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Racism (in game races) and discrimination in Gw2 between players?

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October 5, 2010 at 1:03 am#4978
slith	Do you think this could occur or even be a problem? I mean this is a problem that occurs in real life and MMORPG's model many aspects of real life. I have already from here and around the web seen players express great dislike for some races. I mean other MMORpg's have different races but there's non really where the races each have great animosity towards each other but have to work together. Anyway its a interesting situation all these races have been put in, I for one will put any prejudices aside and work to the greater good.
October 5, 2010 at 3:24 am#4979
Naur	It is true that hostility towards others can find its way into this game too so there might be some of that in game. Lets hope that it will not become a major problem. I think that developers will make some clear rules about what kind of behaviour they allow in this game and which they don't. From Role Play point of view I could understand that for example between Humans and Charr there might be tension and players might express that in some way, but if done in way that isn't really insulting to person behind character, actual player I don't see a problem in that.
October 5, 2010 at 7:03 am#4980
slith	Yeah I agree I dont mind a human player saying for example 'scaredy cat charr, go eat some tuna' but if a guild or pickup group doesn't accept them I think that would be a problem.
October 5, 2010 at 7:33 am#4981
Dojab	I am quite the roleplaying racist. But only with friends who know I'm just kidding and are racist back x3 and we're only racist to eachother if it fits the history of our races. (usually something they did since I go to more peaceful, nature loving, co-existing-happily-with-no-want-to-conquer races) I wont turn down someone just because of their race tho, in game or out o.0 even if they are Asura c.c XD (read lots of rotten things they've done to Sylvari and other races c.c)
October 5, 2010 at 7:36 am#4982
Aissa	I'd never even considered this to be a problem. I suppose it will come down to whether a player has some personal issue with another race but, seriously, I don't think I could take any jibe in-game as anything other than lightheartedly. If someone said to me, "go back to your tree you green freak" or something of that nature then you just blank them. I cannot see it extending into a whole group of players.
October 5, 2010 at 7:40 am#4983
Dojab	I suppose I can see an rl hate group that also games as doing something like that… and not being racist but those kinds tend to gravitate to Human chars in any game that has open enough class choices that they can make a successful party : /
October 5, 2010 at 12:15 pm#4984
XII	Dojab said: I am quite the roleplaying racist. But only with friends who know I'm just kidding and are racist back x3 I think there will be a lot of "casual racism" in the game, but none of it serious. I think it's almost a given that there will be a large group of players who, right from the beginning, play as human and still hold a grudge against the Charr, (cough probably in a Guild with the tag GWEN or something ¬_¬). I doubt very much if these players would actively discriminate against the other races though, it'd be much more akin to Gwen and Pyre in EotN imho. Guild Wars has always been one of the more casual MMOs, and I don't think anyone who took a game so seriously as to actually develop a real hatred of a fictional race would actually be playing it. They'd be on WoW instead… D:
October 6, 2010 at 2:32 am#4985
Redean	Due to the nature of the game I don't think this would problem. I mean there lots of group friendly mechanics and alot of the storyline is about the races uniting together to fight a common problem.
October 6, 2010 at 9:30 pm#4986
Hinbane	The only thing preventing me from hunting the Charr down myself is game mechanics. >:(
October 6, 2010 at 9:35 pm#4987
XII	Hinbane said: The only thing preventing me from hunting the Charr down myself is game mechanics. >:( There's always World PvP
December 5, 2010 at 3:52 am#4988
morningsun8773	the only time I ever ran into problems was in DDo when I played a warforged. For some reason there seemed to be a problem with other people accepting them into their groups. Maybe because of some of the game mechanics involving heals and such, but it still was not appreciated since they didn't frame their objections in that way, just said things like "stupid warforged" etc.
December 5, 2010 at 5:29 pm#4989
CapRocks	I dont exactly see what all this means. Like imagine how silly this actually all sounds: "Your just a stupid char!" "Shut up! You are a human and they smell" ….. I Mean how could this even ever get offensive. It is a character decision in an MMO. And It not like its not already around between races in GW1. The char hate hte humans and they think they are digusting. Whether or not there will be or wont be it wont change the game. Cuz it will just be between the noobs in outposts that waste there time using the game as a chat room instead of playing the game or actually doing something in real life. The whole thing sounds a little silly to me…. Game character racism. HOW COULD ANYONE GET OFFENDED BY THAT.
December 5, 2010 at 6:19 pm#4990
Redean	You could get discrimination if different races excelled well at things (they had INT boost ect.) so then that race would be prefered for a group instead of any other race, ot ir could even work in reverse via jealousy. But thankfully the only difference between races is simply visual/race skills.
December 6, 2010 at 11:57 pm#4991
CapRocks	I suppose. But doesnt that pretty much still happen in GW2. I mean i dont normally like to party witha paragon. They are kinda lame.