Can we return to the Golden Age of LSRP?

[Kunis]

4 hours ago, Tudounaozi said:

We are never returning to the golden age before admins stop being so egoistic. Especially when they say "I think people always look at "the good old times" with rose tinted glasses.".

 

What was the last company that told its players "you think you want it, but you don't" again? Was it blizzard entertainment who lost 600 million revenue over that year? 

 

This is purely a opinion of a player who's been on the server since 2008 (Being a non staff member for 16 of those.). You're also free to share your opinion. I also feel that this comment is taken completely out of context to prove a whole other point.

Edited June 10 by Kunis

[Anarcho]

Everyone has their own interpretation of the "golden era". The older the player you're asking is, the more back the supposed "golden era" goes. The current script of the server might be the best lsrp has ever had, few minor issues aside. Find the type of RP you enjoy and play.

[Sal]

I've spent a good few weeks back playing SAMP again now and tbf, in many ways it's consistently feeling like a good mix of "what worked well before" and "what we learned since then". But I accept that my RP is pretty niche; legal/civvy RP. Can't really speak much for the rest of RP circles. 

[Aberdeen]

5 hours ago, Sal said:

I've spent a good few weeks back playing SAMP again now and tbf, in many ways it's consistently feeling like a good mix of "what worked well before" and "what we learned since then". But I accept that my RP is pretty niche; legal/civvy RP. Can't really speak much for the rest of RP circles. 

[Gnarp]

SAMP is a community driven game.

 

People love to point fingers - a lot of the replies to this thread; people are very subtly pointing fingers at styles of roleplay that they don't like, or even this boogeyman that they dub as "idlewood roleplayers" or "newcomers" while, in reality, these factors were always here. 

The gameplay loop hasn't changed since I played LSRP in 2014. It's the same formula; less players, of course, but LSRP has not changed one bit. What changed is the community... And if you wanna speak on broader terms - the internet itself. 

 

We ended up with a culture where being passionate about something online became condemnable, something to laugh at. A 180 turn from the "nerd" culture of the 2010s during which LSRP was flourishing. Caring about roleplay is now "cringe" because: "it's a dead game, why do you care?", but the same people saying so, quickly turn around and talk about "roleplay standards" when it concerns their rival factions.

To add onto that, any concepts that don't mimic oldschool, "grimey" roleplay are shunned for this exact reason. God forbid a teenager that wasn't there for the server's peak finds your roleplay "cringe", God forbid you stray away from the norm whatsoever.

The norm being: self-insert gangster characters neutered into being breathing, walking, tasteless stereotypes copied straight from r/LaGangbangin and pasted onto LSRP; in terms of skins, lingo, and personality. 

 

Widespread insensitivity killed the internet, and it killed SAMP. Yes, there was a "golden age" when the people playing this game were still laughing at nyan cat memes and discovering rap songs in-game from aazoradio to download onto their ipod. Will that golden age ever return?

Probably not, but there's nothing we can do about it - making a majority of this thread's replies needless - a medium for salty people to take subtle digs at their OOC opps, knowing that they'll see it; because we, as a community, and users of the internet, have become waaaaaaay too obsessed with what other people think of ourselves. 

 

There's still some kid out there trying SAMP out for the first time in their life, and the best you can do to bring this golden age of yours back is, give them a chance before they either get mixed up into another copy-paste streetgang faction, or find more enjoyment in messing around as a mallrat.

Edited 3 hours ago by Gnarp