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@ShawnSchuster You might have meant Brendan's week off as a refresher and not as a punishment, but honestly, that's how it comes across in light of your editor's note.

An apology to readers on behalf of Alex Gianturco feeling offended at accurately describing his behavior seems like knee-jerk journalism while playing nice. In my view taking this stance was a mistake.

Brendan's article didn't need changing or clarification. If Gianturco doesn't want his name being googled and associated with cyberbullying then he shouldn't have done something newsworthy that fit the description. But he did and these are the consequences.

First Shawn left the podcast, & now Rubi. and on top of that she's LEAVING Massively altogether,

on my f***ing birthday?!

@#%^&#$@#!!!
/sadface
/breathe
Goodbye Rubi! Don't forget us and much success at your Top Secret Job!

And welcome Bree!

@Patrick Mackey Roleplayers should strive to be courteous, helpful, fun, and friendly to be around, Out Of Character. ( OOC) In Character, (IC) a player should roleplay their character as they see fit, be it the saintly knight who never errs, or the ruined antihero who hates everyone because their all scumbag liars.

Hideously obnoxious IC characters are often a blast to roleplay with, even when they are trying to ruin your day. It goes back to that Conflict thing @JuliusSeizure mentioned; if all the RP characters are nice friendly and always pleasant to be around things will become a snore fest fast, because the only RP enemies at that point are NPC ( or player created non players.)

Give me a real, thinking, reactive player who is nice and friendly OOC but RPs a hateful backstabbing seething mad villain in character over a non player invented enemy any day.

The key point of course, is to clearly keep IC and OOC separate. What happens in character stays In Character, to paraphrase. If you start hating a player Out Of Character for their IC playstyle, and you can't sort things out OOC, then it's time to move on.

Mac users who want to play SWTOR already do. It's not hard, but this move isn't a surprise given WoW's track record.

Shawn! Noooooo!
/vaderscream

@tbeaz161 The Limsa Lominsa Final Fantasy XIV opening quest cutscene

Hawtness! Preach on. In fact, start a church of best RP practices, please. Or at the very least, write a book.

As someone whose played since beta and still plays (primarily because it's free) FFXIV now, I wonder at Wada's comments at this point in time after SE spent the cash and revamped the development team, drastically changing the game and taking the sub away to keep hardcore fans from fleeing in larger numbers. When the president of a company declares the game is a damaging installment to the brand I can't help but think of the surgical doctor who declares time of death while assistants are frantically trying to perform heart surgery.

Great article!
I think this column could make for a great RP 101 course. Keep it up!

Justin, all I have to say to you is "I naneth gîn thia sui úan" and all joking aside this article made me laugh hard enough to finally register to comment, so well done sir!