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Discord-Only Vs. FH Roleplays

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Likuu:
I have to agree... feralheart was my go to for role playing for so long and as soon as big role plays start adding those “discord role play channels” it makes members feel as though they don’t HAVE to get on and role play which is usually not the case, it was helpful for keeping members busy if they can’t be on for a period of time and the discord app for the phone made it a nice go to for role playing on the go, but it begins to take over and people begin to avoid getting on and focus on role playing on the server instead. It’s a sad sight to see, honestly

I genuinely miss when you’d be excited to jump online and jump into your groups and everyone would be on role playing and events would be happening, discord is great to notify people of things and throw out announcements that need to be read and sometimes people don’t like to check websites for annnouncements and it makes it much easier to just take a look at discord rather than look up the site and find the thread and all that.

Hopefully more roleplays will begin to focus on being in game only rather than letting discord take over with role play channels.

Morgra:


Thank you for posting this. I couldn't have said it better.

Let me preface by saying that I am not a roleplayer. It has been years since I've roleplayed at all, in and outside FeralHeart. However, as a game moderator, monitoring the chats gives you a chance to witness first hand the current 'culture' of the game and the way the game members and groups like to operate. And being around for so many years, I have seen a dramatic shift in the way people roleplay over this past year. And this change is because of Discord. I was going to eventually make a topic about how Discord is changing the in-game chats overall. A few other members of the staff team have noticed this change and it isn't exactly a positive one for FeralHeart's sake. I will probably still make another topic as it's a bit different than specifying the effects on just roleplaying. Anyway....

I am certainly not going to bash on Discord. I love the platform for chatting and spending time with friends. I can understand why groups use it to not only organize their roleplays but have a means of communicating outside of FeralHeart. However, several good points have been brought up throughout this thread. Discord is ruining the roleplaying atmosphere that FeralHeart once possessed. FeralHeart used to provide all of the resources necessary to carry out a successful and enjoyable roleplay—forums included. You could organize your roleplay on the forums and carry out the actual roleplay ingame. If someone in the group missed out on the roleplay, they could read about it on the forums. Back then before Discord, the community seemed to be more active when it comes to roleplaying or finding a roleplay to join. You would see more local chat roleplays, more OOC conversations amongst members of a group in the maps and the maps would feel more 'alive'. Alive meaning, people would actively move their characters around corresponding to their characters actions or movements in the rp. Now all I see is a bunch of dead, empty chats and characters just sitting motionless for hours on end. Reason both the chats and people's characters look so dead and still is because they're carrying out their roleplay in their Discord server and not in the game chats. It's slowly but surely leading to the death of FeralHeart roleplaying as it once stood and it's depressing to see. Roleplaying in FH used to be a fun experience where you immersed yourself as your character. FeralHeart was supposed to provide a different user experience than your average text-only roleplay you'd find online. That was the whole point of the 3d game engine and character customization options: to serve as an enhancement to your roleplaying experience. Not to leave the 3d game engine open in the background while you chat in other platforms.

I don't think there's much more to express than what I've already said. I'd just be repeating myself if I continued.


--- Quote from: wolfdog01 on November 11, 2018, 02:40:55 pm ---For those few groups that I know of that rp ingame, good on you! Don't ever stop! Seeing someone rp ingame wil insipre other people to join or even make their own group. The public rps are the ones that really help with this. It used to be easy to just jump in and join a random rp about horses or TLK or something, no one had any real groups and discord wasn't really a thing. You just hopped on, found some people who seemed nice, and started rping around them; half the time they would rp with you and it'd be a fun time. We need more of that honestly.

--- End quote ---
^ I miss this. I miss seeing in-game, public chat, public map, non-elitist roleplaying groups. It used to be so much fun to not have to worry about impressing other people in order to be a part of a group or to find people to roleplay with.

Valar.Morghulis:
I absolutely agree with you on this one. To keep it short and simple, FeralHeart based groups should have RPs in-game. Discord in my opinion should be used for setting the rules and for chat, only to have general chat.

Arandomperson:
I am strictly FH only. I started rping in this game. It just feels better being able to see and control your character online. I do not mind being in rps with discord, heck. I don't even join rps without one. And I have no issues with mixed, however You would see me less active on it if everyone just rps on discord. And Discord only rps should really not advertise in a game they won't even play in. Its like going to Lioden and adverting you have a lion rp on a totally different lion game. I do understand they need members. But im sure there are countless discord only discords that will be willing to let you advertise discord only rps.

zRichtofen:
I didn't know Discord-only RPs were a thing. I remembered that there were forums sites for different clans in the game.

In my eyes since the update replaced all of the OG maps, it killed FH roleplaying entirely. It's hard to find a good rp because most people have left the game. I even also think that roleplays have gotten worse.

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