[Shinto]

Despite having played MMO games for a few years now, this is the first time for me to play on an RP server. I thought to myself, "Sure, sounds fun, and I will know a few people there." Admittedly, I don't know how RPers act compared to other players, but that didn't really seem like an issue.

So I log in on day 1, and ask if there are any groups up. The only response I got was someone telling me that I'm not role playing, so I shouldn't use the shout channel. So I ask how I'm supposed to ask for a group "in character." The response is to use the ooc channels instead.

Now, as I said, this is new to me, so I somewhat wrote it off and went on. It went downhill from there, though. I listened both in ooc and in shout. People were saying in ooc that they were filtering everyone who is out of character in the shout channel. I even heard people complaining because someone used shout to ask if a quest was broken. This was followed by an argument over whether (()) should be used for ooc.

Surely everyone isn't so uptight about this? I mean, I understand that it is an RP server, and if you are sitting around chatting, or really getting into a raid, you can use all the "aye"s you want, and I'll join you. But does it really break your immersion more to hear someone shout "Is Quest X broken?" than to have the ooc channel open and hear it there?