related events when we RP in /say, because we know some people will get offended, because they choose to not do something they could, while instead we did.
We have all our rules set up to welcome new members and if anyone comes to us and claims to have been at a certain event, we always find ways to make it plausible. For the sake of making everyone happy, changes can be made in dialogues of NPCs. From Minfilia saying "We need you to do this" to Minfilia saying "We need you guys to do this". And I'm sure you know where I'm getting at.
Please, I'd really like the griefing to come to an end. No one of the MSQ roleplayers I know goes to brag about the events we did IC (especially because most of them are supposed to be kept in secrecy) and we accept this strict rule on ourselves to make non-MSQ-RPers happy. And in turn, what do we get? That soon as someone slips and mentions something even so slightly MSQ-related as a primal fight, we get this kinds of threads and ugly looks, if not people walking out on us (hasn't happened to me yet, but I suppose that's because I've yet to slip and accidentally make any game-story-mention in /say, I do hear of a lot of people getting that threatment though).
I'm fully against those RPers who make primal fights sound easy-peasy mundane things, yes, but I really do not understand the griefing beyond that..
Hell, currently we're on Haukke Manor, and for the Castrum instances I had in mind to put up RP events in the calendar to find people willing to RP 8-man instances with us (since so far it's just 4 of us in my group)... But now I'm starting to wonder if doing that wouldn't just get me flamed for even suggesting it.
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.