@Ghost said in The 100: The Mush:
@Kanye-Qwest Don't be like that. I have said repeatedly that staff should definitely RP on their own games and enjoy the work they've put in. I'm just saying that staff shouldn't pigeonhole the entire game to being about their PCs and need to understand that by opening a place of RP to the public, there is an unspoken expectation that the roleplayers that they have opened a play space for are joining the game to matter.
By matter I mean: beyond assisting staff PCs in being the big heroes, and not being unwittingly delegated into being supporting cast characters.
People join these games to get camera time, have arcs, and feel like they're causing an impact on roleplay, not to be listed in IMDB as "Guy in Coffee House #3"
My stance is that people who open MUs who do not understand this aren't really supporting their players, but instead duping people to log on for hours a week to support their fun.
I agree with you, @Ghost. I also fail to see how this is applicable to a sandbox. Repeatedly, in this thread, several posters have accused @GirlCalledBlu and @Seraphim73 for running sandbox games that they pass off as public games. So now, when @GirlCalledBlu and @Seraphim73 finally open a sandbox, they still get heaps of shit.
In an ideal world, staffers on any game would be cool and would make sure all their players are having fun. Also, in an ideal world, any player who was having a miserable time would just cut their losses and not get so damn hung-up on how it didn't work out. They wouldn't stick around, gnash their teeth, whine, and complain about the abuse they chose to continue to endure -- and I say that as someone who has gotten unhealthily attached, on more than one occasion, and who is hideously embarrassed about it because, hey, I know better, but eh. Feelings are a bitch, and pretendy fun times have a habit of becoming too damn serious when RL is shitastic.
Also, speaking as someone who has little contact with the outside world, I believe that you mean well, but you come across, at least to me, as a patronizing prick when you say things like:
It's cruel for some of these people (not myself) who put so much effort in or have very little other contact with the outside world, and I don't see anything wrong with joining a game with the expectation that staff intends for players outside of their control mechanisms have an effect on the game.
"Some of these people" don't need people like you to be their so-called champion while you backhandedly point out that you are oh so well-adjusted. Which, by the by, your recent rants in this thread make it very clear that you absolutely are not.