[Lonestar]

I have been feeling on and off constantly for about a year and it has not subdued, instead it has just grown stronger as time passes. The community has grown more and more closed and it feels like finding roleplay that doesn't involve a specific group or being part of such just has grown hard and often not worth spending the energy and time towards that.

I do agree that the game is falling, the community's priority and mentality has shifted harshly to a side where it's either being used as a glorified chatroom or for their own personal quests. I usually make new characters to see if it helps with my constant burn out of the game but it often doesn't work well when they lack purpose or public RP of engaging quality. (doesn't need to be the best rp, but at the same time it has to not be a meme losing your time.)

I feel like public events is not the de facto solution, but rather a change of mentality of the community as a whole to go out and roleplay more outside of houses. Public events would only bring that during said event and then people would retreat back to their house hubs and that's about it. It won't be easy for sure, but with enough effort it can be brought back to the 'glory days' of the usual hubs being populated and good RP being delivered for anyone to join.

I feel really disheartening when I try to search RP out there only to find nothing or memes masked as 'IC'. Though I'll have to give the props for all the new players that the game recently have been gaining and seeing them RPing out there without much care for being stuck in groups and houses, it's a nice breath of fresh air.