It is funny to me how the RPers in this thread bitch about how 75% of the people in-game talk OOCly and "ruin things" while simultaneously believing that the RPers are the majority, tolerating the PLing/OOC minority. Which is it?
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RPGs are called that not because they enable everyone to pretend to duel and pretend to be fair maidens or whatever.
RPGs are a distinct genre of game because character skills/stats are more important than player skills and knowledge at playing the game. Player skill is all that matters in most games, from Civ4 to PacMan to Gears of War to Chess. This is the classic way games have been designed through the ages.
In RPGs, the skills and stats of your character (no matter your personal expertise at the game) determine the objectives and outcomes of practically everything you do. A person with 1000 hrs of Final Fantasy, or someone who has solved every Zelda game, still has to start the next one as a "beginner" again and work up to the big bosses.
This is the defining trait of an RPG.In this way, anyone who creates a character and logs into PS is necessarily, and by definition, RPing. Their chat may not be IC/OO-compliant or whatever, but their actual gameplay is per se RPing, because the server controls their stats, which affect every outcome in the game. Explaining what the words in the acronym "MMORPG" stand for proves nothing.
- Vengeance
No double posting you. 
--Neko.
