How dare you suggest I play this game?
I recently joined a panfandom game. Normally, these games are crap by their very nature and seem to encourage players to do nothing more than have their various young, attractive protagonists of various popular TV shows hang around and fuck one another. This one, though, actually grabbed my attention, for having a lot of great stuff going on.
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I just recently quit a game that had mods just like you described: active, always coming up with great plot, into recruiting new players, etc. That was at the beginning. Then the mods lost interest, plot lagged, and the game all but died. A small core of dedicated players hung on, RPing little side plots and hoping the mods would regain interest...
Which they did, with a vengeance. Spiffy new plot, pretty new graphics all over the place, and an intense advertising campaign that brought in a bunch of new players. Everyone was excited. Everything was great! Until the mods lost interest again after a month. Most of the new recruits dropped the game, and it was back to the same old core group playing a slow-paced game of trivial, personal plot.
Until, you guessed it, the mods came back with yet another big, aggressive advertising campaign! Not as much new plot this time (modly efforts seemed far more focused on the pretty graphics). Hordes of excited new players flocked to the game anyway, to be met by jaded oldtimers who'd seen it all before. We made an effort to be welcoming, but as expected, the mods dropped out of sight again after just a week or two. The vast majority of the new players dropped out, as expected, only this time the core group of players was left feeling vaguely guilty. Had we contributed to the most recent demise? Had we become cliquey?
That game looks to be gearing up for another cycle of mod interest... Call me a bad RPer, but I'm less than enthused.
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