While thinking about WoW I realized that while I don't have much urge to ever return to it, I do sort of regret never playing on the games RP servers. I always played on a PVP server and admittedly at the time I didn't "get" RP servers like that. I just wanted to play the game, kill shit and get sick epic gear and that kind of thing was reserved for the kind of fat acne ridden, basement dwelling nerd with no real friends. (I was a horribly judgemental teen, sorry)
Once I got to university though I started playing Dungeons and Dragons and I came to the realization that role playing was actually really fun ESPECIALLY if you've got a good group of friends and a few drinks to help things get a little silly. It made me think though that I sort of regret not giving the RP servers a chance back when I was at the height of my WoW playing time.
In case you're not familiar with what this entails, an RP server is a place where you don't just play the game but you actually have to play your character as if it was a real person in the world of Azeroth and not just a loot collecting machine. This of course includes stuff about the way you talk to other players but also how you move around the world and things like that. I have friends who have tried RP servers before and they said the one of the best things about it was that the main town chats actually had conversations going on in them rather than just people spamming for groups or to sell items.
I would never go back to WoW now, my backlog is so huge that playing an MMO is probably a bad idea but I'll always kind of regret not giving that side of the game a go. Then again, if I had done it I probably would have been all grimdark and shit so for my own sake maybe it was a good thing I didn't.
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