If you know what server i'm talking about, feel free to share your stories of it, but don't name names of the server, server staff, and users. The staff consisted entirely of members of this fandom, and I highly, highly suspect that the admins would engage in ERP (Erotic role-play) with the other admins, owners, and high level users in order to secure their positions and, of course, to get their rocks off. A good 95% of the server was part of a specific, unnamed fandom and the server was marketed as such on the browser for a long time before going whitelist-only due to griefers and minges and the like. I saw both the admins and known users get off with RDM and similar without so much as a slap on the wrist. This unnamed server was an.Interesting one. It brings out the absolute worst in people, especially in the bigger servers with 100 people on at any given time where people with admin metafriends get off scott free with mass RDM and similar bullshit.Īllow me to share a story.
The people who played it changed.Īs someone who's sank a frankly stupid amount of time into darkRP (Something nearing 700 hours, jesus fucking christ i wasted my life), I couldn't agree more. It's multiplied when you're playing a game with an audience of mainly teenagers.ĭarkRP didn't change. The admins with "a fucking god complex" have been around since the earliest days of multiplayer gaming. I've found maybe 10-20% of DarkRP servers are basically devoid of P2W garbage. It's not, however, very hard to find a server without this shit.
This is also when paid addons in the game started to come about with CoderHire.
The VIP shit started in (at the latest) 2013 when it became a lot easier to make money from Garry's Mod servers (which other games like Minecraft helped a lot with). Granted, people don't often realize that it was made to make fun of RP gamemodes that take roleplay/rules seriously (e.g. I've been playing Garry's Mod for 14 years and DarkRP and its players have barely changed at all in the 10-12 years it's been around. How? The only difference then from now is that shit like gmodstore didn't exist.