Brainstorming: Help Please

[Jens]

Some people LIVE for social interaction in online games.??Others LIVE for PvP/WoE - why not let them do that (and almost solely that)???I think it's a valid comparison.??

There's always been a lot of friction between these two 'factions', fueled by a lot of people looking down upon and shunning people from the other, considering their preferred method of spending time on (he)RO superior and the only valid one while condemning everything else. Naturally, the majority of those players lie in the PvP fraction, as the competitive character of this area tends to attract people with a specific mindset, a lot of which cannot see the line between healthy rivalry and utter rudeness. I don't say all WoE/PvP 'freaks' are like that, but I've seen a way bigger percentage of jerks amongst them, a lot of them even unaware of doing anything wrong. And of course, people will bite back and here comes our vicious cycle of escalating hate.

There'll always be friction, always be flames, but IMO at least the unnecessary ones could and should be kept at bay, such as aforementioned condemnation of PvMers by PvPers. Come to think of it - some of those PvMers actually maybe would attend WoE etcetera but are discourage by others' attitude.

and before someone swoops in screaming CAREBEARS, there is no black and white. You don't have to be overly nice, just be civil. You don't have to be a jerk to not be a "carebear".

come to think of it, that's another source of friction. People are thinking too much absolutely polar, you're either this or that, nothing inbetween.

This is something we players can do, no scripting, GM powers, bug fixing, betatesting or anything else is needed.

tl,dr; incentives instead of insults