@thatguythere
The 'you' was a generic, hobby-wide statement, not meant for you specifically, unless your statement about the drawback of a small game was concerning you specifically. I assumed it wasn't, so made a similar generic statement.
The idea of "forcing a scene" is 95% Stupid to me. I think people should go into scenes to see what happens, not as part of a crafted storyline. If you didn't enjoy it then that's hard luck but it's going to happen.
Part of the fun to me in "forced" scenes is paging with people I know making table-talk. I cannot play an RPG without table-talk. I certainly can't go to sphere meetings, which is the closest thing I can imagine being a forced scene, without considering a good stiff drink to prepare me for all the player-drama.
No matter how IC things are, you can always see the player behind it.
The second kind of scene that I can think as "forced" is when someone has information, you want the information, and they make it a bloody chore to get that information. Here's an instance where asking staff to sidestep RP is probably a good idea.
The idea that one person doesn't enjoy RPing with another is fine, but I can think of multiple times where someone from Arx has said they were doing just that because there was something in it for them; information, planning, other people around, whatnot. And that is not a small game. And they seem to get over it.