potatoehead64,
perhaps you didnt fully understand it, or the guy who told you wasnt precise enough. Not using names of people in general of course is nonsense. But I presume it was meant that using names of people your char cannot know, since he never met them before or whatever, to adress one with is frowned upon.
Just imagine you walk around the street and you would know everyone's name, as if they had it floating above their head.
My suggestion here would be, if I'm not supposed to know somebody who has a name above their head, then why is it there? The fact is it IS there in much the same way as when you walk into a shop and somebody has their name badge on for the purposes of you being able to address them directly. Perhaps Devs could consider the ability for players to hide their name to other players... Maybe there could be a level where they are able to show it to friends only perhaps. That would also serve as a good way of stopping any sort of mobbing that goes on (bearing in mind that characters from the same race look very much the same).
As for emotes. The graphics cannot show that I approach the bar to buy a beer and drink it, so why not state it in an emote? After all, in a real world, that is what folk would see me do.
In any case, this is all tiny detail. As I said, if the way things are, are how Devs and the majority prefer it, then I respect it as so, but I'm less likely to engage in RP as it stands. The debate seems to be about whether people play the game for RP and the if's but's and maybe's as to why folk leave the game.
On the whole, I love this game and play it daily. 99% of it is how I like it. I've tried one or 2 others like Second Life and Regnum and they don't come close. Runescape has it's uses when PS has time out, but thats about it.