Ok, I’d like to thank the people that have shown support for the Stonehead so far, both staff and patrons. I truly appreciate at it.
However, for those who haven’t…
I’ve been trying to get up some enthusiasm in the general community for the Stonehead Tavern and, to be perfectly honest, the response isn’t enough. Ok, fine… Maybe sitting around chatting in a tavern isn’t exactly your thing but there is more to it than that.
Maybe this is happening because many of the people who were around when OSP was started and player run areas got their first real chance are gone. Whatever the case, this is the problem, the player run areas were a chance for players to have a huge impact on the game and do they wanted to see in game (i.e. set up an area the way you think it needs to be set up.). Not supporting player run areas says “I don’t care” about this. That’s fine if you don’t, but if you don’t care enough then why are you playing this game?
This is a RP game, not a run around or fly on you mount everywhere to do quests all the time game, not a beat someone over the head with maxed STR and Sword skill game, and not a stand around until a GM event with rare glyphs or weapons comes around game. Nothing is wrong with these things in of themselves, but it’s not what this game is for. If you want that, go find another game. I’ll be the first to tell you that this game is not all that great for those things. But it is great for RP, or at least it was.
Most of the time, the player count is below 40 people online at any given time. With the size of the game, that is way too low. Part of the reason it is that low is because people aren’t having fun. If you aren’t RPing, there isn’t really a whole lot of reason to have fun, again this isn’t the best game out there for all the fancy combat, the most areas to explore or the most epic items. Some people say the quality of RP is why people have left, but considering that often you can walk around the game and not find any RP, I’d say the problem is simply not doing it at all…
The other problem that arises from this is that it basically tells the devs “nobody cares”. That is problematic because they are working to make a game people enjoy but now nobody cares… Some might not care what the devs think but that goes both ways. If we don’t care, why should the Devs? Why should they implement something we want if nobody really cares? Why should GMs run events if no one actually cares or why should other players bother to set up RP events? Why should anyone listen to any suggestion someone comes up with if ultimately there isn’t enough people to care?
I’ve have been struggling to believe this is not actually the case and trusting that most people actually do care they just haven’t said so for some odd reason, so I challenge the community to prove one way or another what they feel. Do you or don’t you care? I don’t just want a silly rant or the usual arguments that happens here. Any fool can open his mouth and start an argument. All I want it know is whether or not it’s worth even bothering any more or if I should go on my way and not look back. If it’s not worth bothering, I can use my hard earned summer for myself.
